And silky trumpet from Jason Palmer (although forgive me, it might be Milena Casado’s Spanish Flugekhorn, I do want to give both players their due as they both appear across the seven here), floaty keys from Ron Cha and super snappy kinetic highly-tuned percussion from Aman Pankaj Jagwani, float under Anubha Kaul high warble-of-a-vocal, starting us off on the new album from Jagwani called This Place.

Get ready to shimmy shake and listen deeply to The Chris Ruben Band’s new one, Madness on Repeat.

Leading their press with a quote from C.S. Lewis, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world,” we realize we won’t be treated to the usual metal riot crash on Waves Of Distortion’s Race Against Time.

A ‘blumping’ fits-and-starts synth wash with a tight percussion bed slips under the talking, what will soon become a screaming, vocal of “Add Clarity” the first tune on She’s Excited!’s new Shock Therapy. Munich-born currently Brooklyn-based electronic artist Anne Wichman is at the helm of these five (two original tunes and three remixes) which she is presenting as much as an audio exploration as a visual one, releasing five videos of all the tunes with this EP.

What a breath of fresh air is the ‘plunk’ of banjo and soft sweet harmonies from John Blatchford and Paul Kimball that begin Wax Moon’s Hello Morning. The San Francisco Bay duo have been part of the Indi scene for a bit but have come together here, post a few EP’s, released a few years ago as Wax Moon with this, their first-ever full length from this project.

For me, it’s when 3D The Boss lifts from the danceable workout stuff (not that there’s anything wrong with that stuff; they do it so well) and digs a little deeper, as they do on the best tune for me here, the jazz-pop “Do My Dance.”

Detroit’s Jobbaloon (pronounced ‘JAH-BALLOON’) is writer/producer/guitarist/pianist/singer Joshua Achatz and producer Justin Squires. The duo’s new collection is called The Invitation. 

Austin, Texas-based ambient-industrial music project, 1st Base Runner, is musician Tim Husmann’s baby. He plays all the instruments here and sings on his debut album called Seven Years of Silence.

Portland’s Dead Coyote delivers a spooky concept EP with Apparitionata, a release they call “a cyclical tale of a foolish ghost with a broken heart.” As is apparent from plodding pronouncing on opener “Prelude,” Zach Retzl, Adrian Retzl, Jonathan Ventrella, and Izabella Weiss are marching forward with their collective tongues in their cheeks wallowing deeply in campy horror, as well as tickling through Beethoven and contemporary composers like Danny Elfman and Phillip Glass.

‘Sir’ Tom Jones, has earned over a 100 million record sales, 36 Top 40 hits spanning five decades, and is in his 8th decade…and he’s not slowing down one bit on his latest, Surrounded By Time.