| 1800HaightStreet Endless | 4.2 |
| 36 Pulse Dive | 2.5 |
| A Fine Boat that Coffin! The Second Nail | 3.5 |
| Abdulla Rashim A Shell of Speed | 2.5 |
| ACIN ACIN | 3.0 |
| Acre (UK) Better Strangers | 2.5 |
| Actress AZD | 3.0 |
| Actress Splazsh | 3.5 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 2.7 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the Album | 3.0 |
| Adebisi Shank This is the EP | 3.0 |
| Adversarial Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of... | 3.0 |
| Afterlives A Ticking Clock I Couldn't Stop | 2.5 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 2.5 |
| Age Sixteen Open Up Finders, Please | 3.0 |
| Aine O'Dwyer Gallarais | 2.8 |
| Airs Adore | 3.5 |
| Airs Apart | 3.0 |
| Akio Suzuki a i sha | 2.7 |
| Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity | 4.7 |
| Alexisonfire Old Crows / Young Cardinals | 2.0 |
| Alexisonfire Alexisonfire | 3.0 |
| Alice Boman Dream On | 3.0 |
| Am Not The Developing World | 3.5 |
| am. Darkdays | 2.5 |
| American Football American Football | 3.0 |
| And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves | 2.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 2.0 |
| Andrei Eremin Pale Blue | 2.0 |
| Andy Stott Luxury Problems | 4.0 |
| Angel Olsen Half Way Home | 2.0 |
| Angel Olsen My Woman | 2.5 |
| Animal Collective Centipede Hz | 2.5 |
| Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy Sintetizzatrice | 2.5 |
| Anne Guthrie Brass Orchids | 3.2 |
| Ansome Stowaway | 2.8 |
| Antigone and Francois X We Move As One | 3.0 |
| Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, B. 178 | 4.0 |
| Aphex Twin Cheetah EP | 2.0 |
| Applescal For | 3.0 |
| Arcturus Arcturian | 1.5 |
| Ariadne Tsalal | 4.0 |
| Ariel Pink Pom Pom | 3.5 |
| Arturo Stàlteri ...e il pavone parlò alla Luna | 4.2 |
| ASC Imagine The Future | 3.5 |
| Astral and Shit Spiritus Vitae | 2.5 |
| Astronauts, etc. Mind Out Wandering | 2.0 |
| Asuna Tide Ripples | 2.7 |
| At the Drive-In Relationship of Command | 3.7 |
| At the Drive-In In/Casino/Out | 3.5 |
| At the Drive-In in•ter a•li•a | 2.5 |
| Atrofia Cerebral Matanza Extrema | 3.5 |
| Attilio Novellino and Collin McKelvey Metaphysiques Cannibales | 3.0 |
| Ava Luna Infinite House | 3.0 |
| Azfarat Enough of Song | 3.0 |
| Bad Future Nightchurch | 2.5 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV | 2.5 |
| Baklavaa Spiral Cramp | 2.5 |
| Baklavaa Dane On | 2.8 |
| Bambara Shadow on Everything | 2.8 |
| Barkin Engin and Tuna Pase Hazy Stars | 2.5 |
| Barry O'Halloran Dyssomnias - Selected Works (10-12) | 3.0 |
| Basic House Government | 1.5 |
| Baton Rouge Totem | 3.5 |
| Bedroom Eyes Honeysuckle | 2.5 |
| pretty average nu-gazey stuff. dreamy vox, grandiose guitar swells, catchy hooks, and little imprint. fav tracks: "Gypsy", "Dimmer", "Plain Heir" i guessrhttps://bdrmeyes.bandcamp.com/album/honeysuckle |
| Beefcake Drei | 4.0 |
| Bela Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, Sz. 116 | 4.0 |
| Bellows Blue Breath | 3.5 |
| Belong October Language | 4.0 |
| Ben Vida Damaged Particulates | 3.0 |
good electroacoustic that works better as a supplementary listen than a standalone one. listened to this on the bus and
while walking downtown and it was a nice experience, as the city's accidental beauty meshed with the album's
attempted beauty in unexpectedly successful ways. but, it's a bit of a dull listen on its own. dunno if that means this
should be a 3.5 or a 2.5 so we'll settle on a 3.rhttps://shelterpress.bandcamp.com/album/damaged-
particulates |
| Best Case Scenario Staircase Wit | 2.0 |
| Beth Orton Weather Alive | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 1.5 |
| Beware of Darkness Orthodox | 1.0 |
| Bicep Bicep | 2.5 |
| Bicuspid we are tiny fanged deer | 1.0 |
| Big Blood First Aid Kit | 3.5 |
| Big Blood Double Days II | 3.5 |
| Big Blood and Thunder Crutch Big Blood and Thunder Crutch | 1.5 |
| Big D and the Kids Table Strictly Rude | 1.5 |
| Big D and the Kids Table Fluent in Stroll | 1.5 |
| Big L Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous | 4.5 |
| Big|Brave Ardor | 1.5 |
| Bilal In Another Life | 2.0 |
| Biosphere and Deathprod Stator | 2.5 |
| Bisk [UK] Gutter City | 3.3 |
| Black Helicopters Diagonal Science | 1.5 |
| Black Merlin Proto World | 3.4 |
| Black Midi Schlagenheim | 2.5 |
| Black Ritual I Will Follow | 0.5 |
| Black Tambourine Throw Aggi Off The Bridge | 3.8 |
| Black Tambourine By Tomorrow | 3.0 |
| Black Tambourine OneTwoThreeFour | 2.5 |
| Black Tambourine Black Tambourine | 4.5 |
| Black Tribe The Stillborn Revolution | 2.0 |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed | 3.5 |
| Black Wing No Moon | 3.7 |
| Bladder Flask One Day I Was So Sad That the Corners of My Mouth | 2.7 |
| Bladee and Thaiboy Digital AvP | 3.0 |
| Blind Idiot God Blind Idiot God | 4.0 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 3.5 |
| Bob Tilton Crescent | 3.5 |
| Bodyguard Silica Gel | 3.5 |
| Boliden Landscape and Memory | 3.5 |
| really lovely ambient techno. this sort of fuzzy, layered ambience paired with beats has surely been done before but Boliden just does it so well, here. great blend of varied beats, gorgeous layers (almost worthy of shoegaze description), occasional vocal melodies, and snippets of other various sounds. yeah. listen: https://oxtailrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/landscape-and-memory ~ |
| Bolt Gun Man Is Wolf To Man | 1.5 |
| Bolzer Hero | 2.5 |
| Bongripper Miserable | 2.5 |
| Borbetomagus Barbed Wire Maggots | 3.5 |
| Boris Absolutego | 4.0 |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany | 1.5 |
| Breaking Pangaea Cannon to a Whisper | 2.0 |
| Breathing Walker Breathing Walker | 2.5 |
| basically a calmer, more experimental Moss Icon with less punk influence. It's the same lineup, but with the addition of string elements. A cool listen, and essential for Moss Icon fans, but doesn't quite have the raw energy that made MI special. It gets pretty repetitive, and doesn't boast that much replay valuer |
| Brighter Death Now May All Be Dead | 3.5 |
| Brobdingnagian Backpfeifengesicht | 2.0 |
| Bucket Full Of Teeth IV | 3.5 |
| Burial Untrue | 4.0 |
| Burial Kindred | 4.0 |
| Burstbot Memory Imprints | 2.5 |
| Busdriver Thumbs | 2.0 |
| Bylly Illusions | 2.0 |
| Cabaret Voltaire Red Mecca | 3.5 |
| Camp Lo Ragtime Hightimes | 2.5 |
| Cap'n Jazz Analphabetapolothology | 4.0 |
| Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale | 1.0 |
| Carissa's Wierd Songs About Leaving | 4.0 |
| Caroline Polachek Desire, I Want To Turn Into You | 2.5 |
| CCCP Fedeli alla Linea 1964-1985 Affinità-divergenze fra il compagno Togl | 3.7 |
| Cecil Taylor Conquistador! | 4.0 |
| Cecil Taylor Unit Structures | 4.5 |
| Cecil Taylor One Too Many Salty Swift And Not Goodbye | 3.7 |
| Cecil Taylor Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come | 3.8 |
| Ceilings III | 2.0 |
| Cephei Impossible Spaces | 2.0 |
| Cerberus Shoal Homb | 4.0 |
| Cerberus Shoal Bastion of Itchy Preeves | 2.0 |
| Cerberus Shoal Chaiming the Knoblessone | 2.5 |
| Cerberus Shoal Mr. Boy Dog | 3.5 |
| Cerberus Shoal Cerberus Shoal | 3.5 |
| Cerberus Shoal ...and Farewell to Hightide | 3.5 |
| Ceschi Broken Bone Ballads | 2.5 |
| Charles Manier American Manier | 2.0 |
| Chasms On The Legs Of Love Purified | 2.3 |
| good enough that i'm semi interested in whatever they do next to expand on their (promising) blueprint, but rarely does it stick out. a decent blend of shoegaze, industrial, and alt-whatever, but for the most part it sounds like HANL taking a leisurely stroll through the park. it lacks peaks and troughs.rhttps://chasmssf.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-legs-of-love-purified |
| Chavez Gone Glimmering | 2.5 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Chemiefaserwerk Idatec | 1.0 |
| Chief Keef Finally Rich | 3.5 |
| Chip Lionel Legs Back Feet Half | 3.0 |
| Chippendale, Gustafsson and Pupillo Melt | 3.0 |
| Choi Joonyong and Jin Sangtae Hole In My Head | 3.8 |
| Chris Corsano and Bill Orcutt Made Out Of Sound | 3.2 |
| Chris Randall Oscillator Breach | 3.0 |
| Christian Michael Jackson J'ai jamais voté pour ça | 1.5 |
| Christopher Hipgrave No Greater Hero than the Least Plant that Grows | 3.5 |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule | 3.0 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 2.0 |
| Cigarettes After Sex Cigarettes After Sex | 3.0 |
| I second Eliot's points, but this would be a near-masterpiece if Gonzales was able to accomplish what he does while also utilizing more variation in terms of songwriting. it has great pick-up-and-play appeal, and it's remarkable how far CAS can take their formula, but there isn't much I can say about one song that I can't say about another. which is good, but limits the album to just being merely good. |
| Cindy Lee Act of Tenderness | 3.5 |
| City of Caterpillar City of Caterpillar | 4.0 |
| Clara Lai Haikus | 3.0 |
Piano-led jazz from Spain. Subtly paced and tender, with enough of an experimental component to keep things
interesting, but not so much as to lose sight of the evocativeness. Tracks like "Bosque adentro..." make it out to
be an electroacoustic wanderer. the song titles all end with the name of various poets (Yosa Buson, Jorge Luis
Borges etc), from whom Clara Lai seems to draw inspiration. many barebones piano-based compositions can
feel a bit sterile, but this is all done pretty tastefully. nothing mind-blowing, but nice.
rhttps://discordianrecords.bandcamp.com/album/haikus |
| Client Liasion Diplomatic Immunity | 2.5 |
| Cloud Rat Qliphoth | 3.0 |
| cLOUDDEAD cLOUDDEAD | 4.5 |
| Cloudkicker Let Yourself Be Huge | 2.5 |
| Clouds (CAN) DJ Ultra Greatsword | 2.8 |
| CO2 Quartet Intersections | 2.5 |
| CocoRosie Heartache City | 1.5 |
| Colleen Captain of None | 3.0 |
| Colleen The Golden Morning Breaks | 4.0 |
| Colleen The Tunnel and the Clearing | 2.5 |
| Colleen Everyone Alive Wants Answers | 3.0 |
| Colleen Les ondes silencieuses | 3.0 |
| Colleen The Weighing Of The Heart | 2.0 |
| Comadre Burn Your Bones | 3.5 |
| Comus First Utterance | 4.5 |
| Constellate Constellate | 2.0 |
| Container LP 3 | 3.0 |
| Converge Axe to Fall | 4.0 |
| Converge The Dusk in Us | 3.0 |
| Corbin Leaving | 3.0 |
| Coutoux Reign of Terror | 1.5 |
| CRIMEWAVE fvckcrimewave | 1.5 |
| Cross For A Crown The EP | 1.0 |
| Crowhurst II | 3.7 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 3.5 |
| Cubenx Elegiac | 3.0 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 2.0 |
| Currensy Pilot Talk III | 3.7 |
| Currensy The Carrollton Heist | 3.4 |
| Curved Light Reversion | 3.3 |
| Cutsail The Belvedere | 1.5 |
| cv313 Seconds to Forever (EP) | 4.1 |
| cyberbully mom club outdoor activities | 3.0 |
| CZARFACE Every Hero Needs a Villain | 3.0 |
| D.I.N. Phase Retard Extinction | 1.5 |
| Dads I’ll Be The Tornado | 2.5 |
| Dahi Divine The Element | 3.0 |
| Dalek From Filthy Tongue Of Gods And Griots | 4.0 |
| Dalek Negro Necro Nekros | 3.5 |
| Dalek Asphalt For Eden | 3.5 |
| Dalek Untitled | 3.5 |
| Damien Dubrovnik Great Many Arrows | 3.5 |
| Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer | 2.5 |
| Dan Lyth and the Euphrates Benthic Lines | 2.5 |
| the outdoor recording gives a cool feel to the album. the guy has a lot of talent, and is obviously great at sound engineering or whatever, but his vocal delivery is pretty obnoxious and I don't really like his songwriting style... I found this album pretty dry. a lot of cool elements here and there though. This album would be great to fall asleep to while sitting on a porch swing |
| Daniel Avery Song for Alpha | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 3.0 |
| Darage Bang EXXO | 3.5 |
last-minute surprise. downtempo/ambient/tech/whatever from Germany. every song is smoov-as-fuck bliss. might
havta bump this up. dunno what my fav tracks are but for now I'll say: "Long Distance Run", "Sub-Surface", and maybe
"Something Deep".
https://darage-bang.bandcamp.com/album/exxo |
| Darlia Petals | 2.0 |
| Dashevsky Ghost Cassette | 3.0 |
| Dave DK Val Maira | 3.5 |
| lovely minimal tech house. each track (averaging 6ish minutes apiece) builds beautifully in various directions, and new elements pop out of nowhere and add different dimensions constantly. enjoyed from beginning to end of the hour-long runtime. |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 2.5 |
| David First Privacy Issues | 3.5 |
| David Shea Satyricon | 3.5 |
| David Thomas Broughton The Complete Guide to Insufficiency | 4.5 |
| Dax J The Invisible Man | 2.5 |
| Daylight Robbery Accumulated Error | 2.5 |
| Dead Neighbors Dead Neighbors | 3.0 |
| Dean Blunt Black Metal | 3.5 |
| Dean Blunt The Redeemer | 3.5 |
| Dean Marroni I Don't Love You, I Just Like Your Face | 1.5 |
| Dear Eloise Uncontrollable, Ice Age Stories | 2.5 |
still some cool releases popping up in the year's tailend. Laid-back, surf-rock-y shoegaze from China. runs a bit
long and could use more changes in aesthetic but I'm liking this. fav tracks: "man without a heart", "something beautiful
to share", and "passby"
http://downloads.maybemars.org/album/uncontrollable-ice-age-stories |
| Dear Eloise Farewell to the Summer | 2.0 |
| Dear Eloise Beauty in Strangers | 3.0 |
| Death And Vanilla To Where the Wild Things Are | 1.5 |
| Death From Above 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine | 3.0 |
| Death Grips The Money Store | 2.5 |
| Death Grips Fashion Week | 2.0 |
| death's dynamic shroud Heavy Black Heart | 4.0 |
| Dedekind Cut Tahoe | 2.5 |
| Deep Heat Still Life | 2.0 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 2.5 |
| Defect Defect My Life is Like Death | 1.5 |
| Deficit Budgetaire Sanction | 2.0 |
| Demdike Stare The Age of Innocence | 1.5 |
| Denzel Curry 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms | 3.0 |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion | 3.3 |
| Depeche Mode Music for the Masses | 2.5 |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again | 2.0 |
| Depeche Mode Violator | 3.5 |
| Derek Rogers Silence is Being Substituted | 3.5 |
| Descendents Milo Goes to College | 4.0 |
| Descendents I Don't Want to Grow Up | 3.5 |
| Destruction Unit Negative Feedback Resistor | 3.0 |
| Deux Filles Space & Time | 3.0 |
| Dikembe Mediumship | 2.5 |
| Dir En Grey Uroboros | 2.0 |
| Disparition Fate | 2.0 |
| DJ Koze Amygdala | 3.5 |
| DJ Seinfeld Time Spent Away From U | 3.0 |
| DJ Sonikku Secret Island | 2.8 |
| Dogville Dreams From Another Dimension | 1.0 |
| Doldrums (CAN) The Air Conditioned Nightmare | 3.5 |
| Don Caballero Don Caballero II | 4.0 |
| Don Caballero For Respect | 3.8 |
| Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem | 2.5 |
| Don Caballero Punkgasm | 2.5 |
| Don Caballero What Burns Never Returns | 3.5 |
| Dorisburg Irrbloss | 4.0 |
| Dreamend Dreamend | 2.0 |
| Dreamwell Modern Grotesque | 3.5 |
| Drekka and Funkhouser Within the Realm of The Unknown | 3.0 |
| Drose Boy Man Machine | 2.8 |
| Drowse Cold Air | 3.6 |
| Drowse Light Mirror | 3.4 |
| Drowse Soon Asleep | 3.7 |
| Drummotive, Quasi, Leonux and Infest Spectra | 2.5 |
| Dry Heave Designer Skin | 2.5 |
| Duck. Little brother, duck! Don't Take Our Filth Away | 3.0 |
| Dudal Dudal | 3.0 |
| Duster Stratosphere | 4.0 |
| Duster Duster | 2.0 |
| Duster Together | 1.5 |
| Duster Contemporary Movement | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 2.5 |
| Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis | 3.5 |
| Dyzlectic Octo The Epee | 4.0 |
| East India Youth Culture of Volume | 2.5 |
| Eidola Degeneraterra | 1.5 |
| Ekke Chasm | 2.5 |
| decent IDM/techno/glitch with some electroacoustic play. feels like a bit of a mishmash of half-fleshed ideas though. really nice and crisp sounding, but wanders a bit too much. would be better if Ekke really honed in on a prominent sound, rather than aimlessly tinkering. still, the found-sound elements help this pop in places |
| Elg Vu Du Dome | 2.5 |
| Eliad Friedman-Green Where Do We Be? | 1.5 |
| Ellen Fullman The Long String Instrument | 4.0 |
| Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra | 3.0 |
| Embassies of Denmark Embassies of Denmark | 3.0 |
| pretty rad post-hardcore out of Ontario. this is some remaster of a 2006 EP. reminds me a bit of The Newfound Interest in Connecticut or Sed Non Satiata. |
| Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail | 2.0 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 3.0 |
| Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) What It Takes to Move Forward | 3.0 |
| Emptiness Not For Music | 2.6 |
| Endon Through The Mirror | 3.0 |
| Equiknoxx Colón Man | 3.5 |
| Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! | 4.0 |
| Eskimeaux O.K. | 2.5 |
| Evan Caminiti Toxic City Music | 2.5 |
| Evan Pincus All The Things I've Made (For You) | 1.0 |
| Evigt Morker Helmet Of Bones | 2.2 |
| Ex Eye Ex Eye | 2.5 |
| Exit Sense Gambler's Spirit | 3.3 |
| Exploring Jezebel On A Business Trip To London | 2.5 |
| Extreme Volume Pop The Music of Poverty and Irony | 2.0 |
more consistent than his Abe Sandoval remix LP by far... I've heard better but can see this growing on me. but for
supposed 'harsh noise' this is pretty tame and not very climactic. it's nice if you're in a focused mood and are willing to
give undivided attention to every single little nuance, but it doesn't 'grab' me at all |
| Extreme Volume Pop Abe Sandoval + Extreme Volume Pop (Remixes) | 2.0 |
| Album is a mixed bag... you have some great stuff like "all aboard the Mary Celeste" but then useless crap like "and statues..."rNot a bad release, and tbh not a 'serious' one, but would be a hell of a lot better if he had a bit more focus. If you like minimal dark ambient there are some great moments on this |
| Fabio Battistetti Into The Wood | 3.0 |
| Facialmess The Onedin Line | 2.7 |
| Faust Faust | 4.0 |
| Faust Faust So Far | 3.0 |
| Faust Faust IV | 3.5 |
| Faust C'est Com... Com... Complique | 2.0 |
| Faust Something Dirty | 2.5 |
| Faye Webster I Know I'm Funny haha | 2.0 |
| Federico Durand Música para Manuel | 3.0 |
| Felix K Tragedy of the Commons | 2.0 |
| Fennec This Place Was Once a Palace | 3.0 |
| Field Medic Fuck You Grim Reaper | 2.5 |
| not too shabby. I mean, the sound quality is awful and the lyrics are juvenile and useless, but I have a soft spot for this kinda style and it's short enough that I can get through it enjoying the subtle melodies and lighthearted vibe. I'd only rec it to fans of lo-fi bedroom shit though, like mah boi Yak over there |
| Fire! Orchestra Ritual | 3.0 |
| Fire! Orchestra Arrival | 3.5 |
| Fire-Toolz Eternal Home | 4.0 |
| Fischerle Post-functional Dub Objects | 2.8 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 1.5 |
| Flatbush Zombies BetterOffDEAD | 3.0 |
| Floating Points Elaenia | 3.0 |
a bit disappointing. a couple of his EPs are great so I was expecting some AOTY material for this full-length but
there's only a couple real highlights on this and the rest is decent |
| Floral Floral | 3.3 |
| Food Court Food Court | 3.0 |
| Fort Romeau Insides | 3.5 |
| rrules. has a sort of retrospective element with some old school, 80s action-esque synths in some tracks, while others are more spacey and ethereal. every track seems to evolve seamlessly, almost unnoticeabley as you're transfixed on the addictive four-on-the-floor house beats, but then you look up and realize the song has warped into something new in your absence. gorgeous production, slowly, enveloping 7ish minute run times, fine-tuned effects, powerful, invigorating, unnnggghhh. wouldn't have expected this from La Roux's session keyboardist or w/e the fuck he was up to, but yeah, listen to this. |
| Francisco Meirino Surrender, Render, End | 3.2 |
| Francois Bayle Erosphère | 3.0 |
| Frank Bretschneider Sinn + Form | 3.0 |
| Frankie Cosmos Zentropy | 3.0 |
| Frodus F-Letter | 3.5 |
| Frodus And We Washed Our Weapons In The Sea | 3.5 |
| Frodus Fireflies | 1.5 |
| Frodus Molotov Cocktail Party | 2.5 |
| Frodus Conglomerate International | 3.0 |
| Fucking Invincible It'll Get Worse Before It Gets Better | 2.5 |
| Fugazi Red Medicine | 4.0 |
| Fury (USA) Paramount | 3.2 |
| Fvnerals Wounds | 2.0 |
| Gaika MACHINE | 3.5 |
experimental hip hop with some grime, garage, r&b, etc. fav tracks: "Hannah" and "Lick the Knife"
https://soundcloud.com/gaikasays/sets/machine-1/s-EAsUp |
| Gas Narkopop | 2.5 |
| Gas Chamber Hemorrhaging Light | 2.5 |
| Gastr del Sol The Serpentine Similar | 3.5 |
| Gastr del Sol Crookt, Crackt, or Fly | 2.5 |
| Gastr del Sol Upgrade & Afterlife | 3.0 |
| Gastr del Sol Camoufleur | 3.0 |
| Geotic Abysma | 3.0 |
| Gesture Gesture | 1.5 |
| Geyser Bastion (deceased) Humble Cannons | 1.5 |
| Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD Sour Soul | 2.5 |
| Giancarlo Toniutti La mutazione | 4.2 |
| Giles Corey Hinterkaifeck | 2.5 |
| Giles Corey Giles Corey | 3.5 |
| Giovanni Venosta Olympic Signals | 2.5 |
| Girlfriends Girlfriends | 3.0 |
| Glass Bones The Hope In Forgiving & Giving Up Hope | 3.0 |
| Godspeed You! Black Emperor G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END! | 2.0 |
| Golem Mecanique Nona, decima et morta | 4.0 |
| Goryl Lord of Loud | 0.5 |
| Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World | 4.2 |
| GosT Behemoth | 2.0 |
| Grade Under the Radar | 3.0 |
| Graham Lambkin Community | 3.0 |
| Graham Lambkin Aphorisms | 3.0 |
| Grave Pool Mnemonics | 2.5 |
| Gravitsapa Radio Free Vulgata | 1.5 |
Ukrainian math rock. pretty messy and ineffectual imo but i can see a lot of users fucking with this. the vibe is pretty
rough and jagged, sorta reminiscent of stuff like Don Caballero's What Burns Never Returns, but with a bit more of
a shamanistic undertone - there's this mystic ambience here and there. idk why i don't like it, but every bit of it rubbed
me the wrong way. probably a combination of the production, grating guitar work, and general aimlessness.
https://tenzenmen.bandcamp.com/album/radio-free-vulgata |
| Great Job Great Job | 2.0 |
| Greeley Estates Far From The Lies | 1.5 |
| Grey Gordon Forget I Brought It Up | 2.5 |
| Grischa Lichtenberger Spielraum | 2.5 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| Grouper Way Their Crept | 3.5 |
| Grouper Cover the Windows and the Walls | 3.5 |
| Grouper Wide | 3.0 |
| Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat | 3.0 |
| Grunt Castrate the Illusionist | 2.0 |
| Gurdonark Constellation Blackbird | 2.0 |
| Half Japanese Overjoyed | 3.0 |
| Half Japanese 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts | 3.5 |
| Hallelujah The Hills A Band Is Something To Figure Out | 2.3 |
| occasionally catchy, but mostly bloated and boring. "we have the perimeter surrounded" is worth checking, but yeah... lots of aimless shout-a-longs and mildly interesting prog and post-punk influence. there's probably a lot to this, but it doesn't really motivate me to spend any time with it. https://hallelujahthehills.bandcamp.com/album/a-band-is-something-to-figure-out |
| Haunted Shores Viscera | 1.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness | 4.5 |
| Have a Nice Life Sea of Worry | 2.0 |
| Havukruunu Kelle Surut Soi | 3.5 |
| Hayley Williams Petals for Armor | 2.0 |
| Heat Dust Heat Dust | 2.5 |
| Helde Suaren Gerizpea | 3.5 |
| Helen The Original Faces | 2.5 |
| Helena Hauff Discreet Desires | 2.5 |
| Hella Hold Your Horse Is | 3.5 |
| Hella The Devil Isn't Red | 3.0 |
| Hella Church Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard | 4.0 |
| Hella There's No 666 In Outer Space | 3.0 |
| Hella Tripper | 3.0 |
| Helm Olympic Mess | 2.5 |
| Helms Alee Stillicide | 2.0 |
| Helta Skelta Beyond the Black Stump | 3.0 |
| Herbert Distel La Stazione | 4.0 |
| This sounds like being held in isolation but hearing the events of the outside world progress. Simple, but powerful |
| Hesson The Guilt Complex | 1.5 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon | 4.0 |
| Hippies Wearing Muzzles Egyptian Paralysis | 3.0 |
| Hippies Wearing Muzzles Animist Pools | 3.3 |
| Hollow Sunshine Bible Sea | 2.5 |
| Hookworms Pearl Mystic | 2.5 |
| Album kinda falls off after the first few tracks... the opener is great, the next track is decent, and the rest is kinda forgettable tbh.. not bad, but not great. |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 3.0 |
| Hostage Calm Die On Stage | 2.5 |
| Hotel Books I'm Almost Happy Here, But I Never Feel At Home | 1.5 |
| Hotel Books Call Me Human | 1.5 |
| How to Dress Well Love Remains | 3.0 |
| How to Dress Well Care | 2.0 |
| HRTL Yellow Mellow | 2.7 |
| Human Hands Human Hands | 4.0 |
| I See Giants Acts of Desperation | 2.5 |
| Iannis Xenakis Electronic Music | 3.5 |
| Iannis Xenakis Persepolis (2018 Reissue) | 4.3 |
| Icarus the Owl Love Always, Leviathan | 2.5 |
| Icarus the Owl The Spotless Mind | 3.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl | 2.0 |
| Ichiko Aoba Adan no Kaze | 3.7 |
| Iku Fundamental Significance | 1.5 |
| Illegal Wiretaps Polly Amour | 1.0 |
| Illyria Illyria | 2.5 |
| Ilpo Numminen Vuosi 5/12 | 2.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 1.5 |
| Infidel?/Castro! Case Studies in Bioentropy | 2.5 |
| Injury Reserve By The Time I Get To Phoenix | 3.0 |
| Institute (USA-TX) Catharsis | 3.0 |
| Intervals The Shape of Colour | 2.0 |
| Israeli Beach Party I Didn't Know You Could Change Time | 1.5 |
| Pretty unremarkable math rock. It sounds nice enough, but isn't memorable and lacks any sort of depth that might make it worth exploring. This is the kind of instrumental math that would improve greatly with the addition of a vocalist, which speaks volumes of how mediocre it is |
| Iwrestledabearonce It's All Happening | 2.0 |
| Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay Antigravity | 2.0 |
| Jackie-O Motherfucker Fig. 5 | 2.5 |
| Jacob Newman and Devin Underwood Sending the Past | 3.5 |
| James Ferraro Suki Girlz | 3.0 |
| James Ferraro Marble Surf | 3.5 |
| James Ferraro Live at Primavera Sound 2012 | 3.5 |
| James Ferraro Skid Row | 3.0 |
| Jamesreindeer Al Jalloum | 4.0 |
| Jamie xx In Colour | 3.0 |
solid UK garage from The xx's Jamie Smith. would be better if not for a couple stray turds mucking it up. for the
most part, ear-tickling bass, some memorable melodies, lofty builds and neat background noises. the first half is
significantly better. "Stranger in a Room" is negligible and "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)" is comically bad, and
fucks up the
flow of the album. the first 4 tracks are rad, though. |
| Janis Lago Daughter of Sappho / Recovery | 3.5 |
| Japanese Breakfast Soft Sounds From Another Planet | 3.0 |
| Jason Lescalleet Much to My Demise | 4.0 |
| Jason Lescalleet Songs About Nothing | 3.5 |
| Jason Lescalleet My Machine | 2.5 |
better than his string of This Is What I Do releases, for the most part. there's a bit of an interesting narrative buried
beneath everything, and Jason is great at taking concrete noises and accentuating them for extra oomph, but his
production on this is a bit lazy. there's an overlong rainfall recording, some chopped-and-screwed variation of The
Sweet's "Fox on the Run", and some other questionable choices. but, parts of the album are pretty thoughtful - there's a
vocal excerpt at the beginning of the second half that won me over a bit. a good portion of this resembles the tiring
effect of dealing with semi-interested people in a professional environment whose droll demeanours begin to have an
adverse affect on your own psyche - sorta reminds me of Office Space or something. My Machine builds an
interesting concept initially... but doesn't really capitalize on it. i suppose some of this might be inspired by his
answering machine or whatever but i couldn't be bothered to look into the backstory tbqh
tl; dr - probably one of his better recent releases, but check Much To My Demise or Songs About Nothing if
you want to get into Lescalleet |
| JASSS Weightless | 3.0 |
| Jazz Cartier Hotel Paranoia | 2.8 |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Thief and the Fallen | 2.0 |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma A Year With 13 Moons | 3.3 |
| another lovely, versatile release from Jefre. he mixes drone with lush noise and even bits of musique concrete, creating an album that is both beautiful and unsettling. the album is fairly front loaded, as the first 2 tracks are - I'd argue - the highlights. the following tracks feel scattered and nonlinear, and often too short to flourish. still, it works. it feels like sequences of memories running rampant, painting a distorted picture resembling a ruined relationship and the resulting personal turmoil. it's not excessive in emotion necessarily - at times Jefre comes off as very detached and indifferent - but it does seem like underlying emotions are begging to seep through. needs a few listens to 'click', but when it does the result is poignant. |
| Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Devotion | 3.5 |
| Jennifer Eberhardt Hunting | 2.5 |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 2.5 |
| jennylee Right On! | 2.5 |
| Jewill Forme | 2.5 |
decent Italian techno. has a certain kick that i really like, but would be stronger if it had a bit more variety.
https://absoluterecords.bandcamp.com/album/forme |
| Jim O'Rourke with Oren Ambarchi Behold | 3.5 |
| Jlin Dark Energy | 2.5 |
| Jlin Black Origami | 2.5 |
| Joanne Robertson Black Moon Days | 3.5 |
| Joda Clément The last place they thought of | 3.5 |
| John Coltrane Ascension | 3.5 |
| Jon Brooks Shapwick | 3.7 |
| Jon Hopkins Singularity | 4.0 |
| Jordan Rakei Groove Curse | 3.0 |
| Joshua Sabin Terminus Drift | 2.5 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 1.5 |
| Julie Byrne Not Even Happiness | 2.2 |
| Julien Baker Little Oblivions | 1.5 |
| Julien Baker Turn Out The Lights | 2.0 |
| Jurg Frey Ephemeral Constructions | 3.8 |
| Justin Bieber Purpose | 2.5 |
| K. Fenrir K. Fenrir | 2.5 |
| Kadhja Bonet The Visitor | 2.0 |
| Kamasi Washington Harmony of Difference | 2.0 |
| Karin Park Apocalypse Pop | 3.0 |
| Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Junglinge | 3.0 |
| Karsten Pflum Dode | 3.0 |
| Kaschalot Kaschalot | 2.5 |
| Kate Carr Fabulations | 4.0 |
| Kate NV Binasu | 2.5 |
| Katya Sanna Le Danze Elicoidali | 2.5 |
| Keaton Henson Monument | 2.5 |
| imo his best work is behind him. i think his formula, as tender and effective as it can be, has its limits. i have a hard time hearing this and not just wishing i was listening to Dear instead. this is probably v nice but this guy is just a 1-2 album artist for me, tis what it tis |
| Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi I Wonder If You Noticed "I'm Sorry" Is Such... | 3.3 |
| Kent Tankred Ordinary Things | 3.5 |
| Kikagaku Moyo House in the Tall Grass | 2.0 |
| Kim Doo Soo Evening River | 3.4 |
| KirbLaGoop Goop | 3.0 |
| Klahtouk Deep Fried Thumb | 3.0 |
surprisingly good Boston-based techno. really good balance between groovy and laid-back. nothing you haven't heard,
but well-executed nonetheless. plenty of little touches that pop out, making it a nice headphone experience. track 3 is
mixed a bit irritatingly, though. there's enough progressive elements to mix things up and create a sort of loose
extraterrestrial narrative, but not so much that it detracts from the visceral enjoyment. like a 2.9/5
https://klahtouk.bandcamp.com/album/deep-fried-thumb-ep |
| Klam The Concrete Vagina | 2.0 |
| Klara Lewis Too | 2.0 |
| Knablinz Mind Set Tape | 1.5 |
| Kobosil We Grow, You Decline | 2.5 |
| Konntinent The Empire Line | 2.5 |
| Konstrukt and Keiji Haino A Philosophy Warping, Little by Little | 3.0 |
| Kostadis Unleash | 3.0 |
| thick, heavy ambient from Greece augmented by musique concrete. would probably pair greatly with a visual performance combining pitch black with sense-tingling, intermittent elements of light. the album itself is a good balance of eerie and groovy - dark soundscapes occasionally interrupted by minimal beats, suited to a dancehall where no one moves due to out-of-body enjoyment. I think.rhttps://kostadis.bandcamp.com |
| Koufar Phoenix Rising, Phoenix Falling | 2.0 |
| Krallar Drive Like There's No Tomorrow | 1.5 |
| Krasnoznamyonnaya Diviziya Imeni Moyey Babushki Посмертные приключения | 2.5 |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion | 2.0 |
| Kurushimi Kurushimi | 1.0 |
| KŸHL Saus & Braus | 2.5 |
| L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae The Night Took Us In Like Family | 3.5 |
| La Dispute Wildlife | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 2.5 |
| La Dispute Here, Hear. | 1.5 |
| Lackthrow Stay Off | 1.0 |
| Lapalux Lustmore | 3.5 |
| Latishia's Skull Drawing Romanticized | 3.5 |
great noisy punk. plenty of sleaze and varied musicianship but nonetheless a swift, concise roller coaster of irate, pissy
fuzz. https://ironlungpv.bandcamp.com/album/romanticized-lp-lungs-083 |
| Laughing Hyenas You Can't Pray a Lie | 3.8 |
| Launder Pink Cloud | 2.3 |
| Laura Marling Semper Femina | 2.0 |
| Lee Gamble Koch | 3.5 |
| Lee Gamble Mnestic Pressure | 2.5 |
| Lee Morgan Search for the New Land | 4.5 |
| Lee Morgan The Sidewinder | 4.0 |
| leer SPRINGBREAKNOPARENTS | 2.5 |
| Leftfield Alternative Light Source | 2.5 |
| Leigh Toro L'Esprit De L'Escalier | 3.0 |
| Leon Bridges Coming Home | 3.0 |
| Leonardo Rosado Adrift | 4.5 |
| Leos Janacek Glagolitic Mass | 4.0 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 2.0 |
| Les Rallizes Denudes Mizutani | 4.0 |
| Less Art Strangled Light | 3.2 |
| Leyland Kirby Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was | 3.5 |
| Liam Howard When Darkness Falls | 2.0 |
| Liberez All Tense Now Lax | 3.5 |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire | 2.5 |
| Like Thieves Autumn's Twilight | 2.5 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Oblivion Access | 4.0 |
| Lionel Marchetti Knud un nom de serpent (Le cercle des entrailles) | 4.0 |
| Litchi Edukalì | 1.0 |
| Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons | 2.5 |
| Lnrdcroy Ooze City | 2.8 |
| Load-In At 6 | 1.0 |
| Load-In A Bowl | 1.0 |
| Loke Rahbek City of Women | 3.0 |
| Loma Prieta Last | 2.0 |
| loqto Replication | 3.0 |
| Lord of the Isles Parabolas Of Neon | 3.3 |
| Loren Connors Lullaby | 1.5 |
| Lorn Vessel | 2.5 |
| Loscil Endless Falls | 3.0 |
| Lubomyr Melnyk Rivers and Streams | 3.0 |
| Luigi Nono Guai ai gelidi mostri | 3.5 |
| lukepi Soar | 3.0 |
| Lumisokea Transmissions From Revarsavr | 3.5 |
| bit of an odd mix of techno and electroacoustic methods. it starts off a bit slow and confused, but hits its stride at about halfway where the band's techno influence shines through, creating a worthwhile combination rather than a fiddly thought experiment. it could've been more cohesive overall I guess but it still bangs.rhttps://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/lumisokea-transmissions-from-revarsavr |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn | 1.5 |
| M. Savant Stifleson thHibnørshir stemologicles | 0.5 |
| M.E.S.H. Piteous Gate | 3.0 |
| Main Source Breaking Atoms | 3.5 |
| Makthaverskan Ill | 3.0 |
| Makthaverskan II | 3.0 |
| Malcolm Pointon Electromuse | 3.5 |
| Malthael The Birth of a Monster | 0.5 |
| Mamaleek Via Dolorosa | 3.0 |
| Mamiffer The World Unseen | 2.5 |
| Marching Church This World Is Not Enough | 3.0 |
| Marika Hackman We Slept at Last | 4.0 |
| Marina Rosenfeld Plastic Materials | 3.0 |
| Mark Applebaum Speed Dating | 2.8 |
| Martial Canterel You Today | 2.5 |
| Masaya Ozaki Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes | 3.5 |
| Material Girl Tangram | 4.0 |
| Materic Between Stone Slabs | 3.5 |
| sweet Russian skramz with a bit of noise and shoegaze influence. really nice balance of dour atmosphere and invigorating riffs, and both male and female vox. nothing groundbreaking, but it goes hard. 2nd and 6th tracks are both dope, but it's solid beginning to end |
| Mathias Delplanque Transmissions | 3.5 |
| Maths Descent | 3.0 |
| Matt Elliott Drinking Songs | 4.0 |
| Matt Elliott Failing Songs | 3.5 |
| Matt Elliott The Calm Before | 3.2 |
| Maxime Corbeil-Perron K A T H A R S I S | 3.0 |
| Meüte Meüte | 2.0 |
| Memoria Uno Crisis | 2.0 |
| Merchant Ships For Cameron | 3.5 |
| Merzbow and Xiu Xiu MERZXIU | 2.5 |
| too much merz and not enough xiu. coulda been magic |
| mewithoutYou Ten Stories | 2.5 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 2.0 |
| Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda Crosshatches | 3.0 |
| Michael Summers and Ozark Soundscape Future Fold | 1.5 |
| Michel Banabila Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves | 2.5 |
| Mick Chillage (M)odes | 2.0 |
| Midwife (USA) Luminol | 3.0 |
| Mika Vainio + Ryoji Ikeda + Alva Noto Live 2002 | 3.0 |
| Miki Yui Oscilla | 3.5 |
| MILCK Quiet | 2.0 |
| Milk and Bone Little Mourning | 2.0 |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde | 2.5 |
| Misha Mishajashvili 2018 | 2.8 |
| Mission of Burma Signals, Calls, and Marches | 4.0 |
| Mitski Puberty 2 | 2.7 |
| Miwon Jigsawtooth | 2.7 |
| MJ Lenderman Boat Songs | 2.0 |
| Mnemonists Horde | 3.7 |
| Moa Pillar Hymns | 2.5 |
| Model 500 Deep Space | 4.0 |
| Modern Baseball Sports | 2.5 |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All | 2.0 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 2.5 |
| Moe Shop Pure Pure | 1.0 |
| Moki Mcfly Armozel | 2.0 |
| Molly Nilsson Zenith | 3.0 |
| Moon Bandits Action Changes Thinking | 2.0 |
| the stripped down approach is refreshing, but also restrictive.. the upbeat fiddle+banjo combo gets repetitive, and the album isn't dynamic enough to leave a lasting impression. the lyrics are pretty typical anti-corporate musings, but seem sincere. decent album. not great, but worth listening if you want some straightforward, simple upbeat folk-punk |
| Moral Straightjacket Into the light | 2.5 |
sounds like Self Defense Family worship. imagine some of their better tracks but with pretty lol lyrics tbh. it's aight
https://ruinedsmilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-light |
| Moritz Von Oswald Trio Sounding Lines | 2.0 |
| Morning Effort I heard you the first time, it just wasn't funny | 3.0 |
| not bad, reminds me of YFW-era Brand New plus some twinkly emo influence in the vein of Snowing, but not as fast-paced. If you're an emo fan with ~9 minutes to spare, give this a chance. recording quality is obviously weak |
| Moss Icon Lyburnum Wits End Liberation Fly | 3.5 |
| Mount Eerie A Crow Looked At Me | 4.0 |
| mRs Empty Spaces | 2.5 |
| Mudd Corp Loserlord | 3.2 |
| Murmuure Murmuure | 4.1 |
| mutaHERTZ Fantastic Planetscapes | 2.5 |
| My Chemical Romance I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love | 2.0 |
| My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge | 3.5 |
| Mystic 100s Mystic 100's | 3.0 |
| N. Brennan and Orokin Goliath | 3.3 |
| Natural Snow Buildings The Dance of the Moon and the Sun | 4.0 |
| Natural Snow Buildings Terror's Horns | 2.3 |
kinda disappointing. a lot of tension-building without much payoff. the final third of the album is good, but at that
point the momentum is kinda ruined. since the album was apparently inspired by eerie backwoods folklore, i was
expecting a more creepy story progression and some pretty sharp emotions (fear, confusion, despair, being lost,
etc) but most of this was a bit flat. there's some highlights ("Sun Tower", "the Rising Portal" and maybe "Orion is Dead"),
but a lot of forgettable material. |
| Neaux Fell Off The Deep End | 1.5 |
| Necati Ozmucur Offside | 1.5 |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You | 1.5 |
| Negative Space Negative Space | 2.3 |
| Netherworld Zastrugi | 3.0 |
| Never Young Master Copy | 2.0 |
| Nickelus F and Shawn Kemp Trick Dice | 4.0 |
| Nico Desertshore | 4.0 |
| Night Birds Mutiny At Muscle Beach | 3.5 |
| Night Sins New Grave | 3.0 |
| Nine of Swords I Can't Stand My Own Face | 3.0 |
| pretty vicious skramz. the chick sounds absolutely sinister, and the chunky guitars are relentlessly heavy. a nice change of pace from the plethora of post-rock screamo coming out the woodwork lately |
| No Fun Photocopier Waltz | 1.0 |
| Nocturnerror Last Seconds Of Resentment Required | 3.5 |
| NOFX Punk in Drublic | 3.0 |
| NOFX Coaster | 2.0 |
| NOFX Wolves in Wolves' Clothing | 2.0 |
| Nthng It Never Ends | 2.0 |
| Nujabes Spiritual State | 4.0 |
| Nun Nun | 2.5 |
| Nyodene D / Dreamcrusher Nyodene D / Dreamcrusher | 1.0 |
| тпсб Sekundenschlaf | 2.5 |
| Oake Monad XXIV | 3.5 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 3.8 |
| Oh The Places You'll Go Pleasure Is A Burden | 1.0 |
| Okkyung Lee Yeo-Neun | 3.5 |
| Oliver Dodd Rhea | 2.8 |
| Olivia Block Dissolution | 2.0 |
| Ondness Quase Driven | 2.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete | 2.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never R Plus Seven | 2.5 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Replica | 3.5 |
| Oomlät Utopia | 1.0 |
| Open Mike Eagle Dark Comedy | 2.5 |
| Oranges From the President Faulty | 2.5 |
| Pretty decent pop punk, RIYL Joyce Manor, Modern Baseball. First couple tracks are pretty good, last couple are average. But hey, it's just an EP and these guys have yet to refine their sound. Hopefully a full length is in the works.. |
| Orbital Orbital 2 | 4.1 |
| Orbital In Sides | 4.0 |
| Oren Ambarchi, Kassel Jaeger, James Rushford Pale Calling | 2.5 |
| Organ Tapes Into One Name | 2.5 |
| Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come | 4.0 |
| ostraca Disaster | 3.0 |
| Oswald Watanabe | 2.5 |
| OvO Creatura | 1.5 |
| P.SUS Sky Rhythms | 2.5 |
| Pain Teens Destroy Me, Lover | 3.5 |
| Pain Teens Stimulation Festival | 3.5 |
| Palmistry Afterlife | 3.0 |
| Pan Daijing Jade | 2.7 |
| Panda Bear Person Pitch | 3.5 |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | 2.5 |
| Paperworks Sweet Density | 3.0 |
| Paul Dolden The Threshold of Deafening Silence | 3.5 |
| Paul Jebanasam Continuum | 3.5 |
| Paula Temple FACT 532 | 3.0 |
| Paula Temple Edge of Everything | 4.0 |
| Pendant Make Me Know You Sweet | 3.7 |
| Pennywise Yesterdays | 2.0 |
| Perc and Randomer Igneous | 3.0 |
| Pessimist (UK) Pessimist | 2.7 |
| Peter Van Hoesen Oscar's Blood | 3.2 |
| Phew Light Sleep | 2.0 |
| Phoebe Bridgers Punisher | 2.5 |
| Phoebe Snow Phoebe Snow | 4.0 |
| Phrenelith Desolate Endscape | 3.0 |
| Phyllomedusa Lycopodiopsidd Sidt | 1.0 |
| Phyllomedusa Batglutton | 2.2 |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 2.0 |
| Piglet lava land | 4.0 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Grandfeathered | 3.0 |
| Pissed Jeans Why Love Now | 1.5 |
| Pity Sex Feast of Love | 3.0 |
| Pleasure Model Kendo Dynamics | 3.8 |
| Polar Inertia Kinematic Optics | 3.5 |
https://dement3d.bandcamp.com/album/kinematic-optics-ep
sweet ambient techno. captures the arctic aesthetic, but pumps it with hard-hitting beats in the first half, and a
sense of introspection in the second half. the tracks on this double EP run about 8 minutes each for this first disc
and 20 minutes apiece for the 2 tracks on the second disc, but Polar Inertia pull off the lengthy structure without a
hitch. just enough nuance to keep it interesting, but restrained enough so the core appeal isn't lost. |
| Porter Ricks Biokinetics | 3.5 |
| Power Objects Frosted Tips | 2.0 |
| Power Trip Nightmare Logic | 3.3 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.2 |
| Prince Of Denmark 8 | 4.0 |
| Protomartyr The Agent Intellect | 3.0 |
| Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls | 4.0 |
| Pseudo Code Europa | 4.0 |
| Pseudopod Rare Candy | 2.0 |
| Psychic Sex You, Voyeur | 2.0 |
| Public Image Ltd. Metal Box | 4.0 |
| Puce Mary The Spiral | 3.5 |
| Pure Disgust Pure Disgust LP | 3.3 |
| Pyramid Vritra Danu | 3.0 |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues | 4.0 |
| Pyrrhon What Passes for Survival | 2.8 |
| Q and Not U No Kill No Beep Beep | 3.5 |
| Quarterbacks Quarterboy | 2.5 |
| Quelle Chris Lullabies for the Broken Brain | 1.0 |
| https://www.teepublic.com/show/417035-booty-os |
| Questions Happiness January | 2.0 |
| Rabit Communion | 3.5 |
| pretty rad. if grime represent the sound of the england underground, this album sees it buried under centuries of dystopia. it's almost bio-mechanical in sound - visceral and human in the darkest sense, but very robotic too. |
| Radiator Hospital Torch Song | 3.5 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 3.5 |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri A Fragile Geography | 2.5 |
| Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement Ambient Black Magic | 2.5 |
| Rakta Oculto Pelos Seres | 2.5 |
| Rat Columns Fooling Around | 3.0 |
| Real Real Talk Real Real Talk | 1.5 |
| Really From This Is What You Learned | 3.0 |
| some pretty tasty math-rock emo with jazz influence. |
| Recondite Corvus | 3.0 |
| Regis Manbait | 2.5 |
| Reindeer Field Reports From The Western Lands | 3.8 |
| Restive Plaggona Leaving The Body | 3.0 |
| Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection | 3.5 |
| Rhetion War Eyes | 1.5 |
| Rhetion Infinite Self | 1.5 |
| Richard Vergez The Foreigner | 2.5 |
| Rip Rig and Panic God | 4.0 |
| Rites of Spring End on End | 3.5 |
| Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim) | 3.3 |
| Ritual Chamber The Pits of Tentacled Screams | 3.3 |
| Ritual Knife Hate Invocation | 2.0 |
| Roger Tellier-Craig Études | 3.5 |
| Roland Kayn November Music | 3.1 |
| Role (US) O Lord | 1.0 |
| Rolo Tomassi Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It | 4.2 |
| Roly Porter Third Law | 3.0 |
| Royal Headache High | 3.0 |
| Royer Collectively EP | 2.0 |
| Rrose and Lucy The Lotus Eaters II | 3.0 |
| Ruby My Dear Balloon | 3.0 |
http://store.kaometry.com/album/balloon
solid breakcore, and the runtime is well-suited to Chastagnol's style. fun and concise |
| Rudimentary Peni Cacophony | 4.0 |
| Rudimentary Peni Death Church | 3.5 |
| Ruined Families Education | 3.5 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 1.0 |
| Rusangano Family Let The Dead Bury The Dead | 2.0 |
granola rap from Ireland. album art is sweet but tbh the album is boring AF
https://rusanganofamily.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-dead-bury-the-dead |
| Rx Papi and Gud Foreign Exchange | 3.8 |
| Ryoji Ikeda Dataplex | 4.0 |
| Saccharine Trust Paganicons | 3.5 |
| Sannhet So Numb | 2.0 |
| Sarah Neufeld The Ridge | 4.0 |
| great example of blending minimalism and a variety of instruments and more modern composition tactics. delicate, yet powerful. triumphant, yet tender. the organic quality of violin mixes beautifully with an array of other sounds, and there is plenty of variety here while still maintaining discipline. one of the year's best so far |
| Sarathy Korwar Day to Day | 4.0 |
| Saudade a long lifetime of dying slowly | 3.5 |
| Say Anything Baseball | 2.5 |
| Say Anything ...Is a Real Boy | 4.5 |
| Say Anything Anarchy, My Dear | 1.5 |
| Say Anything Junior Varsity | 3.0 |
| Say Anything Hebrews | 2.0 |
| Say Anything In Defense of the Genre | 3.0 |
| Saya Gray 19 Masters | 4.0 |
| Scattered Purgatory Sua-Hiam-Zun | 3.3 |
| SCHNTZL Bamboo | 3.0 |
Really nice improvised piano+drum music. This is ideal for sinking into a chair after a long day, pretty relaxing and easy
on the ears. |
| Schwefelgelb Wie Die Finger Durch Den Nebel | 1.5 |
| Sciahri Behind the Line | 3.0 |
| Sebastian Kessler Unterwegs | 2.5 |
| Sei A Gasp | 2.0 |
| Self Loath Great Beef Makes Great Burgers | 1.5 |
| Self Loath Nothing | 2.0 |
| September (MD) September | 1.5 |
| Serengeti and Sicker Man Doctor My Own Patience | 2.0 |
| Serpent Column Ornuthi Thalassa | 3.0 |
| Sextile A Thousand Hands | 3.0 |
| pretty cool post-punk with some surf rock, ambient, and industrial flavour. feels like the band is still finding a comfort zone, though. this has some dope tracks but you can tell they really haven't settled with a specific, effective sound. |
| Sextile Albeit Living | 2.0 |
| Sghll Trance Pose | 1.5 |
| Shapednoise Different Selves | 3.5 |
| Sharon Van Etten I Don't Want To Let You Down | 2.0 |
| She Makes War Direction Of Travel | 2.0 |
| Sheer Mag Sheer Mag III | 3.3 |
| Shifted Six Steps To Resurgence | 2.0 |
| Shimmer Shimmer | 1.5 |
| Shlohmo Dark Red | 2.5 |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead | 2.0 |
| SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs | 2.5 |
| Silent EM Foreign States | 3.4 |
| Silvia Kastel Air Lows | 1.5 |
| Sin Anestesia The Transdimensional Seduction Handbook | 3.0 |
| rich, fascinating freeform jazz. the saxophonists are unreal, and are collectively one of the most creative ensembles I've come across in a while. this piece of music manages to be animalistic, yet fiercely precise in delivery. an interesting listen, though I wouldn't recommend it to newcomers of free jazz |
| Skee Mask Shred | 3.6 |
| Sleepwalker (JPN) 5772 | 4.0 |
| Slum Village Yes! | 3.5 |
| Smagghe and Cross MA | 3.2 |
| Small Wonder Wendy | 3.0 |
| Smokey Emery Ex-Fin De Siecle | 2.5 |
| Snail Mail Valentine | 1.5 |
| Snekula Rifts | 2.0 |
| Snow Shards Blind | 2.5 |
| Snowday As We Travel | 3.5 |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 1.5 |
| So Long Forgotten So Long Forgotten | 2.0 |
| Some Some Unicorn Some Some Unicorn and The Golden Periphery | 3.0 |
| Somnoroase Pasarele GAMA | 2.5 |
decent, but probably falls under EAI that I "enjoyed once but probably won't revisit." I'd recommend to someone
interested in EAI with a stronger rhythmic component and a more cinematic style.
https://tymbaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/gama |
| Son Lux Bones | 3.0 |
| Sophie Product | 2.5 |
| Sore Eyelids Sore Eyelids | 3.5 |
| Sote Sacred Horror In Design | 2.5 |
| Speak, Memory Value To Survival | 2.0 |
| decent instrumental math with emo influence... gets pretty repetitive and goes nowhere though. making this without vocals was a bad idea, as the instrumentals are way too repetitive to carry it forward. the thing sounds pretty same-y from beginning to end. the only somewhat interesting track is the album closer |
| Spectral Voice Eroded Corridors of Unbeing | 3.2 |
| thoroughly enjoyed this and it ticks all the boxes it probably should in regards to atmosphere and songwriting; but, I'm also content, after several listens, to set it aside and forget about it for a while. satisfied, but not captivated. |
| Sprain The Lamb As Effigy | 2.5 |
| Sprain As Lost Through Collision | 3.0 |
| Spy Versus Spy Spy Versus Spy | 3.5 |
| Stara Rzeka Zamknely Sie Oczy Ziemi | 4.1 |
| Starset Transmissions | 2.0 |
| State Lines For the Boats | 2.5 |
| Stendeck Sonnambula | 4.0 |
| Stephan Micus Implosions | 4.0 |
| Strategy The Infinity File | 2.0 |
| Street Sects End Position | 3.2 |
| Stuart Russell Inveniam Viam | 3.0 |
| Subhumans The Day the Country Died | 3.0 |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages | 3.0 |
| Succumb Succumb | 2.0 |
| Sufjan Stevens The Ascension | 2.5 |
| Suis La Lune Distance/Closure | 3.0 |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes | 2.0 |
| Supernova 1006 Unique world | 2.5 |
| Surgeon Force + Form | 3.0 |
| Sutekh Hexen / Hissing Sutekh Hexen / Hissing | 3.0 |
| Swahili Blonde Deities In Decline | 1.5 |
| Swan of Tuonela an incomplete portrait | 3.0 |
| Sweet Baboo Ships | 1.0 |
| Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort | 3.5 |
| Swell Maps ....In "Jane From Occupied Europe" | 3.5 |
| Swim to Cape Sherpa Proverbial | 2.0 |
| Swimmer's Lungs No Expectations | 3.5 |
| Swindle Peace, Love and Music | 3.0 |
| Sworn In The Lovers / The Devil | 1.5 |
| Synths Versus Me Tormento Part 1 | 1.5 |
| T'Saatsuna/Reverend Desaad Churnmilk Peg!!/Hypatian Codex: Compendium Dub | 3.5 |
| solid af. really eclectic and organic sounding, and plenty of variety without feeling scattered. somewhere between 3.5-4 for me |
| Taku Unami and Devin Disanto Taku Unami / Devin DiSanto | 3.0 |
| Talk Talk Laughing Stock | 4.5 |
| Talk Talk Spirit of Eden | 4.0 |
| Talk Talk It's My Life | 2.0 |
| Talk Talk The Party's Over | 2.5 |
| Talk Talk The Colour of Spring | 3.0 |
| Tanks Asterisk | 2.5 |
| Tarquin Manek Tarquin Magnet | 2.8 |
| Tenement Predatory Headlights | 3.7 |
| Tenro One | 2.3 |
| Terrible Feelings Tremors | 3.5 |
| Terry Fox The Labyrinth Scored for 11 Different Cats | 3.5 |
| Tesla Pox Paper Boat | 2.5 |
| The Birthday Party Live 1981-82 | 3.5 |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream | 2.0 |
| The Blunder of a Horse Mystery Manta | 3.0 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Just Got Back from the Discomfort... | 4.0 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Masked Dancers | 3.5 |
| The Brave Little Abacus Okumay | 2.5 |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1 | 3.0 |
| The Cherry Wave Shimaru | 3.0 |
| solid shoegaze with far-off vocals that are equal parts gloom and optimism. nothing too out-of-the-box here, but there's a handful of great tracks - "Crashing", "Michinoku Overdriver", and "Pure Burst" come to mind. rhttps://thecherrywave.bandcamp.com/album/shimaru-lp |
| The Constructus Corporation The Ziggurat | 4.0 |
| The Coup Steal This Album | 4.0 |
| The Durutti Column The Return of the Durutti Column | 3.5 |
| The Durutti Column LC | 4.0 |
| The Electric Nature Alienation | 1.5 |
| The Empty's Response Hegemony Collapse | 2.0 |
| The Fall This Nation's Saving Grace | 4.0 |
| The Fall of Troy Doppelganger | 3.5 |
| The Feelies Crazy Rhythms | 4.0 |
| The Gerogerigegege Moenai Hai | 3.3 |
| The Gerogerigegege Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman | 1.0 |
| The Goats Tricks of the Shade | 3.7 |
| The Hafler Trio Seven Hours Sleep | 3.2 |
| The Haxan Cloak Excavation | 3.0 |
| The Horrors Luminous | 2.0 |
| The Horrors Primary Colours | 3.5 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 2.5 |
| The Hue Aurora | 3.5 |
| The Jude Ivy Drown Me Out, I'll See Everything | 2.5 |
| The Knife Tomorrow, In a Year | 4.0 |
| The Lawrence Arms Apathy and Exhaustion | 3.5 |
| The Leaky Faces : A Simulation | 2.0 |
| Shows promise at first... the dark folk sound combined with orchestral strings + harsh vocals is neat. However, the gimmick wears off quick and the album gets boring quickly. I'll definitely check out their next release, but this was pretty unremarkable. Fans of folk-punk might get a kick out of this |
| The Legendary Pink Dots The Seismic Bleats Of Quantum Sheep | 1.5 |
experimental psych ambient. really boring, plodding nonsense. wouldn't recommend as an intro to this act. 90s
material was generally really good, so start with Malachai or The Maria Dimension
https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/the-seismic-bleats-of-quantum-sheep |
| The Mayor of Strawberry Hill A Great Offer | 2.5 |
| decent field recordings, some of his musicality kinda ruins things though. the vocal sample on "IV" gets annoying af, for example. it's a pretty front-loaded album. I think he'd benefit from making it just a bit more sparse - piling on the excessive piano and effects makes it feel very congested. the tracks are also way too short, and don't have time to unfold into something worth exploring. |
| The Necks Unfold | 3.2 |
| The New Blockaders Changez Les Blockeurs | 3.0 |
| The New Blockaders History of Nothing | 3.5 |
| The Newfound Interest in Connecticut Tell Me About the Long Dark Path Home | 4.0 |
| excellent post-rock/emo album, severely unnoticed... really goes above and beyond similar bands of this style and creates a lush, desolate atmosphere. the title fits the album |
| The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 Ad | 3.0 |
| The Oxford Comma Near-Life Experience | 2.5 |
| pretty average. sounds like Modern Baseball worship plus a bit of post punk influence here and there. |
| The Pop Group Citizen Zombie | 2.5 |
| The Rebound Diary Of A Tin Man | 1.5 |
| The Reptilian Full Health | 3.0 |
| The Ruins of Beverast Rain Upon the Impure | 4.0 |
| The Smile Wall of Eyes | 1.5 |
| The Sound Jeopardy | 3.2 |
| The Spirit Of The Beehive Pleasure Suck | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd House of Balloons | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd After Hours | 2.0 |
| The Whitest Boy Alive Dreams | 2.0 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 2.5 |
| Thelonious Monk Monk's Dream | 3.0 |
| Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser | 3.5 |
| This Cold Night While I Disappear | 1.5 |
| This Heat Deceit | 4.0 |
| This Heat This Heat | 4.8 |
| Thomas Brinkmann What You Hear (Is What You Hear) | 2.0 |
| Thomas Leer and Robert Rental The Bridge | 3.0 |
| Thorsten Soltau and Max Kuiper Roseth & Lilith | 2.5 |
| Thuja Ghost Plants | 2.0 |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam | 2.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Moving to Antarctica | 2.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living | 2.5 |
| Tirade If I Told You, I'd Have To Kill You | 1.5 |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy | 2.0 |
| Today Is the Day Axis of Eden | 2.5 |
| Today Is the Day Animal Mother | 3.5 |
| Today Is the Day Temple of the Morning Star | 4.0 |
| Today Is the Day Willpower | 4.5 |
| Today Is the Day Kiss the Pig | 3.0 |
| toe Hear You | 2.0 |
| Told Slant Still Water | 3.0 |
| Told Slant Going By | 3.0 |
"Tsunami" and "Sweater" were my fav Told Slant songs and weren't even album tracks, so I'm pretty happy with their
inclusion here. |
| Tomaga The Shape Of The Dance | 2.8 |
| Tomb Mold The Bottomless Perdition | 2.2 |
| Tortoise The Catastrophist | 1.0 |
| Tortoise Millions Now Living Will Never Die | 4.0 |
| Tortoise Its All Around You | 2.0 |
| Tortoise TNT | 4.0 |
| Toshiya Tsunoda Somashikiba | 3.5 |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz | 2.0 |
| Towers Bel Air Highrise Plantation | 3.5 |
| Trapped Under Ice Stay Cold | 3.0 |
| Troum and Raison D'être De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu | 2.5 |
| Tuxedomoon Half-Mute | 4.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 1.5 |
| U (UK) We Decide Who Comes In | 3.0 |
| Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker Advanced Basics | 1.0 |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 3.0 |
| Uncommon Nasa New York Telephone | 2.0 |
| Uniform Wake In Fright | 2.0 |
| Unwound Repetition | 4.0 |
| Unwound Leaves Turn Inside You | 4.0 |
| Unwound Challenge For a Civilized Society | 3.5 |
| Unwound New Plastic Ideas | 3.5 |
| Unwound Fake Train | 3.5 |
| Unwound The Future of What | 3.8 |
| Uranium Club All Of Them Naturals | 3.2 |
| Vagabon Infinite Worlds | 2.0 |
| Valerio Tricoli Clonic Earth | 3.5 |
| Vanessa Rossetto Whole Stories | 4.0 |
| Vatican Vamps Yggdrasil | 2.0 |
| Venetian Snares Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett | 3.0 |
| Visionist Value | 2.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Visa | 3.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Anima | 4.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Kuopio | 3.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Multila | 3.5 |
| Voiski Marble Sadness | 3.0 |
| Volcanic Queen Photography Shield | 3.0 |
| Volhnn Phallus Dei | 3.2 |
| Vona (Hope) | 1.5 |
| Vril Anima Mundi | 3.8 |
| Vysoké Čelo Űrutazás | 3.8 |
| Wanderwelle Ocean Stories | 2.5 |
| Wapstan Fjord | 1.5 |
| Waveless (MN) Spirit Island | 2.5 |
| Waves Espace | 2.0 |
| We Are Scientists TV en Français | 2.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 2.0 |
| Whirr Sway | 3.5 |
| White Lung Paradise | 3.0 |
| White SeeD Sick In A Place Away from Everything | 3.0 |
| White Suns Psychic Drift | 2.0 |
| Wiki Lil Me | 2.5 |
| Wiley Godfather | 2.7 |
| William Basinski The River | 3.5 |
| William Basinski Cascade | 2.5 |
| William Boscoe Davenport's All Star Noise Ensemble Romancing the Saw Blade | 1.5 |
| Willkamin Memaporia | 1.5 |
| Window Tappers Window Tappers | 1.5 |
| Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool | 2.5 |
| Wolf Eyes I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces | 1.5 |
| Wolf Vostell Dé-Coll/age Musik | 3.8 |
| Won James Won Prozrachnik | 3.7 |
| Wreck and Reference No Youth | 3.0 |
| Wreck and Reference Indifferent Rivers Romance End | 2.7 |
| Wrong (USA-FL) Wrong | 2.5 |
| WSR Chambers | 2.0 |
| Yair Elazar Glotman Études | 3.0 |
| Yellow Emperor Yellow Emperor | 2.8 |
| Yo KOJIMA 児島洋 14 Days; Volume 1 | 2.0 |
| Yo La Tengo Fade | 1.5 |
| Yumi Zouma II | 2.5 |
| Yumi Zouma Yumi Zouma | 3.0 |
| Yumi Zouma Yoncalla | 2.5 |
| Yves Tumor Serpent Music | 2.5 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 3.0 |
| Zlaya Ryba All! This! There! | 2.5 |
