Jac's (late) 1st Quarter 2018
I know this is more the first third of the year by now, but I got behind on releases (as has usually been the case these last few years) but oh well. Here is just about every album I've heard from this year, sans stuff I plan on revisiting. Enjoy. |
56 | | Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa Intervivos
Free improvisation - I can definitely see myself being in the minority here but ugh |
55 | | Starved Starved
Black metal |
54 | | Graham Lambkin No Better No Worse
Musique concrete |
53 | | Golgothan Remains Perverse Offerings To The Void
Death metal |
52 | | Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain Ondrej Adamek: Sinuous Voices
Modern classical - The squelchy, unlistenable kind |
51 | | Mount Eerie Now Only
Griefcore |
50 | | Jerusalem Quartet Dvorak: Quartet, Op. 97 / Sextet, Op. 48
Romanticism |
49 | | Tinashe Joyride
R&B - Has some choice cuts but drops the ball pretty clumsily in the middle |
48 | | Taku Sugimoto / Cristian Alvear h
Onkyo |
47 | | Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name
Progressive death metal - It really isn't that good |
46 | | Cardi B Invasion Of Privacy
Hip hop - It really isn't that bad |
45 | | Vanessa Rossetto Fashion Tape
Musique concrete |
44 | | Steve Reich Pulse/Quartet
Modern classical - Can work well as background music but just a little yawn inducing at times |
43 | | Insect Ark Marrow Hymns
Sludge metal |
42 | | HFMFM Trapped
Hardcore |
41 | | Maurizio Pollini / Daniele Pollini Debussy: Preludes II
Impressionism |
40 | | Jon Rune Strom Quintet Fragments
Jazz |
39 | | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos 1 + 2
Modern classical |
38 | | Vastum/Spectral Voice Split
Death metal - Neither band's strongest material but it's 11 minutes so who cares? |
37 | | Augury Illusive Golden Age
Progressive death metal |
36 | | Fire! The Hands
Jazz |
35 | | Demonomancy Poisoned Atonement
War metal |
34 | | Musica Ficta Lassus: St Matthew Passion
Renaissance music / christian liturgical music / - Definitely not for listening while in a setting that could allow you to be easily distracted. Not because there's a lot going on, there isn't, quite the opposite |
33 | | Marc Hantai / Pierre Hantai Bach: Sonates pour flute et clavecin
Baroque music |
32 | | Wombripper From The Depths Of Flesh
Death metal - Seems to compensate for lack of interesting songwriting with savagery but definitely worth a listen and assessing on its own merits |
31 | | Munchner Philharmoniker Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Piano Concerto n.3
modern classical |
30 | | Hooded Menace Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Death / doom metal |
29 | | Bach Collegium Japan J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 9
Baroque music |
28 | | Sinfonia Varsovia Khachaturian / Penderecki: Cello Concertos
Modern classical - Nowhere near as fraught as those who only know Penderecki through Matrix 5 or "Threnody..." might expect, but still spooks |
27 | | Yhdarl Loss
Black metal |
26 | | Gnaw Their Tongues Genocidal Majesty
""""""power electronics"""""" / """"""black metal"""""" - The first Gnaw Their Tongues album I've bothered to sit through all the way |
25 | | Shinya Fukumori Trio For 2 Akis
Jazz - Very melodic and harmonically rich, piano-centric jazz that's a breeze to listen to |
24 | | Grave Upheaval (untitled)
Death metal - Improvement over their last album, in that they actually wrote songs this time |
23 | | Alva Noto Unieqav
Techno - A little overlong but the tracks in isolation are very engrossing |
22 | | The Sixteen Monteverdi: Messa a Quattro Voci et Salmi Vol II
Renaissance music |
21 | | Chaos Echoes Mouvement
Atmospheric death metal - Another improvement on a previous installment, having melding the instrumentation and ambiance in a more purposeful way |
20 | | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 9
Romanticism |
19 | | Ill Natured Twisted Visions
Metallic hardcore - Not all that complicated but goes ahrd m/ |
18 | | Masson / Vallon / Moret / Friedli Travelers
Jazz |
17 | | Replicant Negative Life
Tech death - Something relatively fresh in today's saturated dissodeath scene is always worth a peep |
16 | | Patricia Kopatchinskaja / Polina Leschenko Deux: Bartok / Poulenc / Ravel
Modern classical |
15 | | Inferi Revenant
Tech / melodic death |
14 | | Ensemble Cairn Gerard Pesson: Blanc merite
Modern classical - Odd but strangely infectious, which after the most brief of background research regarding the title leads me to believe that was the intention. Congrats, Mr. Pesson? |
13 | | Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto Live 2002
Glitch |
12 | | Isabelle Faust / Kristian Bezuidenhout J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Baroque / chamber music |
11 | | Exlimitir It Weighed Itself In Silver
Death metal - Unabashed Demilich worship; the kind we need more of |
10 | | Pendant Make Me Know You Sweet
Ambient |
9 | | Clara de Asis Do Nothing
Modern classical / drone |
8 | | Bach Collegium Japan Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Romanticism - One of the few large-scale Beethoven works that I've really enjoyed |
7 | | Garroted Of Damnation and Abyssal Terrors
Death metal - Think early-Morbid Angel imbued with Spheres-era Pestilence technical weirdness and just a hint of Demilich |
6 | | Stile Antico Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories
Renaissance music / choral |
5 | | Jurg Frey / Magnus Granberg Early to Late
Modern classical / lowercase - I'm convinced at this point that Jurg cannot make ugly music no matter the source material or the techniques used to manipulate it |
4 | | Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble Duplant: Chamber and Field Works 2015-2017
Modern classical - The quiet, waft-y kind |
3 | | Portal ION
Tech death - See my review |
2 | | Abigor Höllenzwang - Chronicles Of Perdition
Black metal |
1 | | Ricercar Consort J.S. Bach: Consolatio
Baroque music - See my review |
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