The Eleventh Sniff -18
Gonna try with a new format next year friends. 2018 albums (a selection of "deep cuts") I've jammed this month... Here we go! |
| 1 |  | Rudy Royston
Flatbed Buggy
4.0-4.5 [jazz] drums and accordion and horns til your ears fall off |
| 2 |  | Irakli and Zesknel
The Moment Just
4.0 [ambient techno] sounds a bit like that one Ketev album that owns |
| 3 |  | Noise Trail Immersion
Symbology of Shelter
4.0 [dissonant hardcore, mathcore, dso-worship, plebeian grandstand style] get that 3.0 outta here MetalSoliloquy nerd |
| 4 |  | Big Business
Tour EP 4
4.0 [sludge rock] suicide covers |
| 5 |  | Maisha
There Is A Place
4.0 [jazz] Shabaka Hutchings smelling but still not him? |
| 6 |  | Yuhan Su
City Animal
4.0 [jazz] xylophone jazz with horns is good |
| 7 |  | Peter Gall
Paradox Dreambox
4.0 [jazz] what a year for jazz frens |
| 8 |  | Jean-Michel Blais
Dans Ma Main
4.0 [classical] wow this owns! |
| 9 |  | Tone S.T.S.
No Longer Living, Merely Existing
4.0 [blackened sludgegrindmetal death] Like Cult Leader but actually good but in a way nothing like Cult Leader |
| 10 |  | Blind Girls
Residue
4.0-3.5 [skramz] from the sunniest of places |
| 11 |  | Blast
Drifting
4.0-3.5 [jazz] WITH ANNE QUILLER! |
| 12 |  | The Gasman
Controlled Hallucination
4.0-3.5 [IDM] watch me slap a 4 on this with more conviction than ehm pots would |
| 13 |  | Spurv
Myra
4.0-3.5 [post rock] leaning somewhere to the post metal side of the spectrum. Very huge sounding |
| 14 |  | Trio Untold
Trio Untold
3.5-4.0 [jazz] jazz is on a fire streak this year |
| 15 |  | Autumn Creatures
Funeral Garden
3.5-4.0 [post rock] sad post rock for sad kids |
| 16 |  | Dirge (IN)
Ah Puch
3.5-4.0 [doom] fake dirge but still goes ahrd dirge |
| 17 |  | Funeral Chic
Superstition
3.5-4.0 [crossover] crust thrash hardcore stuff that riffs |
| 18 |  | Makaya McCraven
Universal Beings
3.5-4.0 [smooth jazz] with an allstar ensemble |
| 19 |  | Syringe (USA-MD)
The Leash
3.5 [hardcore punk] d-beat sir |
| 20 |  | Tim Haldeman
Open Water As a Child
3.5 [jazz] free jazz and organized jazz and poetz |
| 21 |  | Penelope Trappes
Penelope Two
3.5 [ambient pop] I get Julia Holter vibes |
| 22 |  | Brainoil
Singularity to Extinction
3.5 [sludge] riffs pretty ahrd and also big brain music |
| 23 |  | Joy Orbison
81b
3.5 [house] t/t owns |
| 24 |  | Nasvikensmaffian
Outlaw Chiptune-Strike 1.6
3.5 [chiptune] by me |
| 25 |  | Ian William Craig
Thresholder
3.5 [ambient, tape loops] Ian does what Ian does best |
| 26 |  | Objekt
Cocoon Crush
3.5 [dub leaning idm] he is back, not as good as flatland but almost |
| 27 |  | Aaron Parks
Little Big
3.5 [jazz fusion] 80 minutes of slick jazz fusion electric stuff |
| 28 |  | Ancst
Abolitionist
3.5 [blackened crust] they've done a fair amount of releases 2018 this is an ep. It's good |
| 29 |  | Korridor
End of Cycle
3.5 [ambient techno] nothing that stands out in genre but still very good |
| 30 |  | Tozcos
Sueños Deceptivos
3.5 [hardcore] classic 80's hardcore and frantic shouting vox |
| 31 |  | Steven Julien
8 Ball
3.5 [house] with some slight techno vibes |
| 32 |  | Natsukashii
Driving East
3.5 [ambient keyboard space play] Natsukashii is the transitioning to a state of mind - nostalgia for the past, sometimes with implications of nostalgia for a flawless past that never was. |
| 33 |  | Still Life (USA-NY)
Still Life
3.5 [ambient, classical] piano pieces and poetry |
| 34 |  | TVAM
Psychic Data
3.5 [kraut strange fun songs] the quiteus is a good website for music |
| 35 |  | Kenji Kihara
Scenes of Scapes
3.5 [ambient] japbient |
| 36 |  | Celer
Memory Repetitions
3.5 [ambient] it's 2.5 hours but very good 2.5 hours |
| 37 |  | Celer
Coral Sea
3.5 [ambient] binge listening to Celer |
| 38 |  | Celer
Something Cathartic
3.5-4.0 [ambient] i'll just 3.5 his whole discog tbh |
| 39 |  | Celer
I Wish You Could
3.5 [ambient] japbient |
| 40 |  | Celer and Forest Management
Landmarks
3.5 [ambient] Move to Japan = become a great ambient artist? |
| 41 |  | Beyond the Hill
Granular Life
3.5 [ambient, new age] more sweet ambient jams from japan |
| 42 |  | Demdike Stare
Passion
3.5 [everything] mix of dnb, dub, glitch, industrial techno, breakbeat and whatever else you can think of dark ambient and so on so on |
| 43 |  | Thrainn Hjalmarsson
Influence of buildings on musical tone
3.5 [classical] the tile says it all |
| 44 |  | Moloch (UK)
A Bad Place
3.5 [sludge] mini-thou |
| 45 |  | Michele Mercure
Beside Herself
3.5 [ambient electronic space keys] a collection of old works |
| 46 |  | I-LP-ON
Äänet
3.5 [idm, industrial] it's better when it's idm-y |
| 47 |  | Petre Ionutescu and Daniel Dorobantu
Cartea De Piatra
3.5 [everyhwere between electronic ambient to jazz and whatnot] lot's of strange words in those titles |
| 48 |  | Set and Setting
Tabula Rasa
3.5 [instrumental post metal] with some black metal and post rock influences |
| 49 |  | Endurance
Celestial Governors
3.5 [ambient, drone] with field recordings and cool sounds for you |
| 50 |  | Eli Keszler
Stadium
3.5 [experimental] some percussion driven sounds ahoy |
| 51 |  | Brendon John Warner
la fonte
3.5 [ambient, post rock] beautiful calming sounds |
| 52 |  | Morphy
More from the Morphy Vaults
3.5 [dnb] a compilation of old tracks for you to enjoy |
| 53 |  | Criaturas
Unreleased "Oscuridad Eterna" Tracks
3.5 [hardcore] frantic hardcore punk. 2 songs only |
| 54 |  | Mahakala (UK)
The Exodus / Desert Road
3.5 [dnb, breakbeat] bring your indiana jones hat cos it's jungle mode on |
| 55 |  | Songs: Ohia
Travels In Constants
3.5 [still owns] didn't even know this existed |
| 56 |  | Asc
The Outer Limits
3.5 [ambient techno, dnb maybe] keeping the steady flow of releases going |
| 57 |  | Asc
Artefacts of Rotation
3.5 [techno] time to play catch-up with asc 2018 releases as we reach the end of the year |
| 58 |  | Asc
Astral Perception
3.5 [techno] lets face it. He is the most 3.5 artist ever |
| 59 |  | Kasra
Ski Mask
3.5 [dnb] it's good aight |
| 60 |  | Prettybwoy / cuxrixous
Parallel Lives
3.5 [ambient grime] frankly very beautiful |
| 61 |  | Sustance
Kaiten
3.5 [dnb] neat little ep with some dub wubz |
| 62 |  | Public Memory
Demolition
3.5 [darkwave] is good with good parts |
| 63 |  | 4023
4023
3.5 [drone, ambient] droning ambient that's really good |
| 64 |  | Kayla Painter
Cannibals at Sea
3.5 [ambient pop stuff] meditative pop leaning weird noises sounding not easy to classify stuff |
| 65 |  | Information Flash
Information Flash
3.5 [outsider house] less breakbeat than last years, still good stuff |
| 66 |  | Graham Massey and Umut Çağlar
Kicked From the Stars
3.5 [jazz] with a middle eastern vibe :O |
| 68 |  | Frakkur
2000 - 2004
3.5 [post rock, drone] scary spooky tape loop sigur ros stuff |
| 69 |  | Harriet Tubman
The Terror End of Beauty
3.5 [free jazz] heavy on the electric bass electrified free jazz stuff |
| 70 |  | A.M. Breakups
Out of Four Came Many Soldiers
3.5 [instrumental hip hop] beat tapes goat |
| 71 |  | Kenny Segal
Happy Little Trees
3.5-3.0 [downtempo, instrumental hip hop] it's pretty |
| 72 |  | Second to Sun
The Walk
3.0-3.5 [post black metal] riffs at times, drags at other times |
| 73 |  | Sunun
Ooid
3.0-3.5 [dub, deconstructed club, drone] slowly creeping dub stuff |
| 74 |  | Second To Sun
The Black
3.0 [post metal, black metal] flappy jacks metal |
| 75 |  | Lenka Novosedlikova
Sarah Hennies: Sisters
3.0 [classical, ambient] "In the two compositions for vibraphone she wrote for mappa editions, Sarah Hennies analyses the psychoacustic dimensions of space." |
| 76 |  | Lando Chill
Black Ego
3.0 [hip-hop] album art matches the title |
| 77 |  | Forn
Rites of Despair
3.0 [doom, death] there's better death/doom out there |
| 78 |  | Gia Margaret
There's Always Glimmer
3.0 [ataricore] genre says it all |
| 79 |  | Crimson Throne
Of Void & Solitude
3.0 [black metal] atmospheric punky black metaly |
| 80 |  | Eiko Ishibashi
The Dream My Bones Dream
3.0 [left field pop] outsider ambient pop with influences all over the scale |
| 81 |  | Tyshawn Sorey
Pillars
3.0 [jazz, experimental] i mean it's not bad for being just shy of the 4 hour mark |
| 82 |  | Claudio F Baroni
Motum
3.0 [classical, experimental] the usual deal with modern contemporary |
| 83 |  | CHEW
Feeding Frenzy
3.0 [punk, hardcore] gnarly shouts |
| 84 |  | Marja Nuut and Ruum
Muunduja
3.0 [ambient enchanting pop] haunting stuff |
| 85 |  | Evoken
Hypnagogia
3.0 [funeral doom] you can't spell funeral doom without al do |
| 86 |  | Exotica
Musique Exotíque #03
3.0 [hardcore punk] standard-esque |
| 87 |  | King Dude
Music To Make War To
3.0 [sad rock] sex is better |
| 88 |  | Mutant Beat Dance
Mutant Beat Dance
3.0 [house] old school house techno with a slight kraut lean |
| 89 |  | Ancst
Celestial
3.0 [ambient] dark ambient |
| 90 |  | Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto
Live 2002
3.0 [drone, glitch, techno] not as good as some of their other works |
| 91 |  | Fennec
So that I May See You Again
3.0 [house] not the best songwriting but decent production |
| 92 |  | Asc
Rainfall
3.0 [ambient] recordings of rainfall and random generated ambient soundscapes |
| 93 |  | Cruel Diagonals
Disambiguation
3.0 [ambient, electronic] pretty cool stuff |
| 94 |  | Cruel Diagonals
Monolithic Nuance
3.0 [ambient, electronic] pretty cool stuff |
| 95 |  | Novo Amor
Birthplace
3.0 [indie folk] Shameless Bon Iver rip-off |
| 96 |  | Te Aorangi
Black Robin
3.0 [ambient] tape manipulation stuff |
| 97 |  | Wume
Towards The Shadow
3.0 [a mess] but an uplifting and sometimes cool mess |
| 98 |  | Priors
Priors
3.0 [crust] everything crusty, except maybe the clown |
| 99 |  | Dagger
Hexes
3.0 [punk] very punk in eveything |
| 100 |  | Meg Baird and Mary Lattimore
Ghost Forests
3.0 [chamber pop] back with the harp |
| 101 |  | Missing Foundation
Nature Is Watching You
3.0-2.5 [noise rock, punk attitude] i think i want to like this more than i actually like it |
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