Jac's (late) 1st Quarter 2018
I know this is more the first third of the year by now, but I got behind on releases (as has usually been the case these last few years) but oh well. Here is just about every album I've heard from this year, sans stuff I plan on revisiting. Enjoy. |
| 56 |  | Jean-Luc Guionnet / Daichi Yoshikawa
Intervivos
Free improvisation - I can definitely see myself being in the minority here but ugh |
| 55 |  | Starved
Starved
Black metal |
| 54 |  | Graham Lambkin
No Better No Worse
Musique concrete |
| 53 |  | Golgothan Remains
Perverse Offerings To The Void
Death metal |
| 52 |  | Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain
Ondrej Adamek: Sinuous Voices
Modern classical - The squelchy, unlistenable kind |
| 51 |  | Mount Eerie
Now Only
Griefcore |
| 50 |  | Jerusalem Quartet
Dvorak: Quartet, Op. 97 / Sextet, Op. 48
Romanticism |
| 49 |  | Tinashe
Joyride
R&B - Has some choice cuts but drops the ball pretty clumsily in the middle |
| 48 |  | Taku Sugimoto / Cristian Alvear
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Onkyo |
| 47 |  | Rivers of Nihil
Where Owls Know My Name
Progressive death metal - It really isn't that good |
| 46 |  | Cardi B
Invasion Of Privacy
Hip hop - It really isn't that bad |
| 45 |  | Vanessa Rossetto
Fashion Tape
Musique concrete |
| 44 |  | Steve Reich
Pulse/Quartet
Modern classical - Can work well as background music but just a little yawn inducing at times |
| 43 |  | Insect Ark
Marrow Hymns
Sludge metal |
| 42 |  | HFMFM
Trapped
Hardcore |
| 41 |  | Maurizio Pollini / Daniele Pollini
Debussy: Preludes II
Impressionism |
| 40 |  | Jon Rune Strom Quintet
Fragments
Jazz |
| 39 |  | Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Bartok: Violin Concertos Nos 1 + 2
Modern classical |
| 38 |  | Vastum/Spectral Voice
Split
Death metal - Neither band's strongest material but it's 11 minutes so who cares? |
| 37 |  | Augury
Illusive Golden Age
Progressive death metal |
| 36 |  | Fire!
The Hands
Jazz |
| 35 |  | Demonomancy
Poisoned Atonement
War metal |
| 34 |  | Musica Ficta
Lassus: St Matthew Passion
Renaissance music / christian liturgical music / - Definitely not for listening while in a setting that could allow you to be easily distracted. Not because there's a lot going on, there isn't, quite the opposite |
| 33 |  | Marc Hantai / Pierre Hantai
Bach: Sonates pour flute et clavecin
Baroque music |
| 32 |  | Wombripper
From The Depths Of Flesh
Death metal - Seems to compensate for lack of interesting songwriting with savagery but definitely worth a listen and assessing on its own merits |
| 31 |  | Munchner Philharmoniker
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra; Piano Concerto n.3
modern classical |
| 30 |  | Hooded Menace
Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
Death / doom metal |
| 29 |  | Bach Collegium Japan
J.S. Bach: Secular Cantatas, Vol. 9
Baroque music |
| 28 |  | Sinfonia Varsovia
Khachaturian / Penderecki: Cello Concertos
Modern classical - Nowhere near as fraught as those who only know Penderecki through Matrix 5 or "Threnody..." might expect, but still spooks |
| 27 |  | Yhdarl
Loss
Black metal |
| 26 |  | Gnaw Their Tongues
Genocidal Majesty
""""""power electronics"""""" / """"""black metal"""""" - The first Gnaw Their Tongues album I've bothered to sit through all the way |
| 25 |  | Shinya Fukumori Trio
For 2 Akis
Jazz - Very melodic and harmonically rich, piano-centric jazz that's a breeze to listen to |
| 24 |  | Grave Upheaval
(untitled)
Death metal - Improvement over their last album, in that they actually wrote songs this time |
| 23 |  | Alva Noto
Unieqav
Techno - A little overlong but the tracks in isolation are very engrossing |
| 22 |  | The Sixteen
Monteverdi: Messa a Quattro Voci et Salmi Vol II
Renaissance music |
| 21 |  | Chaos Echoes
Mouvement
Atmospheric death metal - Another improvement on a previous installment, having melding the instrumentation and ambiance in a more purposeful way |
| 20 |  | Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 9
Romanticism |
| 19 |  | Ill Natured
Twisted Visions
Metallic hardcore - Not all that complicated but goes ahrd m/ |
| 18 |  | Masson / Vallon / Moret / Friedli
Travelers
Jazz |
| 17 |  | Replicant
Negative Life
Tech death - Something relatively fresh in today's saturated dissodeath scene is always worth a peep |
| 16 |  | Patricia Kopatchinskaja / Polina Leschenko
Deux: Bartok / Poulenc / Ravel
Modern classical |
| 15 |  | Inferi
Revenant
Tech / melodic death |
| 14 |  | Ensemble Cairn
Gerard Pesson: Blanc merite
Modern classical - Odd but strangely infectious, which after the most brief of background research regarding the title leads me to believe that was the intention. Congrats, Mr. Pesson? |
| 13 |  | Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto
Live 2002
Glitch |
| 12 |  | Isabelle Faust / Kristian Bezuidenhout
J.S. Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Baroque / chamber music |
| 11 |  | Exlimitir
It Weighed Itself In Silver
Death metal - Unabashed Demilich worship; the kind we need more of |
| 10 |  | Pendant
Make Me Know You Sweet
Ambient |
| 9 |  | Clara de Asis
Do Nothing
Modern classical / drone |
| 8 |  | Bach Collegium Japan
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Romanticism - One of the few large-scale Beethoven works that I've really enjoyed |
| 7 |  | Garroted
Of Damnation and Abyssal Terrors
Death metal - Think early-Morbid Angel imbued with Spheres-era Pestilence technical weirdness and just a hint of Demilich |
| 6 |  | Stile Antico
Victoria: Tenebrae Responsories
Renaissance music / choral |
| 5 |  | Jurg Frey / Magnus Granberg
Early to Late
Modern classical / lowercase - I'm convinced at this point that Jurg cannot make ugly music no matter the source material or the techniques used to manipulate it |
| 4 |  | Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble
Duplant: Chamber and Field Works 2015-2017
Modern classical - The quiet, waft-y kind |
| 3 |  | Portal
ION
Tech death - See my review |
| 2 |  | Abigor
Höllenzwang - Chronicles Of Perdition
Black metal |
| 1 |  | Ricercar Consort
J.S. Bach: Consolatio
Baroque music - See my review |
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