2021 January Listenings

Posted on January 29, 2021
Tags: music and stuff

Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

I feel like I’ve been listening to way too much punk music in January…

Release date: 2021-01-15

[8.2/10]

Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz

Post-punk + sassy jazz sax. Songs are alright, lyrics sounds kinda meta-ish but that’s fine by me.

Release date: 2021-01-08

[8.1/10]

Ed Balloon - I Hate It Here

This one is more experimental and noisy than his 2018 album, which I like very much. This one contains more element of electronic music, and while the tracks are all pretty solid I do wish this is a full length album rather than a 10-minute EP.

Release date: 2020-12-04

[8.1/10]

Various Artists - Virtual Dreams: Ambient Explorations In The House & Techno Age, 1993-1997

Lots of bangers in this one.

Release date: 2020-12-14

[8.0/10]

R.A.P. Ferreira, Scallops Hotel - Bob’s Son

It’s OK

Release date: 2021-01-01

[7.6/10]

Portrayal Of Guilt - Garden Of Despair

Blackened screamo. I don’t question their musicianship one bit, but this is their most self-repeating release to date.

Release date: 2021-01-06

[6.2/10]

(G)I-DLE - I Burn

K-pop. Make no mistake this is an album that still very much fit in the K-pop musical mold, but this one somehow is less annoying…

Release date:

[6.1/10]

Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus - Hydrangea

Modern composition / spoken word. Very good vaporwave-y music, like something James Ferraro might do.

Release date: 2018-07-03

[8.7/10]

Jabu - Sweet Company

Hypnagogic pop. 喔這很好聽

Release date: 2020-04-07

[8.4/10]

Xyla - Ways

Techno + IDM + footwork. Q彈電音,讚

Release date: 2020-10-30

[8.4/10]

Christoph De Babalon - Recurring Horrors

Drum & Bass / sprawling electronic music. Totally missed this bad boy last year…

Release date: 2020-10-16

[8.4/10]

Serpente - Fe / Vazio

Jungle + IDM. Groovy stuff, 張揚表示不錯聽

Release date: 2020-08-06

[8.4/10]

Various Artists - Alterity

Gabber / trance techno. The concept surrounding this project is super nerdy almost to the extent of pretentiousness, but the tracks are really fun and stimulating. But then philosophizing = sexy is a long gone fad…

Release date: 2020-09-11

[8.4/10]

青葉市子 - Windswept Adan

Indie / psychedelic folk. Shifting chord progressions, ethereal vocals and crystalline plucked guitar, what’s not to like…

Release date: 2020-12-02

[8.3/10]

Michalis Moschoutis - Classical Mechanics

Modern composition / ambient / field recording. Music to listen to when you’re alone.

Release date: 2020-10-02

[8.3/10]

Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Peklar - Two Views Of Amami Oshima

Mystical ambient. Love this stuff.

Release date: 2020-12-10

[8.3/10]

Leila - Like Weather

Downtempo / trip-hop. Sounds alright.

Release date: 2020-11-20

[7.9/10]

Jessy Lanza - All The Time

Retro-pop. Wife seems to like this one a lot.

Release date: 2013-01-01

[7.8/10]

Ill Considered - Ill Considered VIII

Abrasive modern jazz rock.

Release date: 2020-11-27

[7.7/10]

Robbie Basho - Selections From Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes

Ragtime.

Release date: 2020-12-04

[7.7/10]

Twins - Soon

Mathy screamo. Like a mathier La Dispute.

Release date: 2020-02-14

[7.5/10]

Moor Mother, billy woods - Brass

This feels more like a billy woods album with cameo appearance from Moor Mother than a collaberation between them. The tracks are alright but not as good as what I expected it to be.

Release date: 2020-12-18

[7.2/10]

Repetitor - Prazan prostor među nama koji može i da ne postoji

Serbian punk band. Sometimes the guitar sounds pretty cool, but other times not so much. The vocals are less cool than the guitars.

Release date: 2020-11-20

[6.7/10]

Primitive Ignorant - Sikh Punk

Industrial pop / gothic. I feel like this sounds a lot like NIN and Marilyn Manson, and I am really not a fan of MM…

Release date:

[6.4/10]

The Golden Filter - Autonomy

Darkwave. Pretty doomy stuff, fans of Fabulous Diamonds or Telefon Tel Aviv will enjoy this.

Release date: 2020-10-30

[7.8/10]

Omni - Deluxe

Post-punk revival stuff. Pretty jangly, not really impressionable to me. Or I just don’t like this kind of post-punk sound a lot…

Release date: 2017-03-03

[6.9/10]