It's time to once again tell you about a bunch of songs I've listened to and enjoyed recently. These songs (and a dozen others to be blurbed in the near future) are featured on the Horse Combinations September 2026 playlist.
Lex Walton - “Hipster Runoff” This awesome track from Lex Walton’s Sub Pop debut is full of unrestrained shit talk and raging sloganeering, a bold statement of purpose from someone I will be keeping an eye on for what’s next!
Like a relentless weed, Horse Combinations keeps coming back to tell you about more cool songs from the very recent past. Here's the followup to our last post, a final accounting of some of the best music I heard in August. Let's have a look!
Duffy x Uhlmann - “Public Life” Meg Duffy and Gregory Uhlmann’s second collaboration as Duffy x Uhlmann is full of skeletal, interlocking gems like “Public Life.” There’s always room in my heart for more slow motion instrumentals like these.
Sam Amidom & Sam Wilkes - “Sally Gooden” Speaking of killer collabs between experimental/indie/folk/ambient/jazz/whatever guys, the too-brief Froggy EP from Sam Amidom & Sam Wilkes is such a treat. Two Sams playing bass and fiddle together with incredible results.
You've heard of the Song of the Summer, sure, but twelve songs FROM the summer? Most of them but not all of them new releases? That's something you can only get from the Horse Combinations website. Let's take a look at the first half of our August 2026 playlist, now streaming exclusively on Tidal.
Helen - “Dead shark II” I was so excited to hear that Liz Harris’ dream pop side project Helen has a new record coming out. Their 2015 debut The Original Faces is one of my all-time favorite records and a go-to recommendation when talking to ambientheads and experimental music lovers who might not know the lady from Grouper is in a band that sounds like Black Tambourine.
Space Afrika ft. Tony Njoku - “MLN” This Space Afrika song is exactly the sort of downtempo, trip hop adjacent thing I’ve been loving lately. Tony Njoku, Space Afrika's fellow traveller in the world of genre agnostic electronic/ambient/whatever producers, checks in with a subtly fucked up vocal performance, enhancing the track’s already uncanny atmosphere.
We're here with the long-awaited followup to our last post: I've gone and blurbed eight more tracks I heard this summer and enjoyed. Let's get into it!
Cole Berliner - “The Black Door” This new Cole Berliner record has been some extremely pleasant late summer listening, the sort of record that makes you want to invest in a rocking chair and a porch upon which to sit and watch the world go by.
Wishy - “All The Rage” Another killer single from Wishy’s forthcoming LP Nature’s Pill, "All The Rage" is the band at their most cranked up, a hyperactive, harmony-laden fuzz pop nugget. I will continue writing about Wishy for as long as they keep being this good at making indie rock.
The flow of cool new songs doesn't stop and neither do the blog posts. Here are eight songs, mostly new ones but also one very old one, that I listened to in July and thought were good.
Trinity Ace - “Martyr” I really like this track from Trinity Ace’s incredibly titled LP Learning to Be a Cowboy on the Horse That Broke My Arm, it reminds of 20 years ago when everything was “chamber pop” with “lush instrumentation.”
Windy & Carl with Optigan Conservatory - “Alvin Loving” The first look at Windy & Carl’s new collaboration with electroacoustic duo Optigan Conservatory is nine minutes of smoky, slow moving ambience that has me intrigued to hear more.