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| Arche's April
I listened to very little from this month, but man have I heard some great things. Here's a little run down ^ ^ | | 1 |  | Regina Spektor
Remember Us To Life
(2016) This was particularly frustrating for me. I've never enjoyed Regina's music tbh, but after shooting my mouth off in the thread for this I figured I'd give it a bash. Remember Us To Life actually has some really nice moments and some really good lyrics, but her quirks just didn't sit right with me. More tolerable than Soviet Kitsch though. // 2.5 | | 2 |  | Choking
Choking
(2015) Choking's funereal black metal is actually pretty cool in moderation, and the lo-fi recording makes it pretty enjoyable to listen to when they're not repeating themselves over and over again. Still, this was a bit tricky to get through in parts. // 3.0 (https://chokingrectum.bandcamp.com/album/choking) | | 3 |  | Gidge
LNLNN
(2017) Really cool ambient techno/house. Very little made me sit up and go 'wow', but LNLNN was a really pleasant listen that mixed organic and technology-driven sounds well. // 3.5 (https://atomnation.bandcamp.com/album/lnlnn) | | 4 |  | The Smith Street Band
More Scared Of You Than You Are Of Me
(2017) While not quite as head-over-heels in love with it as I was (and am) with Throw Me In The River, The Smith Street Band's newest one is still an awesome slab of emotionally charged Aussie rock. 'Birthdays' and 'Death to the Lads' are serious earworms. // 4.0 | | 5 |  | Sunless
Urraca
(2017) An AOTY-so-far contender, Urraca is like Ad Nauseam and Ulcerate banged and had a beautiful, flourescent baby. Colin Marston's production (in particular bringing out a frankly disgusting bass presence) is the icing on the cake of some seriously impressive, and heavy, songwriting. // 4.5 (https://sunlessband.bandcamp.com/) | | 6 |  | Devouring Star
Antihedron
(2017) A really neat EP, Antihedron brings the black/doom murk hard. The length I feel perhaps works in its favour given its dirgy demeanour, though there's a bit of aggy fire in its belly too. // 4.0 (https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/antihedron) | | 7 |  | Jenovavirus
Demo 1
(2006) Slams of an ilk I don't think I've ever heard before. It's like chugs met cybergrind, and frankly it has no business being as much fun as it is. // 4.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdc0ssOvs9I | | 8 |  | Nthng
It Never Ends
(2017) An unfortunate title really, ambient/deep house It Never Ends really could've done with being pared down to perhaps the length of an EP. What's frustrating is that there's some great tracks here - 'Touches', the t/t and 'Abyss' notably. Other bits just go nowhere. // 3.0 http://lobstertheremin.com/album/it-never-ends | | 9 |  | Amesoeurs
Ruines Humaines
(2016) Blackgaze EP with absolutely stellar, shrieking, breaking vocals. It's got some pretty cool riffs as well, which is always a bonus. // 4.0 https://amesoeurs.bandcamp.com/album/ruines-humaines | | 10 |  | Tomb Mold
Primordial Malignity
(2017) Absolutely minging OSDM. If you can get past the wall of distortion this has got some really neat musical ideas thrown in, but its main feature really is that it's a relentless barrage of grime and muck. // 4.0 https://bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com/album/primordial-malignity-12lp-cd | | 11 |  | Artificial Brain
Infrared Horizon
(2017) Probably my AOTY so far, these guys managed to outdo Labyrinth Constellation in basically every way (apart from the album name). I love how this album can go from a nauseous sway to a sense of panic in an instant, and the production lets you hear *everything*; it nails the sci-fi feeling. // 4.5 (https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/infrared-horizon) | | 12 |  | Grave Miasma
Odori Sepulcrorum
(2013) Perhaps shouldn't only be getting around to checking this now, but better late than never, eh? (2013) Delivers a damn fine murky OSDM feel, and while it feels a little repetitive every now and then, the atmosphere it creates is fantastic. // 4.0 https://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/odori-sepulcrorum-2 | | 13 |  | Disasterpeace
Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar
(2011) Chiptune music. I'm not a massive fan of chiptune music in general, but I think this is about as good as those little bleeps and bloops get. // 3.5 http://music.disasterpeace.com/album/rise-of-the-obsidian-interstellar | | 14 |  | Moe Shop
Moshi Moshi
(2016) Pretty Please is a pretty damn fun future funk track, and the horns and choppy vocals in Dance Dance make me grin like an idiot, but the rest of this is... alright, if a little underwhelming. // 2.5 https://moeshop.bandcamp.com/album/moshi-moshi | | 15 |  | Mount Eerie
A Crow Looked At Me
(2017) I'm not sure if I wanted to 'like' this or not, but this had little to no effect on me beyond the first few tracks; in fact I found it, musically, fairly dull. I honestly hope that recording this helped the fella though, even if only a bit - I can't, and don't want to, truly imagine what he's experiencing. // 2.0 https://pwelverumandsun.bandcamp.com/album/a-crow-looked-at-me | | 16 |  | Oake
Auferstehung
(2015) A really interesting dark techno/ambient album, Auferstehung feels kinda like a soundtrack to one of those dingy, gritty arthouse films set in industrial towns. Surprisingly easy to listen to. // 4.0 https://oake.bandcamp.com/album/auferstehung | | 17 |  | Eglise
The Past
(2017) So there was me thinking this was a new NEW album from these guys; instead, it turned out to be their farewell, showing them in a previous guise. I'm gutted. Really awesome sludge/hardcore, with vocals that verge on Chip King levels of anguished howl-ery. // 4.0 https://eglise.bandcamp.com/album/the-past | | 18 |  | WVRM
Heartache
(2016) Grind from one of my favourites in the business right now. Lurches between doomy chugs and furious pummeling pretty freely, and the vocal performance is night on excellent. // 4.0 https://wvrmgrind.bandcamp.com/album/heartache | | 19 |  | Hoax
2nd EP
(2012) Phwoooaar. Bassy, fuzzy hardcore punk from that hive of all things good and pissed, Massachusetts. // 4.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA_NEkvzEVA | | 20 |  | Krimh
Gedankenkarussell
(2017) Not a bad progressive death/black metal release, with some great riffs and vocal performances (from members of Decapitated, Obscure Sphinx and a few others) - BUT it feels as though Krimh is lacking a little of his own identity on the tracks, and while he's a talented drummer the drum sound is pretty plastic. // 3.0 https://krimh.bandcamp.com/ | | 21 |  | IDLES
Brutalism
(2017) Really nice and pissed punk from Bristol, with fantastic vocals, lyrics and scuzzy guitars. Heal / Heel is up there with my favourite songs of the year so far. // 4.0 | | 22 |  | Cranial
Dark Towers, Bright Lights
(2017) Fantastically written, heavy as lead, and with wonderful production. Dark Towers, Bright Lights is basically everything I could want from a post-metal/sludge album, and is definitely gonna be up the high end of my charts come the end of this year. // 4.0/4.5 (https://momentofcollapserecords.bandcamp.com/album/dark-towers-bright-lights) | | 23 |  | Kriegshog
Kriegshog
(2016) Ridiculously bassy, noisy crust punk from Tokyo with a truly rotten vocal performance that splits between enraged shouting and enraged howling, depending on how pissed the singer is. It's great. // 4.0 (https://lavidaesunmus.bandcamp.com/album/s-t-lp-2) | | 24 |  | Hymn
Perish
(2017) Fantastically written, heavy as lead, and with wonderful production. Perish is basically everything I could want from a post-metal/sludge album, and is definitely gonna be up the high end of my charts come the end of this year. Not bad for a two-piece either. // 4.0 (https://urskoghymn.bandcamp.com/) | | 25 |  | Vysoké Čelo
Űrutazás
(2017) There's something genuinely magical about this release. Electronic/post-rock that really captures the sense of wonder I got reading about space when I was a youngster. // 4.0 (https://vysokecelo.bandcamp.com/) | | 26 |  | Alter
Embers
(2016) Shoegaze with a gorgeous doomy feel. I'm still getting to grips with it but first impressions are definitely positive. // 4.0 (https://aalterr.bandcamp.com/album/embers) | | 27 |  | Alter
Pendulum
(2017) Given I only heard this for the first time, what, 5 hours ago, I'm already fairly in love with this. A little cleaner than Embers, but still retaining that wonderful doomy vibe. Between Pendulum and Embers, these guys might convince me that shoegaze is a very good thing after all. // 4.0 (https://aalterr.bandcamp.com/album/pendulum) | |
Archelirion
05.01.17 | This was a better idea than sleeping. Yeah. | butcherboy
05.01.17 | List is cool.. | neekafat
05.01.17 | This list was particularly frustrating for me. | ScuroFantasma
05.01.17 | Cool list man, booked | ramon.
05.01.17 | Really great stuff on here. Really happy to see 5, 6 (needs more exposure tbh), 10, 12, 18, 22, 23 and 24.
Check out Fusq's "Lost Station" EP. Very similar to 14 and more entertaining on the whole imo (though that could simply be due to the 8 minute runtime). Also a French guy if I remember correctly. It is up on Bandcamp. | 50iL
05.01.17 | Nice list Archebro, fully agree on 11 | ramon.
05.01.17 | I love how fantano shat on 11 because he didn't like the production | 50iL
05.01.17 | What a fagthano | ramon.
05.01.17 | I'll admit that I do enjoy his reviews even if I disagree 80% of the time. But he loved the prod on LC. Production-wise, this is on the same level if not even better. Maybe he listened to the album through his laptop speakers again. | 50iL
05.01.17 | Smh
I think his reviews are just too long tbh | ramon.
05.01.17 | his review for IH is a minute long if you are interested
https://twitter.com/theneedledrop/status/856842919046762496 | 50iL
05.01.17 | Ah nice
Just watched and it's so wrong on so many levels lol | ramon.
05.01.17 | >dislikes surgically clean production and overt technicality in his death metal
>loves lc + prod, quite a techy album
>loves coloured sands + prod, also quite techy
>loves the satanist more than either record, a blackened death metal record with clean and overly compressed prod
>doesn't love this, a blackened death metal record less techy than lc and cs with uncompressed yet aggressive production
something doesn't add up
EDIT: no wait nevermind, he doesn't like the vocals so by extension, this is a garbage record | Piglet
05.01.17 | he's so finicky about vocals/lyrics, it always end up being the ultimate dealbreaker for no apparent reason to anyone with ears | ramon.
05.01.17 | he did a massive deconstruction video of kendrick's music video for humble and completely missed the entire point. i don't know anything about rap but i do know if someone as smart as kendrick is featuring grey poupon in a music video, he must be taking the piss. | Piglet
05.01.17 | http://www.vox.com/videos/2016/10/12/13250360/grey-poupon-in-hip-hop | Pon
05.01.17 | man I am so far behind on 2017 tunes I should just give up | EvoHavok
05.01.17 | Sick list, Aaron. I've been hyped to check 5, so it's good to see another very positive opinion. | Sniff
05.01.17 | Sweet | Archelirion
05.01.17 | Cheers guys :]
@sach (I think) What would you put it as? It's like nowt I've ever heard so it was difficult pinning a description on it. | Sniff
05.01.17 | Gonna jam 6 while cleaning up after last nights party. Hope it goes well with cleaning | Azertherion
05.01.17 | I completely agree with 13 and 15, except for one thing; I don't see anything "classical" about Disasterpeace, it just feels like Chiptune ^^. What do you mean by classical approach?
Great list otherwise. | Archelirion
05.01.17 | Devouring Star is great for everything. Cleaning, kid's birthdays, weddings...
I've just gone through a few bits of each song and... I've got no idea, tbh xD I was sure I heard way more than I did, but I reckon I was just losing the plot. I've edited it. Thanks :] | Sniff
05.01.17 | Don't know what I was expecting but I'm in need of something with higher intensity level to manage this task. Gridlink up next | Archelirion
05.01.17 | Good shout | Azertherion
05.01.17 | That's too bad thought, I'd love to listen to a good electronic/classical crossover (I think Orbital did it once, I need to find it out). I'd never encountered such album (apart from Daft Punk's Tron soundtrack, but it was painfully bad). | Papa Universe
05.01.17 | I don't think I've heard anyone yet describe 21 better than "pissed punk". | SitruK6
05.01.17 | will check 10 and maybe 26/27.
also 11 is my aoty so far m/ | danielito19
05.01.17 | Haha 13 is a bucket of fun, my buddy would always put that on during a sesh. | Archelirion
05.01.17 | @Azertherion I mean, I'd say Murcof - Martes is a (loose) classical/electronic crossover, but I'm not totally sure that's what you had in mind. It's excellent though :D | Azertherion
05.01.17 | Just listened to one of the album's songs, it definitly sounds interesting. That's quite my bad anyway, by "classical" I meant a symphonic aspect.
Comtemporary and electronic music do definitly well together and there's been plenty attemps to make the crossover work (Field Rotation is an example, altought the result is a bit underwhelming - Alva Noto and Ryuchi Sakamoto's project comes in mind too).
But that probably has to do with the fact that symphonic music is out of fashion anyway ^^
I'll try Murcof out thought ! The song I've listened to seemed quite interesting, it was Mir iirc. | RogueNine
05.02.17 | I take it having the same description for 22 and 24 was intentional. Perish is indeed sweet. | Archelirion
05.02.17 | You assume correctly fella. You should definitely check Cranial out! | RogueNine
05.02.17 | Gonna do it. | Aberf
05.19.17 | I just noticed that you put Ruines Humaines to (2016). It's 10 years before than mane..
Pos'd cuz of Alter. | Conmaniac
05.19.17 | nice yeah go Alter. gonna review that in the next day or two |
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