Tags: music and stuff
Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske - Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske
Abrasive jazz ambient. Some time ago I thought Giske was on the path to become a second Colin Stetson, turns out he was even more experimental in terms of timbre and composition. Milyakov is actually Buttechno, and here he adds a deep, absorbing electronic layer underneath the sax that occasionally burst out into the front stage. Truely next level music.
Release date: 2021-03-26
[8.9/10]
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!
OMG
Release date: 2021-04-02
[8.8/10]
Armand Hammer, The Alchemist - Haram
Elucid and billy wood are (still) on the top of the game. Downtempo, dark jazz-ish instrumentals from The Alchemist are dope AF as well. Really good stuff.
Release date: 2021-03-26
[8.6/10]
Amulets - Blooming
Awesome fuzzy ambient album.
Release date: 2018-04-10
[8.6/10]
Various Artists - La Ola Interior (Spanish Ambient & Acid Exotism: 1983 - 1990)
I can listen to this all day long.
Release date: 2021-03-05
[8.5/10]
Vladislav Delay - Rakka II
I don’t get why people don’t give Sasu Ripatti enough credit: dude went out on a field trip and recorded some of the most abrasive minimal techno music in recent years, and people are like “nah that’s nothing new”. Sad times…
Release date: 2021-04-15
[8.4/10]
PDP III - Piled Up On A Couple Of Doves
Modern composition / lo-fi ambient. Unnerving, sprawling sounds, gotta love it.
Release date: 2021-04-09
[8.3/10]
Minimal Violence - Phase Two
Drum & Bass / EBM. Pulverizing tunes that make you shake your head off.
Release date: 2020-09-15
[8.0/10]
Stereolab - Electrically Possessed [Switched On Volume 4]
I enjoy the longer, drone-ier songs a lot.
Release date: 2021-02-26
[7.8/10]
Benny The Butcher, Harry Fraud - The Plugs I Met 2
East-coast hip-hop. Pretty good but not something that really leaves an impression. People say The Plugs I Met hits harder than this one though.
Release date: 2021-03-19
[7.7/10]
Feu! Chatterton - Palais d’argile
Psychedelic chansson… some tracks like La Mer and Libre are pretty rockin’.
Release date: 2021-03-12
[7.5/10]
Various Artists - Vertige II
Contemporary experimental pop music. Some tracks are pretty good but some are just duds to me.
Release date: 2021-03-19
[7.4/10]
Andy Stott - Never The Right Time
Downtempo / minimalistic electronic beat music. Wouldn’t go as far as saying the dude’s “washed up” (like The Quietus did), but this is probably his least interesting / engaging music in recent years. Of course this is by no means saying this album has nothing good going on - tracks like the somber “Dove Stone” and dream-pop-vocal-meets-sampled-beats title track are pretty enjoyable in their own right, but I guess it’s not unreasonable to expect more than just a few decent tracks from an artist such as Andy Stott.
Release date: 2021-04-16
[7.3/10]
IU - Lilac
Oddly enough the title track is the track that I like the least… I would still say this is not an album I’d want to revisit (unlike Yukika’s album from last year… that one’s a doozy), but some tracks are pretty catchy and don’t have that obnoxiou bass frequency prevalent in a lot of K-pop productions.
Release date: 2019-10-08
[7.0/10]
Xiu Xiu - OH NO
Their most friendly release to date. Honestly not that into this one compared to their other recent stuff.
Release date: 2021-02-19
[6.5/10]
Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space
idk man, I guess just go listen to Super Napkin instead of this stuff?
Release date: 2021-04-23
[5.8/10]
Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors
Old-fashioned death metal. Not a fan.
Release date: 2021-04-02
[5.8/10]
Benny The Butcher - The Plugs I Met
This is indeed much more memorable than its sequel. Some Wu-Tang level stuff.
Release date: 2021-03-19
[8.4/10]
Zenker Brothers - Cosmic Transmission
Wonky drum & bass / techno. Somehow this is very stripped-down and enticing at the same time…
Release date: 2020-10-15
[8.2/10]
Hakushi Hasegawa - Air Ni Ni
Off-kilter jazzy J-pop.
Release date: 2019-11-13
[8.2/10]
Razen - Robot Brujo
Modern improvised electronic music + flute. Minimal yet very dissonant. Kinda like dungeon music…
Release date:
[7.8/10]
Teresa Winter - What The Night Is For
Eerie, sprawling modern composition / electronic. Like the first track.
Release date: 2018-10-05
[7.8/10]
To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View
If you know me then you know I’m a sucker for minimal techno…
Release date: 1999-04-30
[9.0/10]
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