Tags: music and stuff
William Basinski - Lamentations
[9.1/10]
Release date: 2020-05-01
Meitei - Kofū
This is what happens if someone decides to make Lo-Fi Hip-Hop-ized ambient.
Release date: 2020-09-27
[8.9/10]
Pyrrhon - Abscess Time
This is some Gortuts level stuff.
Release date: 2020-06-26
[8.6/10]
Asetias - False Peace
Thrashy death metal. This bad boy is super vicious.
Release date: 2020-07-10
[8.6/10]
Phew - Vertigo KO
Dream-like music. Drone? Glitchy electronic post-punk? A Closer Listen ranked this as one of their top 10 experimental releases of 2020. Though I think they’re too heavily into post-rock most of the time they’re absolutely right in selecting this album.
Release date: 2020-09-04
[8.5/10]
FUJI||||||||||TA - Iki
Slow, soothing pipe organ ambient / field recording. I love this kind of stuff.
Release date: 2006
[8.4/10]
Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?
Awesome city pop.
Release date: 2020-06-26
[8.4/10]
Loma - Don’t Shy Away
Gloomy, minimalistic indie pop. Brian eno played on the last track. 好聽
Release date: 2020-10-23
[8.3/10]
The Koreantown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed
Dope jazz-hop.
Release date: 2020-06-19
[8.3/10]
Drew McDowall - Agalma
Modern classical / ambient. Drew McDowall assembled an all-star crew for this project - Kali Malone, Caterini Barbieri, all of them artists I’m really looking forward to their future artisitc endeavors. As for this album it is a very mystical album. Like it.
Release date: 2020-10-30
[8.3/10]
MIKE - Weight Of The World
Very enjoyable lo-fi hip-hop. Reminds me of Madvillainy for some reason.
Release date: 2020-06-21
[8.2/10]
Black Wing - No Moon
FFO Have A Nice Life’s Deathconciousness. Well it’s basically the guy behind HANL so yeah…
Release date: 2014-08-01
[8.2/10]
Sturgil Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2
Great bluegrass / country music by one of the genre’s most consistent artists.
Release date: 2020-12-11
[8.1/10]
They hate change - 666 Central Ave.
Kings of bedroom drum n bass rap are still on their streak.
Release date: 2020-08-14
[8.1/10]
U - Lowlands
It’s got folk, it’s got lo-fi techno, it’s got ambient… pretty good stuff.
Release date: 2017-12-01
[8.0/10]
JPEGMAFIA - EP!
Pretty good but this feels more like a treaser to something.
Release date: 2007-06-05
[7.8/10]
萬能青年旅店 - 冀西南林路行
Jazz rock / folk rock / prog. This album feels like one single song played in different speed, chords, and interspersed with solos. Or just a really really long song? Either way I find this album less enticing than their first album, but then it is indeed a well-crafted album.
Release date: 2020-12-22
Fav tracks: 採石, 泥河
[7.8/10]
Kelly Moran & Prurient - Chain Reaction At Dusk
Kelly Moran’s stuff on this one is on point, but Prurient’s isn’t as interesting. Kelly Moran next full-length album when?
Release date: 2020-12-04
[7.7/10]
Riki - Riki
Synth pop / retrowave. Pretty old school stuff.
Release date: 2021-01-31
[7.6/10]
Unwed sailor - Look Alive
Instrumental post punk? Danceable post rock? Either way the album started out pretty refreshing but gradually lost its shine. Nevertheless it’s a pretty interesting release I’ll say.
Release date: 2018-02-09
[7.4/10]
Inter Arma - Garber Days Revisited
Established doom metal band does a cover album. March Of The Pigs is pretty dope.
Release date: 2020-07-10
[7.2/10]
Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst
Proggy hard rock / doom rock. I’d say CBP circa I, Vigilante is the best though.
Release date: 2020-10-09
[7.0/10]
Primitive Man - Immersion
Though this album is super heavy I feel a lot of the tracks are kind of like slowed down versions of Full Of Hell materials. Gets kind of monotonous after a while IMO.
Release date: 2010-05-21
[7.0/10]
Various Artists - Nick Luscombe Presents Tokyo Dreaming
Lotsa Japanese music big names are in this compilation, but a lot of them are outdated pop music with soaring lead guitar solos.
Release date: 2020-07-29
[6.7/10]
Ruby Fatale - 彼岸
OK IDM, none of the tracks really stands out though IMO.
Release date: 2020-07-15
[6.7/10]
Pinegrove - Marigold
DCFC-ish indie rock. Last track is a pretty expansive drone / post rock track but others are just ok.
Release date: 2020-01-17
[6.5/10]
Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon III: The Chosen
Even his best album to date sounds only OK-ish.
Release date: 2020-12-11
[6.4/10]
Pallbearer - Forgotten Days
Its all down tuned doom metal in a minor with clean vocals. I’d say it’s definitely on the boring side.
Release date: 2020-10-23
[5.5/10]
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