Hello, friends. What’s that sound—the north wind blowing through a Leslie cabinet? No, it’s just Gray Days and Gold, back with an hour of this month’s most worthwhile musical discoveries, still deep into a cozy, autumnal mood and living up to our ‘M4’ pledge of maximum melody and moderate melancholy.

You can listen to this episode via the embedded player just below in this post—if you don’t see it, try turning off your ad-blocker then reloading the page—or on the Mixcloud website, via the Mixcloud mobile app, on your Sonos system, etc.

There’s also a more barebones iteration of this episode’s playlist on Spotify (minus my commentary, as well as songs that are missing from their library).

If you like what you hear, please support the artists. You’ll find buy links to all the tracks in the bulleted list below.

Gray Days and Gold, October 2021

1. Kit Sebastian, “Yalvarma” (2021) • BUY
2. Tonstartssbandht, “Magic Pig” (2021) • BUY
3. The Clientele, “Bonfires on the Heath” (2009) • BUY
4. Danke Shane, “Even If” (2021) • BUY
5. Emily Wells, “I’m Numbers” (2021) • BUY
6. The Robinson Crusoes, “It Gets Dark Early” (2021) • BUY
7. Alex Pester, “It’s Only Tea” (2021) • BUY
8. Macie Stewart, “Wash It Away” (2021) • BUY
9. Rachel Love, “Primrose Hill” (2021) • BUY
10. Berk Icli, “Bambino’s Nap” (2021) • BUY
11. Alex Rand, “Underwater Shelf” (2021) • BUY
12. Jimmy Kraft, “Stonefruit” (2021) • BUY

Appendix

Interview: Alex Pester’s Lover’s Leap

Click here to read my new interview with Alex Pester about his new album Lover’s Leap.

As always, thanks for listening. If you have questions, suggestions, etc. please feel free to contact me. And if you’d like to receive these posts via email, you can sign up here. Take care.