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Fear

dread and horror in all its forms
1Jem
Finally Woken

They

a pop song that doesn’t pop so much as it simmers. the gleeful church choir appears on a granular tv screen and Jem tears at the walls for the light switch. the most ambiguous pop song ever written, maybe, i can’t say for sure, i’ll get back to you on it.
2Stalaggh
Projekt Misanthropia

Album

so many screams blending into the white noise of black souls. a dog scared mindless by the thunder and a congregation of bad omens. mood music for a sadist’s Christmas lunch.
3Oneohtrix Point Never
Garden of Delete

Ezra

the biggest glitch in the matrix yet. a tapestry of beautiful things drawn and quartered until even its shadow closer resembles its original form. lopatin coughs and splutters until the dimensional gap closes.

"a squiggle in a string of quotients"
4Nicole Dollanganger
Natural Born Losers

Poacher's Pride

doe-eyed and covered in ash. the slow revolution of Poacher’s Pride feels like emotional bedrock; a fear of yourself, like seeing your hollowed-out facade in the water that swirls around the sink drain.

(this whole record could be here)
5Pharmakon
Contact

No Natural Order

a prison guard banging his baton on the bars of each cell he walks past. Pharmakon is a project obsessed with exploring its own limits – chardiet stepping headlong up to the electric fences in her brain and prodding at them with industrial clangs and film trailer fade-to-blacks. I am scared of the rate at which she seems to be progressing.
6Oathbreaker
Rheia

10:58/Second Son of R.

lulling us into a false sense of security like red riding hood and the wolf have conflated into one being, these tracks are both the violence and the reaction at once. in turn, there is the added dimension of confusion – the music always one step ahead, accosting you for lagging behind.
7O'Brother
Endless Light

Slow Sin

foreboding – distilled, bottled and poured down your chimney. grime and grace and gutted persons.
8Hermitude
Tales Of The Drift

Frayed

see: song title, the apprehensive dj scratches, the way this song trails off into smoke, et al.

(this song is on threads, but, again, i can only do so much ha ha)
9Sharon Van Etten
Are We There

Your Love Is Killing Me

"A bit more morbid, but I always associated it with a kind of danger, too: in her not focusing on the driving, nor the road straight ahead of her. It's structured chaos in the subtlest of ways." – Blushful, on the album cover, and by extension the song itself.

terrified of that which should provide comfort, convenience; a place to let your hair down.
10White Lung
Sorry

take the mirror

an exposed bone and a shattered vase. take the mirror before mish breaks it.
11Gyroscope
Sound Shattering Sound

Doctor Doctor

the sound that emanates from a five-car highway pile up. give me that blind, scrambling desperation and watch my skin crawl and my throat go hoarse. in any case, this is an anthem -- it's crippled and violently corkscrewing, but it's an anthem nonetheless.
12Peste Noire
La Sanie des siecles - Panegyrique de la

Nous Sommes Fanes

the most cruelly ironic, nefarious, and coruscating waltz to open a record ever. this curlicue is torn asunder by a single tortured scream. the record, then, unfurls through dungeon after dungeon -- cold, dank and dripping. but the music is skittish, uncertain, like its impetus is second guessed across every threshold. nervous energy colliding with all that is malignant.

cognitive dissonance.
13The Mothers of Invention
We're Only in It for the Money

Are You Hung Up?

careful not to wake the sleeping giant. human shells stepping on eggshells, and something stalking them through the blank, empty space.

....hello frank zappa.....
14Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock
Asshole / Snail Dilemma

Album

tortured classical that i'm yet to finish. my skin crawls into my soul. if an experiment yields calamitous results is it considered a success or a failure?
15Deep Puddle Dynamics
The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel

The Scarecrow Speaks

"even if you're lost / front like you have a plan". furious sage wisdom, in which the anxious sage projects his woes, four times over. the scarecrow doesn't just speak, he inveighs.
16Bandit
Of Life

Pushing

neurosis. disintegration. acerbic, jaded music for those who like their acerbic and jaded music to open up to the light at the end of the tunnel. fear (Of Life).
17Gas
Narkopop

5

bifurcating; where one branch grows, reaching over your mortal coil with such defined grace it seems illusory. the other, though, needles under the skin with the most austere application of a marching snare this side of the forest.
18Apocryphos
Stone Speak

Tenebrous

an appropriate title / ambient music so dense and multi-faceted it becomes its own textural accompaniment / the rain is whispering to you...don't listen.
19Have a Nice Life
Deathconsciousness

There Is No Food

thanks rowbro

a dust cloud with teeth. have a nice life is a sardonic phrase, and if you need proof delve into the all-encompassing static of this song.
20Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition

Pneumonia

thanks DNS

it is ice cold at the bottom of the downward spiral. throughout atrocity exhibition, danny brown finds deranged beats to match his equally deranged delivery. punching holes in hip-hop conventions.
21Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Grand Opening and Closing

Sleep Is Wrong

thanks polyrhythm

the good cop and the bad cop, the victim and the killer. the only right way to sleep is to keep one eye open, pressed against the door in anticipation of some bad-mannered, avant-garde metal.
22Protomartyr
Relatives In Descent

A Private Understanding

thanks unique (peep comments for his more eloquent, in-depth description)

another dissociative balancing on the edge of dissonance. it's easy to be alone in a crowded room, and it's even easier to let your soul fall through the floor.
23clipping.
CLPPNG

Body and Blood

thanks blush

mosquito frequencies slicing through a wired fence, revealing an industrial heart. this is not how a night out should go, with both body and blood lining the gutter.
24Comus
Song to Comus

Song to Comus

thanks mars

gloriously unhinged, like a sarcastically scored trip to the hospital. frenetic and ravaged, like the peak of a trough (or vice-versa). a song that you surrender to as soon as you try to make sense of its genetic make-up
25No Trend
Too Many Humans

Reality Breakdown

thanks pjorn

fear of literally everything. trapped by a white picket fence, like a dead dog in a hot car.
26Oxbow
Thin Black Duke

A Gentleman's Gentlemen

thanks frivolous

a mad-man finds enough people and enough instruments to espouse his incoherent rambling. he stumbles dangerously close to all the serrated edges.
27Jute Gyte
Oviri

Yarinareth, Yarinareth, Yarinareth

thanks claire

a fear-inducing migraine, migraine-inducing fear. we should be separated by a wall.
28Slint
Spiderland

Don, Aman

thanks asleep

the whispering pioneers of post-rock. torchbearers, but the torch is a dying light. social commentary that floods normal circumstance with tension and the faint wisp of smoke. violently meandering.
29Infester
To the Depths... In Degradation

To The Depths (In Degradation)

thanks bloon

from the depths, more like. there's a real muted aspect to the production here -- one which i'm not familiar with (is this unique in death?), but one which - paradoxically - gives this song a dangerously sharp edge, as if the double-kick patterns are constantly perforating the listener.
30Old Gray
Slow Burn

Razor Blade

thanks con

an open letter to a closed chapter. this is pure fear, really, as if old gray have gleaned a genuine field recording of a tragedy and just layered pummeling guitars and drums over the top.
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