Snifftober -17
Second to none with quality releases this month. Snowy jams for bad days ahead of you, men and everyone else. As usual 2017 stuff I jammed this month. |
1 | | Emmanuel Rave Culture
4.0 [techno] old school techno for new school kids. |
2 | | Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing
4.0 [death/doom metal] oh yes. Truly a great offering. |
3 | | Fever Ray Plunge
4.0 [dankness] shit. is. too. dank. |
4 | | And So I Watch You From Afar The Endless Shimmering
4.0 [math rock] where did this come from? |
5 | | Couch Slut Contempt
4.0 [noise rock, sludge, punk] why aren't we liking this? |
6 | | Esmerine Mechanics of Dominion
4.0 [post rock] I never thought I'd see a year where Esmerine released a better album than GY!BE. t/t is godly. |
7 | | BNNT Multiverse
4.0 [drone, noise rock, jazz and so on] this is real neat if you give it the time. But also goofy in a serious way. |
8 | | Leyland Kirby We, so tired of all the darkness in our lives
4.0-3.5 [ambient and post rock] low key having some of the greatest track released this year. And is overblown and overlong in a strangely charming manner. |
9 | | God Mother Vilseledd
4.0-3.5 [hardcore, sludge, mathcore, grindcore] rep the swedish noiseless Full of Hell. |
10 | | Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference
4.0-3.5 [jazz] feels like a mellow cousin to The Epic. Where it doesn't really pick up the heights shown in The Epic until the last track. |
11 | | Antarktis Illdaante
4.0-3.5 [post metal] Let's agree on post metal being better when it still had sludge influences. This is much lika a Cult of Luna light and it goes hard. |
12 | | Massgrav Stockholm Rockers
4.0-3.5 [scandifastthrashcore] They're back with another legendary record. Still the Kings. |
13 | | Corrupt Moral Altar Eunoia
3.5-4.0 [crust, hardcore, grind] this is banging all the way through. A real good rec from Aaron. |
14 | | Elisabeth Dixon LP1
3.5-4.0 [dark ambient techno, industrial] dank |
15 | | Ghold Stoic
3.5-4.0 [noise rock/sludge] seems like a popular genre as of lately. But these brutts do it with passion and power. |
16 | | Tipper Lattice
3.5-4.0 [dubstep] Who would've known Tipper would do great dubstep-ish? |
17 | | NHK yx Koyxen Exit Entrance
3.5-4.0 [idm, techno] bleepy and bloopy idm that resemble techno more than autechre |
18 | | Vessels The Great Distraction
3.5 [math rock, house] electronic math rock with a house feel. Works really well. |
19 | | Ninos Du Brasil Vida Eterna
3.5 [dark techno] a dark techno journey with ambient leanings. |
20 | | Partisan We Have Been So Terribly Betrayed
3.5 [post punk] top tier post punk. |
21 | | The Mountain Goats Marsh Witch Visions
3.5 [indie folk] pulls my heartstrings |
22 | | Cosmic Analog Ensemble Les Sourdes Oreilles
3.5 [beats, electronic, funky vibes] "Very David Holmes/David Axelrod/Enter the Dragon. Groovy cinematic psychedelica with a kitchy orientalist vibe." |
23 | | Carbon Based Lifeforms Derelicts
3.5 [acid ambient] gotta love that genre tag. Superlong but superenjoyable this one. |
24 | | Snohamn Kom, vi startar en kult
3.5 [ambient, post rock] I don't know how to feel about this. The celestial ambience is well done but I can't shake the feeling this could've been so much more if the what feels like jam sessions were shortened in favor for some crescendo-core a la the closing track. |
25 | | Unkind Polku
3.5 [crust, sludge] slowly played crust in a sludgy manner. It's good. |
26 | | Made of Teeth Made of Teeth
3.5 [stoner rock] this is pure stoner rock fun. |
27 | | Melanie De Biasio Lilies
3.5 [dark jazz] a not so uplifting journey through jazz soundscapes. |
28 | | Ben Frost The Centre Cannot Hold
3.5 [glitchy post-industrial?] doesn't really pack as much punch as AURORA but still a great jam. |
29 | | Re-tros Before the Applause
3.5 [kraut, post punk, techno] a charismatic mix of quite a few cool genres that works really well. Dewi you'll like this. |
30 | | Riddarna En Annan Tid
3.5 [alt rock] alternative to your regular rock music with swedish lyrics. You'll probably dig this more if you get the lyrics cos they're a big part of this |
31 | | L'Rain L'Rain
3.5 [experimental, tape manipulations, dream pop maybe] "Not so much an album of songs but an album of music. Ignore the track titles, close your eyes, and enjoy the journey." |
32 | | Kj Spells
3.5 [ambient] celestial ambient with attention to detail. |
33 | | The Black Dahlia Murder Nightbringers
3.5-3.0 [melodic death metal] Who would've thought losing a boring guitarist would make your band riff again? |
34 | | Leprous Malina
3.5-3.0 [progressive metal] a prog rock band who can write songs. This deserves a spin or two. |
35 | | Fatima Al Qadiri Shaneera
3.5-3.0 [electronic] oriental vibes unsurprisingly |
36 | | Bell Witch Mirror Reaper
3.0-3.5 [doom metal] navigates through different territories with ease. But not gripping me as much as I hoped. |
37 | | Iglooghost Neo Wax Bloom
3.0-3.5 [breakbeat, idm] well done and probably deserving of a higher score. |
38 | | Lee Gamble Mnestic Pressure
3.0-3.5 [IDM, techno] Lee tries his hand at some Autechre inspired IDM while retaining the techno. It works somewhat well on some tracks and not as well on others. |
39 | | Complete Failure Crossburner
3.0 [grindcore] a mix of the grindcore past, present and future. C0uld be m0re br00tal th0. |
40 | | Angel 1 Terra Nova
3.0 [new age electronic] hopping seamlessly between vaporwave, house, spacey synths, dubstep, noisy parts and so on. But it's a bit overlong and doesn't keep me interested throughout. |
41 | | Grave Pleasures Motherblood
3.0 [deathrock, post punk, gothic] is not my preferred genre but it has some nice jams here and there. |
42 | | Symbol Scalable
3.0 [ambient] is pretty ambient. Nothing more, nothing less. |
44 | | Four Tet New Energy
3.0 [mixed bag of electronics] feels way to scattered for my liking. |
45 | | The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time- Stage 3
3.0 [post rock, ambient] the enjoyable, but not more, saga continues |
46 | | Destroyer Ken
3.0 [indie folk] pretty down to earth and mellow with some real standouts in the typical Destroyer manner. |
47 | | I Hate Sex World of Grief
3.0 [screamo] vocals are annoying and/or amazing. Songwriting is decent genrewise. |
48 | | Zimpel/Ziolek Zimpel/Ziolek
3.0 [jazz, folk] Zimpel continues on his path with great drone + jazz while the folk parts aren't as gripping to me at least. |
49 | | Gloson Grimen
3.0 [post metal] obscure sphinx light. Decent n all but nothing that gets you too excited. |
50 | | To Destroy A City Go Mirage
3.0 [post rock] another album to add to the huge pile of "pretty but ultimately rather forgetful post rock albums". At least it's not offensively boring. |
51 | | Wovette Steeple
3.0 [piano jams] maybe not the most interesting but pretty and atmospheric slow piano jams. |
52 | | Havah Contravveleno
3.0 [post punk] this is 80's post punk right here. Tight but in Italian so I don't get a freaking word. |
53 | | Apathy and O.C Perestroika
3.0 [hip hop] cool collab with some bangin tracks. Check it out. |
54 | | Construction Collapse
3.0 [noise] skullfuckinlgy weird noise. |
55 | | Primitive Man Caustic
3.0 [sludge metal] "sludge is an understatement" |
56 | | X.Y.R. Tourist
3.0 [ambient] synth jams and field recordings from this extremely profilic artist. |
58 | | Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith The Kid
3.0 [electronic dark pop] sometimes it sounds like Fever Ray and sometimes liek ambient and sometimes leik fun times. |
59 | | Idylls The Barn
3.0 [post punky modern hardcore chaos] i dont ever think i will be a big fan of this band unfortunately |
60 | | Impure Wilhelmina Radiation
3.0 [post metal] not the best in the genre by a long shot. But decent enough. |
61 | | Alessandro Cortini/Merzbow Alessandro Cortini/Merzbow
3.0-2.5 [noise] yes well uhm it does make a lot of noises. |
62 | | Kardashev The Almanac
3.0-2.5 [deathcore, progressive metal] prog parts are boring, clean vocals are out of place. When it riffs it riffs tho. |
63 | | Acephalix Decreation
2.5 [death metal] average underground dm |
64 | | Citizen As You Please
2.5 [shoehorned into pop punk] Brand New anyone? |
65 | | The Left Outsides There is a Place
2.5 [dreampop] not by a longshot worthy any time but still not even remotely close to awful. |
66 | | Chavire Interstices
2.5 [screamo] I'm not understanding a word he's saying + it's very much like a worse version of good screamo bands |
68 | | Sound of Ceres The Twin
2.5 [dream pop] not bad but rather unimpressive. |
69 | | Klein Tommy
2.5 [experimental ambient breakbeat rnb] just as band as the genre tag would suggest. |
70 | | Chee Fear Monger
2.5 [dubstep, drum n bass] not very good nor anything special. |
71 | | Trivium The Sin and the Sentence
2.5 [radio metal] this is still radio metal but probably as good as the genre gets? |
72 | | August Burns Red Phantom Anthem
2.5 [metalcore] rejoice another very ABR sounding ABR record |
73 | | Dr. Living Dead! Cosmic Conqueror
2.0 [thrash] band has lost everything that made them fun to begin with. |
74 | | Veil of Maya False Idol
1.5-2.0 [sumerian core] remember when this band didn't suck all the asses? |
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