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Comic book artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon, Extremity) illustrates the music of Viking's Choice. Horns up!

Daniel Warren Johnson

Where heavy metal, heady psych, dreamy ambient, furious punk, chooglin' rock, twinkly emo and cotton-candy pop music all come to freak out. All of these disparate sounds make sense in the brain of NPR Music's Lars Gotrich and are documented on his Viking's Choice newsletter.

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July 8 Mixtape: Chrysanthemum

Meridian Brothers, "En el Caribe estoy triste"
RP Boo & Armand Hammer, "Blood Running High"
Superposition, "KMT"
Elkhorn, "Road to Chaco Canyon"
Chuck Johnson, "Teleos"
Aphex Twin, "#19"
LEAVS, "To be here, to stay here"
Dark Thoughts, "Bubble's Gonna Burst"
Oceans of Slumber, "Where Gods Fear to Speak"
Another Dancer, "Overfriendly Dogs"
Dummy, "Nullspace"
Maibaum, "Grande Albero Buono Magico Uoma"
MF DOOM, "Chrysanthemum Flowers"
Sunday's Best, "Saccarchine"
Spectral Wound, "Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal"
Grant / McGuire / Flaherty, "Taner's Farm"
---__--____, "Night of Fire"
Cecile Believe, "Blink Twice"
Skeet, "Brief Call"
Lori Golston, "Several Ballads All at Once"
Horseback, "Invokation"
Judy And The Jerks, "Rats"
Black Artist Group, "For Peace and Liberty Part 2"
BASIC, "New Auspicious"
Jessica Ackerley, "All the colours are singing"
Bad Moves, "Hallelujah"
GEL, "Persona"
Raphael Rogiński (feat. Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė), "Šilinis Viržis"
Feeling Figures, "Swimming"
The Sewerheads, "Man of Finite Sorrow"
40 Watt Sun, "Closer to Life"