The List: ‘Onslaught’, Nat Walker, Slow Pulp, Miami Nights 1984, Charanjit Singh

I know. I know. I post so rarely these days. I’m not on the release cycle or probably everyone else’s timeline. That said, I still listen to music and still want to show folks said art. This time around I’m recommending five albums that are rather different from each other. What binds them together is their impeccably high quality. (Natch.) Dive in, friends. Nat Walker — Soft Sculpture You’ve heard Walker’s music in films, TV shows, bar jukeboxes, car stereos, advertisements, and all points between. From the mid-2000s to 2021, the humble but profoundly talented Walker was a drummer and synth player in Chromatics, a band his brother Adam Miller co-founded around 25 years ago in Seattle but which you know well from their forays into Twin Peaks and Drive. He was also in Chromatics’ Italians Do It Better sibling acts Symmetry and Desire, with his contributions all over even Johnny Jewel’s solo work. In this decade, when he’s not teaming up with his wife, former Glass Candy frontwoman Ida…