Snovember -17
A list ahead of it schedule cos I'm leaving for excursions in the Laotian rainforest tomorrah. Lot's of possible AOTY contenders on here thanks to arhd jammers on his here site. Only 2017 stuff I haven't rated previous months. |
| 1 |  | Our Ceasing Voice
Free Like Tonight
4.0-4.5 [post rock, alt rock] FFO: I Like Trains, Nick Cave, Tom Waits and post rock in general. This is so god damn beautiful and if you don't feel this you're born without a heart. Be warned tho - it's rather cheesy. TEAMSTER! |
| 2 |  | Ylva
M E T A
4.0-4.5 [sludge, post metal] a much needed album in the genre. Very Isis-sounding in a good way. RAMON! |
| 3 |  | Viscera
3 | Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals
4.0 [post everything] such an unholy mixture of genres and feelings shouldn't be possible to pull off. But these guys do it accurately. TEAMSTER! |
| 4 |  | Heir
Au peuple de l'abîme
4.0 [black metal, sludge] sounds a lot like Celeste but with trver production. TEAMSTER! |
| 5 |  | ostraca
last
4.0 [skramz] a post rock tinged beauty. PJORN! |
| 6 |  | T.Raumschmiere
Heimat
4.0 [nightdriving techno] very chill and very good. RELINQUISHED! |
| 7 |  | Merkabah (PL)
Million Miles
4.0 [progressive jazz metal and rock] what if DEP and Shabaka Hutchins had a baby together? |
| 8 |  | Arditti Quartet / Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France
Pascal Dusapin: Quatuor VI; Quatuor VII
4.0-3.5 [classical] dissonant journeys through string soundscapes makes for a fine listen. JACQUIBIM! |
| 9 |  | Hell (USA)
Hell
4.0-3.5 [sludge] thicc and dark and fuzzy in a cold way with rather engaging songwriting. AARON! |
| 10 |  | James Holden and The Animal Spirits
The Animal Spirits
4.0-3.5 [IDM, jazz] a mixture of Holdens signature arpeggios and jazz. Works unbelievably well. |
| 11 |  | Fret
Over Depth
4.0-3.5 [industrial techno] sonic adventures that take me places. |
| 12 |  | Ostraca / Flesh Born
Faces of the Moving Year
4.0-3.5 [skramz, post rock, grind] It's rarely that I enjoy both sides of a split as much as I enjoy this one. Flesh Born is new to me and a cool mix of Full of Hell and Orchid. |
| 13 |  | Bog
Unshriven
4.0-3.5 [post metal] at it's finest when the vocals are absent. But vocals aren't bad per say. Sort of Cult of Luna-ish but with a mix of modern post metal. TEAMSTER! |
| 14 |  | Chapelier Fou
Muance
3.5-4.0 [classical, electonic] a joyful mix of electronic music and classical instuments. BROKENCYCLE! |
| 15 |  | Coupler
Gifts from the Ebb Tide
3.5-4.0 [techno, jazz] the shape of future funk to come. A mix of ambient techno, organic sounds, korg and jazz |
| 16 |  | Dave Clarke
The Desecration Of Desire
3.5-4.0 [techno, drum'n'bass, dark pop, post punk] im so puzzled by this. Can't really wrap my head around it. Check for yourselfs the mix of basic dance music, poetry, intricate dance music and phat bass. |
| 17 |  | Young Jesus
Young Jesus
3.5-4.0 [emo, alt rock] weirdly emotional and engaging emo/alt rock crossover that also is quite garagy in its approach. |
| 18 |  | Blood Freak
Total Destruction of the Human Form
3.5 [death metal] a mix of old school, new school, grind, gore and straight up riffage that takes itself seriously enough.
Check it. |
| 19 |  | Outlander
Father, Lord and Wizard
3.5 [industrial techno] bass heavy and with some neat ambience. This kid will go places. |
| 20 |  | Aosoth
V: The Inside Scriptures
3.5 [black metal] very french, very black metal. |
| 21 |  | Bjork
Utopia
3.5 [experimental pop] is she getting even weirder? |
| 22 |  | Warmth
Home
3.5 [ambient] beautifully crafted and nice progressing. |
| 23 |  | Godflesh
Post Self
3.5 [industrial metal] As I'm not the biggest fan of streetcleaner I have no hard time saying this is better than that. The cleaner production does wonders. |
| 24 |  | Chepang
A Tale Of Wildfire
3.5 [grindcore] noisy assault of grindcore madness. |
| 25 |  | Armand Hammer
Rome
3.5 [rap] sweet flow and overall a consistent great album with a few missteps. |
| 26 |  | Acronym
Off the Grid
3.5 [ambient techno] sweet flowing but also gets you moving. RELINQUISHED! |
| 27 |  | Slow Meadow
Costero
3.5 [ambient, post rock] beautiful but resembles background music more than anything else though |
| 28 |  | Hubris
Apocryphal Gravity
3.5 [post rock] over polished production in this post rock but rather fine songwriting. TEAMSTER! |
| 29 |  | Guantanamo Party Program
III
3.5 [post metal] a beauty in the truest of forms. Raw emotion. TEAMSTER! |
| 30 |  | Allochiria
Throes
3.5 [post metal] standard-ish post metal done right. TEAMSTER! |
| 31 |  | L'Effondras
Les Flavescences
3.5 [post rock] with a clear spacy feel to it. TEAMSTER! |
| 32 |  | Lodz
Time Doesn't Heal Anything
3.5 [post metal, post hardcore] A french The Circle Ends Here. TEAMSTER! |
| 33 |  | The Death Of Money
Ghost Pains
3.5 [sludge, shoegaze] when it's samey in a good way it's called repetitive TEAMSTER! |
| 34 |  | The Throne
Frail Threads
3.5 [post metal, hardcore] with some crust punk influences. TEAMSTER! |
| 35 |  | Converge
The Dusk in Us
3.5 [metalcore] A little too much samey-samey to reach the heights of the shorter more focused EP. |
| 36 |  | Call Super
Arpo
3.5 [future jazz] electronic music with a jazzy feel. Future funk if it wasn't wave. |
| 37 |  | Thantifaxath
Void Masquerading as Matter
3.5 [black metal] same Thantifaxath as it ever was. |
| 38 |  | Lunglust
War At Home
3.5 [crust, hardcore] short little EP but a fine little EP. PJORN! |
| 39 |  | Martyn
GL Outtakes
3.5 [house, techno, jungle, dubstep] a collection of songs recorded in 08/09 never before released. Sounds very fresh for being made at that time. |
| 40 |  | Planetariet
Planetariet
3.5 [post rock] new EP from what probably is one of the bands in the forefront of Swedish post rock. |
| 41 |  | Terrence Dixon
12,000 Miles of Twilight
3.5 [ambient techno] a long record that gets a bit samey but that's okay since it's good beats samey. |
| 42 |  | Oresund Space Collective
Hallucinations Inside the Oracle
3.5 [jam rock, space rock] another entry in the evergrowing discog of these jam masters. |
| 43 |  | Helena Hauff
Have You Been There Have You Seen It
3.5 [techno] bass heavy af with quirky melodies. |
| 44 |  | Moloken
Six Songs Of Happiness (2006)
3.5 [pre prog post metal] previously unreleased demo from 2006 |
| 45 |  | Kaczmarek
IIIIIIIIIIIIII
3.5 [techno] starts out slow but the last tracks really make up for a slow start. This is not different from other modern techno but the latter part of the album is still worth a spin imo. |
| 46 |  | All Pigs Must Die
Hostage Animal
3.5 [hardcore, metal] Sort of bleeds together to one enjoyable esoteric mess this. |
| 47 |  | Acronym
Malm
3.5 [ambient] what a tight ambient record this is. |
| 48 |  | Bibio
Phantom Brickworks
3.5-3.0 [ambient] much like The Caretaker. |
| 49 |  | Gaspar Poet
Nahi Bat
3.5-3.0 [electronic fun times, downtempo uptempo] osmark86 makes music for yall. |
| 50 |  | Atlases (FIN)
Penumbra
3.5-3.0 [post metal] beautiful production but a bit too mellowdramatic maybe? TEAMSTER! |
| 51 |  | ROSK
Miasma
3.5-3.0 [post metal] ye rather fine at times but not feeling the songwriting completely. TEAMSTER! |
| 52 |  | Anja Schneider
SoMe
3.0-3.5 [tech house] some really banging slower club jams and some rather bland tracks. |
| 53 |  | Baths
Romaplasm
3.0-3.5 [downtempo pop] uneven quality wise with some real neat tracks and some that aren't as neat. |
| 54 |  | ASC
Point of Origin
3.0-3.5 [techno] more techno and less ambient this time |
| 55 |  | Stella Donnelly
Thrush Metal
3.0 [hipster singer songwriter] is this aussie or what? Also has a funny approach. JACK! |
| 56 |  | Zao
Pyrrhic Victory
3.0 [metalcore] ranges from really tite songs with good bouncy riffs, like the first and last track, to whole songs of mediocrity (almost all the rest). |
| 57 |  | Avalon Emerson
Whities 013
3.0 [deep house] arpeggios in the first and murky beats in the second track. |
| 58 |  | Odonis Odonis
No Pop
3.0 [electro pop] with very dark heavy post punk leanings. |
| 59 |  | Alexis Georgopoulos and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Fragments of a Season
3.0 [chillwave] organic chillwave summer jams released at the very end of summer. |
| 60 |  | Burial
Pre Dawn/Indoors
3.0 [rave music] very UK sounding. Not bad but nothing special. |
| 61 |  | Prins Thomas
Prins Thomas 5
3.0 [electronic] smurtness and 80's smelling but modern sounding. |
| 62 |  | Colleen
A flame my love, a frequency
3.0 [electro pop, ambient] multi instrumentalist with good voice. Mellow pop for being hungover. |
| 63 |  | Hundred Waters
Communicating
3.0 [dreamy electronic pop] better than it first seems. |
| 64 |  | Huron (USA)
The Red Tape
3.0 [ambient] pretty little soundscapes EP that ends with a hint of techno. |
| 65 |  | Rainer Maria
S/T
3.0 [fuzzy rock] fuzzy feels, fuzzy sounds, fuzzy everything. Did not disappoint. |
| 66 |  | Ulver
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
3.0 [dreamy pop scapes] safe and sound. Last track is rather lame tho. |
| 67 |  | Spotlights
Seismic
3.0 [shoegaze, sludge] with a hint of post metal. Songwriting can be a bit uninspiring even though the overall sound of this is great. |
| 68 |  | Street Sects
Rat Jacket
3.0 [industrial electronic] also this with heavy post punk leanings. |
| 69 |  | Thomas Fujiwara
Triple Double
3.0 [jazz] drum focused. Maybe too drum focused. |
| 70 |  | Spook the Horses
People Used to Live Here
3.0 [post rock, alt metal] former post metal band gone soft. Pretty but nothing special. |
| 71 |  | Emancipator
Baralku
3.0 [downtempo, instrumental trip hop] has some nice highlights but the rest is just an enjoyable mess but nothing more than that. |
| 72 |  | Kuzma Palkin
Audiosapr
3.0 [techno] not on the beaten track that's for sure. |
| 73 |  | Dauwd
Theory of Colours
3.0 [house, ambient] a lot of pretty sounds but unfortunately this doesn't go anywhere for me. |
| 74 |  | Renato Cordovani
Cordonbleux at NOF
3.0 [jazz] experimental sounding and not very groovy. |
| 75 |  | Emptyset
Skin
3.0 [noisy ambient] gone are the drilling sounds, noise stays with the addition of steel stringed acoustic guitar and some other instruments - digeridoo? |
| 76 |  | The Body and Full Of Hell
Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light
3.0 [industrial, noise rock] a cool record that I unfortunately not vibe with completely |
| 77 |  | Kllo
Backwater
3.0 [electronic pop, rnb] Grows a bit towards the end with some real nice tracks. But overall this is not for me. |
| 78 |  | Esprit
200% Electronica
3.0 [wave, not electronica] not as good as George, bring back George. |
| 79 |  | FRAIL HANDS
S / T
3.0 [screamo, hardcore] Loma Prieta worship. |
| 80 |  | Club Night
Hell Ya
3.0 [math rock, emo, electronic] with vocals that remind me of Fever Ray. But other than that, nothing special. |
| 81 |  | Lingua Ignota
ALL BITCHES DIE
3.0 [classical, noise, gothic] Like a crossover between Pharmakon, Anna von Hausswolff and Diamanda Galas. Album gets better towards the end. |
| 82 |  | Bask
Ramble Beyond
3.0 [southern rock, stoner, psychedelic] i can groove to this. TEAMSTER! |
| 83 |  | Au-Dessus
End of Chapter
3.0 [post black metal] I don't know why this genre is so popular, it's basically black metal with the appeal stripped off. Nonetheless this is rather tight. TEAMSTER! |
| 84 |  | Everything Flows
Aphelion
3.0-2.5 [doom, sludge] By the books but a bit uninspired to me at least. TEAMSTER! |
| 85 |  | Electric Wizard
Wizard Bloody Wizard
3.0-2.5 [stoner doom] EW on autopilot |
| 86 |  | At the Drive-In
Diamanté
2.5-3.0 [post hardcore stuff] rather bland |
| 87 |  | No Warning
Torture Culture
2.5-3.0 [hardcore punk] modern sounding and with decent songwriting but the heavy metal influences are a bit off putting for me at least. |
| 88 |  | Spirit Adrift
Curse of Conception
2.5 [doom metal, heavy metal] I can easily see why people like this. It's not for me with all the traditional metal influence though. |
| 89 |  | ASC
Trans-Neptunian Objects
2.5 [ambient] ASC does ambient quite alright even tho this is a bit overlong and not super engaging. |
| 90 |  | Logan Strosahl Team
Book I of Arthur
2.5 [jazz, classical] some weird crossover of classical composition played jazz and a radio theater. |
| 91 |  | Eluvium
Shuffle Drones
2.5 [ambient, drone] cool concept but as an album it doesn't really work imo even if the sounds are pretty and all. |
| 92 |  | Dan Terminus
Automated Refrains
2.5 [synthwave] stale effort in a stale genre. |
| 93 |  | Tetragrammacide
Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix
2.5 [black metal, death metal] like every other Behemoth clone type of deal. |
| 94 |  | Aethere
Adrift
2.5 [deathcore] tried and tired |
| 95 |  | DJ Seinfeld
Time Spent Away From U
2.5-2.0 [house] basic af. |
| 96 |  | TOKiMONSTA
Lune Rouge
2.0-2.5 [r'n'b, electronic] modern r'n'b might very well be the worst genre ever. |
| 97 |  | Tove Lo
Blue Lips
1.5 [pop] still boring, still worthless, should quit music |
| 98 |  | Yung Lean
Stranger
1.0 [scene bs] cant wait til this retarded trend blows over |
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