Broke Royals – Strung Up In Lights
Vestiges – I
Daniel Bachman – Song For The Setting Sun II
The El Mansouris – Walden
KTW – Downeast
The Red Lines – How Can I Stay?
Max D – Bubblegum
Lauren Calve – Hard
Once Okay Twice – I Have An Illness
Mooks – Song For Bella
The Harry Bells – Jump In the Line
Rush Plus – Low For Me
The Northern Divide – Severance
Strange Times People Band – Andion
Bossalingo – Django
00Genesis – In the Ruff
Timmy Sells His Soul – Memory Foam
Cullen Ruff – Longing
Nitemoves – Harbinger Group
Crooks and Crows – The Underwood No. 5

Hospital originally was going to be a straight-up concept album about, well, dying, but once all the songs were put together, the lyrics didn’t really work with the idea. What did work was opening the album with tunes that were pop-based — almost electroclash — and pivoting to experimental, sometimes borderline-spooky songs about halfway through. The album moves from lyrics and concepts based in the real-world — addictive behavior, for example — to more abstract vibes.

“My mind inevitably gets fixated on negatives and I find it very difficult to notice the positive aspects of life, which is why the themes of my music are usually so depressing,” says the 28-year-old Falls Church, Virginia, resident. “I guess the only positive message of this album is that maybe the process of dying will be interesting and weird and therefore maybe not something to dread all that much.”

That said, it might not be totally evident throughout the album’s bleeps and bloops, which sometimes are purposefully funky (“Because God Is Dead And Everything Is Sex,” “.22”) or soulful (“Monochromatic”). Euphrat, 28, explains that Hospital is “basically 100 percent sample-based” — sometimes the “samples” are of his own music, i.e. recording a strummed note and going from there — and made to “sound as synthetic and fake as possible.”

Hospital started to come together when Euphrat, who has been making music under the Timmy Sells His Soul moniker for about a decade now, was looking back at material that he had set aside a few years ago. The songs had fresh appeal, and he decided to give the album another shot. It was probably inevitable that it would have a noticeable structure: Euphrat says he’s recently been obsessed with “conceptual coherence” and maybe a little too interested in looking at things from a “form-based standpoint.” (He’s been relatively prolific, too: In April he released the LP Money Always Wins.)

Euphrat, who digitizes books for a living, moved to the D.C. area from Tucson, Arizona, about six years ago in search of like-minded music-focused folks. He’s now in a handful of bands, including Tired All The Time and Narkotronik. “I rarely get a weekend to myself,” he says.

That adds a special kind of value to Timmy Sells His Soul, he says: “Basically whatever I visualize I can try to bring it into reality without other people interfering with it.”

huSEQ – Super Extoller
Lisa Said – Travelling Minus Zero
Peals – Belle Air
junhee – 끝
Projekt Eins – Imbroglio
Wanted Man – Fake a Prayer
Rod Hamilton – Gato
Timmy Sells His Soul – Nervous Animals
Night Streets – Oceans Red
Big Easy E – Beyond
Theater of Soul – Slow Drag in the Woods
Restoring Poetry in Music – Box of Fire
Brian Forehand – House of Sax
Mission South – Thriller
Jordan Clawson – Under the Microscope
Thomas Zebovitz – Inspirited Waltz
Rumpole – Bee Major
The Red Lines – How Can I Stay?
Aaron Gage – Vinayaka
Mark Haag – Star Gazing

Wes Swing – Instrumental 1
Extra Golden – Ilando Gima Onge
Asheru – Boogie (feat. J-Live & Oddisee)
Will Spelker – He Was Mensa
David King – Razor Sharp + Interludes (Bend Language, Sketches 1 & 2)
FeelFree – Fishery
So Spirited – FakeFangs
Terrill Mast – Gifts (feat. Ryan Selove, Jed Lingat, Radhika Bhatt, Morrison Mast)
Dove Lady – Waiting For A Delivery
Sriram Gopal – Bapuji
Middle Distance Runner – Sweettalker
Timmy Sells His Soul – Platinum Card
The Red Fetish – The Rain That Feeds the Meadows
Power Pirate – Alone
aerialist – computia
Projekt Eins – Denouement
The Cowards Choir – Name the Fear
Ken & Brad Kolodner – John Brown’s March
CrushnPain – Night Terrors
Borracho – Empty

Flash Frequency – Vibration
Incredible Change – Ecce Mono
Sansyou – The Enthusiast
The Universal Friend Rays – Side A
Throw Me A Rope – Punk Theory/No Theory
Fields Burning – At The Break Of Day
Jonny Grave – The Rebel in the Herringbone
Dissonance – Picnic at the Disco
Nice Breeze – Transparency
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes – Blue Moo
David King – Solar Impulse
Astronaut Jones – Game Theory (ft. Frank Mitchell Jr.)
Jau Ocean – Foolish Games
Jeremy Padow – Rising Chords, 6/8
Language of Sleep – Act II
Wild Coast – Stare Scared
We Were Pirates – The Cheapening
Pilesar – Balaphobic
Timmy Sells His Soul – Hallways
Brûlée – Begging Bowl