The Second wave of Sniff rec's
February is over and soon, soon it'll be bright enough! -18 stuff only |
| 1 |  | Johnny Jewel
Digital Rain
4.0 [synth soundscapes] really sounds like the name of the record |
| 2 |  | Quin Kirchner
The Other Side of Time
4.0 [jazz] melancholic feel to it makes me fall in love |
| 3 |  | GoGo Penguin
A Humdrum Star
4.0 [jazz, math rock] happy beats make me fall in love |
| 4 |  | Erdve
Vaitojimas
4.0 [post metal, hardcore] where did this come from? |
| 5 |  | Efrim Manuel Menuck
Pissing Stars
4.0-3.5 [droning experimental post rock sorta i dont know] beautiful in it's strange ways |
| 6 |  | Waelder
Non Places
3.5-4.0 [electronic mixtures and ambient dreamings] has a tiny bit of resemblance to Ian William Craig |
| 7 |  | Storm{O}
Ere
3.5-4.0 [post hardcore, hardcore] been a while since i vibed so hard with a hardcore pxc release. |
| 8 |  | A.A.L. (Against All Logic)
2012-2017
3.5-4.0 [house] gets the head bobbing going. Project by Nicolas Jaar |
| 9 |  | Jason Sharp
Stand Above the Streams
3.5-4.0 [saxophonebient] beautiful ambient mixed with more cray cray parts of saxophone, it works well. |
| 10 |  | Somali Yacht Club
The Sea
3.5 [psych metal, stoner] is a trip and a half for those into the genre |
| 11 |  | Shahmen
California is Cold
3.5 [abstract hip hop] rap that you aren't gonna check out album of the year |
| 12 |  | Eraldo Bernocchi and Chihei Hatakeyama
Solitary Universe
3.5 [ambient] serene ambient |
| 13 |  | Listener
Being Empty : Being Filled
3.5 [spoken word rock stuff] remember when he was featured in the Chariot song? |
| 14 |  | Anenon
Tongue
3.5 [ambient jazz] new anenon sounds like a more finetuned anenon |
| 15 |  | Nathan Fake
Sunder
3.5 [techno] it's pretty and pretty good |
| 16 |  | Senbei
Ningyo
3.5 [instrumental hip hop] with a lot of sexeh fitting features. |
| 17 |  | Marijannah
Till Marijannah
3.5 [doom metal, stoner] from Singapore with love |
| 18 |  | Merlin
The Wizard
3.5 [stoner, hard rock, psych] read the staff sound off:
Very entertaining slab of psychedelic doomy heavy rock with a great feel for groove. The addition of saxophone as a lead instrument at places is a really nice touch, as it enhances the psych effect. Great job by these guys. |
| 19 |  | Gift of Blindness
Wasteland
3.5 [post metal] like Godflesh mixed with downs |
| 20 |  | Chihei Hatakeyama
Void XV
3.5 [ambient] damn fine ambient and hot |
| 21 |  | Barren Womb
Old Money / New Lows
3.5 [noise rock] melodic noise rock sounding a bit like 68 |
| 22 |  | Lea Bertucci
Metal Aether
3.5 [electroacoustic, drone] can this genre be overproduced? Cos this has that feel and therefore i dig it |
| 23 |  | Daniel Avery
Slow Fade
3.5 [industrial techno] short enough ep for you to listen to |
| 24 |  | Sunwatchers
II
3.5 [psych, jazz] heavy on the brass x2 if you know what I mean |
| 25 |  | Robert Hood
Paradygm Shift - Vol. 3
3.5 ["minimal funk techno"] part of a series that i assume is worth checking out |
| 26 |  | Greber
Cemetery Preston
3.5 [sludge, crust] heavy thicc tones and some crust influences. Pre brutal too. |
| 27 |  | Sylvie Courvoisier Trio
D'Agala
3.5 [jazz] put the avant-garde back in jazz |
| 28 |  | Poppy Ackroyd
Resolve
3.5 [classical but not] Hidden Orchestra > Unknown Mortal Orchestra |
| 29 |  | Dead Empires
Designed to Disappear
3.5-3.0 [progressive metal, mathcore] With members from black table and #12 this is bound to be a bit spastic and so it is. Sounds like Orgone for a while and then High on Fire for a while and so forth… |
| 30 |  | Negative Slug
Bliss Of Corpse
3.0-3.5 [blackened sludge] with some hardcore vibes |
| 31 |  | Long Distance Calling
Boundless
3.0-3.5 [post rock] sleepmakeswaves and god is an astronaut type of deal. It's decent. |
| 32 |  | Ling Tosite Sigure
#5
3.0-3.5 [post hardcore, math rock] japanese af. |
| 33 |  | Kalte Sonne
Ekumen
3.0-3.5 [post metal] of the instrumental sort, it's decent but nothing new |
| 34 |  | Albrecht La'Brooy
Tidal River
3.0-3.5 [electronic, downtempo] with ambient leanings for your lazy day at the beach. |
| 35 |  | Death Pedals
Death Pedals
3.0-3.5 [post punk, noise punk] drags like post punk but kicks ass like noise punk |
| 36 |  | Lights and Motion
Bloom
3.0 [post rock] cinematic crescendo core that sorta works. |
| 37 |  | An Evening With Knives
Serrated
3.0 [stoner rock, post metal] eh it's alright but nothing too memorable |
| 38 |  | The Yellow King
Debris And Modern Wreckage
3.0 [metalcore] old school metalcore that gets better the longer the album goes on. |
| 39 |  | Kassel Jaeger
Retroactions
3.0 [electroacoustic] a genre that always is hard to rate |
| 40 |  | Matote
Up Into the Night Sky
3.0 [stoner rock, post metal] instrumental stoner rock/sludge/post metal that is easy on the ears |
| 41 |  | Bible Black Tyrant
Regret Beyond Tyrant
3.0 [sludge, hard rock] with punk and almost hard rock leanings |
| 42 |  | Hundred Year Old Man
Rei
3.0 [screamo, sludge, post metal] raw sounding |
| 43 |  | The Skull Defekts
The Skull Defekts
3.0 [post punk, noise rock] it has a certain groove. |
| 44 |  | The Shits
Drink Your Blood
3.0 [noise rock, punk] filled with apathy and disgust |
| 45 |  | Mukqs
起き上がり
3.0 [vaporwave] with some small hints of house |
| 46 |  | Consider Suicide
Alltid Allena
3.0 [post rock] album title translates to Forever Alone… pretty standard-esque post rock but it's fine |
| 47 |  | K. Leimer
Mittletöner
3.0 [techno, space ambient] pretty techno |
| 48 |  | Chaos Echoes
Mouvement
3.0 [death, doom] with a touch of DSO |
| 49 |  | ADT
Insecurities
3.0 [free improv noise jazz] is good at points but kinda relentless in it's assault |
| 50 |  | Aidan Baker and Gareth Davis
Invisible Cities
3.0 [drone] is good drone but not the best drone |
| 51 |  | Windhand/Satan's Satyrs
Split
3.0 [doom metal, fuzz] Windhand side is good. Three sisters especially. The other side is shit. |
| 52 |  | Steve Reich
Pulse/Quartet
3.0 [modern classical] fresh take |
| 53 |  | Genocide Pact
Order Of Torment
3.0 [death metal] old school leaning. Decent |
| 54 |  | Nightwave
Sanctuary
3.0 [house, breaks, techno] decent ep but nothing i'll ever jam again i don't think |
| 55 |  | Dead Vibrations
Dead Vibrations
3.0 [shoegaze, garage rock] fuzzy slowed down garagerock with shoegaze singing from Sweden/Umeå |
| 56 |  | Paper Dollhouse
The Sky looks Different Here
3.0 [dream pop, ambient, psychedelic] put this on a slow afternoon when you want to drift off to dream land. |
| 57 |  | Helado Negro
Island Universe Story Four
3.0-2.5 [electro pop, psychedelic electronic jams] is fun at times but nothing special |
| 58 |  | Usurpress
Interregnum
3.0-2.5 [progressive metal, melodic death metal] it's cheesy but sports some cool moments |
| 59 |  | Hevel
Insides
3.5 [ambient] key ep by the end of the year be my prediction |
| 60 |  | Drei Affen/Coma Regalia
Split
4.0 [skramz] chances are you're missing out if you don't jam this was originally at 2'nd place but someone screwed with the band names entry |
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