Hot Wax | April 20, 2026

| & filed under awesome, CJSR, Music.

New MUST LISTENS handpicked by CJSR’s Music Librarian

From all the new music added to the station’s collection between April 15-20, 2026

 


DearyBirding [Bella Union]
London, UK        Rock/Pop
Ecstatic dream rock with skillful use of harmonic tension. Makes me want to look up like the guy on the cover of The Bends.

Robot SlideCHIMPS [Aura Vortex]
Minneapolis, MN         Rock/Pop/Electronic
Solid try-hard indie music. Variety of creative arrangements and abundant electronics.

La Scie – Chuchoux [Self-Released]
Montreal, QC        Folk/Experimental
Heavily texturized unconventional folk music sung in a cistern.


Rae Spoon – Assigned Country Singer At Birth [Coax]
Calgary, AB        Country
Rae has leaned harder into country music and does a darn good job of it. A few featured guests including local legend Cassia Hardy.


Flore LaurentienneVolume III [Secret City]
Montreal, QC       Classical/Electronic
Beautiful instrumental music inspired by the St. Lawrence river played on strings and synths.

Elisa Thorn – xiik [Self-Released]
Vancouver, BC        Folk
Each song a beautiful excellently played harp journey.

JNBO & Friends [College of Knowledge]
Melbourne, Australia        Rock/Pop
Characterful cinematic funk jams. Sounds great, the instruments snap well.

 


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All the new music added to the CJSR library

GENRE

ARTIST

ALBUM

LABEL

Classical/Electronic

Fisher, Abby

Continuous Interior

Neuma

Classical/Electronic

Flore Laurentienne

Volume III

Secret City

Country

Spoon, Rae

Assigned Country Singer At Birth

Coax

Experimental

Glissandro 70

G70 2: Bones of Dundasa

Constellation

Experimental/Ambient

Shugorei

The Sounds of Uncertain Walls – Futashika na Kabe no Oto – 不確かな壁の音

4000

Experimental/Metal

sunn O)))

sunn O)))

Sub Pop

Folk

Graven

Geographics

Self-Released

Folk

Thorn, Elisa

xiik

Self-Released

Folk/Experimental

La Scie

Chuchoux

Self-Released

Jazz

Black Nile

Indigo Garden

MASS MoCA

Jazz

Ensemble Infini

Volume ∞

Cellar

Jazz

Lemaître, Thierry Quartet

Less Is More

Most Least

Jazz

Semones, Mei

Kurage

Bayonet

Jazz

Thundercat

Distracted

Brainfeeder

Jazz/World (Brazil)

Carlos, Antonio & Jocafi, Adrian Younge, & Ali Shaheed Muhammad

Antonio Carlos & Jocafi JID026

Jazz Is Dead

Metal

Corpse Water

…Something In The Water

Grindscene

Metal

Mortuary

Great Black Earth

Horror Pain Gore Death

Punk

Knumears

Directions

Run For Cover

Rock/Pop

Angine de Poitrine

Vol. II

Spectacles Bonzai

Rock/Pop

Brown, Steven

In This Very World

Crammed Discs/PIAS

Rock/Pop

Buzzy Lee

Shoulder To Shoulder

Future Classics

Rock/Pop

Deary

Birding

Bella Union

Rock/Pop

Exiter

Temporary Empty

Spirit Goth

Rock/Pop

Frog

Frog For Sale

Audio Antihero

Rock/Pop

JNBO

& Friends

College of Knowledge

Rock/Pop

Louanges, Les

Alouette!

Bonsound

Rock/Pop

Love, Calvin

Throw My Shadow To The Sun

Rare Form/Taxi Gauche

Rock/Pop

Makthaverskan

Glass and Bones

Wellfare

Rock/Pop

My New Band Believe

My New Band Believe

Rough Trade

Rock/Pop

Parks, Arlo

Ambiguous Desire

Transgressive/PIAS

Rock/Pop

They Might Be Giants

The World Is to Dig

Idlewild

Rock/Pop

Weird Nightmare

Hoopla

Sub Pop

Rock/Pop/Electronic

NOVABLOOD

You’re New To This Aren’t You?

Mint 400

Rock/Pop/Electronic

Robot Slide

CHIMPS

Aura Vortex

Soul/R&B

Kumail

Mudbrown

Tru Thoughts

Soul/R&B

Mamas Gun

DIG!

Blue Elan

 

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