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| Random Listening Log I
Been in a mini-review mood lately so here's some stuff lately I've been listening to this week and my brief thoughts on it. Feel free to rec whatever I haven't already listened to and if you guys like this list I'll make more of them https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/internalgenesis/r0.5-5.0 | | 1 |  | Bloodtied
Dismantling Neuroanatomy
Holy living god, this thing is a menace. My brain feels like it's getting tossed around. The drumming and riffs here are out of this world. A little homogeneous but not necessarily a bad thing. Intracellular Disconformity knocked my block off though, what a song. Definitely check if you're a fan of Defeated Sanity, Disentomb etc. | | 2 |  | Indecent Excision
Into the Absurd
Another absolutely ass kicking brutal death metal release. Call my cheeks officially clapped because this thing has it all: incredible vocals, riffs, songwriting, the bass playing is out of this world good, the production is everything I want out of a bdm record. This rivals some of the best of the best in bdm honestly. This is like if 7 H. Target made a full LP out of their Promotional Disc '17. Awesome shit. | | 3 |  | Daft Punk
Homework
While it doesn't necessarily hit the highs that Discovery does, some real jamz exist here. Around the World, Da Funk obviously are highlights. High Fidelity and Revolution 909 are just absolutely proficient house. This is where the glimpses of Daft Punk's musical greatness would be realized, they made dance music enjoyable for a wide demographic of people not just club enjoyers. It's a bit of a commitment at 73 minutes and some songs are downright annoying like the shorter ones and Burnin', but I jam it every now and then and can get through it. | | 4 |  | Xenia Reaper
Nept Polarisation
Some of the best modern IDM electronic production I've heard in a while, rivaling even Skee Mask. Xenia has a much more reserved sound though focusing on these wide, deep and expansive soundscapes with glimmers of rhythms fluttering around and fading into the distance. Truly great stuff. Their past record Luvaphy is also great, and it doesn't get enough love here. | | 5 |  | Sikth
Opacities
Yes yes yes!!! m/ so much fun to lift to. They really came back after 10 years with an absolute banger of an EP. They should have made this an LP because if the quality of the first three songs alone are present for another 5 or 6 this probably would've been a top metal album of all time for me. The LP they released shortly after this one unfortunately doesn't cut it. | | 6 |  | Cryptopsy
None So Vile
Been coming back to this after melon reviewed it and yeah I mean... it's pretty much perfect. Reveals more on each listen too. So brutal m// Mornier please teach me. Feels trite to even say it, but sometimes it needs saying. GO AHEAD AND RUN. | | 7 |  | Max Corbacho
Ars Lucis
On the complete opposite end of the music spectrum, Ars Lucis is just an absolutely gorgeous space ambient record. Really soothing and meditative. Too bad I barely remember a good chunk of it because I'm asleep by the 3rd song most of the time. Transept Sapphire Glass and Keystone Meditation sound utterly cosmic though, big highlights of this album. | | 8 |  | Romeo Poirier
Hotel Nota
The fact that this only has 2 ratings is insane to me. Top tier ambient/glitch record of this decade so far. So many different great ideas on here. My favorites of which being Du Rocher, Sablage, Thalassocratie, and Balayage. The album has this very ethereal and sparse sound to it, unlike a lot of others in this style, and I love that about it. I feel like how the guy on the cover probably feels when I listen to it. Definitely jam this. | | 9 |  | Masayoshi Fujita / Jan Jelinek
Schaum
A lot like the above but a lot more tribal focused and not as sparse. Sounds like some ancient ritual where they're tossing all of these sounds in this big liquid cauldron and seeing what comes out. Very mellow and hypnotic at times. Has some really strange, ominous and spooky arrangements of various sounds. Gets better on each listen too, I found. | | 10 |  | Pendant
To All Sides They Will Stretch Out Their Hands
On initial reaction I didn't like it nearly as much as his first record, but I'm glad I relistened because holy god it's probably his best work yet. This thing has just impeccable atmosphere, I feel like I'm stuck in some dark forest with only a flashlight hallucinating on mushrooms that I scavenged. Waiting for the wolves or coyotes to get me but they never do. I light a campfire and start to get drowsy waiting for my food to cook. Anyway getting off topic, it's utterly otherworldy, way more out there than his other stuff but very subtly brilliant. These songs are very long but long enough to seep into your mind. They're demented. Like the last track which sounds like it belongs on a Jon Hassell album with fucked up sounding trumpets. Brian Leeds really is one of the most talented artists of our time. | |
cylinder
04.08.26 | ye 2 fuckin rules
and thanks for reminding me about Romeo Poirier. I heard one album of his back in the day, it's not in our db tho. I forget the title but it had a pool on the cover I think. It was good tho, so I'll def give 8 a listen
also didn't know there was another Pendant album, def gotta check that. Loved the first one |
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