| 3.5 great |
| Actress Splazsh |
| Airs Adore |
| Am Not The Developing World |
| Ariel Pink Pom Pom |
| ASC Imagine The Future |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out |
| Atrofia Cerebral Matanza Extrema |
| Baton Rouge Totem |
| Bellows Blue Breath |
| Big Blood First Aid Kit |
| Big Blood Double Days II |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn |
| Bob Tilton Crescent |
| Bodyguard Silica Gel |
| Boliden Landscape and Memory |
| really lovely ambient techno. this sort of fuzzy, layered ambience paired with beats has surely been done before but Boliden just does it so well, here. great blend of varied beats, gorgeous layers (almost worthy of shoegaze description), occasional vocal melodies, and snippets of other various sounds. yeah. listen: https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-and-memory ~ |
| Borbetomagus Barbed Wire Maggots |
| Brighter Death Now May All Be Dead |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV |
| Cabaret Voltaire Red Mecca |
| Cerberus Shoal Mr. Boy Dog |
| Cerberus Shoal Cerberus Shoal |
| Cerberus Shoal ...and Farewell to Hightide |
| Chief Keef Finally Rich |
| Christopher Hipgrave No Greater Hero than the Least Plant that Grows |
| Cindy Lee Act of Tenderness |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages |
| Dalek Negro Necro Nekros |
| Dalek Asphalt For Eden |
| Dalek Untitled |
| Damien Dubrovnik Great Many Arrows |
| Darage Bang EXXO |
last-minute surprise. downtempo/ambient/tech/whatever from Germany. every song is smoov-as-fuck bliss. might
havta bump this up. dunno what my fav tracks are but for now I'll say: "Long Distance Run", "Sub-Surface", and maybe
"Something Deep".
https://darage-bang.bandcamp.com/album/exxo |
| Dave DK Val Maira |
| lovely minimal tech house. each track (averaging 6ish minutes apiece) builds beautifully in various directions, and new elements pop out of nowhere and add different dimensions constantly. enjoyed from beginning to end of the hour-long runtime. |
| David First Privacy Issues |
| David Shea Satyricon |
| Dean Blunt Black Metal |
| Dean Blunt The Redeemer |
| Depeche Mode Violator |
| Derek Rogers Silence is Being Substituted |
| Descendents I Don't Want to Grow Up |
| Doldrums (CAN) The Air Conditioned Nightmare |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns |
| Dreamwell Modern Grotesque |
| Duster Contemporary Movement |
| Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis |
| Equiknoxx Colón Man |
| Faust Faust IV |
| Fire! Orchestra Arrival |
| Fort Romeau Insides |
| rrules. has a sort of retrospective element with some old school, 80s action-esque synths in some tracks, while others are more spacey and ethereal. every track seems to evolve seamlessly, almost unnoticeabley as you're transfixed on the addictive four-on-the-floor house beats, but then you look up and realize the song has warped into something new in your absence. gorgeous production, slowly, enveloping 7ish minute run times, fine-tuned effects, powerful, invigorating, unnnggghhh. wouldn't have expected this from La Roux's session keyboardist or w/e the fuck he was up to, but yeah, listen to this. |
| Frodus F-Letter |
| Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea |
| Gaika MACHINE |
experimental hip hop with some grime, garage, r&b, etc. fav tracks: "Hannah" and "Lick the Knife"
https://soundcloud.com/gaikasays/sets/machine-1/s-EAsUp |
| Gastr del Sol The Serpentine Similar |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey |
| Grouper Way Their Crept |
| Grouper Cover the Windows and the Walls |
| Half Japanese 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is |
| Iannis Xenakis Electronic Music |
| Jacob Newman and Devin Underwood Sending the Past |
| James Ferraro Marble Surf |
| James Ferraro Live at Primavera Sound 2012 |
| Janis Lago Daughter of Sappho / Recovery |
| Jason Lescalleet Songs About Nothing |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Devotion |
| Jim O'Rourke with Oren Ambarchi Behold |
| Joanne Robertson Black Moon Days |
| Joda Clément The last place they thought of |
| John Coltrane Ascension |
| Kent Tankred Ordinary Things |
| L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae The Night Took Us In Like Family |
| Lapalux Lustmore |
| Latishia's Skull Drawing Romanticized |
great noisy punk. plenty of sleaze and varied musicianship but nonetheless a swift, concise roller coaster of irate, pissy
fuzz. https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/romanticized-lp-lungs-083 |
| Leyland Kirby Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was |
| Liberez All Tense Now Lax |
| Luigi Nono Guai ai gelidi mostri |
| Lumisokea Transmissions From Revarsavr |
| bit of an odd mix of techno and electroacoustic methods. it starts off a bit slow and confused, but hits its stride at about halfway where the band's techno influence shines through, creating a worthwhile combination rather than a fiddly thought experiment. it could've been more cohesive overall I guess but it still bangs.rhttps://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/lumisokea-transmissions-from-revarsavr |
| Main Source Breaking Atoms |
| Malcolm Pointon Electromuse |
| Masaya Ozaki Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes |
| Materic Between Stone Slabs |
| sweet Russian skramz with a bit of noise and shoegaze influence. really nice balance of dour atmosphere and invigorating riffs, and both male and female vox. nothing groundbreaking, but it goes hard. 2nd and 6th tracks are both dope, but it's solid beginning to end |
| Mathias Delplanque Transmissions |
| Matt Elliott Failing Songs |
| Merchant Ships For Cameron |
| Miki Yui Oscilla |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge |
| Night Birds Mutiny At Muscle Beach |
| Nocturnerror Last Seconds Of Resentment Required |
| Oake Monad XXIV |
| Okkyung Lee Yeo-Neun |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica |
| Pain Teens Destroy Me, Lover |
| Pain Teens Stimulation Festival |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch |
| Paul Dolden The Threshold of Deafening Silence |
| Paul Jebanasam Continuum |
| Polar Inertia Kinematic Optics |
https://dement3d.bandcamp.com/album/kinematic-optics-ep
sweet ambient techno. captures the arctic aesthetic, but pumps it with hard-hitting beats in the first half, and a
sense of introspection in the second half. the tracks on this double EP run about 8 minutes each for this first disc
and 20 minutes apiece for the 2 tracks on the second disc, but Polar Inertia pull off the lengthy structure without a
hitch. just enough nuance to keep it interesting, but restrained enough so the core appeal isn't lost. |
| Porter Ricks Biokinetics |
| Puce Mary The Spiral |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep |
| Rabit Communion |
| pretty rad. if grime represent the sound of the england underground, this album sees it buried under centuries of dystopia. it's almost bio-mechanical in sound - visceral and human in the darkest sense, but very robotic too. |
| Radiator Hospital Torch Song |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool |
| Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection |
| Rites of Spring End on End |
| Roger Tellier-Craig Études |
| Rudimentary Peni Death Church |
| Ruined Families Education |
| Saccharine Trust Paganicons |
| Saudade a long lifetime of dying slowly |
| Shapednoise Different Selves |
| Slum Village Yes! |
| Snowday As We Travel |
| Sore Eyelids Sore Eyelids |
| Spy Versus Spy Spy Versus Spy |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort |
| Swell Maps ....In "Jane From Occupied Europe" |
| T'Saatsuna/Reverend Desaad Churnmilk Peg!!/Hypatian Codex: Compendium Dub |
| solid af. really eclectic and organic sounding, and plenty of variety without feeling scattered. somewhere between 3.5-4 for me |
| Terrible Feelings Tremors |
| Terry Fox The Labyrinth Scored for 11 Different Cats |
| The Birthday Party Live 1981-82 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Masked Dancers |
| The Durutti Column The Return of the Durutti Column |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger |
| The Horrors Primary Colours |
| The Hue Aurora |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion |
| The New Blockaders History of Nothing |
| Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser |
| Today Is the Day Animal Mother |
| Toshiya Tsunoda Somashikiba |
| Towers Bel Air Highrise Plantation |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas |
| Unwound Fake Train |
| Vladislav Delay Multila |
| Whirr Sway |
| William Basinski The River |
| 3.0 good |
| ACIN ACIN |
| Actress AZD |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album |
| Adebisi Shank This is the EP |
| Adversarial Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of... |
| Age Sixteen Open Up Finders, Please |
| Airs Apart |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire |
| Alice Boman Dream On |
| American Football American Football |
| Antigone and Francois X We Move As One |
| Applescal For |
| Attilio Novellino and Collin McKelvey Metaphysiques Cannibales |
| Ava Luna Infinite House |
| Azfarat Enough of Song |
| Barry O'Halloran Dyssomnias - Selected Works (10-12) |
| Ben Vida Damaged Particulates |
good electroacoustic that works better as a supplementary listen than a standalone one. listened to this on the bus and
while walking downtown and it was a nice experience, as the city's accidental beauty meshed with the album's
attempted beauty in unexpectedly successful ways. but, it's a bit of a dull listen on its own. dunno if that means this
should be a 3.5 or a 2.5 so we'll settle on a 3.rhttps://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/damaged-
particulates |
| Beth Orton Weather Alive |
| Black Tambourine By Tomorrow |
| Bladee and Thaiboy Digital AvP |
| Chip Lionel Legs Back Feet Half |
| Chippendale, Gustafsson and Pupillo Melt |
| Chris Randall Oscillator Breach |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex |
| I second Eliot's points, but this would be a near-masterpiece if Gonzales was able to accomplish what he does while also utilizing more variation in terms of songwriting. it has great pick-up-and-play appeal, and it's remarkable how far CAS can take their formula, but there isn't much I can say about one song that I can't say about another. which is good, but limits the album to just being merely good. |
| Clara Lai Haikus |
Piano-led jazz from Spain. Subtly paced and tender, with enough of an experimental component to keep things
interesting, but not so much as to lose sight of the evocativeness. Tracks like "Bosque adentro..." make it out to
be an electroacoustic wanderer. the song titles all end with the name of various poets (Yosa Buson, Jorge Luis
Borges etc), from whom Clara Lai seems to draw inspiration. many barebones piano-based compositions can
feel a bit sterile, but this is all done pretty tastefully. nothing mind-blowing, but nice.
rhttps://discordianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/haikus |
| Cloud Rat Qliphoth |
| Colleen Captain of None |
| Colleen Everyone Alive Wants Answers |
| Colleen Les ondes silencieuses |
| Container LP 3 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us |
| Corbin Leaving |
| Cubenx Elegiac |
| cyberbully mom club outdoor activities |
| CZARFACE Every Hero Needs a Villain |
| Dahi Divine The Element |
| Daniel Avery Song for Alpha |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition |
| Dashevsky Ghost Cassette |
| Dead Neighbors Dead Neighbors |
| Dear Eloise Beauty in Strangers |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine |
| Denzel Curry 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms |
| Destruction Unit Negative Feedback Resistor |
| Deux Filles Space & Time |
| DJ Seinfeld Time Spent Away From U |
| Drekka and Funkhouser Within the Realm of The Unknown |
| Duck. Little brother, duck! Don't Take Our Filth Away |
| Dudal Dudal |
| Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra |
| Embassies of Denmark Embassies of Denmark |
| pretty rad post-hardcore out of Ontario. this is some remaster of a 2006 EP. reminds me a bit of The Newfound Interest in Connecticut or Sed Non Satiata. |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward |
| Endon Through The Mirror |
| Fabio Battistetti Into The Wood |
| Faust Faust So Far |
| Federico Durand Música para Manuel |
| Fennec This Place Was Once a Palace |
| Fire! Orchestra Ritual |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD |
| Floating Points Elaenia |
a bit disappointing. a couple of his EPs are great so I was expecting some AOTY material for this full-length but
there's only a couple real highlights on this and the rest is decent |
| Floral Floral |
| Food Court Food Court |
| Francois Bayle Erosphère |
| Frank Bretschneider Sinn + Form |
| Frankie Cosmos Zentropy |
| Frodus Conglomerate International |
| Gastr del Sol Upgrade & Afterlife |
| Gastr del Sol Camoufleur |
| Geotic Abysma |
| Girlfriends Girlfriends |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope |
| Grade Under the Radar |
| Graham Lambkin Community |
| Graham Lambkin Aphorisms |
| Grouper Wide |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat |
| Half Japanese Overjoyed |
| Helde Suaren Gerizpea |
| Hella The Devil Isn't Red |
| Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space |
| Hella Tripper |
| Helta Skelta Beyond the Black Stump |
| Hippies Wearing Muzzles Egyptian Paralysis |
| Hop Along Painted Shut |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains |
| Icarus the Owl The Spotless Mind |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix |
| Institute (USA-TX) Catharsis |
| James Ferraro Suki Girlz |
| James Ferraro Skid Row |
| Jamie xx In Colour |
solid UK garage from The xx's Jamie Smith. would be better if not for a couple stray turds mucking it up. for the
most part, ear-tickling bass, some memorable melodies, lofty builds and neat background noises. the first half is
significantly better. "Stranger in a Room" is negligible and "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" is comically bad, and
fucks up the
flow of the album. the first 4 tracks are rad, though. |
| Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet |
| JASSS Weightless |
| Jordan Rakei Groove Curse |
| Karin Park Apocalypse Pop |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Junglinge |
| Karsten Pflum Dode |
| KirbLaGoop Goop |
| Klahtouk Deep Fried Thumb |
surprisingly good Boston-based techno. really good balance between groovy and laid-back. nothing you haven't heard,
but well-executed nonetheless. plenty of little touches that pop out, making it a nice headphone experience. track 3 is
mixed a bit irritatingly, though. there's enough progressive elements to mix things up and create a sort of loose
extraterrestrial narrative, but not so much that it detracts from the visceral enjoyment. like a 2.9/5
https://klahtouk.bandcamp.com/album/deep-fried-thumb-ep |
| Konstrukt and Keiji Haino A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little |
| Kostadis Unleash |
| thick, heavy ambient from Greece augmented by musique concrete. would probably pair greatly with a visual performance combining pitch black with sense-tingling, intermittent elements of light. the album itself is a good balance of eerie and groovy - dark soundscapes occasionally interrupted by minimal beats, suited to a dancehall where no one moves due to out-of-body enjoyment. I think.rhttps://kostadis.bandcamp.com |
| Lee Gamble Koch |
| Leigh Toro L'Esprit De L'Escalier |
| Leon Bridges Coming Home |
| Loke Rahbek City of Women |
| loqto Replication |
| Loscil Endless Falls |
| Lubomyr Melnyk Rivers and Streams |
| lukepi Soar |
| M.E.S.H. Piteous Gate |
| Makthaverskan Ill |
| Makthaverskan II |
| Mamaleek Via Dolorosa |
| Marching Church This World Is Not Enough |
| Marina Rosenfeld Plastic Materials |
| Maths Descent |
| Maxime Corbeil-Perron K A T H A R S I S |
| Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda Crosshatches |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol |
| Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto Live 2002 |
| Morning Effort I heard you the first time, it just wasn't funny |
| not bad, reminds me of YFW-era Brand New plus some twinkly emo influence in the vein of Snowing, but not as fast-paced. If you're an emo fan with ~9 minutes to spare, give this a chance. recording quality is obviously weak |
| Mount Eerie Night Palace |
| Mystic 100s Mystic 100's |
| Netherworld Zastrugi |
| Night Sins New Grave |
| Nine of Swords I Can't Stand My Own Face |
| pretty vicious skramz. the chick sounds absolutely sinister, and the chunky guitars are relentlessly heavy. a nice change of pace from the plethora of post-rock screamo coming out the woodwork lately |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic |
| ostraca Disaster |
| Palmistry Afterlife |
| Paperworks Sweet Density |
| Paula Temple FACT 532 |
| Perc and Randomer Igneous |
| Phrenelith Desolate Endscape |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Grandfeathered |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love |
| Protomartyr The Agent Intellect |
| Pyramid Vritra Danu |
| Rat Columns Fooling Around |
| Really From This Is What You Learned |
| some pretty tasty math-rock emo with jazz influence. |
| Recondite Corvus |
| Restive Plaggona Leaving The Body |
| Roly Porter Third Law |
| Royal Headache High |
| Rrose and Lucy The Lotus Eaters II |
| Ruby My Dear Balloon |
http://store.kaometry.com/album/balloon
solid breakcore, and the runtime is well-suited to Chastagnol's style. fun and concise |
| Say Anything Junior Varsity |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre |
| SCHNTZL Bamboo |
Really nice improvised piano+drum music. This is ideal for sinking into a chair after a long day, pretty relaxing and easy
on the ears. |
| Sciahri Behind the Line |
| Serpent Column Ornuthi Thalassa |
| Sextile A Thousand Hands |
| pretty cool post-punk with some surf rock, ambient, and industrial flavour. feels like the band is still finding a comfort zone, though. this has some dope tracks but you can tell they really haven't settled with a specific, effective sound. |
| Sin Anestesia The Transdimensional Seduction Handbook |
| rich, fascinating freeform jazz. the saxophonists are unreal, and are collectively one of the most creative ensembles I've come across in a while. this piece of music manages to be animalistic, yet fiercely precise in delivery. an interesting listen, though I wouldn't recommend it to newcomers of free jazz |
| Small Wonder Wendy |
| Some Some Unicorn Some Some Unicorn and The Golden Periphery |
| Son Lux Bones |
| Sprain As Lost Through Collision |
| Stuart Russell Inveniam Viam |
| Subhumans The Day the Country Died |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages |
| Suis La Lune Distance/Closure |
| Surgeon Force + Form |
| Sutekh Hexen / Hissing Sutekh Hexen / Hissing |
| Swan of Tuonela an incomplete portrait |
| Swindle Peace, Love and Music |
| Taku Unami and Devin Disanto Taku Unami / Devin DiSanto |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring |
| The Blunder of a Horse Mystery Manta |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1 |
| The Cherry Wave Shimaru |
| solid shoegaze with far-off vocals that are equal parts gloom and optimism. nothing too out-of-the-box here, but there's a handful of great tracks - "Crashing", "Michinoku Overdriver", and "Pure Burst" come to mind. rhttps://thecherrywave.bandcamp.com/album/shimaru-lp |
| The Cure Songs of a Lost World |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation |
| The New Blockaders Changez Les Blockeurs |
| The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 Ad |
| The Reptilian Full Health |
| Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream |
| Thomas Leer and Robert Rental The Bridge |
| Today Is the Day Kiss the Pig |
| Told Slant Still Water |
| Told Slant Going By |
"Tsunami" and "Sweater" were my fav Told Slant songs and weren't even album tracks, so I'm pretty happy with their
inclusion here. |
| Trapped Under Ice Stay Cold |
| U (UK) We Decide Who Comes In |
| Ufomammut Ecate |
| Valerio Tricoli Clonic Earth |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett |
| Vladislav Delay Visa |
| Vladislav Delay Kuopio |
| Voiski Marble Sadness |
| Volcanic Queen Photography Shield |
| White Lung Paradise |
| White SeeD Sick In A Place Away from Everything |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth |
| Yair Elazar Glotman Études |
| Yumi Zouma Yumi Zouma |
| Zhrine Unortheta |
| 2.5 average |
| 36 Pulse Dive |
| A Fine Boat that Coffin! The Second Nail |
| Abdulla Rashim A Shell of Speed |
| Acre (UK) Better Strangers |
| Afterlives A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues |
| am. Darkdays |
| Angel Olsen My Woman |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz |
| Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy Sintetizzatrice |
| Astral and Shit Spiritus Vitae |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a |
| Bad Future Nightchurch |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV |
| Baklavaa Spiral Cramp |
| Barkin Engin and Tuna Pase Hazy Stars |
| Bedroom Eyes Honeysuckle |
| pretty average nu-gazey stuff. dreamy vox, grandiose guitar swells, catchy hooks, and little imprint. fav tracks: "Gypsy", "Dimmer", "Plain Heir" i guessrhttps://bdrmeyes.bandcamp.com/album/honeysuckle |
| Bicep Bicep |
| Biosphere and Deathprod Stator |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim |
| Black Tambourine OneTwoThreeFour |
| Bolzer Hero |
| Bongripper Miserable |
| Breathing Walker Breathing Walker |
| basically a calmer, more experimental Moss Icon with less punk influence. It's the same lineup, but with the addition of string elements. A cool listen, and essential for Moss Icon fans, but doesn't quite have the raw energy that made MI special. It gets pretty repetitive, and doesn't boast that much replay valuer |
| Burstbot Memory Imprints |
| Camp Lo Ragtime Hightimes |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You |
| Cerberus Shoal Chaiming the Knoblessone |
| Ceschi Broken Bone Ballads |
| Chavez Gone Glimmering |
| Client Liasion Diplomatic Immunity |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge |
| CO2 Quartet Intersections |
| Colleen The Tunnel and the Clearing |
| Dads I’ll Be The Tornado |
| Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer |
| Dan Lyth and the Euphrates Benthic Lines |
| the outdoor recording gives a cool feel to the album. the guy has a lot of talent, and is obviously great at sound engineering or whatever, but his vocal delivery is pretty obnoxious and I don't really like his songwriting style... I found this album pretty dry. a lot of cool elements here and there though. This album would be great to fall asleep to while sitting on a porch swing |
| David Bowie Blackstar |
| Dax J The Invisible Man |
| Daylight Robbery Accumulated Error |
| Dear Eloise Uncontrollable, Ice Age Stories |
still some cool releases popping up in the year's tailend. Laid-back, surf-rock-y shoegaze from China. runs a bit
long and could use more changes in aesthetic but I'm liking this. fav tracks: "man without a heart", "something beautiful
to share", and "passby"
http://downloads.maybemars.org/album/uncontrollable-ice-age-stories |
| Death Grips The Money Store |
| Dedekind Cut Tahoe |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses |
| Dikembe Mediumship |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm |
| Drummotive, Quasi, Leonux and Infest Spectra |
| Dry Heave Designer Skin |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire |
| East India Youth Culture of Volume |
| Ekke Chasm |
| decent IDM/techno/glitch with some electroacoustic play. feels like a bit of a mishmash of half-fleshed ideas though. really nice and crisp sounding, but wanders a bit too much. would be better if Ekke really honed in on a prominent sound, rather than aimlessly tinkering. still, the found-sound elements help this pop in places |
| Elg Vu Du Dome |
| Eskimeaux O.K. |
| Evan Caminiti Toxic City Music |
| Ex Eye Ex Eye |
| Exploring Jezebel On A Business Trip To London |
| Faust Something Dirty |
| Field Medic Fuck You Grim Reaper |
| not too shabby. I mean, the sound quality is awful and the lyrics are juvenile and useless, but I have a soft spot for this kinda style and it's short enough that I can get through it enjoying the subtle melodies and lighthearted vibe. I'd only rec it to fans of lo-fi bedroom shit though, like mah boi Yak over there |
| Frodus Molotov Cocktail Party |
| Fucking Invincible It'll Get Worse Before It Gets Better |
| Gas Narkopop |
| Gas Chamber Hemorrhaging Light |
| Gastr del Sol Crookt, Crackt, or Fly |
| Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD Sour Soul |
| Giles Corey Hinterkaifeck |
| Giovanni Venosta Olympic Signals |
| Grave Pool Mnemonics |
| Grey Gordon Forget I Brought It Up |
| Grischa Lichtenberger Spielraum |
| Heat Dust Heat Dust |
| Helen The Original Faces |
| Helena Hauff Discreet Desires |
| Helm Olympic Mess |
| Hollow Sunshine Bible Sea |
| Hookworms Pearl Mystic |
| Album kinda falls off after the first few tracks... the opener is great, the next track is decent, and the rest is kinda forgettable tbh.. not bad, but not great. |
| Hostage Calm Die On Stage |
| I See Giants Acts of Desperation |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan |
| Illyria Illyria |
| Ilpo Numminen Vuosi 5/12 |
| Infidel?/Castro! Case Studies in Bioentropy |
| Jackie-O Motherfucker Fig. 5 |
| Jason Lescalleet My Machine |
better than his string of This Is What I Do releases, for the most part. there's a bit of an interesting narrative buried
beneath everything, and Jason is great at taking concrete noises and accentuating them for extra oomph, but his
production on this is a bit lazy. there's an overlong rainfall recording, some chopped-and-screwed variation of The
Sweet's "Fox on the Run", and some other questionable choices. but, parts of the album are pretty thoughtful - there's a
vocal excerpt at the beginning of the second half that won me over a bit. a good portion of this resembles the tiring
effect of dealing with semi-interested people in a professional environment whose droll demeanours begin to have an
adverse affect on your own psyche - sorta reminds me of Office Space or something. My Machine builds an
interesting concept initially... but doesn't really capitalize on it. i suppose some of this might be inspired by his
answering machine or whatever but i couldn't be bothered to look into the backstory tbqh
tl; dr - probably one of his better recent releases, but check Much To My Demise or Songs About Nothing if
you want to get into Lescalleet |
| Jennifer Eberhardt Hunting |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl |
| jennylee Right On! |
| Jewill Forme |
decent Italian techno. has a certain kick that i really like, but would be stronger if it had a bit more variety.
https://absoluterecords.bandcamp.com/album/forme |
| Jlin Dark Energy |
| Jlin Black Origami |
| Joshua Sabin Terminus Drift |
| Justin Bieber Purpose |
| K. Fenrir K. Fenrir |
| Kaschalot Kaschalot |
| Kate NV Binasu |
| Katya Sanna Le Danze Elicoidali |
| Keaton Henson Monument |
| imo his best work is behind him. i think his formula, as tender and effective as it can be, has its limits. i have a hard time hearing this and not just wishing i was listening to Dear instead. this is probably v nice but this guy is just a 1-2 album artist for me, tis what it tis |
| Kobosil We Grow, You Decline |
| Konntinent The Empire Line |
| Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Imeni Moyey Babushki Посмертные приключения |
| KŸHL Saus & Braus |
| La Dispute Wildlife |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House |
| Lee Gamble Mnestic Pressure |
| leer SPRINGBREAKNOPARENTS |
| Leftfield Alternative Light Source |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire |
| Like Thieves Autumn's Twilight |
| Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons |
| Lorn Vessel |
| Mamiffer The World Unseen |
| Martial Canterel You Today |
| Merzbow and Xiu Xiu MERZXIU |
| too much merz and not enough xiu. coulda been magic |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories |
| Michel Banabila Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde |
| Moa Pillar Hymns |
| Modern Baseball Sports |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves |
| Molly Nilsson Zenith |
| Moral Straightjacket Into the light |
sounds like Self Defense Family worship. imagine some of their better tracks but with pretty lol lyrics tbh. it's aight
https://ruinedsmilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-light |
| mRs Empty Spaces |
| mutaHERTZ Fantastic Planetscapes |
| Nun Nun |
| тпсб Sekundenschlaf |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven |
| Open Mike Eagle Dark Comedy |
| Oranges From the President Faulty |
| Pretty decent pop punk, RIYL Joyce Manor, Modern Baseball. First couple tracks are pretty good, last couple are average. But hey, it's just an EP and these guys have yet to refine their sound. Hopefully a full length is in the works.. |
| Oren Ambarchi, Kassel Jaeger, James Rushford Pale Calling |
| Organ Tapes Into One Name |
| Oswald Watanabe |
| P.SUS Sky Rhythms |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher |
| Quarterbacks Quarterboy |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri A Fragile Geography |
| Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement Ambient Black Magic |
| Rakta Oculto Pelos Seres |
| Regis Manbait |
| Richard Vergez The Foreigner |
| Say Anything Baseball |
| Sebastian Kessler Unterwegs |
| Shlohmo Dark Red |
| SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs |
| Smokey Emery Ex-Fin De Siecle |
| Snow Shards Blind |
| Somnoroase Pasarele GAMA |
decent, but probably falls under EAI that I "enjoyed once but probably won't revisit." I'd recommend to someone
interested in EAI with a stronger rhythmic component and a more cinematic style.
https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/gama |
| Sophie Product |
| Sote Sacred Horror In Design |
| Sprain The Lamb As Effigy |
| State Lines For the Boats |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension |
| Supernova 1006 Unique world |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over |
| Tanks Asterisk |
| Tesla Pox Paper Boat |
| The Brave Little Abacus Okumay |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There |
| The Jude Ivy Drown Me Out, I'll See Everything |
| The Mayor of Strawberry Hill A Great Offer |
| decent field recordings, some of his musicality kinda ruins things though. the vocal sample on "IV" gets annoying af, for example. it's a pretty front-loaded album. I think he'd benefit from making it just a bit more sparse - piling on the excessive piano and effects makes it feel very congested. the tracks are also way too short, and don't have time to unfold into something worth exploring. |
| The Oxford Comma Near-Life Experience |
| pretty average. sounds like Modern Baseball worship plus a bit of post punk influence here and there. |
| The Pop Group Citizen Zombie |
| The Spirit Of The Beehive Pleasure Suck |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness |
| Thorsten Soltau and Max Kuiper Roseth & Lilith |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam |
| Tiny Moving Parts Moving to Antarctica |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living |
| Today Is the Day Axis of Eden |
| Troum and Raison D'être De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu |
| Wanderwelle Ocean Stories |
| Waveless (MN) Spirit Island |
| Wiki Lil Me |
| William Basinski Cascade |
| Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool |
| Wrong (USA-FL) Wrong |
| Yumi Zouma II |
| Yumi Zouma Yoncalla |
| Yves Tumor Serpent Music |
| Zlaya Ryba All! This! There! |
| 2.0 poor |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals |
| And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs |
| Andrei Eremin Pale Blue |
| Angel Olsen Half Way Home |
| Aphex Twin Cheetah EP |
| Astronauts, etc. Mind Out Wandering |
| Best Case Scenario Staircase Wit |
| Bilal In Another Life |
| Black Tribe The Stillborn Revolution |
| Breaking Pangaea Cannon to a Whisper |
| Brobdingnagian Backpfeifengesicht |
| Busdriver Thumbs |
| Bylly Illusions |
| Ceilings III |
| Cephei Impossible Spaces |
| Cerberus Shoal Bastion of Itchy Preeves |
| Charles Manier American Manier |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye |
| Colleen The Weighing Of The Heart |
| Constellate Constellate |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner |
| Darlia Petals |
| Dear Eloise Farewell to the Summer |
| Death Grips Fashion Week |
| Deep Heat Still Life |
| Deficit Budgetaire Sanction |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros |
| Disparition Fate |
| Dreamend Dreamend |
| Duster Duster |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail |
| Extreme Volume Pop The Music of Poverty and Irony |
more consistent than his Abe Sandoval remix LP by far... I've heard better but can see this growing on me. but for
supposed 'harsh noise' this is pretty tame and not very climactic. it's nice if you're in a focused mood and are willing to
give undivided attention to every single little nuance, but it doesn't 'grab' me at all |
| Extreme Volume Pop Abe Sandoval + Extreme Volume Pop (Remixes) |
| Album is a mixed bag... you have some great stuff like "all aboard the Mary Celeste" but then useless crap like "and statues..."rNot a bad release, and tbh not a 'serious' one, but would be a hell of a lot better if he had a bit more focus. If you like minimal dark ambient there are some great moments on this |
| Faust C'est Com... Com... Complique |
| Faye Webster I Know I'm Funny haha |
| Felix K Tragedy of the Commons |
| Fvnerals Wounds |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! |
| GosT Behemoth |
| Great Job Great Job |
| Grunt Castrate the Illusionist |
| Gurdonark Constellation Blackbird |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor |
| Helms Alee Stillicide |
| How to Dress Well Care |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl |
| Intervals The Shape of Colour |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening |
| Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay Antigravity |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Thief and the Fallen |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights |
| Kadhja Bonet The Visitor |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference |
| Kikagaku Moyo House in the Tall Grass |
| Klam The Concrete Vagina |
| Klara Lewis Too |
| Koufar Phoenix Rising, Phoenix Falling |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion |
| Laura Marling Semper Femina |
| Leprous The Congregation |
| Liam Howard When Darkness Falls |
| Loma Prieta Last |
| Meüte Meüte |
| Memoria Uno Crisis |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses |
| Mick Chillage (M)odes |
| MILCK Quiet |
| Milk and Bone Little Mourning |
| MJ Lenderman Boat Songs |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All |
| Moki Mcfly Armozel |
| Moon Bandits Action Changes Thinking |
| the stripped down approach is refreshing, but also restrictive.. the upbeat fiddle+banjo combo gets repetitive, and the album isn't dynamic enough to leave a lasting impression. the lyrics are pretty typical anti-corporate musings, but seem sincere. decent album. not great, but worth listening if you want some straightforward, simple upbeat folk-punk |
| Moritz Von Oswald Trio Sounding Lines |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love |
| Never Young Master Copy |
| NOFX Coaster |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing |
| Nthng It Never Ends |
| Olivia Block Dissolution |
| Ondness Quase Driven |
| Pennywise Yesterdays |
| Phew Light Sleep |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You |
| Power Objects Frosted Tips |
| Pseudopod Rare Candy |
| Psychic Sex You, Voyeur |
| Questions Happiness January |
| Ritual Knife Hate Invocation |
| Royer Collectively EP |
| Rusangano Family Let The Dead Bury The Dead |
granola rap from Ireland. album art is sweet but tbh the album is boring AF
https://rusanganofamily.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-dead-bury-the-dead |
| Sannhet So Numb |
| Say Anything Hebrews |
| Sei A Gasp |
| Self Loath Nothing |
| Serengeti and Sicker Man Doctor My Own Patience |
| Sextile Albeit Living |
| Sharon Van Etten I Don't Want To Let You Down |
| She Makes War Direction Of Travel |
| Shifted Six Steps To Resurgence |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead |
| Snekula Rifts |
| So Long Forgotten So Long Forgotten |
| Speak, Memory Value To Survival |
| decent instrumental math with emo influence... gets pretty repetitive and goes nowhere though. making this without vocals was a bad idea, as the instrumentals are way too repetitive to carry it forward. the thing sounds pretty same-y from beginning to end. the only somewhat interesting track is the album closer |
| Starset Transmissions |
| Strategy The Infinity File |
| Succumb Succumb |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes |
| Swim to Cape Sherpa Proverbial |
| Talk Talk It's My Life |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream |
| The Empty's Response Hegemony Collapse |
| The Horrors Luminous |
| The Leaky Faces : A Simulation |
| Shows promise at first... the dark folk sound combined with orchestral strings + harsh vocals is neat. However, the gimmick wears off quick and the album gets boring quickly. I'll definitely check out their next release, but this was pretty unremarkable. Fans of folk-punk might get a kick out of this |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes |
| The Weeknd After Hours |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Dreams |
| Thomas Brinkmann What You Hear (Is What You Hear) |
| Thuja Ghost Plants |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy |
| toe Hear You |
| Tortoise Its All Around You |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz |
| Uncommon Nasa New York Telephone |
| Uniform Wake In Fright |
| Vagabon Infinite Worlds |
| Vatican Vamps Yggdrasil |
| Visionist Value |
| Waves Espace |
| We Are Scientists TV en Français |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs |
| White Suns Psychic Drift |
| WSR Chambers |
| Yo KOJIMA 児島洋 14 Days; Volume 1 |
| 1.5 very poor |
| Arcturus Arcturian |
| Basic House Government |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Big Blood and Thunder Crutch Big Blood and Thunder Crutch |
| Big D and the Kids Table Strictly Rude |
| Big D and the Kids Table Fluent in Stroll |
| Big|Brave Ardor |
| Black Helicopters Diagonal Science |
| Bolt Gun Man Is Wolf To Man |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany |
| Christian Michael Jackson J'ai jamais voté pour ça |
| CocoRosie Heartache City |
| Coutoux Reign of Terror |
| CRIMEWAVE fvckcrimewave |
| Cutsail The Belvedere |
| D.I.N. Phase Retard Extinction |
| Dean Marroni I Don't Love You, I Just Like Your Face |
| Death And Vanilla To Where the Wild Things Are |
| Defect Defect My Life is Like Death |
| Demdike Stare The Age of Innocence |
| Duster Together |
| Eidola Degeneraterra |
| Eliad Friedman-Green Where Do We Be? |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X |
| Frodus Fireflies |
| Geordie Greep The New Sound |
| Gesture Gesture |
| Geyser Bastion (deceased) Humble Cannons |
| Gravitsapa Radio Free Vulgata |
Ukrainian math rock. pretty messy and ineffectual imo but i can see a lot of users fucking with this. the vibe is pretty
rough and jagged, sorta reminiscent of stuff like Don Caballero's What Burns Never Returns, but with a bit more of
a shamanistic undertone - there's this mystic ambience here and there. idk why i don't like it, but every bit of it rubbed
me the wrong way. probably a combination of the production, grating guitar work, and general aimlessness.
https://tenzenmen.bandcamp.com/album/radio-free-vulgata |
| Greeley Estates Far From The Lies |
| Haunted Shores Viscera |
| Hesson The Guilt Complex |
| Hotel Books I'm Almost Happy Here, But I Never Feel At Home |
| Hotel Books Call Me Human |
| Iku Fundamental Significance |
| In Flames Siren Charms |
| Israeli Beach Party I Didn't Know You Could Change Time |
| Pretty unremarkable math rock. It sounds nice enough, but isn't memorable and lacks any sort of depth that might make it worth exploring. This is the kind of instrumental math that would improve greatly with the addition of a vocalist, which speaks volumes of how mediocre it is |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions |
| Knablinz Mind Set Tape |
| Krallar Drive Like There's No Tomorrow |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. |
| Loren Connors Lullaby |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn |
| Michael Summers and Ozark Soundscape Future Fold |
| Neaux Fell Off The Deep End |
| Necati Ozmucur Offside |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You |
| OvO Creatura |
| Pissed Jeans Why Love Now |
| Real Real Talk Real Real Talk |
| Rhetion War Eyes |
| Rhetion Infinite Self |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear |
| Schwefelgelb Wie Die Finger Durch Den Nebel |
| Self Loath Great Beef Makes Great Burgers |
| September (MD) September |
| Sghll Trance Pose |
| Shimmer Shimmer |
| Silvia Kastel Air Lows |
| Snail Mail Valentine |
| So Hideous Laurestine |
| Swahili Blonde Deities In Decline |
| Sworn In The Lovers/The Devil |
| Synths Versus Me Tormento Part 1 |
| The Electric Nature Alienation |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Seismic Bleats Of Quantum Sheep |
experimental psych ambient. really boring, plodding nonsense. wouldn't recommend as an intro to this act. 90s
material was generally really good, so start with Malachai or The Maria Dimension
https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/the-seismic-bleats-of-quantum-sheep |
| The Rebound Diary Of A Tin Man |
| This Cold Night While I Disappear |
| Tirade If I Told You, I'd Have To Kill You |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface |
| Vona (Hope) |
| Wapstan Fjord |
| William Boscoe Davenport's All Star Noise Ensemble Romancing the Saw Blade |
| Willkamin Memaporia |
| Window Tappers Window Tappers |
| Wolf Eyes I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces |
| Yo La Tengo Fade |
