Hello again and happy new year. It was another great month for new music. With the exception of just two tracks from the earlier days of CHILLFILTR radio (from The Luxury of Being Human and Sister) we've got all new releases. A few standouts: Anders Osborne has a new album that could be his best—possibly ever, certainly in the last 10 years or so. Jake Whiskin surprised me with a really strong debut, and speaking of debuts, newcomer Jesse Adelman has a fantastic full length album that was released just a few weeks ago. I stumbled onto Leith's music from a random recommendation, which I appreciate very much. And Mikayla McVey floored me with her track "On Naming," which hit me with that double appeal of a killer roots groove along with a complex and cerebral narrative embedded in the lyrics.

Here is our full list of new tracks for the month of December:

The Luxury of Being Human - Bring Summer Back
AJ Smith - Cooler
Alex Dunn - Me and the Lady
Amy Helm - Carry It Alone
Anders Osborne - Orpheus And The Mermaids - Jacksonville To Wichita
Anders Osborne - Orpheus And The Mermaids - Forced To
Aoife O'Donovan - Age of Apathy - B61
Aoife O'Donovan - Age of Apathy - Phoenix
Aoife O'Donovan - Age of Apathy - Age of Apathy
Aoife O'Donovan - Age of Apathy - Prodigal Daughter (feat. Allison Russell)
Boo Seeka - Dream
Boo Seeka - Kingdom Leader
chillhum - listen along
Cliché - Kiernan McMullan
demotapes - gravity
dj poolboi - la nuit n'en finit plus feat Clio
Dropper - Memoirs of Working in a Bowling Alley
Eliza Shaddad - Heaven
Flower Face - Back to You
Irma - Va-t'en
Jake Whiskin - Cold Morning
Jesse Adelman - On the Run
Jesse Adelman - Sweet Release
Khamari - Doctor, My Eyes
Kids In America - Sad Songs (feat. Ishmael)
Landon Conrath - Static
Leith - Cowboys Don't Have Friends
Luke Sital-Singh - Blind Missiles
Mikayla McVey feat. Twain - On Naming
Mishegas - Sentir
Noah Poncin - Need a Reason
Oh He Dead - Bottle It Up
Olivero x Alain Perez - Juntando Amores
Sister - Internet Baby

We have made a lot of progress on our new submission system, which will be rolling out over the next few months. I've been working on this behind the scenes for quite a while now: I'm building a standalone submission platform that will be free to use for users and editors alike that can streamline the process for getting your songs and written works over to the CHILLFILTR blog, the internet radio station, and The CHILLFILTR Review. I figured if I was going to build something for myself, I might as well make it easy to share with others—so anyone will be able to set up their own channel and run a submission flow for their blog, contests, lit mag, or really anything. The core subscription will always be free, but we will also have paid upgrades for those with more complicated needs. Anyway, you'll be hearing more about that in the next few months.

Finally, if you have a minute, stop by the Live365 blog where they just ran a spotlight on our station.

Cover photo courtesy of Jesse Adelman.