| 2016 |
| Volhnn Phallus Dei | 3.2 |
| Evigt Morker Helmet Of Bones | 2.2 |
| Uranium Club All Of Them Naturals | 3.2 |
| Serengeti and Sicker Man Doctor My Own Patience | 2.0 |
| Bladee and Thaiboy Digital AvP | 3.0 |
| WSR Chambers | 2.0 |
| OvO Creatura | 1.5 |
| Taku Unami and Devin Disanto Taku Unami / Devin DiSanto | 3.0 |
| Facialmess The Onedin Line | 2.7 |
| Prince Of Denmark 8 | 4.0 |
| Bolzer Hero | 2.5 |
| Recondite Corvus | 3.0 |
| Olivia Block Dissolution | 2.0 |
| Client Liasion Diplomatic Immunity | 2.5 |
| Sleepwalker (JPN) 5772 | 4.0 |
| Ruined Families Education | 3.5 |
| Krypts Remnants of Expansion | 2.0 |
| Malcolm Pointon Electromuse | 3.5 |
| 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 |
| Graham Lambkin Community | 3.0 |
| Perc and Randomer Igneous | 3.0 |
| Fvnerals Wounds | 2.0 |
| Derek Rogers Silence is Being Substituted | 3.5 |
| Chris Randall Oscillator Breach | 3.0 |
| Exit Sense Gambler's Spirit | 3.3 |
| Toshiya Tsunoda Somashikiba | 3.5 |
| Oathbreaker Rheia | 3.8 |
| Emma Ruth Rundle Marked for Death | 3.0 |
| Danny Brown Atrocity Exhibition | 3.0 |
| 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 |
| Tenro One | 2.3 |
| Yves Tumor Serpent Music | 2.5 |
| Basic House Government | 1.5 |
| How to Dress Well Care | 2.0 |
| The Caretaker Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1 | 3.0 |
| Street Sects End Position | 3.2 |
| Neaux Fell Off The Deep End | 1.5 |
| Tomaga The Shape Of The Dance | 2.8 |
| Oake Monad XXIV | 3.5 |
| Clouds (CAN) DJ Ultra Greatsword | 2.8 |
| Angel Olsen My Woman | 2.5 |
| Real Real Talk Real Real Talk | 1.5 |
| Helms Alee Stillicide | 2.0 |
| Crowhurst II | 3.7 |
| SubRosa (US) For This We Fought the Battle of Ages | 3.0 |
| N. Brennan and Orokin Goliath | 3.3 |
| Blood Incantation Starspawn | 3.5 |
| Lnrdcroy Ooze City | 2.8 |
| Shifted Six Steps To Resurgence | 2.0 |
| Pure Disgust Pure Disgust LP | 3.3 |
| Fury (USA) Paramount | 3.2 |
| Hollow Sunshine Bible Sea | 2.5 |
| Wreck and Reference Indifferent Rivers Romance End | 2.7 |
| Asuna Tide Ripples | 2.7 |
| BADBADNOTGOOD IV | 2.5 |
| Aphex Twin Cheetah EP | 2.0 |
| Sarathy Korwar Day to Day | 4.0 |
| Chemiefaserwerk Idatec | 1.0 |
| Hippies Wearing Muzzles Animist Pools | 3.3 |
| Francisco Meirino Surrender, Render, End | 3.2 |
| Valerio Tricoli Clonic Earth | 3.5 |
| Mitski Puberty 2 | 2.7 |
| 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. |
| SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs | 2.5 |
| Klara Lewis Too | 2.0 |
| Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, Oren Ambarchi I Wonder If You Noticed "I'm Sorry" Is Such... | 3.3 |
| Yumi Zouma Yoncalla | 2.5 |
| Loren Connors Lullaby | 1.5 |
| Kikagaku Moyo House in the Tall Grass | 2.0 |
| Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool | 3.5 |
| White Lung Paradise | 3.0 |
| Wrong (USA-FL) Wrong | 2.5 |
| Drekka and Funkhouser Within the Realm of The Unknown | 3.0 |
| Fire! Orchestra Ritual | 3.0 |
| Schwefelgelb Wie Die Finger Durch Den Nebel | 1.5 |
| Dalek Asphalt For Eden | 3.5 |
| Illyria Illyria | 2.5 |
| The Gerogerigegege Moenai Hai | 3.3 |
| Oren Ambarchi, Kassel Jaeger, James Rushford Pale Calling | 2.5 |
| 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 |
| Drose Boy Man Machine | 2.8 |
| Cult of Luna and Julie Christmas Mariner | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| Zhrine Unortheta | 3.0 |
| Deep Heat Still Life | 2.0 |
| Ansome Stowaway | 2.8 |
| So Long Forgotten So Long Forgotten | 2.0 |
| Mamiffer The World Unseen | 2.5 |
| Mick Chillage (M)odes | 2.0 |
| Puce Mary The Spiral | 3.5 |
| Gesture Gesture | 1.5 |
| Pleasure Model Kendo Dynamics | 3.8 |
| Mudd Corp Loserlord | 3.2 |
| Fennec This Place Was Once a Palace | 3.0 |
| Dry Heave Designer Skin | 2.5 |
| 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 ~ |
| Klam The Concrete Vagina | 2.0 |
| 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. |
| Baklavaa Dane On | 2.8 |
| The Hue Aurora | 3.5 |
| Black Helicopters Diagonal Science | 1.5 |
| Sheer Mag Sheer Mag III | 3.3 |
| Dax J The Invisible Man | 2.5 |
| And Also The Trees Born Into The Waves | 2.0 |
| Kate NV Binasu | 2.5 |
| Pinkshinyultrablast Grandfeathered | 3.0 |
| Ritual Chamber Obscurations (To Feast On The Seraphim) | 3.3 |
| 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 |
| Quelle Chris Lullabies for the Broken Brain | 1.0 |
| https://www.teepublic.com/show/417035-booty-os |
| Dorisburg Irrbloss | 4.0 |
| Negative Space Negative Space | 2.3 |
| Synths Versus Me Tormento Part 1 | 1.5 |
| Oliver Dodd Rhea | 2.8 |
| Kurushimi Kurushimi | 1.0 |
| Daylight Robbery Accumulated Error | 2.5 |
| Antigone and Francois X We Move As One | 3.0 |
| lukepi Soar | 3.0 |
| Currensy The Carrollton Heist | 3.4 |
| Tomb Mold The Bottomless Perdition | 2.2 |
| Bylly Illusions | 2.0 |
| Ondness Quase Driven | 2.0 |
| Deux Filles Space & Time | 3.0 |
| Paul Jebanasam Continuum | 3.5 |
| Matt Elliott The Calm Before | 3.2 |
| DJ Sonikku Secret Island | 2.8 |
| Skee Mask Shred | 3.6 |
| Jazz Cartier Hotel Paranoia | 2.8 |
| CRIMEWAVE fvckcrimewave | 1.5 |
| Chthe'ilist Le Dernier Crépuscule | 3.0 |
| The Black Queen Fever Daydream | 2.0 |
| Kobosil We Grow, You Decline | 2.5 |
| Coutoux Reign of Terror | 1.5 |
| No Fun Photocopier Waltz | 1.0 |
| Roly Porter Third Law | 3.0 |
| Grischa Lichtenberger Spielraum | 2.5 |
| 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 |
| Sciahri Behind the Line | 3.0 |
| Chippendale, Gustafsson and Pupillo Melt | 3.0 |
| Akio Suzuki a i sha | 2.7 |
| Tortoise The Catastrophist | 1.0 |
| Paula Temple FACT 532 | 3.0 |
| 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 |
| Waveless (MN) Spirit Island | 2.5 |
| Royer Collectively EP | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| David Bowie Blackstar | 2.5 |
| Showbread Showbread is Showdead | 2.0 |
| am. Darkdays | 2.5 |
| M. Savant Stifleson thHibnørshir stemologicles | 0.5 |
| 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 |
| Snekula Rifts | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2015 |
| Lorn Vessel | 2.5 |
| Bicuspid we are tiny fanged deer | 1.0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Sebastian Kessler Unterwegs | 2.5 |
| Paperworks Sweet Density | 3.0 |
| Meüte Meüte | 2.0 |
| Cindy Lee Act of Tenderness | 3.5 |
| Wanderwelle Ocean Stories | 2.5 |
| Sghll Trance Pose | 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 |
| Lil Ugly Mane Oblivion Access | 4.0 |
| Best Case Scenario Staircase Wit | 2.0 |
| Defect Defect My Life is Like Death | 1.5 |
| 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 |
| Illegal Wiretaps Polly Amour | 1.0 |
| 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 |
| Malthael The Birth of a Monster | 0.5 |
| jennylee Right On! | 2.5 |
| Demdike Stare The Age of Innocence | 1.5 |
| Wiki Lil Me | 2.5 |
| Role (US) O Lord | 1.0 |
| Shapednoise Different Selves | 3.5 |
| Intervals The Shape of Colour | 2.0 |
| Litchi Edukalì | 1.0 |
| 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 |
| D.I.N. Phase Retard Extinction | 1.5 |
| Sophie Product | 2.5 |
| Lubomyr Melnyk Rivers and Streams | 3.0 |
| Tarquin Manek Tarquin Magnet | 2.8 |
| Cubenx Elegiac | 3.0 |
| Charles Manier American Manier | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| Nyodene D / Dreamcrusher Nyodene D / Dreamcrusher | 1.0 |
| 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 |
| James Ferraro Skid Row | 3.0 |
| Oneohtrix Point Never Garden of Delete | 2.5 |
| Revenge (CAN) Behold.Total.Rejection | 3.5 |
| Justin Bieber Purpose | 2.5 |
| Acre (UK) Better Strangers | 2.5 |
| Helta Skelta Beyond the Black Stump | 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 |
| Busdriver Thumbs | 2.0 |
| Haunted Shores Viscera | 1.5 |
| 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. |
| Wolf Eyes I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces | 1.5 |
| Abdulla Rashim A Shell of Speed | 2.5 |
| Rafael Anton Irisarri A Fragile Geography | 2.5 |
| Stara Rzeka Zamknely Sie Oczy Ziemi | 4.1 |
| Miki Yui Oscilla | 3.5 |
| So Hideous Laurestine | 1.5 |
| Deerhunter Fading Frontier | 2.5 |
| Totem Skin Weltschmerz | 2.0 |
| Michel Banabila Feedback + Modular + Radiowaves | 2.5 |
| Protomartyr The Agent Intellect | 3.0 |
| Night Birds Mutiny At Muscle Beach | 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 |
| 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 |
| Black Wing ...Is Doomed | 3.5 |
| Julia Holter Have You In My Wilderness | 1.5 |
| The World Is a Beautiful Place... Harmlessness | 2.5 |
| Heat Dust Heat Dust | 2.5 |
| Molly Nilsson Zenith | 3.0 |
| Run the Jewels Meow the Jewels | 1.0 |
| CHVRCHES Every Open Eye | 2.0 |
| Swindle Peace, Love and Music | 3.0 |
| Willkamin Memaporia | 1.5 |
| Oomlät Utopia | 1.0 |
| CocoRosie Heartache City | 1.5 |
| Little Simz A Curious Tale Of Trials + Persons | 2.5 |
| Regis Manbait | 2.5 |
| Astronauts, etc. Mind Out Wandering | 2.0 |
| Destruction Unit Negative Feedback Resistor | 3.0 |
| Kadhja Bonet The Visitor | 2.0 |
| Nickelus F and Shawn Kemp Trick Dice | 4.0 |
| Cruciamentum Charnel Passages | 3.5 |
| Helen The Original Faces | 2.5 |
| Helena Hauff Discreet Desires | 2.5 |
| The Electric Nature Alienation | 1.5 |
| 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. |
| Drummotive, Quasi, Leonux and Infest Spectra | 2.5 |
| The Weeknd Beauty Behind the Madness | 2.5 |
| Andrei Eremin Pale Blue | 2.0 |
| Ariadne Tsalal | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Jacob Newman and Devin Underwood Sending the Past | 3.5 |
| Royal Headache High | 3.0 |
| Adversarial Death, Endless Nothing and the Black Knife of... | 3.0 |
| Disparition Fate | 2.0 |
| Neck Deep Life's Not Out To Get You | 1.5 |
| Troum and Raison D'être De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu | 2.5 |
| Dead Neighbors Dead Neighbors | 3.0 |
| FKA Twigs M3LL155X | 1.5 |
| Evan Pincus All The Things I've Made (For You) | 1.0 |
| Moe Shop Pure Pure | 1.0 |
| Waves Espace | 2.0 |
| Chelsea Wolfe Abyss | 4.0 |
| Volcanic Queen Photography Shield | 3.0 |
| Sei A Gasp | 2.0 |
| Rat Columns Fooling Around | 3.0 |
| Suis La Lune Distance/Closure | 3.0 |
| She Makes War Direction Of Travel | 2.0 |
| Titus Andronicus The Most Lamentable Tragedy | 2.0 |
| Liberez All Tense Now Lax | 3.5 |
| toe Hear You | 2.0 |
| We Lost the Sea Departure Songs | 2.0 |
| Swahili Blonde Deities In Decline | 1.5 |
| M.E.S.H. Piteous Gate | 3.0 |
| Yair Elazar Glotman Études | 3.0 |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic | 1.5 |
| U (UK) We Decide Who Comes In | 3.0 |
| Bilal In Another Life | 2.0 |
| Vona (Hope) | 1.5 |
| Dudal Dudal | 3.0 |
| Leon Bridges Coming Home | 3.0 |
| Wolf Alice My Love Is Cool | 2.5 |
| Son Lux Bones | 3.0 |
| Thundercat The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam | 2.5 |
| The Orb Moonbuilding 2703 Ad | 3.0 |
| Karsten Pflum Dode | 3.0 |
| mewithoutYou Pale Horses | 2.0 |
| Slum Village Yes! | 3.5 |
| Helde Suaren Gerizpea | 3.5 |
| Helm Olympic Mess | 2.5 |
| CZARFACE Every Hero Needs a Villain | 3.0 |
| Sharon Van Etten I Don't Want To Let You Down | 2.0 |
| Jenny Hval Apocalypse, girl | 2.5 |
| Institute (USA-TX) Catharsis | 3.0 |
| Denzel Curry 32 Zel / Planet Shrooms | 3.0 |
| Moritz Von Oswald Trio Sounding Lines | 2.0 |
| Drowse Soon Asleep | 3.7 |
| Container LP 3 | 3.0 |
| Leftfield Alternative Light Source | 2.5 |
| ASC Imagine The Future | 3.5 |
| 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. |
| Jedi Mind Tricks The Thief and the Fallen | 2.0 |
| 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. |
| Tenement Predatory Headlights | 3.7 |
| Sun Kil Moon Universal Themes | 2.0 |
| Airs Apart | 3.0 |
| Cloud Rat Qliphoth | 3.0 |
| Mamaleek Via Dolorosa | 3.0 |
| Thomas Brinkmann What You Hear (Is What You Hear) | 2.0 |
| Leprous The Congregation | 2.0 |
| Konntinent The Empire Line | 2.5 |
| Camp Lo Ragtime Hightimes | 2.5 |
| Applescal For | 3.0 |
| Twenty One Pilots Blurryface | 1.5 |
| Elvis Depressedly New Alhambra | 3.0 |
| Eskimeaux O.K. | 2.5 |
| Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls | 4.0 |
| Arcturus Arcturian | 1.5 |
| Hop Along Painted Shut | 3.0 |
| Eidola Degeneraterra | 1.5 |
| Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon | 4.0 |
| And So I Watch You From Afar Heirs | 2.0 |
| Death And Vanilla To Where the Wild Things Are | 1.5 |
| Gurdonark Constellation Blackbird | 2.0 |
| William Basinski Cascade | 2.5 |
| Pyramid Vritra Danu | 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. |
| Jac Berrocal, David Fenech, Vincent Epplay Antigravity | 2.0 |
| Tirade If I Told You, I'd Have To Kill You | 1.5 |
| L'Orange and Jeremiah Jae The Night Took Us In Like Family | 3.5 |
| Dustin Kensrue Carry the Fire | 2.5 |
| Lackthrow Stay Off | 1.0 |
| Merzbow and Xiu Xiu MERZXIU | 2.5 |
| too much merz and not enough xiu. coulda been magic |
| Geyser Bastion (deceased) Humble Cannons | 1.5 |
| Netherworld Zastrugi | 3.0 |
| Terrible Feelings Tremors | 3.5 |
| Ava Luna Infinite House | 3.0 |
| mRs Empty Spaces | 2.5 |
| Botanist Hammer of Botany | 1.5 |
| Shlohmo Dark Red | 2.5 |
| Doldrums (CAN) The Air Conditioned Nightmare | 3.5 |
| GosT Behemoth | 2.0 |
| Sworn In The Lovers / The Devil | 1.5 |
| Dahi Divine The Element | 3.0 |
| Colleen Captain of None | 3.0 |
| Lapalux Lustmore | 3.5 |
| Ceschi Broken Bone Ballads | 2.5 |
| East India Youth Culture of Volume | 2.5 |
| Bad Future Nightchurch | 2.5 |
| Currensy Pilot Talk III | 3.7 |
| Ufomammut Ecate | 3.0 |
| Biosphere and Deathprod Stator | 2.5 |
| 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. |
| Marching Church This World Is Not Enough | 3.0 |
| Anna Caragnano and Donato Dozzy Sintetizzatrice | 2.5 |
| Cross For A Crown The EP | 1.0 |
| Lightning Bolt Fantasy Empire | 2.5 |
| Dean Marroni I Don't Love You, I Just Like Your Face | 1.5 |
| Jlin Dark Energy | 2.5 |
| Modest Mouse Strangers to Ourselves | 2.5 |
| Milk and Bone Little Mourning | 2.0 |
| Felix K Tragedy of the Commons | 2.0 |
| Exploring Jezebel On A Business Trip To London | 2.5 |
| Hesson The Guilt Complex | 1.5 |
| Christian Michael Jackson J'ai jamais voté pour ça | 1.5 |
| Federico Durand Música para Manuel | 3.0 |
| Ceilings III | 2.0 |
| Yumi Zouma II | 2.5 |
| Psychic Sex You, Voyeur | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| Joanne Robertson Black Moon Days | 3.5 |
| Jim O'Rourke with Oren Ambarchi Behold | 3.5 |
| Goryl Lord of Loud | 0.5 |
| Knablinz Mind Set Tape | 1.5 |
| Karin Park Apocalypse Pop | 3.0 |
| Stuart Russell Inveniam Viam | 3.0 |
| Swim to Cape Sherpa Proverbial | 2.0 |
| Christopher Hipgrave No Greater Hero than the Least Plant that Grows | 3.5 |
| Dan Deacon Gliss Riffer | 2.5 |
| Ghostface Killah and BADBADNOTGOOD Sour Soul | 2.5 |
| Darlia Petals | 2.0 |
| The Pop Group Citizen Zombie | 2.5 |
| Deficit Budgetaire Sanction | 2.0 |
| Carach Angren This Is No Fairytale | 1.0 |
| loqto Replication | 3.0 |
| Vatican Vamps Yggdrasil | 2.0 |
| Big Blood Double Days II | 3.5 |
| Grave Pool Mnemonics | 2.5 |
| Marika Hackman We Slept at Last | 4.0 |
| 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. |
| Krallar Drive Like There's No Tomorrow | 1.5 |
| Masaya Ozaki Fluid And Dreaming Of Stripes | 3.5 |
| Ilpo Numminen Vuosi 5/12 | 2.5 |
| Eliad Friedman-Green Where Do We Be? | 1.5 |
| Dashevsky Ghost Cassette | 3.0 |
| Katya Sanna Le Danze Elicoidali | 2.5 |
| The Jude Ivy Drown Me Out, I'll See Everything | 2.5 |
| Preoccupations Viet Cong | 4.2 |
| Frank Bretschneider Sinn + Form | 3.0 |
| Panda Bear Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper | 2.5 |
| Death Grips Fashion Week | 2.0 |
| 36 Pulse Dive | 2.5 |
| This Cold Night While I Disappear | 1.5 |
| 2014 |
| Liam Howard When Darkness Falls | 2.0 |
| Great Job Great Job | 2.0 |
| Pseudopod Rare Candy | 2.0 |
| KŸHL Saus & Braus | 2.5 |
| Richard Vergez The Foreigner | 2.5 |
| Kate Carr Fabulations | 4.0 |
| Jennifer Eberhardt Hunting | 2.5 |
| Food Court Food Court | 3.0 |
| 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 |
| Memoria Uno Crisis | 2.0 |
| William Boscoe Davenport's All Star Noise Ensemble Romancing the Saw Blade | 1.5 |
| I See Giants Acts of Desperation | 2.5 |
| Leonardo Rosado Adrift | 4.5 |
| Burstbot Memory Imprints | 2.5 |
| Cephei Impossible Spaces | 2.0 |
| 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. |
| Wapstan Fjord | 1.5 |
| Some Some Unicorn Some Some Unicorn and The Golden Periphery | 3.0 |
| Leigh Toro L'Esprit De L'Escalier | 3.0 |
| Moki Mcfly Armozel | 2.0 |
| Maxime Corbeil-Perron K A T H A R S I S | 3.0 |
| Barry O'Halloran Dyssomnias - Selected Works (10-12) | 3.0 |
| Jamesreindeer Al Jalloum | 4.0 |
| Power Objects Frosted Tips | 2.0 |
| Smokey Emery Ex-Fin De Siecle | 2.5 |
| 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 |
| Snowday As We Travel | 3.5 |
| Cutsail The Belvedere | 1.5 |
| The Blunder of a Horse Mystery Manta | 3.0 |
| Ariel Pink Pom Pom | 3.5 |
| Grouper Ruins | 4.0 |
| Vladislav Delay Visa | 3.0 |
| Self Loath Great Beef Makes Great Burgers | 1.5 |
| White SeeD Sick In A Place Away from Everything | 3.0 |
| Dean Blunt Black Metal | 3.5 |
| Dear Eloise Farewell to the Summer | 2.0 |
| Fabio Battistetti Into The Wood | 3.0 |
| Tanks Asterisk | 2.5 |
| mutaHERTZ Fantastic Planetscapes | 2.5 |
| 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. |
| Pianos Become the Teeth Keep You | 2.0 |
| ACIN ACIN | 3.0 |
| Black Ritual I Will Follow | 0.5 |
| K. Fenrir K. Fenrir | 2.5 |
| Thorsten Soltau and Max Kuiper Roseth & Lilith | 2.5 |
| Astral and Shit Spiritus Vitae | 2.5 |
| Michael Summers and Ozark Soundscape Future Fold | 1.5 |
| Zlaya Ryba All! This! There! | 2.5 |
| Today Is the Day Animal Mother | 3.5 |
| Barkin Engin and Tuna Pase Hazy Stars | 2.5 |
| Rhetion War Eyes | 1.5 |
| Dads I’ll Be The Tornado | 2.5 |
| Hippies Wearing Muzzles Egyptian Paralysis | 3.0 |
| Rhetion Infinite Self | 1.5 |
| Constellate Constellate | 2.0 |
| Oh The Places You'll Go Pleasure Is A Burden | 1.0 |
| Whirr Sway | 3.5 |
| September (MD) September | 1.5 |
| Kaschalot Kaschalot | 2.5 |
| Hostage Calm Die On Stage | 2.5 |
| Lee Gamble Koch | 3.5 |
| Mathias Delplanque Transmissions | 3.5 |
| Floral Floral | 3.3 |
| Oswald Watanabe | 2.5 |
| In Flames Siren Charms | 1.5 |
| Tiny Moving Parts Pleasant Living | 2.5 |
| Yo KOJIMA 児島洋 14 Days; Volume 1 | 2.0 |
| Grey Gordon Forget I Brought It Up | 2.5 |
| Half Japanese Overjoyed | 3.0 |
| The Rebound Diary Of A Tin Man | 1.5 |
| Saudade a long lifetime of dying slowly | 3.5 |
| Uncommon Nasa New York Telephone | 2.0 |
| The Empty's Response Hegemony Collapse | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.. |
| Dikembe Mediumship | 2.5 |
| Snow Shards Blind | 2.5 |
| Jordan Rakei Groove Curse | 3.0 |
| 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. |
| Corbin Leaving | 3.0 |
| 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 |
| Load-In A Bowl | 1.0 |
| 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 |
| Swan of Tuonela an incomplete portrait | 3.0 |
| Tesla Pox Paper Boat | 2.5 |
| Load-In At 6 | 1.0 |
| Like Thieves Autumn's Twilight | 2.5 |
| cyberbully mom club outdoor activities | 3.0 |
| Fucking Invincible It'll Get Worse Before It Gets Better | 2.5 |
| Pennywise Yesterdays | 2.0 |
| Towers Bel Air Highrise Plantation | 3.5 |
| Starset Transmissions | 2.0 |
| Bongripper Miserable | 2.5 |
| Radiator Hospital Torch Song | 3.5 |
| Hotel Books I'm Almost Happy Here, But I Never Feel At Home | 1.5 |
| James Ferraro Suki Girlz | 3.0 |
| Gas Chamber Hemorrhaging Light | 2.5 |
| Really From This Is What You Learned | 3.0 |
| some pretty tasty math-rock emo with jazz influence. |
| Baton Rouge Totem | 3.5 |
| 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 |
| Brobdingnagian Backpfeifengesicht | 2.0 |
| Open Mike Eagle Dark Comedy | 2.5 |
| Say Anything Hebrews | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| Bellows Blue Breath | 3.5 |
| Vanessa Rossetto Whole Stories | 4.0 |
| Mingle Harde Mongol Horde | 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 |
| Quarterbacks Quarterboy | 2.5 |
| Never Young Master Copy | 2.0 |
| The Horrors Luminous | 2.0 |
| Lykke Li I Never Learn | 1.5 |
| Nun Nun | 2.5 |
| Self Loath Nothing | 2.0 |
| Pyrrhon The Mother of Virtues | 4.0 |
| La Dispute Rooms of the House | 2.5 |
| Frankie Cosmos Zentropy | 3.0 |
| We Are Scientists TV en Français | 2.0 |
| 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 |
| The Hotelier Home, Like NoPlace Is There | 2.5 |
| Modern Baseball You’re Gonna Miss It All | 2.0 |
| Yumi Zouma Yumi Zouma | 3.0 |
| Icarus the Owl Icarus the Owl | 2.0 |
| Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker Advanced Basics | 1.0 |
| Jason Lescalleet Much to My Demise | 4.0 |
| Necati Ozmucur Offside | 1.5 |
| Human Hands Human Hands | 4.0 |
| Actress Ghettoville | 2.7 |
| Against Me! Transgender Dysphoria Blues | 2.5 |
| Small Wonder Wendy | 3.0 |
| Questions Happiness January | 2.0 |
