Today roughly marks one year since we started Mirlo Mondays, which is our way of highlighting releases on Mirlo that you might not have heard of before. There's no set criteria that a release has to fit into and it doesn't have to be a recent release either (our oldest Mirlo Mondays pick was originally recorded in the 60s!). There's no way to submit a release for consideration and we don't take any influence from PR or popularity. Sometimes we search by genre, sometimes by place and we have also been known to just go to a random page and click on a cover or artist name that looks interesting.
We also share these weekly with the tag #MirloMondays on the Fediverse, Bluesky and Instagram. Literally anything uploaded to Mirlo that we've enjoyed listening to could appear in one of these posts, so keep making music and sharing it!
Here's all of the releases that have appeared with the tag, combined into one handy list you can check out (accompanied by their original posts). Check out the artists, and remember that you can listen to all the music in this post on the post's page!
May 5th 2025: Every Monday, we're going to dig for a hidden gem that you might not have heard before, starting with this release from inpc (who also does a killer radio show every weekday). Come listen with us!
May 12th 2025: Today, we're giving this a spin, from socool and The Lonely Bell. It was originally released through Moolakii Club Audio Interface on (sold out) cassette and wouldn't seem out of place soundtracking a lone hero's journey across a wintery forest in a cult computer game that doesn't yet exist. ❤️🐦⬛
May 19th 2025: Clicked on the fun worm graphic, ended up staying for the lo-fi garage rock excellence and titles such as "Other People Are Always Cooler Than You". 🪱
May 26th 2025: The first track's title is what I did when I heard the organ sound. Hailing from Nashville, this is a recent release from phiz. 🎹🐦⬛
June 2nd 2025: Sometimes we even have live sets to discover, like this one from Kristoffer Lislegaard, from his Autechre support in Oslo.
Jun 9th 2025: Today's pick is by Rrrrrose Azerty, from Marseille, blending melancholic, lo-fi synth textures, post-punk vocals and even folk stylings to create this gem from 2019. 🎧🐦⬛
June 16th 2025: This week's recommendation comes all the way from Normandy, France, with swirling and swooping orchestral sounds woven around crispy drums, Battles-esque percussion and squelchy synths.
"Courants Ascendants" by R!GA is available to listen to now. 🐦⬛
June 23rd 2025: This week's pick is this unusual release by Jack Quinn, where each track was created whilst finishing a painting. In the artist's own words:
"I wanted to discover a way to marry the two disciplines and I thought it would be an interesting idea to allow my music production skills to train my painting ability if at all possible."
June 30th 2025: It's time for Time Rival.
"Meridian" is the pick for this week, with its pensive, cinematic, vaporwave-leaning loops, reimagined from the artist's previous releases. 🎧🐦⬛
July 7th 2025: We're going to share something a little different this week…
…our recently released fundraiser compilation!
If you'd like to support independent music and help us to continue implementing new features, we'd appreciate you listening, sharing and (if you're able to) even buying the release. 👇💻🐦⬛
July 14th 2025: If you like bops with downbeat lyrics, vocals that call to mind Elliott Smith and Jason Lytle plus the occasional trumpet, then this one's for you. 🎧🐦⬛
July 21st 2025: This is today's release for you to check out. It's called "Water Like The Birds" by Other Nothing (we approve of birds in the title) and was recorded and released in less than a month from "sketches & loops & moments”. 🎧🐦⬛
July 28th 2025: Boasting an impressively vast discography of downtempo gems that are reminiscent of early Mo' Wax, Scottish musician Phono Input (a.k.a. Aaron A. Fimister) is our highlight for this week. This EP, "Soft Machines", is from 2024.
We also really like the artwork. 🤷♀️🪰🐦⬛
August 4th 2025: We're slightly late to today's post but we think it's well worth the wait. 🎸🐦⬛
August 11th 2025: Given that we're a bird, we do a lot more talking with wings and beaks, but if you're a human, you should try Talking with Hands. 🐦⬛👐
August 18th 2025: Hyperjack producer Meljoann is our pick for this week (and comes with approval from Pitchfork)! Based in Brighton, UK, she has also been a tireless advocate for the Social Web.
Listen to “Data Ghost” below. 👻🐦⬛
September 1st 2025: It's time for another post and this release title is extremely fun to say out loud, plus the music itself bubbles, wiggles and gurgles with sounds made from weird custom-made software instruments! It's "Gluggle Jug" by New York's Cody Uhler. 🪱🐦⬛
September 8th 2025: You know what blackbirds like? Gardens. Absolutely love them. That goes for the band Gardens too, with their album "Flaws". They're "reminiscent of indie greats like Courtney Barnett, Wet Leg or Julia Jacklin" and you can listen to them below. 🌱🐦⬛
September 15th 2025: We heard this earlier in the year during #RFFF25 (where comparisons were made to Bat For Lashes) and loved it. We think you will too. This is Sgrow from Norway. 🎧🐦⬛
September 22nd 2025: NYC band Three Thousand are this week's sound offering. They are "trying to make at least five dollars from this song", so make a "Quick Deposit" (because that's the name of the song). 💰🐦⬛
September 29th 2025: Found on the recently added Crafted Sounds label page, A Country Western's "Four-Team Dream Machine" is our recommendation for this week, bringing together shoegaze and slowcore influences with an experimental lo-fi country sensibility. 🎧🐦⬛
October 6th 2025: A brilliantly strange solo trombone album by one of the instrument's most creative and virtuosic practitioners. The prolific answer to a question you might not have thought to ask: how many cool sounds can someone get out of a long metal tube?
Samuel Blaser is today's pick (approved by Mirlo's trumpet frog):
October 13th 2025: Every Monday, we go digging to find something new and interesting, regardless of recency. Today's find is this 2018 release from composer and teacher choan 🍉, featuring a selection of short works for solo ukelele. 🎼🐦⬛
October 20th 2025: With support from outlets such as The Wire and The Guardian for their dazzling, highly danceable, electro-tinged transformation of Shaabi, we're recommending Islam Chipsy + EEK with "Kahraman" as today's listening. 🎹🐦⬛
October 27th 2025: Given the recent Death to Spotify forum, we'll just feature a quote from this week's recommendation:
"We will not put it on Spotify because we refuse to have our music and the people who wanna listen to it being used to line the pockets of bigots and genocidaires who see music as nothing more than a market."
"Assimilation is Death" is by jetsam (originally a split with Gummo). Listen below:
November 3rd 2025: Fun and intense chiptune boss fight music that's faster than Sonic the Hedgehog. Please note: Mirlo and Aspid Cat cannot be held responsible for you actually fighting your boss. 🧐🥊🐦⬛
November 10th 2025: Open floor!
November 17th 2025: After our "open mic" post last week and a hyperspeed chiptune excursion the week before that, we're slowing things down today with this release from Robert Dallas Gray. ⏳🐦⬛
December 1st 2025: Starting off December, it's German Error Message with this experimental folk gem from 2011, which was written and recorded during the previous winter. ❄️🐦⬛
December 8th 2025: Presenting today's listen, "Future Telephone", from musician and coder Madeline Tasquin, with its mixture of space rock and offbeat folk charm plus some adventurous time signatures thrown in for good measure. 🌌🐦⬛
December 15th 2025: Today calls for some blistering anarcho-punk from Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. 📣🐦⬛
December 22nd 2025: We're recommending 2024's "N as in Nina / In Panorama" by The Robe and J.B. Bennett as today's listening, with its hints of Talk Talk, Ladytron and early Goldfrapp.
December 29th 2025: Today's listening (and watching) was not a Mirlo release for this week, but the newly-launched, social web answer to MTV from The Indie Beat Television (from artists and communities who have been incredibly supportive of Mirlo). We think this is a really cool project and look forward to seeing it get more love! 📺🐦⬛
tv.theindiebeat.fm
P. S. Us, Faircamp, Jam, Bandwagon and Ampwall appear briefly in the launch video.
January 5th 2026: Our discovery for today is this live set from SimonHeartfield, an electronic musician and DJ from the south coast of the UK and the curator of both the Secret Self radio show and the much-loved experimental night Syncing Not Swimming, championing artists across the spectrum of electronic music. 🎛️🐦⬛🎧
January 12th 2026: A 2020 dub gem with cosmic electronic overtones, exuding analog cool, is what we’re listening to today. Here’s “Cuttings” by Flying Vipers. 💿🐦⬛
January 26th 2026: It's been an eclectic few weeks, with crowdfunded comedy, analog dub, live electronic sets and searing punk among our finds. Today's discovery was recorded at Cully Jazz Festival in front of 1,200 people! 🎙️🐦⬛
February 2nd 2026: Look, it's not just because of the bird-related name that we picked, it's also because it's uniquely weird, wonkily good and sounds like being inside a warped animation made by Cyriak, ok?
Anyway, here's wrenharmonic, "your friendly local bird-themed noise maker". 🔍🐦⬛
February 9th 2026: Grab your black lipstick and hop on Mirb's back, we’re listening to the most recent ATTRITION release. 🖤🐦⬛
February 16th 2026: A dreamy alt-pop release by Varda that borrows its name from a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, today's discovery can be found at the "Farthest Shore". 🌊🐦⬛
February 23rd 2026: We're cramming several artists in for today's selection, with a compilation of underground electronic producers curated by TRIP FM and Triplicate Records, called "Music for Modification".
March 2nd 2026: With the search engine-antagonistic name Holy, we're sure glad we found this 2025 release on Mirlo, which invites you to a small room in Barcelona, via the Andes Mountains.
Also, trumpet frog very much approves of the brass amidst the sparse and heartfelt production. Out now on Ediciones Subterranias. 🎧️🐦⬛
March 9th 2026: Brought into existence by notes from a toy piano and with a title referring to the term for a genuine smile, the soaring synth pop of "A Duchenne smile" by Fetching Pails is today's discovery. 🪣🐦⬛
Out now via the consistently great YK Records.
March 16th 2026: How can we resist a release called "Bird Food"? This may also be the pick with the earliest recording date…1968! Not only that, but the project uses our fundraiser functionality (which we'd love to see more of)! 🥁🐦⬛
We're going from last week's live jazz to live techno this week, with a name-your-price release from multimedia artist nilehn.
They also co-run an electronic event called Computer Club in Leeds, UK, offering a welcome respite from the individualistic excess of superstar DJ culture and instead fostering open connections and communication with those in the space:
March 31st: Trans Day of Visibility: Open floor!
April 6th 2026: They may be called look the band, but we implore you to also hear the band. "One" combines sparkling new wave brilliance with quieter moments reminiscent of early PJ Harvey, Karaocake and The Breeders. 💥🐦⬛
April 13th 2026: With guitar sounds that have been described as "warming rays of sunlight" across a vast expanse and tape-warped piano tones that stretch for eternity, today's discoveries are from Ed Herbers in Cincinnati, Ohio, starting with "Season Cycle: Spring".
Or for folks who miss the cold and would prefer a short "Winterlude", with tracks that evoke the feeling of watching the stars slowly move by during a cloudless, cold winternight against a bright full moon, you can listen to its companion piece, "Season Cycle: Winter". 🌿🐦⬛❄️
April 20th 2026: Mirb's feeling pretty experimental today and has picked out a release described as "…a provocation to not take yourself too seriously" by The Attic.
A strange, hypnotic and beguiling cut and paste of electronics and downbeat vocals adorn "Flink" by Air Cushion Finish, which you can listen to below:
April 27th 2026: The BOMB Pulse, from New Orleans, USA offer up maximalist, fuzzed out, no holds barred no-wave punk you can dance to for this week's selection. Impressively, recorded in no more than two takes per song and mixed the next day. 🥁🐦⬛
May 4th 2026: What is "Baião"? What about "Carimbó" or "Frevo"? We'll find the answers in Northeastern Brazil, where Juliana Cantarelli Vita & Schuyler Whelden have found sonic inspiration in their work as musicians and musicologists.
This is their response to the call of that fascinating soundworld: "O Amor e o Som e a Dor" by Som da Massa, which is today's pick. 🎶🐦⬛
Thanks for reading and until next time!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://mirlo.space/team/posts/610