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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