2024 January Listenings

Bark Psychosis - SCUM

Everything I love on Hex, condensed into a single track and then played in reverse.

Release date: 2017-08-11

[8.7/10]

Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt

Left field experimental indietronica. This is even better than her last album, more quirky sounds and just more interesting.

Release date: 2024-01-26

[8.7/10]

Bondo - Print Selections

Post-rock / post-hardcore. I really love stuff like this, slow paced guitar music with wonky dissonant melodies.

Release date: 2023-02-24

[8.5/10]

Bianca Scout - The Heart of the Anchoress

Haunting hypnagogic pop.

Release date: 2023-01-20

[8.4/10]

Tujiko Noriko - Crépuscule I & II

2 hours of ambient awesomeness.

Release date: 2023-01-13

[8.3/10]

Unsung - Hand Painted Model Trains

Conscious hip-hop. The writing is straight up poetry.

Release date: 2023-07-31

[8.3/10]

Wata Igarashi - Agartha

Psyched-out kraut-tronica / techno. FFO Gas and Caterina Barbieri.

Release date: 2023-05-26

[8.2/10]

Purelink - Signs

Ambient / dub techno. Love stuff like this.

Release date: 2023-09-15

[8.2/10]

Voice Actor - Fake Sleep

Hypnagogic pop. It’s pretty good.

Release date: 2023-10-10

[8.0/10]

DJ Danifox - Ansiedade

Afro-Portuguese club music, but more downtempo then the other artists. Pretty sure the Taipei techno audience would dig any Príncipe artist’s stuff.

Release date: 2023-04-26

[7.8/10]

betcover!! - 馬

Noisy indie jazz-rock. Kind of like Tokyo Jihen with more hair?

Release date: 2023-10-17

[7.8/10]

Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel - The Room

Folky jazz music. Not bad, I love Fabiano do Nascimento’s tasteful guitar playing.

Release date: 2023-06-30

[7.5/10]

ML Buch - Suntub

Glistening dream-pop.

Release date: 2023-10-27

[7.4/10]

Fatboi Sharif - Decay

Trippy alternative hip-hop. The instrumentals don’t really do it for me.

Release date: 2023-07-21

[7.4/10]

Natural Beauty Wonder Concept - Natural Beauty Wonder Concept

Downtempo / ambient. I still think there’s more things DJ Python could do than this.

Release date: 2023-07-14

[7.2/10]

Tara Clerkin Trio - On the Turning Ground

It’s like mellowed out Stereolab. Pretty good but not as great as their full length LP from two years ago.

Release date: 2023-11-03

[7.0/10]

LITE - Strata

This one’s more hip-hop influenced, but not in an interesting way. Their old stuff is vastly superior compared to this one. Still better than Toe’s more recent stuff though…

Release date: 2024-01-31

[6.0/10]

Föllakzoid - V

Lackluster trance techno. Is repeating an uninteresting pattern considered krautrock-ish nowadays?

Release date: 2023-10-21

[5.8/10]