diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 0e754f7..ee102e5 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ +# Stack stuff .stack-work/ _cache/ -_site/ -stack.yaml.lock + .env fillin-release-dates/ diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b1332d0..7321855 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ -# personal-website -Hakyll source pack for my personal website +# My personal website + +... is built with [Hakyll](https://jaspervdj.be/hakyll/). Here, I mostly share my thoughts on music, but you might also find the occasional rant, work-related posts, or random musings. diff --git a/docs/about.html b/docs/about.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b228db6 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/about.html @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ + + + + + + + + Blog without Organs - About + + + + + + + + + +
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Tsung-Ju Lii lives in Taipei, Taiwan. He doesn’t know how to do frontend stuff +whatsoever.

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+ Posted on September 6, 2024 + +
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+

Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God

+

+

AOTY so far.

+

Release date: 2024-06-14

+

[9.3/10]

+

Angel R - Selkie Reflections

+

+

Dreamy modern classical vocal music. It’s like you’re in a cave and a spirit is singing to you and you’re not scared and they’re really, really good at it.

+

Release date: 2024-08-09

+

[8.6/10]

+

JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

+

+

This one is really good, like it stands out even in a discography stacked with hard hitters. The bars are filthy and I feel like he put a lot of effort into making the beats as wicked as possible. Sick.

+

Release date: 2024-08-01

+

[8.5/10]

+

Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahōgakkō

+

+

At first I thought it’s too chaotic and all over the place, but as I listened to it multiple times it turns out it’s just a really good hyper pop album. Wonky and a lot of fun to listen to.

+

Release date: 2024-07-24

+

[8.4/10]

+

7038634357 - Neo Seven

+

+

Warm synth drone / noise. These pulsating notes are so delicate. FFO DJ Lostboi.

+

Release date: 2024-04-16

+

[8.3/10]

+

baby___asl - Snakeskin

+

+

FFO Bianca Scout. Bedroom avant-pop.

+

Release date: 2020-05-08

+

[8.2/10]

+

Blind Girls - An Exit Exists

+

+

Chaotic screamo with lots of dissonance. Pretty sick stuff, just like the last album.

+

Release date: 2024-07-05

+

[8.1/10]

+

H TO O - Cycle

+

+

Japanese new age ambient in 2024, still so good. Bubbly sounds. Always been a fan of H. Takahashi.

+

Release date: 1997-07-22

+

[8.1/10]

+

Fontaines D.C. - Romance

+

+

I was really into Pile, and then I wasn’t and I was thinking maybe I just don’t like indie rock as much as I did before? And then I heard this and it’s so good.

+

Release date: 2024-07-12

+

[8.1/10]

+

Clothing - From Memory

+

+

Glitchy pop. The songs are very well written, sounds super huge, and L’Rain is a great singer. The tracks featuring Amber Coffman from Dirty Projector really make me think it’d sound much more enticing if they were sung by L’Rain.

+

Release date: 2024-07-26

+

[7.9/10]

+

Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2

+

+

I thought he’s gonna continue down the Melt My Eyez See Your Future, more modern sounding path, but here he is doing old school southern rap.

+

Release date: 2024-07-19

+

[7.6/10]

+

lang - There is no reply, but sweet wind blew

+

+

Melodic emotive hardcore from Japan. I think their live show should be really really awesome.

+

Release date: 2018-08-27

+

[7.6/10]

+

Holy Tongue, Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now

+

+

Tribal dub. I think their own projects are better than this collaboration.

+

Release date: 2024-08-23

+

[7.6/10]

+

Zeta Io, Ingenue - Zetapop

+

+

Techno-pop. I like the more abstract tracks more than the Balaeric beat ones, but this is still an interesting project to check out.

+

Release date: 2024-08-07

+

[7.6/10]

+

渡邊琢磨 - RoOT Original Soundtrack

+

+

Pantha du Prince-esque electronic music and Eiko Ishibashi style modern classical. This sounds quite pleasant, the drama itself kinda sucks.

+

Release date: 2023-07-20

+

[7.5/10]

+

Terry Green - Provisional Living

+

+

Screamo with a lot of indie rock influence. Pretty raw.

+

Release date: 2024-06-03

+

[7.4/10]

+

FUJI||||||||||TA - MMM

+

+

Unsettling ambient / drone / experimental music. TBH I enjoy iki much more than this one.

+

Release date: 2004-11-16

+

[7.0/10]

+

Wisp - Pandora

+

+

Shoegaze. Don’t really get the hype.

+

Release date: 2024-04-05

+

[6.5/10]

+

toe - Now I See the Light

+

+

Better than Hear You but still not nearly as good as For Long Tomorrow or their first album.

+

Release date: 2024-07-10

+

[6.0/10]

+

Houston We Have a Problem - The Sky Did Not Crack and the Stars Did Not Fall

+

+

Raw, emotional post-rock-ish screamo. Stumbled upon them when trying to find reference for a new band I want to do, this probably isn’t it.

+

Release date: 2014

+

[5.5/10]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2024 June Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-07-20-june-listenings.html + 2024-07-20T00:00:00Z + 2024-07-20T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on July 20, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Charli XCX - brat

+

+

Is this her best album yet?

+

Release date: 2024-06-07

+

[8.7/10]

+

Kevin - Laundry

+

+

Sadcore / folk. This is precisely my kind of jam.

+

Release date: 2024-03-13

+

[8.6/10]

+

Actress - Statik

+

+

Hazy ambient techno. To be honest I like this more than last year’s LXXXVIII

+

Release date: 2024-06-07

+

[8.6/10]

+

ZULI - Lambda

+

+

Extremely subdued post-industrial ambient club. It’s very different from hard-hitting club music he’s been known for. This one has a Coby Sey feature so you know it’s good.

+

Release date: 2024-07-05

+

[8.5 /10]

+

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

+

+

Exquisite folk album. Majestic songwriting.

+

Release date: 2024-05-17

+

[8.4/10]

+

Thou - Umbilical

+

+

Good. I don’t think they’ve ever slowed down on this one, which makes this one probably their most unrelenting album yet. Earlier albums would have some more mellow moments, this one just makes me wanna punch air the whole time.

+

Release date: 2024-05-31

+

[8.4/10]

+

Iceboy Violet, Nueen - You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through the Fire

+

+

Minimalistic abstract rap. This is probably the most exquisitely crafted break-up albums I’ve heard in a long time.

+

Release date: 2024-06-07

+

[8.3/10]

+

Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke - It’s Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry

+

+

Lingering electronic ambient.

+

Release date: 2016-06-24

+

[8.2/10]

+

Sumac - The Healer

+

+

Unforgiving experimental sludge metal / post-metal. Four tracks all exceeding 12 minute mark, all heavy AF.

+

Release date: 2024-07-19

+

[8.2/10]

+

Ebi - Space Teddy Collection

+

+

Acid dub techno from late ambient master Susumu Yokota. Still very danceable, still very dope.

+

Release date: 2022-01-03

+

[8.2/10]

+

Racine - Boue

+

+

Gritty , glitched out experimental club / post-industrial music. This sounds like stuff my friend would dig. I enjoy it quite a bit, but I think Amerites, which came out in 2022, had more memorable moments.

+

Release date: 2024-03-24

+

[8.1/10]

+

L.B. Dub Corp - Saturn to Home

+

+

Dub house. The first half is more club friendly, drenched-in-reverb melodic dub, and after that the beats get a lot more intense, which is more to my liking.

+

Release date: 2024-05-24

+

[7.8/10]

+

Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub

+

+

First side is dub second side is house. I like dub more than house. A landmark release, I can definitely see why this is so influential but at the same time in 2024 there are already things that are more intense / captivating than this.

+

Release date: 1994-04-01

+

[7.6/10]

+

王若琳 - 破爛酒店

+

+

Eclectic art pop / lo-fi cabaret pop. It’s always awesome to see Taiwanese artists get great reviews, and I think this album deserves it. It’s just I’m past the age when I would enjoy this kind of music.

+

Release date: 2024-05-07

+

[7.6/10]

+

Yaya Bey - Ten Fold

+

+

Neo soul / r&b. Production is pretty good and the songs are well written, but I’m just never really that into this kind of music, where the groove has to take the time backseat. Live shows are probably really awesome though.

+

Release date: 2024-05-10

+

[7.5/10]

+

Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement

+

+

I think everyone on this album showed up but it just doesn’t have that same kind of epicness in his first two albums. This is more like really well produced contemporary jazz music, great players, great songwriting, but not really sound that sticks.

+

Release date: 2024-05-03

+

[7.5/10]

+

Various Artists - Someone Like Me

+

+

Folk country music compilation. Individually they all sounded alright, but I feel like it’s music that you’d hear when you walk into a thrift shop.

+

Release date: 2024-04-26

+

[7.3/10]

+

Dos Monos - Dos Atmos

+

+

I guess their bars are still tight but the instrumentals just aren’t as far out there as in Dos City. Dos City was rad.

+

Release date: 2024-05-31

+

[7.0/10]

+

Galcher Lustwerk - Lustwerk III

+

+

Pretty standard dub techno. In other words, pretty meh.

+

Release date: 2024-05-31

+

[6.0/10]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2024 April & May Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-05-29-april-and-may-listenings.html + 2024-05-29T00:00:00Z + 2024-05-29T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on May 29, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Still House Plants - If I Don’t Make It, I Love U

+

+

Warbly jazzy post-rock with R&B vocals. Sick album. Every track is worth recommending.

+

Release date: 2024-04-12

+

[8.9/10]

+

Dip Friso - Dip Friso

+

+

Drunk bedroom indietronica. Hazy lo-fi music, I like this a lot.

+

Release date: 2024-03-01

+

[8.4/10]

+

samlrc - A Lonely Sinner

+

+

Lo-fi post-rock / shoegaze. FFO Weatherday. One dude on RYM said it’s deathconsciousness for furries and I kinda agree.

+

Release date: 2024-03-08

+

[8.4/10]

+

Lanark Artefax - Metallur

+

+

Hits just as hard as the last one.

+

Release date: 2024-03-20

+

[8.4/10]

+

Not Waving, Romance - Infinite Light

+

+

This is just as good as the last one. Ambient bliss.

+

Release date: 2024-05-03

+

[8.4/10]

+

claire rousay - sentiment

+

+

Low + Organ Tapes. I love her earlier, much more experimental work, but I also love emo and slowcore.

+

Release date: 2024-04-19

+

[8.3/10]

+

Ulla, Ultrafrog - It Means A Lot

+

+

Abstract shoegazy ambient.

+

Release date: 2024-04-12

+

[8.2/10]

+

Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

+

+

Indie folk. Normally I’m not too excited about this kind of music but this is pretty awesome.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[8.2/10]

+

Serengeti - KDIV

+

+

Jazz-hop. Gotta follow the Kenny Dennis story arc… Also sick beats by Kenny Segal. Sulfjan Stevens is on this one as well?

+

Release date: 2024-04-05

+

[8.2/10]

+

Sega Bodega - Dennis

+

+

Intimate, dark-club-friendly electro-pop. I really like the lead singles Deer Teeth and Kepko, in fact I think these two are the tracks that really stand out in the end - the other tracks are also pretty good but I don’t think they’re as thoroughly developed as the two lead singles.

+

Release date: 2017-06-16

+

[8.0/10]

+

Bongripper - Empty

+

+

The heaviest band on earth is back.

+

Release date: 1969-06-06

+

[7.8/10]

+

Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited

+

+

Deep house. I like his stuff on DJ Kicks. I think people who like St Germain’s Tourist would dig this.

+

Release date: 2014-03-24

+

[7.9/10]

+

R.J.F.- Strange Going

+

+

Dark minimalist indie pop. Album cover looks like dude having time of his life but songs are gothic and dark AF.

+

[7.7/10]

+

Andrew Pekler, SG - Rain Revisited

+

+

Ambient / modern classical. Quite lovely.

+

Release date: 2024-04-12

+

[7.6/10]

+

Oldboy, Sekwence - Good Guys Don’t Wear White

+

+

I like the beats but Sekwence’s raspy voice doesn’t really do it for me.

+

Release date: 1966-01-01

+

[7.3/10]

+

Ὁπλίτης - Παραμαινομένη

+

+

Prog black metal. This one feels more forced than their previous albums. It features a lot more sax, folk guitars and even a little bit of Dream Theater-ish synth solos but they all sound kind of out of place.

+

Release date: 2024-01-12

+

[6.3/10]

+

Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To

+

+

I don’t get the hype around this album. To me it’s very annoying to listen to, those downtuned guitars and open chords and breakdowns just are no longer my thing.

+

Release date: 2024-05-10

+

[5.5/10]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2024 March Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-04-16-march-listenings.html + 2024-04-16T00:00:00Z + 2024-04-16T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on April 16, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Laurel Halo - Octavia

+

+

Haunting ambient. Still so so good.

+

Release date: 2024-03-01

+

[8.7/10]

+

Bill Orcutt - Four Guitars Live

+

+

Blissful contemporary guitar music. This album makes me want to play guitar even more.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[8.6/10]

+

Tujiko Noriko - From Tokyo to Naiagara

+

+

Indie electro-pop. This is more Stereolab than ambient music in her more recent works. A lovely album.

+

Release date: 2004-06-08

+

[8.6/10]

+

Dario Zenker - Reflections

+

+

I’m always gonna front the Zenker brothers. Another stellar dub techno album.

+

Release date: 2023-10-05

+

[8.3/10]

+

Masaka Masaka - Barely Making Much

+

+

Lo-fi IDM. It’s been a while since I last heard IDM that’s actually good.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[8.2/10]

+

Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field

+

+

Soothing piano music. This sounds more conventional than I thought it would be.

+

Release date: 2024-03-29

+

[7.7/10]

+

Jlin - Akoma

+

+

Experimental footwork. I feel like whatever Jlin does they all sound kind of similar, it will have unsettling beats and any melodic elements will be used as rhythmic tools instead of providing their own motif.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[7.6/10]

+

Shygirl - Club Shy

+

+

Clubby dance pop that brings it back to the 00’s.

+

Release date: 2024-03-01

+

[7.3/10]

+

Zazen Boys - らんど

+

+

This is one of their least chaotic album to date. To be frank I enjoy the noisier stuff more.

+

Release date: 2024-01-24

+

[7.0/10]

+

Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet

+

+

Loma Prieta sans the chaotic riffs. Only the vocals sounds skramz-y, the other things are more like modern, atmospheric post-hardcore. Quite melodic but no real hard hitters here.

+

Release date: 2024-03-29

+

[6.8/10]

+

Geotic - The Anchorite

+

+

This is what it would sound like if Roy Montgomery does big chords country ambient.

+

Release date: 2024-02-21

+

[6.3/10]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2024 February Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-03-13-february-listenings.html + 2024-03-13T00:00:00Z + 2024-03-13T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on March 13, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Material Girl - Izumi Hazuki End of Days

+

+

The jungle / hip-hop producer dropped a new one with a lot of indie rock last year. It was very good.

+

Release date: 2023-11-15

+

[8.6/10]

+

Hysterical Love Project - Lashes

+

+

Downtempo / shoegaze. I love this so much..

+

Release date: 2023-03-21

+

[8.5/10]

+

betcover!! - 卵

+

+

This is probably my favorite album of theirs. It’s got just the right amount of flair without making the whole thing sounding like a jumble of underdeveloped ideas.

+

Release date: 2022-12-21

+

[8.3/10]

+

Maya Shenfeld - Under the Sun

+

+

Electro-acoustic synth music / neoclassical. Surreal and sad. Love it.

+

Release date: 2024-01-19

+

[8.3/10]

+

Speaker Music - Techxodus

+

+

Experimental techno. I’m gonna buy his book.

+

Release date: 2023-09-08

+

[8.3/10]

+

Erika de Casier - Still

+

+

Y2K R&B. Sounds dope.

+

Release date: 2024-02-21

+

[8.2/10]

+

Kim Gordon - The Collective

+

+

No-wave noise guitars on trap / industrial beats. Pretty cool stuff.

+

Release date: 2024-03-08

+

[8.1/10]

+

Porcelain - Porcelain

+

+

I would tell my kids that they are Unwound. Well a little less experimental and more hardcore-y, but the similarity is definitely there. Looking forward to what they are up to next.

+

Release date: 2007-06-04

+

[7.8/10]

+

Stik Figa, The Expert - Ritual

+

+

Conscious jazz-rap. The lyrics is fire, the beats are mid though.

+

Release date: 1990-08-21

+

[7.6/10]

+

William Doyle - Springs Eternal

+

+

This one has that Elvis Costello kind of vibe to it. Not bad but also not a huge fan of it.

+

Release date: 2024-02-16

+

[6.9/10]

+

Goyard Ibn Said - Goyard Comin’: Exordium

+

+

Ghais Guevara’s alter ego. Compared to the main persona this one’s more clout driven, but still has its serious moments.

+

Release date: 2023-07-09

+

[6.6/10]

+

The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist

+

+

The Dillinger Escape Plan with a bunch more samples and melodic passages. Not gonna lie but this is kind of annoying…

+

Release date: 2022-09-02

+

[6.0/10]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2024 January Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-02-09-january-listenings.html + 2024-02-09T00:00:00Z + 2024-02-09T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on February 9, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

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]

+ +

+

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]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2023 Year End List + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-12-31-year-end-list.html + 2023-12-31T00:00:00Z + 2023-12-31T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on December 31, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

今年最愛專輯

+

Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit

+

+

最近很少聽到這種既絲滑又幽默的音樂了,有的話也沒有跟這個一樣耐聽。段落不停切換,節奏跌宕起伏,真的很讚。

+

年終榜

+

Sprain - Lamb as Effigy (9.1)

+
    +
  • 這麼好的樂團怎麼就這樣解散了……
  • +
+

Laurel Halo - Atlas (9.0)

+

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (9.0)

+
    +
  • 我自認不是YTL的鐵粉,不知道這張專輯在真正的粉絲眼中到底算是如何?感覺這張討論度其實不太高,但這張是真的好聽。
  • +
+

Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit (8.8)

+

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (8.8)

+

Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding (8.8)

+

Grischa Lichtenberger - Works for Last Work (8.7)

+
    +
  • 我覺得他被嚴重低估了。
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+

yeule - softscars (8.6)

+

空間現代 - Tracks (8.6)

+

Romance - Fade Into You (8.6)

+
    +
  • Hauntology music in 2023.
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+

Sampha - Lahai (8.6)

+

Kali Malone, Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton - Does Spring Hide Its Joy (8.5)

+
    +
  • 其實我覺得這張我沒有聽得很熟,聽得更熟的話可能會更愛吧?
  • +
+

Lucinda Chua - Yian (8.5)

+

Richard Skelton - selenodesy (8.5)

+

Mandy, Indiana - I’ve Seen a Way (8.5)

+

Radian - Distorted Rooms (8.4)

+

Kelela - Raven (8.4)

+

bar italia - Tracey Denim (8.4)

+

King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse (8.4)

+

Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réel (8.4)

+

Maria BC - Spike Field (8.4)

+

Not Waving - The Place I’ve Been Missing (8.4)

+

Squid - O Monolith (8.4)

+

David Edren, H. Takahashi - Flow (8.3)

+

LA Timpa - Pity by One All Good Treasure (8.3)

+
    +
  • 雖說這張是2022就出了,但我是今年才聽到的,這樣應該也算數吧。
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+

Pavel Milyakov - project mirrors (8.3)

+

Midwife, Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving (8.3)

+

Kate NV - Wow (8.3)

+

Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard (8.3)

+

L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (8.3)

+

Lost Girls - Selvutsletter (8.3)

+

Black Thought, El Michels Affair - Glorious Game (8.3)

+

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation (8.3)

+

Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full On (8.3)

+

McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz? (8.3)

+
    +
  • 我後來一直聽這張,覺得當初應該要把他排高一點的…
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+

Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction (8.3)

+

Grant Chapman - Indentations (8.2)

+

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy (8.2)

+

Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades (8.2)

+

Ital Tek - Timeproof (8.2)

+

Tirzah - trip9love…??? (8.2)

+

Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation (8.2)

+

Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss (8.2)

+

Ὁπλίτης - Τρωθησομένη (8.2)

+

JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES (8.2)

+

SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (8.2)

+

Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis (8.2)

+

Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar (8.2)

+

Tim Hecker - No Highs (8.1)

+

Joanne Robertson - Blue Car (8.1)

+

billy woods, Kenny Segal - Maps (8.1)

+

The Body - I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant (8.1)

+

Dustin Wong - Perpetual Morphosis (8.1)

+

Headache - The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth (8.1)

+

slowthai - UGLY (8.1)

+

Godflesh - Purge (8.1)

+

M. Sage, Zander Raymond - Parayellowgram (8.1)

+

38 Spesh, Conway the Machine - Speshal Machinery (8.1)

+

upsammy - Germ in a Population of Buildings (8.1)

+

ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (8.1)

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2023 November Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-12-09-november-listenings.html + 2023-12-09T00:00:00Z + 2023-12-09T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on December 9, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding

+

+

Ambient drill / trip-hop / spoken word. I love this album a lot.

+

Release date: 2023-11-16

+

[8.8/10]

+

Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réel

+

+

Synth music with a lot of delays. When I first listened to this I wasnt paying attention and thought it’s ok but not something really spectacular, but then I stopped doing things and listened and it was truly magical.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.4/10]

+

L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog

+

+

Indie dream-pop / neo-soul. Wonky but tender, generally just a great pop album.

+

Release date: 2023-10-13

+

[8.3/10]

+

Lost Girls - Selvutsletter

+

+

While Menneskekollektivet is epic, brooding and more “serious”, Selvutsletter is pure dark avant-pop goodiness.

+

Release date: 2023-10-20

+

[8.3/10]

+

Black Thought, El Michels Affair - Glorious Game

+

+

Cconscious hip-hop. The beats are sick and the flows are dope.

+

Release date: 2023-04-14

+

[8.3/10]

+

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

+

+

Ambient / R&B / downtempo. It sounds like a weird combination, but it actually makes sense.

+

Release date: 2023-11-10

+

[8.3/10]

+

M. Sage, Zander Raymond - Parayellowgram

+

+

Ambient cosmic jazz. Reminds me of some of Tortoise’s subtler tracks on TNT.

+

Release date: 2023-09-15

+

[8.1/10]

+

38 Spesh, Conway the Machine - Speshal Machinery

+

+

Conscious hip-hop. The Benny the butcher feature track is dope AF. I been digging Conway the Machine a lot and this project does not disappoint.

+

Release date: 2023-09-08

+

[8.1/10]

+

Sleep Sinatra, TELEVANGEL - Incorruptible Saints

+

+

Boom-bap / jazz-rap.

+

Release date: 2023-06-20

+

[7.9/10]

+

Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions

+

+

Abstract hip-hop. The forte of this album is definitely his lyrics, most of all his ability to pin down the snippets of things that are simply beyond the grasp of seemingly ubiquitous technological domination. Even though the title is Integrated Tech Solutions, the songs are about the copmlete opposite. As for production I think the individual tracks are pretty good, but 15+ songs with very similar BPMs, grimey rhythms and bass synths, after like 5 songs it gets repetitive.

+

Release date: 2023-11-10

+

[7.6/10]

+

Cameron Graham - Becoming a Beach Angel

+

+

Colorful percussive synth music.

+

Release date: 2023-08-18

+

[7.5/10]

+

Ragana - Desolations Flower

+

+

Post black metal. It’s alright.

+

Release date: 2023-10-27

+

[6.8/10]

+

Danny Brown - Quaranta

+

+

The first half was pretty good, the second was kinda lackluster.

+

Release date: 2023-11-17

+

[6.6/10]

+

André 3000 - New Blue Sun

+

+

New age improv / ambient. I like the tracks where the flaut isn’t so up front better, like the third and fourth track. The album as a whole feels kind of drawn out, the ideas just take too long to develop into interesting things and when that happens it is also not really that interesting. That said I’ll still be looking out for André’s coming up releases and see what he brings to the table.

+

Release date: 2023-11-17

+

[6.6/10]

+

Shabazz Palace - Robed in Rareness

+

+

At this point I don’t know if this album’s low effort or Black Up is just an anomaly.

+

Release date: 2023-10-27

+

[5.3/10]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2023 October Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-11-11-october-listenings.html + 2023-11-11T00:00:00Z + 2023-11-11T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on November 11, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Sprain - Lamb as Effigy

+

+

Experimental post-noise rock / drone. Strong AOTY candidate.

+

Release date: 2023-09-01

+

[9.1/10]

+

Sampha - Lahai

+

+

I love basically every track on this album.

+

Release date: 2023-10-20

+

[8.6/10]

+

Marica BC - Spike Field

+

+

Spectral, melancholic dream pop / folk. Compared to Hyaline this one features lusher instrumentation and is overall better produced. The songs are incredibly well written. Great album! FFO Grouper and Midwife.

+

Release date: 2023-10-20

+

[8.4/10]

+

Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full On

+

+

FFO Curd Duca, Actress. Abstract collage music.

+

Release date: 2023-06-30

+

[8.3/10]

+

McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?

+

+

Jazz-rap / conscious hip-hop. A great album! Awesome jazz beats and awesome lyrics.

+

Release date: 2023-06-02

+

[8.3/10]

+

Shygirl - Nymphs

+

+

Hypnogogic R&B / trap. FFO Sega Bodega.

+

Release date: 2022-09-30

+

[8.3/10]

+

SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite

+

+

It’s like the Knobs or collector//emitter pedal demos extended to be a standalone album. Dreamy lo-fi guitar ambient music.

+

Release date: 2023-10-06

+

[8.2/10]

+

Maral - Ground Groove

+

+

Sprawling lo-fi industrial dub, or “folk club” as the artist described her music. Maral is an Iranian-American artist, and a lot of the samples on this album is from her personal archive of Iranian folk, pop & classical albums.

+

Release date: 2022-10-18

+

[8.2/10]

+

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

+

+

Angular post-punk. I like the last track, which is the most tranquil track among the album.

+

Release date: 2023-02-24

+

[8.0/10]

+

Various Artists - V4 Visions: Of Love & Androids

+

+

House / funk / R&B. Basically 90’s music. I like the R&B cuts on the first disc.

+

Release date: 2022-03-11

+

[7.6/10]

+

The Armed - Perfect Saviors

+

+

Poppy alternative punk. Not nearly as explosive as Ultrapop, instead this is much more in line with the usual alt-rock path.

+

Release date: 2023-08-25

+

[7.3/10]

+

Oneohtrix Point Never - Again

+

+

Compared to his earlier stuff this is extremely safe.

+

Release date: 2023-09-29

+

[6.8/10]

+

Lee Gamble - Models

+

+

Ambient pop. The vocals on this album is generated by AI. The theme he’s exploring on this album is very Hauntological, but I’d say it’s something one have to do some extra digging to find out.

+

Release date: 2023-07-06

+

[6.7/10]

+

Eartheater - Powder

+

+

Art pop / experimental R&B. I think there are just too many producers on this album, making this album lacking a bit in terms of songwriting coherence, and sounding more like it’s from a generic pop artist that claims to be avant garde but doesn’t really know what they’re doing. There are cool tracks here and there, but as a whole it’s just a bit too all over the place.

+

Release date: 2023-09-20

+

[6.6/10]

+

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

+

+

Club-friendly electro-pop.

+

Release date: 2023-10-27

+

[6.3/10]

+

James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven

+

+

UK garage. While I still don’t really dig the minimal dubstep / r&b fusion sound he’s going for all that much, this is a breath of fresh air compared with his previous more pop oriented albums.

+

Release date: 2023-09-08

+

[6.1/10]

+
+ +]]>
+
+ + 2023 September Listenings + + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-10-11-september-listenings.html + 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z + 2023-10-11T00:00:00Z + +
+ Posted on October 11, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Laurel Halo - Atlas

+

+

Impressionist neo-classical / ambient jazz. Postmodern Joe Hisashi is what came to mind. Love virtually every track on this album.

+

Release date: 2023-09-26

+

[9.0/10]

+

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

+

+

Abstract conscious hip-hop. The lyrics on this album is, like, really out there…

+

Release date: 2023-09-29

+

[8.8/10]

+

Grischa Lichtenberger - Works for Last Work

+

+

Modern composition. I dig this a lot.

+

Release date: 2023-04-16

+

[8.7/10]

+

yeule - softscars

+

+

Glitch pop / dream pop. While not sounding as distinct / left-field as Glitch Princess, this is simply a really good pop album with banger songs.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.6/10]

+

Radian - Distorted Rooms

+

+

Minimal electronic noir-jazz. Love this stuff.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.4/10]

+

Tirzah - trip9love…???

+

+

Minimalist downtempo pop. People are saying it’s somewhat repetitive but I don’t think so at all - when the loops are so nice it’s not repetitive, it’s just pretty good.

+

Release date: 2023-09-05

+

[8.2/10]

+

Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation

+

+

IDM / drill and bass. Love the songs on this one.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.2/10]

+

The Body - I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant

+

+

Drone metal / industrial. The first half of this album is basically their identically named album from ~10 years ago remade (or is it just remastered?) The original sound is heavier and more unforgiving whilst this one sounds a lot more refined. Second half is what was going to become a companion album to the aforementioned album, and to me it is a lot more industrial / hip-hop leaning.

+

Release date: 2023-06-30

+

[8.1/10]

+

Ὁπλίτης - Ψευδομένη

+

+

Like the other album this one’s also pretty good. It’s a bit less thrash and a bit more prog though in my opinion.

+

Release date: 2023-01-01

+

[8.0/10]

+

Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE

+

+

Probably one of the best pop punk albums I’ve heard in a long time.

+

Release date: 2023-08-31

+

[8.0/10]

+ +

+

I’d say this is their groove metal album, the riffs are more melodic at the expense of soaring guitar solos. Hopefully they stick around and Takafumi Matsubara is able to stay healthy.

+

Release date: 2023-09-15

+

[7.4/10]

+

Haunter - Please Understand

+

+

Droning shoegaze music. Some songs have riffs that had me think of the nu metal drop D riffs.

+

Release date: 2019-07-22

+

[7.3/10]

+

Nerves Baddington - No Survivor

+

+

Drum and bass / industrial hip-hop. Pretty grim sounding.

+

Release date: 2023-06-16

+

[7.2/10]

+

what is your name? - My Name Is…

+

+

Indie rock / midwest emo.

+

Release date: 2023-09-23

+

[7.0/10]

+

Croatian Amor - A Part of You in Everything

+

+

Ambient techno. It’s OK I guess…

+

Release date: 2023-05-26

+

[6.8/10]

+
+ +]]>
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Essential Listenings, 2019 H1

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+ Posted on July 3, 2019 + +
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LPs

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6 / 10

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Nonlocal Forecast - Bubble Universe!

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這什麼… prog vaporwave? 奇怪的東西,話說那midi鼓也太假了吧XD

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Lizzo - Cuz I Love You

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Flying Lotus - Flamagra

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可能我真的很奇怪吧…這張我反而覺得就是不錯,沒啥別的感想,也沒有特別喜歡…

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7 / 10

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Leon Vynehall - DJ-Kicks

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前面幾首蠻帶感的,聽到後面有點累

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Ossia - Devil’s Dance

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還不錯,整體調性偏陰暗的電子音樂

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King Midas Sound - Solitude

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“Water tastes disgusting… so I drink black tea all day…”

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Tim Hecker - Anoyo

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第一首跟最後一首聽得我雞皮疙瘩掉滿地 (好的那種),比較可惜的是後面的歌感覺都多少有點像,相較之下去年的Konoyo還是整體感比較完整的作品。不過這張還是相當讚!

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Efdemin - New Atlantis

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還蠻好聽的電子音樂,很推14分鐘的專輯同名曲

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Khotin - Beautiful You

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舒心ㄉ氛圍音樂 / vaporwave

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Ebauche - Formic Syntax

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experimental ambient electronic music,個人是覺得還不錯,但不是到很耐聽…

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Tanya Tagaq - Toothsayer

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加拿大依努特throat singer,人怎麼做出這種聲音的… +不是很適合拿來當背景音樂,但蠻好聽的

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Black Taffy - Elder Mantis

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做成EP的話應該很不錯

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Abdu Ali - Fiyah!!!

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實驗饒舌?巴爾第摩怎麼都出一堆饒舌怪咖,JPEGMAFIA印象中也是那邊來的… +這張專輯的前面真的是怪到爆,後面就感覺有點沒勁了

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Sunn O))) - Life Metal

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今年聽很少金屬…

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Laurie Spiegel - Unseen Worlds

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Denzel Curry - ZUU

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之前我一直不知道他到底為啥會被捧成這樣… 這張聽了之後比較知道了,還蠻不錯的

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Earth - Full Upon the Burning Lips

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這張感覺比較小品一點,不像之前的那麼波瀾壯闊… 但也還行

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8 / 10

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Holly Herndon - Proto

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你覺得不好聽的話一定是你的問題

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Dolphin Midwives - Liminal Garden

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我是覺得蠻好聽的… glitch ambient music

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Various Artists - Kankyō Ongaku, Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990

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這應該沒人會不喜歡吧…

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Laurel Halo - DJ-Kicks

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+

Laurel Halo一出手就知有沒有

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Quelle Chris - Guns

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讚!兇!

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Tujiko Noriko - Kuro (OST)

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有些歌有個很沉的低頻,真的是相當好聽

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Chasms - The Mirage

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Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano - FRKWYS Vol. 15: serenitatem

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我以為會跟Visible Cloaks 2017年出的那張會有點像,結果根本一點都不像… +聽起來很沒壓力的一張專輯,鋼琴好讚

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Blair Coron - On the Nature of Things

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本質上來說我還是很喜歡後搖的

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Xiu Xiu - Girl with Basket of Fruit

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我以前一直覺得要馬是我真的不懂這個樂團在幹嘛,不然就是他們自己也不知道自己在幹嘛。 +這張專輯證明了是前者…

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Tyler, The Creator - IGOR

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比他之前的專輯加起來都好聽,不唬爛

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Sarah Davachi - Pale Bloom

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Celestial Trax - Serpent Power

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Alameda 5 - Eurodrome

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+

有些歌會覺得這是King Crimson吧?不是說抄得很像,而是如果King +Crimson今年出了一張唱片應該會聽起來就是這樣。另外他們的廠牌Instant +Classic是我個人覺得很會挑的牌子,之前出的幾張純樂器專輯也真的是相當好聽

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9 / 10

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Meitei - Komachi

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AOTY candidate,老婆很愛

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Triad God - Triad

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收皮啦

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EPs

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7 / 10

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Felicity Mangan - Stereo’frog’ic

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整張二十分鐘,青蛙在叫,鳥也在叫,鬼也在叫,然後有馬在跑。蠻好聽的

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Patricia - Heavy Merging

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Sven-Åke Johansson & Jan Jelinek - puls-plus-puls

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不是Jan Jelinek最猛的作品… 但還不錯啦!不至於砸鍋,工作的時候聽還行

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8 / 10

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Evan Caminiti - Refraction

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Christoph De Babalon - Hectic Shakes

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Sofia Kourtesis - Sofia Kourtesis

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這個跟上一張都是很帶感的浩室音樂,然後都有點怪怪的… 特別愛這種

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Lucinda Chua - Antidotes 1

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很好聽的chamber pop,原來他是幫FKA Twigs拉大提琴的,然後跟Stars of the +Lid和Slint巡迴過…猛

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Curved Light - Flow and Return

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很讚的氛圍音樂,最近越來越對這種音樂沒抵抗力了…

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9 / 10

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Bellows - Sander

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這張第一首真的是完全擊中我要害,上半年聽過算是前幾名喜歡的歌了… 長度也適中,相當推薦!

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Springhead Works - Craven Faults

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Very ethereal… very nice

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2019 July / August Listenings

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Deaf Center - Low Distance

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Bleak ambient music

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Release date: 2019-03-22

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[8.9/10]

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Coil - Theme From the Gay Man’s Guide to Safer Sex

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I alway thought Coil was kinda like Throbbing Gristle, the kind of band that

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Release date: 2019-06-28

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does dark industrial music or something similar, but this album is in fact

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very groovy, very enjoyable and not at all challenging. Quality music.

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[8.6/10]

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Dos Monos - Dos City

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日本什麼時候有這麼ㄏㄧㄠˊ的饒舌團了?飛天爽

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Release date: 2019-03-20

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[8.6/10]

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James Ruskin - Reality Broadcast Off

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How techno should be done… great stuff.

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Release date:

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[8.6/10]

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Shura - forevher

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This one is a real doozie. Do not miss out!

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Release date: 2019-08-16

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[8.6/10]

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Jay Som - Anak Ko

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Indie pop, funky at times and serene at some other. I love the instrumentals on this thing.

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Release date: 2019-08-23

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[8.6/10]

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Sim Hutchins, Dale Cornish - Decouple ][ Series

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Druk Pak is easily one of my favorite techno songs in a long time.

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Release date: 2020-05-22

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Deconstructed techno music?

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[8.5/10]

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The Dead C - Rare Ravers

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Sometimes when you grow tired of stuff that is too pronounced, too focused,

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Release date:

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too eager to accomplish something, this is the record to put on. Previously

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I’ve only listened to their first album and I wasn’t really paying attention,

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but this one is exactly what I felt was previously missing in this year’s

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releases so far. I guess this can be called a “noise” record? But the guitars

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actually have some melodies going on, and it is not challenging at all to

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finish this album in one go. This is some quality stuff.

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[8.2/10]

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Valiska - Numbers

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Awesome slow electronica / ambient music

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Release date: 2020-12-20

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[8.2/10]

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Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen

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Jazzy hip hop最近應該超多人做,但做得好的人多不多又是另一回事了… 這張很好聽

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Release date:

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[8.2/10]

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They Hate Change - Clearwater

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This is the second Deathbomb release in this list.

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Release date: 1969-11-02

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[8.2/10]

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Special Request - Vortex

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+

Raving, gnarly techno music. Love it!

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Release date: 2019-11-22

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[8.1/10]

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Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation

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對這種真的是沒啥抵抗力… 好好聽…

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Release date: 2019-05-04

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[8/10]

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M. Sage - Catch a Blessing

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Great ambient music, lots of fun and lots of texture. If only I had a vinyl player at home…

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Release date: 2019-04-05

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[8.1/10]

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Laura Cannell, Polly Wright - Sing as the Crow Flies

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Sublime vocal improv modern composition music. I thought I don’t like this type of music, but boy was I gravely mistaken…

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Release date: 2019-08-02

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[8/10]

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Billy Woods, Kenny Segal - Hiding Places

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The beats on this album is very nicely done… I’d say some songs on this

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Release date: 2019-03-29

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sounds like a more refined, more nuanced version of the kind of rap music that

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Run the Jewels has been dishing out. Aside from the instruments, one really

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have to take time to listen to what Billy Woods is rapping about to fully

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appreciate this album.

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[8/10]

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Bendik Giske - Surrender

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I’d say it’s not really unreasonable to argue that any recording put out by a

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Release date: 2019-10-29

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solo sax player will be inevitably put into comparison with Colin Stetson’s

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music. True that this album features just one instrument, like Colin’s many

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recordings do, but the mood presented here is vastly different from Colin’s

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usual style. Bendik’s playing is subtle yet powerful, there’s a song that I

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really enjoy even employs the sound of strokes onto the buttons (I’m not sure

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what the correct words are), and although there are indeed moments where the

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sax is loud and the expressiveness is at its peak, this whole record overall

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carries a consistent, very delicate texture from start to finish. I really

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enjoy this one.

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[8/10]

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Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond

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So this guy did the sound designs in Twin Peaks, and is a long time

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Release date: 2019-07-12

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collaborator with David Lynch. I guess one can say this is almost the

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quintessential ambient album: all the elements that one should expect in an

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ambient release is here, and nothing is out of place. In this sense perhaps

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one could argue that this album does not provide an atmosphere that is

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different from all the other great ambient albums out there. But still, this

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is a very good ambient record.

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[8/10]

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Scrolls - Rent We Ate

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This is the third Deathbomb release on this list.

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Release date:

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[8/10]

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Oli XL - Rogue Intruder, Soul Enhancer

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Stellar electronic album. The slightly muffled vocals are pretty dope.

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Release date: 2019-07-22

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[8/10]

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AMAZONDOTCOM - Mirror River

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Pretty intense club music. People say it’s experimental club music /

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Release date: 2019-06-03

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deconstructed club music, but I feel like these adjectives doesn’t really do

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anything to describe this record. I like how the songs have an almost tribal

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sound to them.

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[7.9/10]

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Juan Wauters - La Onda de Juan Pablo

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+

The arrangements in this album are actually much more complex than what I

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Release date: 2019-01-25

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perceived when I first listened to it. I think this is definitely an album

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that growns on you. Juan’s voice has this captivating quality that makes these

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songs stand out from the average soft, soothing folk music.

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[7.9/10]

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Rainer Veil - Vanity

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Bright, nice techno music. In Gold Mills is pretty good. Very vibrant.

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Release date: 2011-09-29

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[7.9/10]

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Lifted - 2

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Jazzy electronic music / ambient. Pretty good!

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Release date: 2014-12-09

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[7.8/10]

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Rejoicer - Heavy Smoke

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Decent chillwave music from Isreal. In a sense it’s kinda like Sunset

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Release date: 2018-03-13

+

Rollercoaster decided to listen more Stereolab and this would be it. All in

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all not a single song in this record is bad, highly recommended for those who

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dig this type of stuff.

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[7.8/10]

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ANKHLEJOHN - A-Cold-World*

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Filthy rap music… I dig it.

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Release date: 2019-04-15

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[7.8/10]

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machina - archepelago

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+

Glitched out poppy techno. Or is it techno-ish K-pop? Either way this is a

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Release date: 2012-10-01

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pretty interesting album. Cool stuff.

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[7.7/10]

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Mary Lattimore, Mac McCaughan - New Rain Duets

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+

Decent ambient album. Harps + synths.

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Release date: 2019-03-22

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[7.6/10]

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Loop LF - Natural XT EP

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+

Drum n’ bass with a tropical vibe.

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Release date: 2019-07-05

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[7.6/10]

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DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess - One Place For the First Time

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I like this one because it’s got this almost dub-like vibe going on, and I

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Release date: 2019-05-17

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dig this kind of stuff very much… Also from her website DJ Marcelle seems

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like a pretty cool lady. My thoughts on this album is kinda similar to how

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I feel about Triad God’s album: it’s fun and it’s got people making various

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sounds (in Triad God it’s the dude speaking Cantonese, and here it is a

+

dude saying sorry repeatedly or some other dude snoring). I guess the beats

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could’ve been done in a more stripped down fashion: some songs have these

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little sound bits that remind me of what Foodman likes to do, but instead of

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generating an almost hilariously bizzare (or bizzarously hilarious, both

+

apply to Foodman’s music IMO) vibe, here their prescence is a bit too

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marginalized and don’t really affect the overall sound. Also I feel like

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going towards the end of the album it does feel not as strong as the

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beginning. Nevertheless it’s still a doozie and worth checking out.

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[7.6/10]

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Tomoko Sauvage - Musique Hydromantique

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[7.6/10]

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Release date: 2017-11-03

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JK Flesh - In Your Pit E.P

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太短了

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Release date: 2019-05-24

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[7.6/10]

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Floating Points - LesAlpx / Coorabell

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同上

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Release date: 2019-07-12

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[7.6/10]

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Mika Vainio, Franck Vigroux - Ignis

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+

Mika Vainio真的是過世得太早了…

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Release date: 2019-12-20

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很喜歡那種很沉的、像電流一樣的聲音,最後一首歌 Feux 很喜歡。

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[7.6/10]

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Ernest Berk - Electronic Music for Two Ballets

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Dark experimental electronic music. Should definitely try to find the footages of the two ballets.

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Release date:

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[7.6/10]

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Shifted - The Light Touch

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Afrobeat / techno

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Release date: 2021-05-13

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[7.5/10]

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Marie Davidson - Chasing the Light / Work It (Soulwax Remix) x Lara (Daniel Avery Remix)

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I like this much more than I like Marie Davidson’s solo output.

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Release date: 2019-08-08

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[7.5/10]

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Motohiko Hamase - #Notes of Forestry

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Chill new age / ambient / modern classical.

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Release date: 2019-02-13

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[7.5/10]

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Kode9 - Diggin In The Carts Remixes

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Kode9 reworks one of my favorite releases from last year. Last year’s was

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Release date:

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better.

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[7.5/10]

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Clay Rendering - California Black Vows

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At times jangly, at times soft gothic indie rock. Not bad.

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Release date:

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[7.5/10]

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Max D - Many Any

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Cool breakbeat music with a twist.

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Release date: 2002-03-25

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[7.4/10]

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Paisiel - Paisiel

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很迷幻的樂團,薩克斯風吹得很到位,推

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Release date: 2014-07-15

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[7.4/10]

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Chavis Chandler - CHOP SOUND DOJO

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[7.4/10]

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Release date:

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Shadi - You Can’t Hear Me

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Another weird hip hop album from Deathbomb Arc. Some songs have instrumentals that sound like old jazz fusion jams, but overall the flows and beats are not as neat as other releases from the label.

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Release date:

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[7.4/10]

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Blockhead - Free Sweatpants

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我是覺得不錯聽,後面的chill beats都還不錯,但是可能instrumental的會更好吧?Featuring的倒是都不錯,Open

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Release date: 2019-01-18

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Mike Eagle、Aesop Rock,都蠻厲害的

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[7.4/10]

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Little Simz - GREY Area

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現在再聽就覺得,還不錯,但今年有聽到更好聽的饒舌音樂…

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Release date: 2019-03-01

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[7.4/10]

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Rod Modell - Captagon

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Chilling dub techno.

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Release date: 2019-07-05

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[7.4/10]

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Wreck and Reference - Absolute Still Life

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This time they sound tamer and more chilled out then their previous efforts.

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Release date: 2019-07-19

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[7.3/10]

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Ondo Fudd - Eyes Glide Through the Oxide

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Upbeat techno music

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Release date: 2019-06-21

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[7.3/10]

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Spellling - Mazy Fly

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Pitchfork says this album sounds very haunting and reeks of terror… well I

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Release date: 2019-02-22

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really think they’re exagerating a bit too much here, but this album does have

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a dark undertone. While I do think this album could probably be a little more

+

adventurous and probably incorporate more esoteric elements like even stranger

+

compostion or more bizarre sound samples, I would say this is still a pretty

+

enjoyable album and is not all that difficult to get into.

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[7.3/10]

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Nina Kravitz - Stranno Stranno Neobjatno

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Ok techno music.

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Release date: 2019-07-22

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[7.2/10]

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Uboa - The Origin of My Depression

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Moody experimental / noise album. Lots of shrieks in this one.

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Release date: 2019-02-14

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[7.2/10]

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Departure Chandelier - The Black Crest of Death, The Gold Wreath of War

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USBM. Intro and outro are both stellar. The longer songs are ok.

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Release date: 2019-05-04

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[7.2/10]

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Eomac - Reconnect Remixes

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Weirded-out techno music

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Release date:

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[7.1/10]

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海豚刑警 - 豚愛特攻隊

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I don’t know… maybe it’s my problem that I don’t really enjoy this album

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Release date: 2019-06-19

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that much? I feel like the overall sound of the album is just too cheerful and

+

trying too hard to appeal to post-millenials, or maybe there isn’t even any

+

trying because they’re themselves post-millenials? I guess what I’m trying to

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say is, the songs are really well structured and nicely produced, and the

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musicianship on this album is unreal (it’s very good), but it’s the overall

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sound / mood / aesthetics that I don’t find myself a huge fan of.

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[7/10]

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STUDIO MULE - BGM

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Reworks of Japanese new age / electronica musics from the last century.

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Release date: 2021-06-01

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[7/10]

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Blood Orange - Angel’s Pulse

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I really think the songs on this album, or rather, the fragments that probably

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Release date: 2019-07-12

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could’ve developed into really good songs, are just way too short. The sound

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is still on par with his previous outputs, but I feel like this mixtape is for

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the ones with particularly short attention span. Maybe this is actually the

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music that represents this generation best?

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[7/10]

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MARKERS - Heaven in the Dark Earth

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只有吉他的後搖,我感覺很像很久以前聽Hell的某張EP的一首歌,也是只有吉他clean

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Release date:

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tone在那邊彈。雖說不是很特別的作品,但也是蠻好聽的…

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[7/10]

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Big K.R.I.T. - K.R.I.T. IZ HERE

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If this is your first time listening to Big K.R.I.T. then it’s prolly a good

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Release date: 2019-07-12

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idea to start with this album. Otherwise this album is basically identical to

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all the albums in his discography. Even the flows are almost the same, the

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triplets and stress and stuff. I wouldn’t say this album is not enjoyable

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because overall it’s still pretty catchy and pleasing to the ears but it’s

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basically just K.R.I.T. repeating himself.

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[7/10]

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Shing02, SPINMASTER A-1 - 246911

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J-Rap guru Shing02’s 2019 offering sounds even more influenced by traditional

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Release date: 2019-04-11

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Japanese elements, almost every song on the album is laden with Japanese

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chants or jingles. This is also IMO one of the weaker moments in his entire

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discography. The instrumentals and flow are observably much less playful /

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experimental than his previous efforts, such as 400 or Waikyoku. To be frank,

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I might as well just listen to Tim Hecker…

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[6.8/10]

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Pentadrangle - Voidrun Original Soundtrack

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Pretty decent chiptune music. It’s just that I’m never really a big fan of

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Release date:

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this type of music…

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[6.8/10]

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Haiku Salut - The General

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+

Glithy beats and piano and synthesizer. Soundtrack to some movie. I don’t like the pianos in this one, too cliche.

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Release date: 2019-05-31

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[6.5/10]

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Kornél Kovács - Stockholm Marathon

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+

I’m not that big on pop house / house pop or stuff like that. But I gotta admit some songs like Atlas Nights and Rocks are pretty decent.

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Release date: 2019-04-26

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[6.5/10]

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Buttechno - Minimal Cuts

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+

中規中矩吧?電音專輯有更好聽的就是了。

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Release date: 2019-01-28

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[6.4/10]

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Oozing Wound - High Anxiety

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+

樂器部分相當給力… 很爽的龐克 &

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Release date: 2016-08-19

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很帶感的sludge,但主唱的唱法我實在是不喜歡。如果是叫Jane Doe時期的Jacob

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Bannon來唱的話應該還蠻適合的

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[6.2/10]

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Dj Python - Derretirse

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+

Festive techno music.

+

Release date: 2019-06-17

+

[6.2/10]

+

Russian Circles - Blood Year

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+

Definitely not their best album. Pales in comparison to their older stuff,

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Release date: 2019-08-02

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songs were much less fun and the riffs weren’t as crushing.

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[6.1/10]

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Tool - Fear Inoculum

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+

Meh… 拖台錢

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Release date: 2019-08-30

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[6.1/10]

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False - Portent

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+

I almost fell asleep…

+

Release date: 2020-12-29

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[6.1/10]

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Tralala Blip - Eat My Codes If Your Light Falls

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+

I don’t like pop electronica. This sounds very 00’s-ish.

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Release date:

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[6/10]

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Lingua Ignota - CALIGULA

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+

Experimental music that’s not really experimental. More like a mashup of black metal and chant music.

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Release date: 2013-01-15

+

[6/10]

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Pavel Milyakov - La Maison De La Mort

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Songs I like: FFF, Moon Pad。有些歌切得好斷… 不錯的ambient music,整體來說還行?但不聽可能也不會怎麼樣。搞這張的就是上面那位Buttechno,可以聽得出來這張的電音感還是有的

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Release date: 2019-03-01

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[6/10]

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Pile - Green and Gray

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Their older stuff, like Dripping and You’re Better Than This, are much better in terms of song structures and dynamics. In this one I feel that the harder hitting parts are kinda rushed together - they’re there not because of a previous build up or to signify some sort of mood shift, instead they feel more like fragments, segments of riffs and do not really sound all that

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Release date: 2019-05-03

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coherent. And then the soft parts, while pretty catchy, do not seem to possess that grasping feel in the more melodic moments in the albums I just mentioned. Pile is a great band, but this album is definitely not their strongest.

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[6/10]

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Sadistik - Haunted Gardens

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+

Hip hop reviewers seem to dig this album a lot… I feel like the instrumentals sound too much soft EDM-ish, and the flow isn’t really all that refreshing.

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Release date: 2019-04-20

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[6/10]

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Kim Petras - Clarity

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不是啊,同樣的音樂類型Rina Sawayama為啥就做得這麼好聽,Kim Petra就可以做得這麼水… 其實不算差,但我覺得是也可以不用聽啦…

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Release date: 2012-01-01

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[5/10]

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Sadness - Circle of Veins

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+

… black metal + 00s-ish electro pop + indie pop. Pretty yucky if you ask me…

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Release date: 2017

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[4.5/10]

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Gus Dapperton - Where Polly People Go to Read

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The dude’s going to play in Taiwan… one thing for sure is that you won’t see me at the show. I really do not comprehend why people even listen to this stuff, to me this record is more like a cut ’n paste of some of the blandest, most watered-down moments from several relevant indie genres: dream pop, indie rock, synth pop, alternative r&b, the list can go on but I suppose you already get the idea. To be fair some bass lines in some tracks are pretty flashy, but the dude’s voice is just too obnoxious for me to actually remember which songs have better instrumentals. All in all I really don’t think very highly of this musical project.

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Release date: 2019-04-19

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[4.4/10]

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Pelican - Nighttime Stories

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Not good.

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Release date: 2019-06-07

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[3/10]

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Kaoru Inoue - Em Paz

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+

Groovy Japanese new age ambient music.

+

Release date: 2021-04-22

+

[7.3/10]

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HKE - Charming Devil

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Xiu Xiu + Wreck in Reference

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Release date:

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[7.5/10]

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Milieu - Remodelled

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IDM / ambient electronic. In some songs the drums are way too loud so keep in mind to turn down the volume a little bit.

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Release date: 2007-04-26

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[7.5/10]

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Tom Carter - Long Time Underground

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迷幻搖滾吉他大作,相當不錯

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Release date:

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[7.6/10]

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Auspicious Family - Gruff Sequences for Dancefloor

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I like the rhythmic patterns in this record. It’s got a controlled texture to it and I kinda dig it. One problem I find with this album is the balance of the sounds in some of the songs, like the ride cymbal bells on Waxen Folds is actually distractingly loud when listened on my earphones. Still this is a pretty enjoyable album.

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Release date:

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[7.6/10]

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Yutaka Hirose - Nova + 4

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+

Ambient / environmental music. Probably need to listen to it for a few more times…

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Release date: 1986-06-26

+

[7.6/10]

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Dynamo - Außen Vor

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+

Spacey, grainy techno music.

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Release date:

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[7.8/10]

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Lionmilk - Depths of Madness

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Pretty chill RnB. I like the instrumentals on this one a lot.

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Release date: 2018-05-11

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[7.8/10]

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Serpent Column - Ornuthi Thalassa

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I’m glad to have finally found some new metal tracks that are interesting enough to listen to… to me it’s a bit too organized and the melodic parts are at times a bit too much of a cliche, but it’s heavy and a lot of fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2017-07-21

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[7.9/10]

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Hecq - Chansons de geste

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+

Think William Basinski, Philip Jeck and the Caretaker. Haunting droney low fidelity ambient music.

+

Release date: 2017-09-04

+

[8/10]

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Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music

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+

好聽耶… 而且歌詞其實很猛,整天在嗑藥的鄉村音樂,沒聽過吧!

+

Release date: 2014-05-13

+

[8/10]

+

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - FRKWYS Vol. 12: We Know Each Other Somehow

+

+

[8/10]

+

Release date: 2015-04-14

+

Migurl Angel Tolosa - Ephimeral

+

+

Decent ambient with dark undertone.

+

Release date: 2019-05-24

+

[8/10]

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Colored Music - Individual Beauty

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+

Japanese new wave / jazz funk / art rock.

+

Release date: 2018-05-23

+

[8.1/10]

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Nick Malkin - Slow Day on Brilliant Drive

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+

Gorgeous ambient music. Lots of different textures laid out in the tracks.

+

Release date:

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[8.2/10]

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Adriana Lopez - Anonymity of Grey

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Very decent techno music. The first songs is very outstanding… I really like how the main rhythmic beeps are interwined throughout the song.

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Release date:

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[8.3/10]

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75 Dollar Bill - Wooden Bag

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[8.5/10]

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Release date:

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F.U.S.E. - Dimension Intrusion

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Exquisite acid house / ambient techno.

+

Release date: 2019-05-03

+

[8.5/10]

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David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive

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I used to always think Japan sounds like a band that’d play hard rock / hair metal, now I know I was gravely mistaken. This album is from the frontman of the said band, and how to call this music… adult contemporary? Art pop? Either way this album is a great pleasure to the ears. I really like how ferocious and dissonant the piano goes in the song Mother and Child.

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Release date: 1987-11-07

+

[8.5/10]

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Lupe Fiasco - Testuo & Youth

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+

Lupe Fiasco有這麼好聽喔…

+

Release date: 2015-01-20

+

[8.6/10]

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Ellen Arkbro - For Organ and Brass

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+

Very soothing modern composition.

+

Release date: 2017-04-14

+

[8.8/10]

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David Sylvian - Blemish

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MASTERPIECE

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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[9.5/10]

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How I Got This Blog Rolling (aka Hakyll For Dummies)

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+ Posted on July 19, 2019 + +
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+One day I’ll start a company where all programmers have to code in Brainfuck… + +
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Why Hakyll?

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一直以來都蠻想學一下Haskell,但又太懶沒真的認真學過或是拿來做什麼正事… 最近事情沒那麼多,想說重新來摸一下,但光是看Real World +Haskell或是Learn You a Haskell for Great +Good來學好像又有點沒啥實感的樣子,就想說不如挑簡單一點的事情來做。然後我一直都想學下怎樣自己架個部落格,所以…

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一開始是打算拿另一個也是用Haskell實作的網路框架Yesod來刻一個,但是摸了一陣覺得Yesod對於Haskell語言熟悉度的門檻還是稍微高一些,於是就拿Hakyll來用了。Hakyll基本上跟Jekyll的原理差不多,只要寫寫markdown文檔,下幾個指令,丟給伺服器就差不多了。很久以前有嘗試用過Jekyll,但是那時候比較嫩一點,又不是很想認真搞懂元件跟功能之間的關係,就沒有繼續碰了。目前個人使用Hakyll的感覺是所有的邏輯都可以整合在一個地方,印象中Jekyll還有一些需要自己去調整的東西,比起來Hakyll的整體使用經驗對我來說順蠻多的。當然有那種根本不用開命令列就可以架Jekyll的作法,但我的重點就是要自己做啊… 所以不考慮。至於在實際操作上,Haskell的code其實一旦習慣了就還蠻好懂的,整個程式的邏輯很清楚,要加什麼特別神奇的功能我想應該也是有辦法做到的。社群裡面大師也很多,基本上有什麼不會的Google一下都可以找到解答。

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How?

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其實Hakyll作者自己寫的教學文檔就已經很清楚了,我單純紀錄一下我是怎麼做的… 我的程式碼放在這裡:https://github.com/usefulalgorithm/personal-website

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這個網站是直接host在Github Page上面,因為我懶得找別的免費的website hosting +service了… Github Page的使用方法應該蠻簡單的,直接去他們的官方網站,照著步驟做就可以了。如果不想的話,Surge貌似免費用戶就有自訂網址,但我沒用過。

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接下來講一下基本的操作:

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Basics

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其實直接從Hakyll官方拉下來就可以直接透過stack來把所有東西建起來了。應該可以透過bootstrap之類的東西來調HTML跟CSS相關的所有東西,但我看文檔有點多就懶得讀了…

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另外要佈署到Github的話,因為Github Page不會自行替我們輸出Hakyll builds,所以必須要做一些額外的步驟。網上似乎有大大有做些全自動化的CI的介紹,但因為我佈署的時候沒看到那篇文,所以基本上是照著自己覺得怎樣好用就怎麼做了。Hakyll編好的HTML檔會放在_site/資料夾裡面,而這些HTML檔就是實際上拿來佈署的網頁。我做的就是直接在_site/裡面新開一個Git repository:

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$ git clone https://github.com/username/username.github.io _site
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然後因為在做stack exec site build的時候生出來的檔會自己長在_site裡面,所以它裏頭的Git repository也跟著被修改。如果我們透過瀏覽器看過一遍,覺得沒有問題的話,就可以直接去針對_site/裡面的檔案去做git add; git commit -m <Your commit message>; git push,然後再去你的Github Page頁面網址看 看你丟上去的東西。

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Favicon

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有沒有看到我的網頁的小圖示是個妙蛙種子?梗是來自這裡:Interview with Bulbasaur。這個應該是最簡單的,只要自己生一個.ico檔出來,丟在一個你覺得適合的地方就可以了。我自己的話是放在image/裡面,但其實放哪真的都沒差… 好了之後,在template/default.htmlhead裡面塞進這行:

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(... snipped... )
+<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.ico"/>
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然後stack exec site watch,再去127.0.0.1看,應該就可以在瀏覽器的tab列看到你的小圖示了。

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Disqus

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雖說好像有人講說根本就不需要有讓人留言的功能,不過我覺得有的話還是炫一點… 我只看過別人用Disqus,又懶得去survey有沒有其他的東西可以用,所以就決定用Disqus了。 Disqus的設定相對簡單一點,照著官網的說明操作即可。比較有點煩的是Disqus一定要註冊才能用,就… 不在意的話可以用,我個人的話如果以後有空閒的話是會想換個留言外掛來用就是了。照著官方說明做完之後,templates/default.html裡面應該會有一個<comments>部分,可以自己在css/default.css裡面調整一下,然後以後發文的時候markdown的metadata裡面記得要加comments: true

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Tags

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這個我搞得比較久,結果後來發現是低級錯誤… 基本上照著這篇做就可以了:Add tags to your Hakyll blog,但是做完之後 千萬記得要stack build ,重新編過一次site.hs,才會觀察到_site/tags/裡面有東西出現。

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RSS / Atom Feed

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這個也一樣照著官網做就好了。那因為我覺得RSS訂閱那個按鈕很好看,不想要有個文字連結來做這件事情,所以花比較多時間的反而是在搞RSS訂閱的按鈕。搞好之後想說乾脆連社群媒體的那些連結也都做成一樣的形式,就不用再另外多一個Contact的頁面了。我是用Font Awesome來找那些圖片,應該一樣照著官網上面寫的作法做就可以了,但是它也得要註冊… 另外Font Awesome貌似是可以下載下來直接放在css/裡面,或是也可以直接用網路上的資源庫來用。網路上的Kit貌似載入速度似乎不是太好,圖片要稍微等一等才會正確地出現,我覺得用起來實在是有點不… 所以就直接在templates/default.html<head>裡面加了一段自己去load的腳本,然後用不那麼新的FA庫,載入速度就快了一些。我用原本的Kit時在沒有快取時的速度大概是改用腳本時的五倍吧…就一簡單的部落格要載個十幾秒,實在是沒必要。

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<script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var css =
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+    'stylesheet'; css.type = 'text/css';
+  document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(css); })();
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That’s all!

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大概是這樣了,其實很多都是照著別人的東西上的說明做的,沒啥特別了不起的地方…

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2019 September Listenings

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They Hate Change - Juices Run Clear

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One of the best hip hop acts in 2019 strikes again.

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Release date:

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[9.0/10]

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Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code

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I LOVE IT

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Release date: 2019-06-28

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[8.9/10]

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Anne Imhof - Faust

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A soundtrack for an opera piece performed in some year’s Venice Biennale. Hopefully one day I’ll get to see the piece… this album is phenomenal.

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Release date: 2021-04-23

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[8.8/10]

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Tomoyoshi Date, Stijn Hüwels - Hochu-Ekki-Tou

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Stellar ambient music.

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Release date: 2019-04-19

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[8.6/10]

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Ed Balloon - The Dubs

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At first listen I was pretty indifferent to this one but once I decided to spend some time to actually focus on it I changed my mind. This is easily one of the best pop-rap albums this year. Maybe calling it pop-rap doesn’t really do this album justice… the lyrics are pretty dope too.

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Release date: 1962

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[8.6/10]

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Charli XCX - Charli

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I’ve been lowkey smack talking about how I don’t really get why everyone’s been so hyped up about Charli XCX, but now I shall repent. Honestly I still like Rina Sawayama more than I like Charli, but I definitely can see why people’s been raving about the latter… because I am too.

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[8.5/10]

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H-Fusion - H-Fusion

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Really cool techno… I dig it!

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Release date:

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[8.5/10]

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The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery

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Psyched-out nu jazz / jazz fusion. I like this a lot more than I like Kamasi Washington. The sax player also played with Sons of Kemet.

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Release date: 2019-03-15

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[8.4/10]

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Ellen Arkbro - CHORDS

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Not as captivating as her 2017 album, but still a magnificent album.

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Release date: 2004-11-02

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[8.2/10]

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Norihito Suda, Stijn Hüwels - Sansui

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Another nicely done ambient release from Home Normal. Definitely check them out!

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Release date: 2019-04-09

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[8.1/10]

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Burial - Claustro / State Forest

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Half-assed release… c’mon man.

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Release date: 2019-06-14

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[8.0/10]

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Solar X - Xrated

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Russian IDM. The first song is super dope.

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Release date: 2011-10-10

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[8.0/10]

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Leo Svirsky - River Without Banks

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Soothing piano based classical ambient music.

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Release date: 2019-08-23

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[7.9/10]

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Mach-Hommy - Wap Konn Jòj!

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The production on this album is killer. The instrumentals are very nujabe-esque, and the featured guests are all big names. People say the lyricism is top tier but I haven’t got the time to actually figure out what he’s rapping about. Maybe some other time…

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Release date:

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[7.8/10]

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Felicia Atkinson - The Flower And The Vessel

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Decent ambient / electronic. Intimate.

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Release date: 2019-07-05

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[7.7/10]

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Mister Lies - Mister Lies

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張揚愛團, chillwave / ambient. The sound becomes more vibrant / cheery towards the end of this album.

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Release date: 2019-08-02

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[7.7/10]

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Jane Weaver - Loops In The Secret Society

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Pretty cool electronic music. Sounds like a less flashy Stereolab.

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Release date: 2019-06-21

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[7.7/10]

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SOPHIE - OIL OF EVERY PEARL’S UN-INSIDES NON-STOP REMIX ALBUM

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Too long… I like the original album better.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[7.6/10]

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Octo Octa - Resonant Body

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Club / house / breakbeat. The music is upbeat and festive, and from the track titles it’s quite obvious this is a work that celebrates the queer bodies and inclinations. Not really into this type of music recently but I definitely can see techno lovers digging this.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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Ecstatic Beat is one helluva track though!

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[7.5/10]

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JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs

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Not really as disappointing as the Tool album (duh), but still… I guess it’s disappointing just because his previous stuff are just too outstanding? The instrumentals are much tamer than his previous records, making this album somewhat lacking in energy and edge. The lyrics still slay though.

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[7.4/10]

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Ekin Fil - Heavy

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An even more drowned-in-reverb version of Cocteau Twins.

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Release date: 2019-12-13

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[7.4/10]

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Plaid - Polymer

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OK IDM album.

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Release date: 2019-06-07

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[7.2/10]

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Iona Fortune - Tao Of I Volume 2

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Ambient with a lot of Chinese influence, with instruments like Guzheng or stuff present. I think the said influence is way too overwhelming sometimes, if it’s a bit more subtle and more nuanced maybe I’d like it more.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[7.2/10]

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Leila Bordreuil - Headflush

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Visceral ambient music.

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Release date: 2020-12-08

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[7.1/10]

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BABii - HiiDE

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Electro-pop album. Reminds me of earlier Grimes records.

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Release date: 2019-07-05

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[7.1/10]

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Kcin - Sleeplessness And Hopelessness I

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Dark sounding techno.

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Release date: 2019-11-20

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[7.0/10]

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Dis Fantasy - Dis Fantasy

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The flows don’t really do much to me. Overall a pretty sleek but not really a super-memorable album.

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Release date: 2020-04-30

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[7.0/10]

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Kindness - Something Like A War

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R&B with a twist. Some songs have great instrumentals but the others aren’t as captivating.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[7.0/10]

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DJ Haram - Grace EP

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Club music with Middle East influences. The song Body Count is pretty fun but the rest IMO are just alright.

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Release date: 2019-07-05

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[7.0/10]

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François J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley - Cylene

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Ambient that lacks memorable moments. Seems to be theory-heavy? But I guess it’s like seeing installation arts that don’t make a lot of sense in appearance and have absurdly abstract names. Of course I’m not saying the artist is obliged to come up with a statement for the artwork, but then is there any point to just shove the songs in people’s faces and tell them to figure things out themselves…

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[6.5/10]

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Kedr Livanskiy - Your Need

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Dub-ish & club-ish techno music.

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Release date: 2019-05-03

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[6.2/10]

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Organ Tapes - Hunger In Me Living

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2SOFT

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Release date: 2019-05-24

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[6.0/10]

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IDK - Is He Real?

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2NAGGIN. No he isn’t real.

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Release date: 2019-09-04

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[5.5/10]

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Lite - Multiple

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This one is more lackluster than their previous album. The creative riffs and passages in their earlier stuff is nowhere to be found on this album… :(

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Release date: 2021-03-13

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[5.5/10]

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w00dy - RNBW

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Insanely awesome deconstructed pop music. Masterpiece.

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Release date: 2019-04-11

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[9.0/10]

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Sugar - No Sex Only Feelings

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Crazy good techno. Sugar salt.

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Release date: 2018-09-26

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[8.9/10]

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Pan-American - For Waiting, For Chasing

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They’re releasing a new album this year! Yay!

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[8.7/10]

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Sunareht - Sagas

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Lively and vibrant techno EP. I dig it!

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Release date: 2008-06-27

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[8.5/10]

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True Neutral Crew - Soft Rules

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Another new challenger in the experimental hip hop game… this one is more controlled and coherent than a lot of artists out there. I like it.

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[8.4/10]

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Niagara - Apologia

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Dope electronica. Sounds like some soundtrack to some John Carpenter’s movie.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[8.2/10]

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Elucid - Save Yourself

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Thoughtful abstract hip hop.

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Release date: 2020-11-06

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[8.1/10]

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They Hate Change - Cycles

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Seriously… They Hate Change has got to be one of the best hip hop acts nowadays.

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Release date: 2021-04-14

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[8.1/10]

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Topdown Dialectic - Topdown Dialectic

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Minimal techno. Great to put on repeat.

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Release date: 2018-06-08

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[8.0/10]

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P.E.E. - i win me over.

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Quirky yet absurdly catchy pop punk. Lean and mean!

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[8.0/10]

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Stanislav Tolkachev - Why Are You So Frightened

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Pretty dope techno. Great if put it on infinite repeat.

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Release date: 2011-08-01

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[8.0/10]

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Fauxe - Ikhlas

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Groovy electronica with a distinct SE Asian flavor to it.

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Release date: 2018-06-20

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[7.9/10]

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P. Adrix - Álbum Desconhecido

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I don’t really dig other kuduro albums, but this one sound more modernized and is actually quite pleasing.

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Release date: 2018-03-02

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[7.6/10]

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Swarvy - Anti-Anxiety

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A compilation of short but pretty chill hip hop tracks.

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Release date: 2018-07-06

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[7.2/10]

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D.Dan - Covert Operation

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Club-ish techno.

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Release date: 2018-10-05

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[7.0/10]

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Naaahhh - Themes

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Murky ambient / experimental electronic music.

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Release date: 2017-11-10

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[6.8/10]

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百合花 - 燒金蕉

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I’m really glad there are still decent bands in Taiwan. 不聽可惜

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[9.0/10]

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Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough

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FFO Have A Nice Life and Planning For Burial. All banger no filler.

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Release date: 2019-09-27

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[8.8/10]

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Richard Dawson - 2020

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Doesn’t disappoint whatsoever.

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[8.7/10]

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Minor Pieces - The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming

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Slowcore will never die, but you will. Exquisite lofi glitchy folk / electronica.

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[8.7/10]

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Proc Fiskal - Shleekit Doss

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I didn’t really pay a lot of attention to his last album, but this EP totally slays… awesome UK grime. Also gotta say it’s insane how Hyperdub always manages to find dope stuff.

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[8.6/10]

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Loraine James - For You And I

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Glitchy club music. I like the techno beats on this album. Another stunning release from Hyperdub!

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Release date: 2019-09-20

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[8.6/10]

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Maria w Horn - Epistasis

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FFO Ellen Arkbro, Kali Malone and Abul Mogard. I’m a sucker for this type of music…

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[8.6/10]

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Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods

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So this album was actually released in 1975… I guess Pitchfork is quite accurate in calling it proto-ambient? A large portion of this album consists of field recordings and they really do help bring out an imagination of the American suburbs, and they pair very well with the old time sounding instrumentation. Nice stuff.

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Release date: 2011-01-01

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[8.5/10]

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DJ Spinna - 1997 Beat Tape

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Nujabes fans will definitely dig this.

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Release date: 2019-06-21

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[8.5/10]

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Weatherday - Come In

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This is what would happen if Phil Elverum plays punk rock. The track My Sputnik Sweetheart is especially visceral. Overall an awesome emo album (can’t believe there are actually still people that know how to do a proper emo record…)

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Release date: 2021-01-14

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[8.4/10]

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HTRK - Venus in Leo

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Delicate indie electronica / pop. Somehow feels like a sadder Beach House…

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Release date: 2019-08-30

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[8.3/10]

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S S S S - Walls, Corridors, Baffles

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Borderline noise experimental electronica. Think Ben Frost’s By the Throat, but more abrasive. I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff…

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[8.3/10]

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Floating Points - Crush

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This one is more techno than jazzy electronica. Still pretty dope.

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Release date: 2000-01-01

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[8.2/10]

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Sana Obruent - End Game

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Haunting ambient. It gradually gets more intense as the album approaches its end.

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Release date: 2017-12-08

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[8.2/10]

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Toshifumi Hinata - Broken Belief

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Pretty good new age. This is a compilation of the artist’s music from the 80’s so I guess it makes sense.

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Release date: 2019-09-19

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[8.2/10]

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Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿

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I feel like it’s much more surprising if one day Danny Brown puts out a wack album. This album is killer just like his older stuff.

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Release date: 2019-10-04

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[8.2/10]

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Cult Of Luna - A Dawn to Fear

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I don’t know what’s not to like about this band or this album.

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Release date: 2019-09-20

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[8.2/10]

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Sote - Parallel Persia

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Techno / experimental album from Iran. The plucked ethnic instruments in the songs give a cacophonic yet enticing feel to the overall sound of this album, and the beats are pretty killer.

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Release date: 2019-04-26

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[8.1/10]

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Old Man Saxon, Cer Spence - Goldman Sax

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Quality chillhop. Gorgeous instrumentals and flows.

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Release date: 2019-04-24

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[8.1/10]

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Ka Baird - Respires

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Minimalistic experimental album. Pretty fun to listen to, but requires multiple listens. Greg Fox played the drums for this album.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[8.0/10]

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Afrodeutsche - Break Before Make

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Funky, upbeat techno music.

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Release date: 2018-06-08

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[8.0/10]

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Pessimist, Karim Maas - Pessimist & Karim Maas

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Chilling, dark and restrained techno.

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Release date: 2019-06-21

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[7.9/10]

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Klein - Lifetime

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That first song was pretty spooky. I like how this album’s overall sound has a raw distorted quality to it. Pretty decent experimental album.

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Release date: 2021-01-21

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[7.8/10]

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Air Max ’97 - Ice Bridge

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Intense techno tracks here. Put out a full length already…

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Release date: 2019-09-27

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[7.8/10]

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Philippe Cam - Rotterdam

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Chilled-out ambient / minimal techno. Some tracks remind me of Visible Cloak’s stuff.

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Release date: 2021-03-12

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[7.8/10]

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Carl Gari, Abdullah Miniawy - Whities 023 (The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor)

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Pretty neat album. Bass-heavy electronica plus Egyptian chants and trumpets.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[7.7/10]

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Yosi Horikawa - Spaces

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IDM + hip hop + world music(?). The songs are pretty fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2020-02-01

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[7.7/10]

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Equip - Nocturne Catacombs

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Funky vaporwave.

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[7.6/10]

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Deathprod - Occulting Disk

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Industrial / dark ambient. Spooky af.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[7.4/10]

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Tribe Of Colin - Age of Aquarius

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Techno music. A pretty safe one.

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Release date: 1969

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[7.4/10]

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Comit - Remote Viewing

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Organic sounding techno.

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Release date: 2019-08-12

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[7.4/10]

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J Rick - No Retreat No Surrender

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Short and sweet UK hip-hop / jazzy pop mixtape. I think this mixtape are a bit unfocused at times, but then I like how jazzy it sounds throughout the entire project.

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Release date: 2008-11-10

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[7.3/10]

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Topdown Dialectic - Vol. 2

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Pretty safe compared to their first album.

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Release date: 1998-11-29

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[7.2/10]

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Stavros Gasparatos - Rage Park

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Gloomy modern classical.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.1/10]

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Mestozi - Peak Communication

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On the artist’s Bandcamp page there are tags like “folk rap”, “neo-folk” and “blues”, so that’s a strong indication of this album being something quite refreshing to listen to. However IMO none of the songs are really that memorable. I’d say this is still pretty much chillwave rap.

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[7.0/10]

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Claro Intelecto - Forgotten Wasteland

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Dub house / techno. Pretty good and I like how the beats are a bit distorted, but this EP overall doesn’t stand out from the rest of the crowd.

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Release date: 2019-06-21

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[7.0/10]

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Mark Lanegan - Somebody’s Knocking

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Alternative rock jams with a gothic undertone. Kinda sounds like the Killers with a raspier vocal if you ask me…

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[7.0/10]

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Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Bryce Dessner, eighth blackbird - When We Are Inhuman

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Not the strongest stuff from Bonnie Prince (Viva Last Blues and I See A Darkness are two albums I’d consider as his magnum opus) . Still a pretty soothing album though.

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Release date: 2019-08-30

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[6.9/10]

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Danny Scott Lane - How to Empty a Cup

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Shimmery ambient.

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[6.8/10]

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Angel Olsen - All Mirrors

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Indie chamber pop. I feel like this album has a chanson like grandiose quality to it. Not the biggest fan of the flamboyant overall sound of this album…

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Release date: 2019-10-04

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[6.7/10]

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Bakongo - Momoweb / Disposition / Goulbap

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Techno with some African percussions.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[6.7/10]

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slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain

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overrated

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Release date: 2019-05-17

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[6.5/10]

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Wilco - Ode to Joy

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Don’t see how this album is different from all the other Wilco albums. Definitely not an awful album though.

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Release date: 2019-10-04

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[6.5/10]

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DIIV - Deceiver

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This could be any other shoegaze band’s stuff and I wouldn’t be able to tell which band came up with it. Or maybe I’m just too old for this…

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Release date: 2013-06-25

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[6.1/10]

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Thaiboy Digital - Legendary Member

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Maybe it’s just me but I’ve always found mumble rap to be an obnoxious form of music… To be fair some tracks do have decent instrumentals, but then even in the best moments on this album it’s just less irritating radio trap bangers.

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Release date: 2019-09-26

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[5.8/10]

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Opeth - In Cauda Venenum

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OMG CAN’T FINISH

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Release date: 2019-09-27

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[4.6/10]

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當代電影大師 - 狀態

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… I mean the songs are just really not good… the narcissistic lyrics and the pretentious whiny vocals don’t help either. 整個受不鳥

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[4.4/10]

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Kanye West - Jesus Is King

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I guess Ye made this album just for the lulz. Closed on Sunday, you’re my Chick-fill-A? This line says everything about the album.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[4.0/10]

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Fabulous Diamonds - Commercial Music

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Grossly overlooked experimental album.

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Release date: 2021-06-01

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[9.0/10]

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Madteo - Noi No

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King Midas Sound + minimal techno.

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Release date: 2019-08-09

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[8.5/10]

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Soccer Mommy - Clean

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FFO Shura and Jay Som. However the album sound very exuberant and lush, and is much more in the vein of indie rock music compared to the said two artists.

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Release date: 2018-03-02

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[8.4/10]

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Pan Sonic - Aaltopiri

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I still like Kesto more…

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Release date: 2000

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[8.1/10]

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Sarn - Postmodern Trash

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Even if the singing is totally off I still consider this a fun one… just that probably not everyone will enjoy it. The brass in the track Fss is pretty nasty.

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[7.2/10]

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Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu Forsetar

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Not a fan of the triumphant sounding horns. Overall sounds pretty safe to me.

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[6.6/10]

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Grischa Lichtenberger - Re:Phgrp

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What is this… IDM with dissonant jazz samples? Free jazztronica? Deconstructed glitch jazz?

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[8.8/10]

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Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love

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Experimental indie art pop. The instrumentals are very techno-ish and has a bunch of four-on-the-floor beats going on, while Jenny Hval’s voice is as ethereal as ever. Do not miss out.

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[8.6/10]

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FKA Twigs - Magdalene

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Don’t like the Future feature on this album. Other than that every song is pretty good. I think I actually enjoy this one more than her earlier albums…

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[8.6/10]

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Uniform & The Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back

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Release date: 2019-08-16

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[8.5/10]

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Joy Orbison - Slipping

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Dope UK club EP. Definitely check out Breathe In and Walworth Waltz.

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[8.5/10]

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Special Request - Bedroom Tapes

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What’s up with this dude? Another awesome post-IDM album from the group that put out Vortex, another awesome album, earlier this year.

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Release date: 2017-06-16

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[8.5/10]

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Imaginary Softwoods - Gold Fiction Loop Garden

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Synth-laden ambient music.

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Release date: 2019-06-14

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[8.4/10]

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Various Artists - EQUIPMENT

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I’m a sucker for Japanese ambient new age music… This is like the background music for Legend of Zelda games, but without the actual game distracting you from really getting absorbed by the music.

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Release date: 2021-01-31

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[8.3/10]

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Andy Stott - It Should Be Us

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Haven’t listened to Andy Stott’s stuff in a long time… Slow, dark, twisted techno / house music. 0L9, Take, Versi and Dismantle are great tracks.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[8.3/10]

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Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.

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Not as magnificent as Aesthethica, but still kicks ass. The band kind of returns to a more black metal inspired sound on this album. Some songs have weird, almost funny metal parts where the guitars play syncopated chugs and the drums just blast away, and it’s these parts that kind of worries me if the day when djent black metal becomes a legit subgenre has finally come. Other than that I think most of the other heavier metal sections are carried out wonderfully, like the song God of Love - it’s gotta be one of my favorite metal jams in 2019. I also enjoy the more mellowed out, modern classical-ish interludes on this album.

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Release date: 2019-11-12

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[8.3/10]

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A Winged Victory For The Sullen - The Undivided Five

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Very soothing piano neoclassical / ambient. Great to put on repeat on a sleep deprived workday…

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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[8.2/10]

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⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ - ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡​(​ƟӨ​)​ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡ ꐑ​(​ཀ ඊູ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ✧ළඕั࿃ूੂ࿃ूੂੂ࿃ूੂළඕั✧ı̴̴̡ ̡̡͡​|​̲̲̲͡ ̲̲̲͡͡π̲̲͡͡ ɵੂ≢࿃ूੂ೧ູఠీੂ ඊູཀ ꐑ​(​ʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡​(​ƟӨ​)​ʃ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡

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Kinda like the cheerier songs on Selected Ambient Works Vol.2. Or Mount Kimbie. Or Four Tet.

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[8.2/10]

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Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race

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Ass-kicking death metal. Actually pretty catchy. That last track is pretty post-metal-ish and super epic. Dig it!

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Release date: 2019-11-22

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[8.2/10]

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Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror

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Has the moment when dark, gothic, Cabaret Voltaire inspired post-punk bands become once again championed by music dorkish reviewers on the Internet, i.e. yours truly, since forever finally arrived? Probably. I like this a lot more than I like the Strokes, the National and the Horror, or all these post-punk revival bands combined.

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Release date: 2019-07-12

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[8.1/10]

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Planetary Assault Systems - Plantae

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A pretty banger techno album. Bandcamp introduction says Luke Slater is “an innovator of psychedelic mindfuck techno”. Quite fitting IMO.

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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[8.1/10]

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Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts

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TFW Sunn O))) went Yo La Tango.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[8.1/10]

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Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs

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Short and sweet folk album. Jessica Pratt has an interesting voice. I enjoy the stripped-down production on this album.

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Release date: 2019-02-08

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[8.0/10]

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Tune Of Negation, Shackleton - Reach The Endless Sea

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I’m not familiar with Shackleton’s earlier stuff… I thought he was known to be doing dark dubstep inspired electronica? Anyway this album is very vibrant and organic. I like how there are a lot of acoustic instruments featured on this album, the kalimbas, organs and vibraphones are very prominent and contribute a lot to the overall organic feel of this project. Also I suspect the Japanese ambient scene has a pretty deep influence on this album.

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[8.0/10]

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Hand Habits - Placeholder

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Pretty rockin’ indie rock. The guitar solos on this album kick a lot of asses.

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Release date: 2019-03-01

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[7.9/10]

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DEBBY FRIDAY - DEATH DRIVE

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Short and powerful industrial experimental hip hop (can’t think of a better description… think clipping. and Chino Amobi and the likes).

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Release date: 2020-05-22

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[7.9/10]

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Young Marco - Bahasa

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Intriguing ambient techno with heavy Bali references. Sounds somewhere between meditative and festive.

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Release date: 2019-07-12

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[7.9/10]

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Cate Le Bon - Reward

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Art indie pop. There are moments where it sounds very similar to Stereolab’s stuff, but not as lush.

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Release date: 2019-05-24

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[7.8/10]

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E-Saggila - My World My Way

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Fast and hard industrial techno. Pretty gnarly.

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[7.8/10]

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Not Waving, Dark Mark - Downwelling

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I dig this way more than I dig Mark Lanegan’s own stuff. Mark’s voice has a raw, carefree quality to it, yet when paired with the restrained instrumentals from Not Waving it makes a bizarrely compelling combination. The last song is very good.

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Release date: 2019-08-02

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[7.8/10]

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Lapalux - Amnioverse

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Pretty decent IDM record. Not too challenging or groundbreaking, but does everything quite well, a well-balanced album. Some of the ambient parts of this record are pretty post-rock like, but they don’t overindulge like the run-of-the-mill post rock bands do. I like the track Thin Air a lot. JFDR’s solo album from 2017 is dope too.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[7.8/10]

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Swans - leaving meaning.

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The music sounds pretty much like reiterations and / or continuations of Swans’ previous albums. There are indeed interesting moments on this album, like tracks Sunfucker and Annaline, but all in all there really isn’t a departure from the Michael Gira sound in the older albums, despite a whole new lineup of massively talented musicians.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[7.7/10]

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Kim Gordon - No Home Record

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Kim Gordon tries trap rap… and succeeds. Abrasive. There are still some indie rock tracks on this album, and although they’re not really as experimental as, say, Sonic Youth’s stuff that are laden with insane guitar tunings and absurd song structures, they do hold their own and are pretty enjoyable.

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[7.7/10]

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Devendra Banhart - Ma

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Though I still prefer Mala to this album, it doesn’t mean this album is not good or anything. Devendra Banhart has a great voice and a good grasp of writing songs that are fun and catchy. Warm and loving indie folk. And the Vashti Bunyan featured track is awesome.

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Release date: 2020-02-21

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[7.7/10]

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Michael Vincent Waller - Moments

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Sentimental piano music. The Nocturnes and Love suite are highlights on this album.

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Release date: 2021-06-11

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[7.6/10]

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Project Pablo - Sofware

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Uplifting club music.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[7.5/10]

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Lori Goldston - Things Opening

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Interesting modern classical solo cello album. Some songs sound pretty bluesy.

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[7.3/10]

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Kindohm - Meme Booth

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Futuristic glitchy techno / dance. Dude used TidalCycle to make this album, so that’s pretty cool.

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Release date: 2011-08-09

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[7.2/10]

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Ondness - Not Really Now Not Any More

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Pretty cool deconstructed techno music. The songs are very sparse and can sometimes feel a bit too random.

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[7.3/10]

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Various Artists - Cairo Concepts

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Intriguing Egyptian dance music compilation. Mahraganat it is called, I’d say it’s Arabic grime / dance music. Not really a fan of this type of music though.

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[7.1/10]

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Fly Pan Am - C’est ça

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Mellow Deafheaven… or black metal inspired vocals and drums on tripping post-rock-ish instrumentals and droning synths. Check the last song and don’t tell me you haven’t heard this beat on some other black metal albums.

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Release date: 2017-07-25

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[7.0/10]

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Pinkish Black - Concept Unification

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Sludgy doom metal with shoegaze vocals. Not bad but not that good either.

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Release date: 2019-06-14

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[6.8/10]

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Torche - Admission

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Red Fang playing punk rock with Failure’s vocal. Pretty lackluster…

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Release date: 2019-05-31

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[6.4/10]

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9m88 - 平庸之上

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The band is killing it. 9m88 isn’t. I guess having a very spectacular crew of musicians to accompany an artist does have one drawback: it would be very easy to tell if the artist isn’t as good as their hired musicians. If there ever is an instrumental version of this I’d definitely get a copy. 9m88 本人蠻平庸的,樂手老師倒是真的很強

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[6.1/10]

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Alcest - Spiritual Instinct

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IMO only Agalloch can do this kind of post-black metal stuff correctly.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[6.0/10]

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Varials - In Darkness

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Pretty average metalcore. I was looking for something like Vein and this is totally not it… cut me some slack with those monotonous breakdowns will ya

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[5.9/10]

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老王樂隊 - 吾日三省吾身

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I don’t like this album at all… I tried not to be overly skeptical and went through the entire album, but I couldn’t help finding a lot of faults on this thing. The more rock oriented songs on this album sound like poorly done 80’s hard rock with cringeworthy guitar solos, and then there are folky slower songs, which probably were intended to appeal to a wider audience but just ended up sounding pretty cheesy and bland. One of the lowlights has got to be the vocals. I have a feeling that the vocalist was trying to showcase the versatility of his vocal abilities, but in the end it only made the songs even more insufferable. And it’s not even that difficult to figure that the lyrics are just as embarrassing as all the other aspects of the album… 破產版昏鴉

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[4.5/10]

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Rodan - Hat Factory ’93

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[9.5/10]

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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Labradford - Labradford

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Labradford is one of the forerunners of ASMR music. Seriously.

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[9.1/10]

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H. Takahashi - Low Power

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Dude makes way better music with GarageBand on his iPhone while on his way to work than me, usually sitting in front of the laptop trying to conjure up a cool guitar riff for hours and end up sounding like Incubus.

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Release date: 2018-08-08

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[8.8/10]

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Porter Ricks - Biokinetics

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Superb ambient / techno.

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Release date: 2012-02-17

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[8.6/10]

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AGF - A Deep Mysterious Tone

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Exquisite experimental electronic music.

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[8.5/10]

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Yoshiaki Ochi - Natural Sonic

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Organic Japanese ambient music. Not sure if people actually call this kind of music “environmental ambient”… The artist incorporated many different percussion elements into this album, there’s even a song when he’s hitting the water and the little pebbles. Very interesting record and definitely recommended for those who like Japanese new age music.

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Release date: 2019-02-13

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[8.4/10]

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Shiho Yabuki - The Body Is A Message Of The Universe

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Another Japanese new age record from before I was born, this one has some cuts that sound darker and more bizarre, which is nice.

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Release date: 2018-01-10

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[8.4/10]

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Thuja - All Strange Beasts Of The Past

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The best comparison would be Jack Rose / Pelt. Prominent eastern psychedelic sound influences blended with weird Americana guitars. Like a dream when you know you’re not entirely awake but couldn’t tell if you’re really dreaming. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2005-01-01

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[8.3/10]

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Brain Eno - Apollo

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Psyched-out ambient. I prefer Music For Airports’ sound to this one, but it’s still a pretty decent album nonetheless.

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Release date: 2019-05-24

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[7.9/10]

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Pinkcourtesyphone - Indelicate Slices

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Dark modern classical / ambient. Pretty mesmerizing. The song Above Chandeliers has a melody in the beginning of it that reminds me of the Windows XP startup sound.

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Release date: 2017-11-03

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[7.9/10]

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Guzz - An Elephant In The Jungle

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Bassy electronica with a lot of traditional instruments from the tropics. The title is actually quite fitting.

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Release date: 2016-10-30

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[7.8/10]

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Jesus Piece - Only Self

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Slamming metalcore. Nice…

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Release date: 2018-08-24

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[7.6/10]

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Joseph Nothing - Dreamland Idle Orchestra

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Hard to imagine how Tatsuda Yoshiya always strives to try new stuff and then does it well. This album is from his own IDM project, while there are some songs that I feel are a bit too hyperactive, it is overall still a pretty neat album that perfectly incorporates some elements from Tatsuda’s other musical projects, like funky slapped bass samples, proggy vocal samples and drum beats into a more choppy, Aphex Twin-ish electronica sound.

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[7.4/10]

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Mark Pritchard - Lock Off

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Jungle / hip hop. Danceable but doesn’t really make a lot of impression.

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Release date: 2020-05-20

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[7.2/10]

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Wiardon - Windbreaker Music

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Delicate but forgettable instrumental hip hop mini album at just 18 minutes of playing time. I enjoy the beats but they’re just too underdeveloped to be remembered. Hopefully the artist can translate the ideas explored on the album into more developed songs in their future projects.

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[7.0/10]

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Courtney Marie Andrews - May Your Kindness Remain

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Sweet sounding country / americana album. I like her voice and the songwritings are pretty decent, but none of the songs actually stands out, at least to me.

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Release date: 2018-03-23

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[6.8/10]

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Boreal Massif - We All Have An Impact

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Strong AOTY candidate. Deep, bottom end heavy instrumental hip hop / ambient. Kinda reminds me of Endtroducing, but without the flashy drum patterns and sounding more refined / focused. The entire album has an almost lo-fi dub texture to it, all the crackles and prominent time-based effects are all over the album.

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[9.1/10]

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Rakta - Faina Comum

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Dark, visceral post-punk. My only complaint to this album is its short runtime.

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[8.8/10]

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Jansport J, Haz Solo - Solo Sport

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If you dig Eric Lau or J Dilla then this is the stuff. Although none of the songs reaches two minute mark the songs never feel rushed or unfinished.

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[8.6/10]

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Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Tracing Back The Radiance

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Totally missed this one… awesome ambient release by one of the genre’s finest. This is the exactly how an ambient musical project should be done…

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[8.6/10]

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非 / 密閉空間 - Flow, Gesture, And Spaces

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Dissonant, chopped up glitch / IDM / jazztronica. 好後悔沒去看發片然後跑去看了陽光普照…

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Release date: 2019-11-06

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[8.5/10]

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Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast

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So the mastermind behind Gridlink has recovered from his hand injury… and now he still shreds. This one got more grooves and melodies than Gridlink albums IMO. Super dope.

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Release date: 2019-09-20

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[8.5/10]

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Lanark Artefax - Corra Linn

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Very awesome IDM / jungle. Don’t miss out!

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Release date: 2019-10-24

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[8.5/10]

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Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold

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Shredding like it’s gonna melt your face off.

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Release date: 2019-10-04

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[8.4/10]

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Seefeel - Peel Session

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Dub / minimal electrionica / ambient. Those who dig Jan Jelinek and Pole will definitely love this one.

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Release date: 2019-11-15

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[8.3/10]

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Lee Gamble - Exhaust

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So what exactly is “conceptronica”… Dope bass / techno release. I really like the soung Tyre and Envenom, but other songs are pretty tight too. RIYL bass heavy, groovy club techno music. Also if you don’t know who Mark Fisher was then you definitely should.

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Release date: 2015-07-24

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[8.3/10]

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Abyssal - A Beacon In The Husk

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Crushing death metal. If Blood Incantation is your jam… this one probably isn’t. This is more like a catchier Portal. Their debut LP is more chaotic and gnarlier than this one IMO, so do make sure to check that one out.

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Release date: 2019-06-21

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[8.3/10]

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Ana Frango Elétrico - Little Electric Chicken Heart

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Latin jazzy indie rock / pop. Vibrant and a lot of fun!

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Release date: 2019-09-12

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[8.3/10]

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AGF - Commissioned Work

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Experimental ambient / field recording music. The dissonant songs are very engaging, keeping the listener on the edge of their seat, while the softer ambient songs are haunting and right up my alley. I really like how AGF meshes synth sounds into eerie field recording music. Pretty dope.

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Release date: 2019-09-28

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[8.3/10]

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Drowse - Light Mirror

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Brooding, dark post-punk / shoegaze / ambient. Think what you imagined the new HANL release would be before it was really out.

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Release date: 2019-06-07

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[8.2/10]

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Seba Kaapstad - Thina

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Pretty dope chilled out jazz hop. The opening track is really good… overall has a Nujabes vibe to it. I suppose this is exactly the sound Taiwanese rappers are trying (and failed) to achieve.

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Release date: 2018-12-21

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[8.2/10]

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Madteo - Dropped Out Sunshine

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House + hip hop + ambient.

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Release date: 2019-11-15

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[8.2/10]

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Carla Dal Forno - Look Up Sharp

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New age inspired post-punk / indie pop. The instrumentation is pretty sparse in this release, which I dig. If there ever is a cafe that plays this… everyone should go there to do stuff.

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Release date: 2019-10-04

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[8.1/10]

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Black To Comm - Before After

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Dissonant, bleak modern composition / drone / ambient. I enjoy this quite a bit.

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Release date: 2021-04-16

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[8.1/10]

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Ziúr - ATØ

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Pretty dope techno. Overall this album sounds vibrant and is a lot of fun to listen to. Kind of feel like an instrumental Sophie album, with that animate yet mechanized texture to it. Cool stuff.

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Release date: 2019-08-16

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[8.0/10]

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Fabulous Diamonds - Plain Songs

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To be honest I still prefer Commercial Music to this one. This album still carries that eerie vibe but not as haunting as their previous one. Nevertheless it is still quite enjoyable and definitely recommended for those who dig dark, bleak, almost ceremonial music.

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Release date: 2021-05-20

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[8.0/10]

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Lafidki, Ayankoko, Pisitakun - Dângrêk Mountains

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Definitely keep an eye on Chinabot… this techno / jungle compilation features three artists from the three countries bordering the namesake mountain. This release kind of coincides with what I’m reading right now, about how borders and limits are created, and how can we conceptualize strategies to transcend / overcome them. I guess one could probably call this an attempt at the realization of a BwO music? Probably…

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[8.0/10]

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Giant Swan - Giant Swan

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Gritty industrial techno. Starts off really strong.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[7.9/10]

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Johanna Knutsson, Karen Gwyer - Oscillate Tracks 003

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I always thought Karen Gwyer is more like Felicia Atkinson than Laurel Halo, boy was I wrong… pretty intense techno EP. My only complaint is the super short run time. If the sound textures and moods on this EP were to be extended and developed more I’d say it’s a solid 8.0+.

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Release date: 2019-08-09

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[7.9/10]

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Arp Frique, Americo Brito - Radio Verde

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Vintage funk & pop compilation from Cape Verde. Some songs sound somewhat similar to Japanese city pop music from the 80’s, but much funkier, with more world music references (there are obvious samba influences), and adventurous.

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Release date: 2019-10-07

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[7.9/10]

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The Body - Remixed

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I think The Body’s own proper releases are not as good as the remix / collabs…

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Release date: 2013-01-01

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[7.8/10]

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Masahiro Sugaya - Horizon, Volume 1

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Minimalistic Japanese new age music. Has a jazzy feel and a playful mood throughout the album.

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[7.8/10]

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Steven Warwick - MOI

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Upbeat UK club techno / synth heavy avant-pop. Pretty good. I like how his voice is very low and reminds me of some post-punk vocalists.

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Release date: 2021-03-31

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[7.8/10]

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Various Artists - Earthen: A Cold Spring Sampler

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Two hours of morbid music. Honestly it’s a bit too long to my liking… but some tracks on this compilation album definitely worth checking out. Music spans from noise (Merzbow) to noise punk (Zeni Geva) to ambient (Coil) to black metal (Jotunspor). The Coil tracks in this album are pretty dope.

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[7.7/10]

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Al-Doe, Spanish Ran - Doña Blanca

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Super compact east coast rap EP. Who’s Spanish Ran and how come he can come up with these sick AF beats… The lyrics aren’t really that good but the delivery is gritty and on point.

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[7.7/10]

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Scorn - Cafe Mor

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Newest release from a dub techno veteran. Grinding.

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Release date: 2018-09-01

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[7.7/10]

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Konradsen - Saints And Sebastian Stories

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Delicate indie pop. Overall this album has a sound very likely to be found in several Taiwanese artists’ releases, the kind of music where soothing chill hop meets indie pop /rock, but this one has much more consistency. Or think a softer, less memorable version of Shura’s new album…

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[7.6/10]

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Duckwrth - The Falling Man

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Alright hip hop album. Flow-wise there are plenty of moments that remind me of how Denzel Curry does it. The features on this EP are overshadowed by Duckwrth’s own performance though.

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Release date: 2019-05-17

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[7.5/10]

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Chikano, Granddad Woolly - KanoDadda: Exprmnt VII

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A straightforward hip hop album. The beats and the flows sound pretty oldschool, I guess for an album that focuses on vintage sci-fi themes that’s reasonable… Still a decent hip hop album, just that I’m no longer that huge on this kind of stuff.

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[7.4/10]

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Bersarin Quartett - Methoden Und Maschinen

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While I’m a huge fan of their self-titled LP released back in 2010, I totally missed out on their second and third releases and am totally ignorant on how their sound evolved. To me this new album feel more like a tamed version of Ben Frost’s stuff. Overall I still prefer the said self-titled to this release.

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Release date: 2019-11-28

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[7.4/10]

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Alessandro Cortini - Volume Massimo

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Poignant synth-based electronica. I really like the first song but not so much the others - not really digging all these major chords and faux-brooding post-rock cliches.

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Release date: 2019-09-27

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[7.3/10]

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Aphex Twin - Peel Session 2

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Eh.

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Release date: 2019-11-15

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[7.2/10]

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Shanti Celeste - Tangerine

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Uplifting house music. Pretty funky.

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Release date: 2020-04-24

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[7.2/10]

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Doon Kanda - Labyrinth

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I think the chord progressions are pretty predictable on this LP, and the classical influenced textures / instrumentations, while quite intriguing on the first couple of songs soon become repetitive. I do agree this album has a overall darker, haunting yet playful mood to it, and is indeed a pretty memorable album. Despite the opinions I have about this album I’ll definitely be looking forward to Kanda’s future releases.

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Release date: 1986-01-01

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[7.0/10]

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Chai - PUNK

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J-pop with punk influences (duh). To me it’s too overtly sweet but I do think the songs are very nicely written. Definitely worthy of the praise they’ve been getting lately, just that this type of music isn’t really my jam.

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Release date: 2020-07-01

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[7.0/10]

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Coucou Chloe - Naughty Dog

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Experimental trap-influenced club music.

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Release date: 2019-05-31

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[6.9/10]

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Olga Wojciechowska - Infinite Distances

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Graceful piano modern classical music. While the music is soothing it lacks memorability and captivity.

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Release date: 2019-11-04

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[6.9/10]

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Boris - Love & Evol

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There are moments that are crushing and unrelenting, and then there are its post-rock-ish Bugs of Phonon parts, but overall Boris is just replicating their old stuff on this record.

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Release date: 2019-10-04

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[6.8/10]

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An Isolated Mind - I’m Losing Myself

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Post-metal / black metal / folk metal. One of those metal albums that tries to blend various musical influences into an album but doesn’t really accomplish too much apart from the presence of multiple different guitar tones. The start of this album is pretty heavy but the ending two songs are just placeholder ambient songs with no discernible meaning.

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Release date: 2019-03-23

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[6.7/10]

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Have A Nice Life - Sea Of Worry

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Is it awful? Don’t really think so. Is it a disappointment? Definitely. Gothic post-punk with dripping reverb layered on top. The vocals feel rather out of place and doesn’t really fit with the other instruments.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[6.7/10]

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Kevin Abstract - Arizona Baby

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Pretty tame pop rap. Can’t stand the falsettos…

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Release date: 2019-04-25

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[6.5/10]

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clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood

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I enjoy Midcity and their self-titled album much more than this one. I like Ed Balloon’s feature here, but the other songs feel like pretty bland trap / horrorcore to me.

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[6.0/10]

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Departure Chandelier - Antichrist Rise To Power

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Raw black metal. I don’t think there’s a bassist in the band, and sometimes the timing is way off to go unnoticed. The guitar sounds… really bad :/

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Release date: 2019-04-26

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[6.0/10]

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Ameer Vann - Emmanuel

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At first I thought he’s a newcomer in the underground hardcore hip hop scene… but then after skimming through news about him it appears this album is more like a non-apology of a sex offender. I actually like the instrumentals on the first three songs quite a bit, but this kind of buck passing is just beyond tolerance IMO. 田昀凡饒舌樂

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Release date: 2020-05-29

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[5.0/10]

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魏如萱 - 藏著並不等於遺忘

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This is an incoherent album. There are brooding, drawn out mellow songs, shallow electro pop songs with beat drops, frivolous folk songs that are there just for the sake of it, and then there are soft rock songs. There’s even a bossa nova song… I mean trying out new styles of music is definitely commendable, but this feels less like an attempt to incorporate different styles into a musical project than a lack of song selection. I will say that the musicians did a great job, especially the drummer - lots of chops has been added and they do shine through the rather blandly written songs. As for the lyrics… 「在你設定的世界 規矩就是斑馬線 很多人站在那邊 卻很難走到對面」 Some Kanye level stuff.

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Release date: 2019-11-20

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Overall this album feels pretty superficial and doesn’t even try. My biggest complaint is that the songwriting just feels… lazy, to the point where it’s like the songwriter just decided which song should fit in what genre, then put the most typical instruments and chords into that song.

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[3.3/10]

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持修 - 房間裡的大象

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insufferable

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Release date: 2019-11-20

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[0.3/10]

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Chris Orrick - Portraits

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Dope jazz hop album. Dig the self-deprecating lyrics.

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Release date: 2020-11-05

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[8.5/10]

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Lye By Mistake - Fea Jur

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Menacing progressive metal / jazz fusion. Imagine Allan Holdsworth on speed. After I checked out on Dysrhythmia’s new stuff I recalled that I dig this band like 8 years ago. Turns out I’m still diggin’ it.

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Release date: 2021-06-01

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[8.5/10]

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Regis - Necklace Of Bites

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The quintessential techno album. FFO JK Flesh.

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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[8.3/10]

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Roy Montgomery - Scenes From The South Island

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FFO Suishou No Fune. Honestly it sounds much more like a stripped down guitar centric psych rock record than an ambient one. Still pretty good though.

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Release date: 2019-11-29

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[7.4/10]

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How To Make Red Bean Soup (According To Mom)

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Just so I’ll remember how to make some in the future… All these are just copy & pasted from the Line convos with my mom.

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  1. 紅豆先洗乾淨。
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  3. 紅豆放入鍋內,水量淹過紅豆,大約三到四倍(因為紅豆在蒸煮的過程中,會吸飽水份,如果水分不夠,紅豆煮起來不夠鬆軟。所以鍋子不可以太小!或是你不要一次煮太多!人少,或許半斤就夠多了。)
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  5. 放入電鍋內,外鍋兩杯水。
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  7. 電鍋跳起後,不要開蓋,繼續悶。等電鍋冷卻,不必加水,再按一次。繼續悶⋯
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  9. 從電鍋內,拿出煮熟的紅豆鍋子,吃吃看,是否紅豆已鬆軟(最理想的狀態,就是紅豆皮完整,但是紅豆內餡鬆軟)
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  11. 把煮熟的紅豆鍋子,再添加水,放在瓦斯爐上,中小火,煮沸到紅豆殼開始裂開了。這個時候,才可以加糖(阿嬤曾經教過我,太早加糖,紅豆就煮不爛了。這是真的!)
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  13. 大沸騰之後,關火!成功!(煮紅豆湯的時候,人要在旁邊顧著,因為煮沸以後,湯會往外冒,清洗溢出來的湯汁,實在很麻煩的)
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Gotta say my mom makes insanely delicious red bean soup. Gonna have to make some one day, hopefully in the near future…

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2019 Album Of The Year

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Album Of The Year

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Richard Dawson - 2020

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I feel like although every song on this album deserves a in-depth analysis of lyrics and songwriting, doing so might just be too narrowsighted and would miss how good this album sounds on a whole, or how closely it deals with the most pressing problems and dilemmas the society is facing. In the age of neoliberal resurgence and mass denial of human dignities, I’d say this is indeed the album we needed the most.

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懶得打中文了 總之歌詞很猛 第一首歌有講說他寧可在家打決勝時刻四也不想去上狗屁倒灶的班 蠻讚的

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  • Kali Malone - The Sacrificial Code (ambient)
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  • Jenny Hval - The Practice Of Love (art pop)
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  • FKA Twigs - Magdalene (art pop)
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  • Dos Monos - Dos City (hip hop)
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  • They Hate Change - Clearwater + Juices Run Clear (hip hop)
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  • Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Tracing Back The Ambience (ambient)
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  • Caterina Barbieri - Ecstatic Computation (experimental)
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  • Lanark Artefax - Corra Linn (techno)
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  • Deaf Center - Low Distance (ambient)
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  • Boreal Massif - We All Have An Impact (techno)
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  • Various Artist - Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 (ambient)
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  • Ed Balloon - The Dubs (R&B)
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  • Meitei - Komachi (ambient)
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  • Bendik Giske - Surrender (modern composition)
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  • Triad God - Triad (hip hop)
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  • Alameda 5 - Eurodrome (progressive rock)
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  • Tyler, The Creator - Igor (hip hop)
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  • Lucinda Chua - Antidotes 1 (art pop)
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  • 百合花 - 燒金蕉 (progressive rock)
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Electronica

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  • Floating Points - Crush
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  • 非 / 密閉空間 - Flow, Gesture And Space
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  • Grischa Lichtenberger - Re:Phgrp
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  • Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough
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  • Loraine James - For You And I
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  • Special Request - Vortex
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  • Special Request - Bedroom Tapes
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  • Sote - Parallel Persia
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  • S S S S - Walls, Corridors, Baffles
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  • Andy Stott - It Should Be Us
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  • Black Taffy - Elder Mantis
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  • AMAZONDOTCOM - Mirror River
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  • Rainer Veil - Vanity
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  • Joy Orbison - Slipping
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  • Christoph De Babalon - Hectic Shakes
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  • Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima, Satsuki Shibano - FRKWYS Vol. 15: serenitatem
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  • Planetary Assault Systems - Plantae
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  • Ebauche - Formic Syntax
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  • Lafidki, Ayankoko, Pisitakun - Dângrêk Mountains
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  • Yu Su - Roll With The Punches
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  • Celestial Trax - Serpent Power
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  • Anne Imhof - Faust
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  • Klein - Lifetime
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  • Ellen Arkbro - Chords
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  • Tomoyoshi Date, Stijn Hüwels- Hochu-Ekki-Tou
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  • Dolphin Midwives - Liminal Garden
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  • Xiu Xiu - Girl With A Basket Of Fruit
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  • Tujiko Noriko - Kuro (OST)
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  • Craven Faults - Springhead Works
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  • Jonny Nash - Make A Wilderness
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  • Curved Light - Flow and Return
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  • Ana Roxanne - ~~~
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  • Ernest Hood - Neighborhoods
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  • The Dead C - Rare Ravers
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  • Dean Hurley - Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond
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  • Norihito Suda, Stijn Hüwels - Sansui
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  • Sana Obruent - End Game
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  • Ka Baird - Respires
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  • Michael O’Shea - Michael O’Shea
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  • Holly Herndon - Proto
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  • Charli XCX - Charli
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  • Shura - Forever
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  • Jay Som - Anak Ko
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  • Minor Pieces - The Heavy Steps Of Dreaming
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  • Jessica Pratt - Quiet Signs
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  • HTRK - Venus in Leo
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  • Ana Frango Elétrico - Little Electric Chicken Heart
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  • Carla Dal Forno - Look Up Sharp
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  • Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
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  • Steve Gunn - The Unseen In Between
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  • Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!
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Hip Hop

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  • Quelle Chris - Guns
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  • Denzel Curry - Zuu
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  • Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, Twenty Sixteen to Twenty Eighteen
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  • Billy Woods, Kenny Segal - Hiding Places
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  • JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs
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  • Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿
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  • Jansport J, Haz Solo - Solo Sport
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  • Madteo - Dropped Out Sunshine
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  • Seba Kaapstad - Thina
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  • Liturgy - H.A.Q.Q.
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  • Rakta - Faina Comum
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  • Cult Of Luna - A Dawn to Fear
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  • Blood Incantation - Hidden History Of The Human Race
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  • Kim Gordon - No Home Record
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  • Drab Majesty - Modern Mirror
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  • Sunn O))) - Pyroclasts
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  • Dysrhythmia - Terminal Threshold
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  • Weatherday - Come In
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  • Uniform & The Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
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  • Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast
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  • Abyssal - A Beacon In The Husk
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  • La Dispute - Panorama
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Jazz

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  • The Comet Is Coming - Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery
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Oval - Scis

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Awesome minimal techno from one of the genre’s finest. This one is easy to listen to and very appealing. In contrast to his older stuff (the stuff inspired by computer components) this one feels more intimate, more approachable, and more expressive.

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Release date: 2004-01-01

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[8.3/10]

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Pulse Emitter - Swirlings

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Reminds me of the Japanese new age compilation from last year, but songs are longer and possesses a little less diversity than the said compilation.

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[7.9/10]

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Robert Haigh - Black Sarabande

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Soothing modern classical. I like the track Painted Serpent best because it’s got a heavy bass synth going on and has an unsettling feel. Other than this track the others are less imaginative. I think there are definitely some other contemporary pianists (from Japan? can’t remember) that can achieve the serenity present on this album, but with much less notes.

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[7.3/10]

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Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Patchouli Blue

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I find it often hard to tell what is “doom-jazz” how to distinguish it from slow paced, somewhat gothic sounding lounge music…

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[6.9/10]

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Pink Siifu, Yungmorpheus - Bag Talk

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Milo and Open Mike Eagle do this kind of hip hop better.

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Release date: 2021-06-11

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[6.8/10]

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Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972

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Tim Hecker is king.

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Release date: 2011-02-14

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[9.5/10]

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Pan Sonic - Gravitoni

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If there’s a Nobel Price in music Pan Sonic would’ve won it multiple times.

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Release date: 2010-06-14

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[9.0/10]

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William Doyle - Your Wilderness Revisited

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Snubbed from last year’s best-of list… awesome folk / indie rock. The songs are very carefully crafted.

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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[8.7/10]

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Ben Vince - Assimilation

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Think Matana Roberts but less vocals / more electronica. I think this one is probably one of those albums that once in awhile you’ll remember “ah that one is a good one should stop playing whatever indie pop album I’m listening to right now and play it instead” kind of stuff. Really good modern jazz.

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Release date: 2021-01-20

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[8.5/10]

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The Humble Bee, Offthesky - All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains

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Fantastic ambient album. Kinda like The Caretaker but on Spotify.

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Release date: 2019-07-19

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[8.5/10]

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Lonker See - One Eye Sees Red

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Awesome jazz fusion / prog rock. Reminiscent of The Mars Volta’s Frances The Mute, with strong sax lead lines and psyched out guitar riffs. Really good.

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Release date: 2018-04-05

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[8.5/10]

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Alameda 4 - Czarna Woda

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Another exquisite release from Instant Classic. This is like the prog band Circle, but more enticing (and more black metal).

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Release date: 2020-04-23

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[8.4/10]

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WaqWaq Kingdom - Essaka Hoisa

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Esoteric dub / dancehall / chiptune / ambient. This is a kaleidoscopic album… can’t really understand the lyrical themes but according to other reviews on the internet the songs seem pretty profound. I’d say if compared to Tim Hecker’s stuff this one doesn’t sound all that influenced by Japanese folk music, at least much less than it’s influenced by, say, African trap or Jamaican club music. The last song is very good. (If only Meuko! Meuko! can do stuff like this…)

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Release date: 2019-11-15

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[8.3/10]

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Gavilán Rayna Russom - The Envoy

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I dig this one. It’s classified as techno / experimental by RA but I feel like it doesn’t really do it much justice… This album is pretty synth / keys heavy and sometimes almost ambient music like. The collaboration track with Cosey Fanni Tutti is spectacular.

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Release date: 1982

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[8.3/10]

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Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell!

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I hereby promise that I’ll never ever make fun of people who love LDR from this point on. A respectable, very enjoyable pop album. Strangely the song The Greatest reminds me of Wilco’s The Ghost Is Born…

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Release date: 2019-08-30

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[8.3/10]

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New Rome - New Rome

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The more I listen to it the more I dig it… electro-pop / ambient / techno. Very nicely done.

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Release date: 2019-11-27

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[8.3/10]

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Barker - Utility

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Missed this until it’s literally the last day of the year… spectacular techno / IDM.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[8.3/10]

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Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis

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Immersive, brooding world / jazz / folk. I didn’t really pay attention to what the female vocalist was singing (was it Roberts?), but listening through the entire album felt pretty absorbing. I think this one is more like an artwork from the fine art museums… you really gotta take the time to sit back and pay attention to every timbre and pronunciations to get a full grasp of what this album is trying to convey.

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[8.2/10]

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Sporting Life - Black Diamond

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Chilling modern hip hop. The song La Sportiva is a real banger. Kids should do this kind of music instead of stupid trap songs filled with triplet flows…

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Release date: 2012-11-13

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[8.2/10]

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ARRM - ARRM

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There’s even a song called Horseback on this album, so you know this has got to be a decent psych rock / drone album.

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Release date: 1976

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[8.2/10]

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Michael O’Shea - Michael O’Shea

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Psychedelic avant-folk from late Irish guitarist. This is in the same vein with Jack Rose, John Fahey et cetera, but not that virtuosic and perhaps more emphasizing the atmosphere and mood.

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Release date: 2019-02-01

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[8.1/10]

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Vilod - The Clouds Know

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A year ago I felt I probably would never figure out how to appreciate Ricardo Villalobos’ music. Now I think I do. This album is just like all the other ECM albums you’ve heard before: cryptic, loaded with jazz influences minimal techno music.

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[8.1/10]

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Iron Curtis - And The Temper

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Dope deep house / ambient.

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[8.1/10]

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Lana Del Rabies - Shadow World

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Intense yet enjoyable noise / experimental music. Proof that noise albums aren’t necessary difficult to listen to.

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Release date: 2015-08-21

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[8.1/10]

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Danny Scott Lane - How To Empty A Cup

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You’d dig this if you dig Ernest Hood.

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[8.1/10]

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Abul Mogard - Kimberlin (Original Soundtrack)

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Another stellar release from ambient maestro.

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[8.1/10]

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Floating Spectrum - A Point Between

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Enticing ambient music.

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[8.1/10]

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Emanuele Errante - This World

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Ambient music. Executed very nicely.

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Release date: 2018-04-18

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[8.0/10]

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Complete Walkthru - Scrolls

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Neat IDM. I like the bass on the track Believe I Can Do This.

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Release date: 2013-01-31

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[8.0/10]

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Deafkids - metaprogramação

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The Quietus is right in saying this sounds somewhat reminiscent of Motorhead’s stuff, only trippier and way wonkier. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2019-03-15

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[8.0/10]

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Shapednoise - Aesthesis

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Droning, deep techno / rave. Borderline harsh noise, if you will.

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Release date: 2015-08-14

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[8.0/10]

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Vaura - Sables

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Proggy post-punk. The guitar player also plays in Gorguts and Dysrhythmia. The drums on this album sound pretty lifeless as if they’re programmed instead of using real drums. Other than that the songs are really nicely written and thoroughly enjoyable.

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Release date: 2016-04-20

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[8.0/10]

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Música Esporádica, Suso Saiz, Orquesta De Las Nubes - Música Esporádica

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This is like the Japanese ambient tracks with a lot more rhythm section. Pretty fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2019-11-29

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[7.9/10]

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Yamaneko - Spirals Heaven Wide

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Ambient / trance album. The artist made an album named Spa Commissions in 2017…

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Release date: 2019-11-15

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[7.9/10]

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Frail Body - A Brief Memoriam

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Tight, bombastic screamo. Pretty jangly sometimes. Not too much innovations on this album but still a pretty enjoyable album.

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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[7.9/10]

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Serpent Column - Mirror In Darkness

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Intense death metal / black metal. I almost shat myself hearing the first half of this record. As the album progresses the intensity becomes a bit tiring.

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Release date: 2019-09-09

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[7.8/10]

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Moor Mother - Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes

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Kinda like King Midas Sound, but with much more emphatic vocals. Or like clipping but even more abrasive.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[7.8/10]

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Ebo Taylor - Yen Ara

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More than an hour of afrobeat / funk. To be honest towards the end of the album I was a bit tired… but I’d still say it’s a pretty stellar afrobeat release. Definitely recommended for those who dig this kind of stuff.

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Release date: 2018-04-06

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[7.8/10]

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Pursuit Grooves - Bess

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Bassy house / techno. Quite groovy.

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Release date: 2021-01-07

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[7.8/10]

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Adrian Corker - Music For Lock Grooves

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Glitchy modern composition. Kinda like Pole meets William Basinski. The screeching violins are pretty gnarly.

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[7.8/10]

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Nanook Of The North - Nanook Of The North

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Atmospheric, pulsating ambient / electronica.

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Release date: 2018-03-01

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[7.8/10]

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Rutger Hauser - The Swim

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Fun, bizarre free jazz-ish improvisation music / post-rock. Though not particularly catchy or mesmerizing the whole album offers a fun yet unsettling atmosphere. There are songs that remind me of earlier Fly Pan Am stuff, so if that’s your jam then do check this one out.

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Release date: 2001-04-03

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[7.8/10]

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Long Distance Poison - Technical Mentality

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Droning ambient. Pretty long songs but instead of being mind-numbingly drawn out they manage to incorporate a somewhat organic vibe into the heavy synth / industrial samples, which is quite nice.

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[7.8/10]

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Stara Rzeka - Zamknęły Się Oczy Ziemi

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Sounds kinda like a more psychedelic Sólstafir if you ask me… then again Sólstafir is a decent band that’s hard to beat. This record is on par with them if not better.

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Release date: 2015-10-22

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[7.7/10]

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Teebs - Anicca

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Pretty soothing mellow beat electronica. This is like a softer, less rhythmic, more melodic lofi hip hop collection of songs.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[7.7/10]

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Various Artists - Kulør 001

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Percussive techno compilation from the Denmark label. More uplifting and danceable than the often-grim-sounding old school techno stuff. Pretty decent.

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Release date: 2018-10-11

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[7.7/10]

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Brockhampton - Ginger

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Alright hip hop album. VHS-influenced trap rap, if you will. Not bad but not spectacular either.

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Release date: 2019-08-23

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[7.6/10]

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Solange - When I Get Home

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I actually prefer A Seat At The Table to this one. IMO this one just isn’t that catchy or memorable.

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Release date: 2019-03-01

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[7.6/10]

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Vegyn - Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds

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Cute, choppy hypnagogic techno / hip hop. There’s a Jpegmafia feature on this album, but I don’t think it fits too well… The standout track on this album has got to be You Owe Me, the speed change and the beats on that track is pretty dope. Other than that the rest of the songs are pretty decent but not mindblowing or especially memorable.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[7.5/10]

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Function - Incubation

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Techno. Grim sounds. Dude seemed to want to do a techno OST to an imaginary sci-fi thriller film with this release. In that respect the album is quite successful in bringing out the atmosphere, but the album does feel a bit monotonous at times.

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[7.5/10]

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Lightning Bolt - Sonic Citadel

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I think Lightning Bolt is one of those bands that are just decent but not overwhelmingly astonishing when listening to their album, but crush their audiences with huge sounds and abrasive performances when they play live. This one definitely has the kicks but after some time I grow a bit tired…

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[7.5/10]

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Sassy J - Patchwork (Compiled By Sassy J)

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There are nu jazz and funk tracks, which I dig, but there are also club-friendly electronica tracks or big beat bangers, which I don’t really dig.

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Release date: 2019-12-13

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[7.5/10]

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Kristen - LAS

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Ritualistic psych rock. Not really a fan of the major chords… but still pretty good.

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Release date: 2021-06-04

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[7.4/10]

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Cybernetic Witch Cult - Absurdum Ad Nauseam

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I don’t really dig the vocals but the riffage is just too good… stellar stoner rock. Sick guitar tones and groovy AF. But then the vocals really isn’t right up my alley.

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[7.4/10]

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Chihei Hatakeyama - Forgotten Hill

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Typical ambient album. Very atmospheric, not a lot of experimentation or exploration going on.

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Release date: 2019-09-20

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[7.3/10]

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Herbert - I Hadn’t Known (I Only Heard) / So Now…

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Sleek, sexy house music.

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[7.3/10]

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Magda Drozd - Songs For Plants

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Ambient / electronica / dub / dark pop. The concept is quite interesting: using sound samples of flicking the leaves of cacti and incorporate them into ambient songs. However I do think this album isn’t all that memorable.

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[7.2/10]

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Double Mixte - Romance Noire

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Dance / electronica / electro-pop. I like the instrumental tracks more than the ones with vocals. But then there are better electronica albums out there.

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Release date: 2019-02-14

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[7.1/10]

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Jacques Greene - Dawn Chorus

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House + clubby pop / R&B. Probably more suitable as dancefloor bangers than stuff to listen to while at work.

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Release date: 2020-12-10

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[7.0/10]

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Ekin Fil - Language

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Dreamy ambient music.

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Release date: 2014-07-01

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[7.0/10]

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TNGHT - II

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Hyperactive trap / glitch hop. Too much going on here… I can’t handle this…

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[7.0/10]

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Pelada - Movimiento Para Cambio

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Club / techno / house. Very danceable, a bit too much for my taste… RA said the lyrics and themes are very politically aware and are pretty awesome, but I couldn’t understand Spanish so all there is to me is probably the almost punk rock-ish sense of yelling resistance.

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Release date: 2019-08-15

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[6.9/10]

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Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo

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Sounds like what would happen if Shina Ringo decides to do sludgey doom metal. There are some shoegazy songs on this album.

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Release date: 2021-01-15

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[6.8/10]

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Caroline Polachek - Pang

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Alright pop album. Not a bad one, but compared with all the other spectacular pop releases in 2019 (cue FKA Twigs, Jenny Hval and Charli XCX) this one just seems harmless.

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[6.7/10]

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Gaika - Machine

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Trap rap. Some deep bass heavy tracks on this album but I just have too little love for the genre.

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Release date: 2020-09-25

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[6.6/10]

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Thomas Brinkmann - Raupenbahn

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Maybe this is the true form of industrial music, this is just repetitive mechanic sounds. I don’t get it…

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Release date: 2020-09-24

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[6.5/10]

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Death Cab For Cutie - The Blue EP

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It’s not really that bad… but Ben Gibbard’s vocals on this EP is borderline off putting. The instrumentation is pretty nice though.

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Release date: 2019-09-06

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[6.0/10]

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S-Type - Beat

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Club / hip hop. Too over the top and cliche. Don’t really dig it.

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[5.5/10]

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Anoice - Ghost In The Clocks

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Cliche ambient / post rock. Didn’t finish, neither would bother to…

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Release date: 2019-08-09

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[4.0/10]

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Beatrice Dillon - Workaround

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Minimalistic IDM / techno dub. This is very good electronic music. Imma get a copy…

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[8.8/10]

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Jeff Parker - Suite For Max Brown

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2019 we got Matana Roberts, 2020 we now have Jeff Parker. That solo in the song Build a Nest is super sick…

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[8.6/10]

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They Hate Change - Maneuvers

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One of the best hip-hop acts in the game nowadays presents another stellar EP.

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Release date: 2017-06-20

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[8.5/10]

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Kush Jones - Strictly 4 My Cdjz 6

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Footwork / jungle / dance album. Probably the first album from 2020 that I really dig…

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Release date: 2020-01-09

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[8.4/10]

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Against All Logic - 2017 - 2019

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Bombastic IDM / techno / club. Very catchy. I missed out on the previous AAL release, guess there is no longer any excuse to not check that out…

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[8.4/10]

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Deantoni Parks - Silver Cord

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Killer fusion / electronica. Kind of reminds me of that Greg Fox album, but more electronica oriented and more accessible.

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Release date: 2008-01-01

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[8.3/10]

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Smagghe & Cross - 1819

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Bizarre ambient / electronica / minimal music. Very hard to categorize into a singular genre… a mesmerizing album.

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Release date: 1998-01-28

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[8.2/10]

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Desire Marea - Desire

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Experimental club music / pop / electronica. There’s definitely a experimental pop a la Sophie and Anohni vibe going on here, but then that last track was super tormenting and super dark. Really good stuff.

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Release date: 1976-01-16

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[8.2/10]

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Panopticon - Panopticon

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This one is country / folk songs only.

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Release date: 2004

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[8.2/10]

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Denzel Curry, Kenny Beats - Unlocked

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There should be more.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[8.2/10]

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Dark Arts - Reflections In A Rear View Mirror

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Modern classical / nu-jazz / electronica ambient. This one is actually hard to categorize… a lot of the songs reminded me of the soundtracks to the movie Before The Rain.

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Release date: 2015-05-12

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[8.1/10]

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The Homesick - The Big Exercise

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Indie pop / post-punk. Sometimes the guitar tones remind me of Iceage, but this one’s definitely more pop leaning.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[8.1/10]

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熱寫生 - 豆皮少年

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Stellar indie pop / rock from some friends. Honestly I like this album quite a bit… the songs are layered with different textures but the album as a whole still feels pretty cohesive. I also like how the producer added a bunch of extra effects and instrumentations (and extra guitars) here and there. Fave songs: 塔悠, 愛與膠囊, 山洞. That reversed guitar (or is it something else?) on 塔悠 is really sick.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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絕對不講認識的朋友出的專輯的壞話,有講的話就代表我真的覺得還不錯,不過沒講的話也可能是我沒有聽過就是了…

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[8.1/10]

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Drive-By Truckers - The Unraveling

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I like these folk pop rock jams quite a bit…

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[8.0/10]

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James Ruskin - Consumer Patterns

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Sleek techno / club. Very enjoyable and danceable (though I don’t dance whatsoever).

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Release date: 2020-01-31

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[8.0/10]

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Frail Hands - Parted / Departed / Apart

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Screamo / emo. This is one of the rare instances in this type of music I’ve had a chance to listen to recently, where all instruments are really on point and the entire album feels pretty complete.

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Release date: 2020-01-10

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[7.9/10]

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Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman

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I remember checking out Anaïs Mitchell some time ago (Hadestown) and wasn’t very much impressed, and I never knew about Eric D. Johnson and Josh Kaufman before, so when this album came out I was somewhat indifferent. Then it turns out this album is legit and really pleasant. I would say this album still fell a bit short compared with giants like Sturgill Simpson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy or even Terry Allen, but it is indeed a very comforting album in its own right.

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[7.8/10]

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Lonker See - Hamza

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Quality psychedelic jazz fusion. I think I like their previous album more, but this one is still stellar.

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Release date: 2020-12-16

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[7.7/10]

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Bill Fay - Countless Branches

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Tender folk album. The back story of the artist is pretty fascinating: recorded and released two albums in the 70s, spent several decades as a park groundkeeper, and then returned in 2012 to release entirely new music, which is comprised of materials he recorded during his inactivity as a musician.

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[7.7/10]

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Bambara - Stray

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Catchy, gothic post-punk. I like the first part of this LP more than the latter.

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Release date: 2015-11-05

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[7.7/10]

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Peder Mannerfelt - Like We Never Existed

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Danceable club techno.

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Release date: 2020-01-31

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[7.7/10]

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Rebecca Foon - Waxing Moon

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Slow, grandiose alternative dream pop. Lots of piano and strings going on. The arrangements are very reminiscent of her Constellation label mates, which should not be too surprising given that she actually plays in not one but a bunch of them…

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Release date: 2001

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[7.6/10]

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Midori Hirano - Invisible Island

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Soothing piano music / modern composition.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[7.6/10]

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Villaelvin - Headroof

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Experimental music in the same vein as Amnesia Scanner and Lotic. Eerie stuff.

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Release date: 2020-01-30

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[7.5/10]

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yMusic - Ecstatic Science

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Neoclassical chamber music.

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Release date: 2020-02-14

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[7.5/10]

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Men With Secrets - Psycho Romance And Other Spooky Ballads

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Cold wave synth-pop / industrial / psychedelic techno. It is indeed quite spooky…

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Release date: 2020-01-31

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[7.5/10]

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Wire - Mind Hive

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Post-punk legends bring back more rockin’ gems even they’re super old. Makes me wonder what happened to all the other old ass punk rock groups that seem to be content with a release every two years filled with redundant songs and stagnated music. A lot of the songs on this album remind me of some of the more accessible Sonic Youth tracks, like Cactused and Off The Beach.

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[7.5/10]

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Holy Fuck - Deleter

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I suppose this is the sound a lot of Taiwanese indie rock bands are trying to achieve: bouncy tunes with heavy keys / synth presence.

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[7.3/10]

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Mac Miller - Circles

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Better than 90% of the pop rap records out there. I guess I’m just not really a huge fan of the genre, but then I’d choose Ed Balloon over this one any time of the day…

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[7.2/10]

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Katie Gately - Loom

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Baroque-ambient-experimental-pop.

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Release date: 2020-10-15

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[7.2/10]

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Laughing Ears - Metamorphosis

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Exotic club music. Not the biggest fan of the beats on this album.

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Release date: 2003-01-01

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[7.0/10]

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Palm - Violets Are Blue

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Lofi hip-hop. Kind of like what the standard elevator music in 2020 would sound like…

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Release date: 2020-11-24

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[6.8/10]

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Axebreaker - The White Sepulcher

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Noise EP. Doesn’t really feel like a complete, cohesive release, the runtime is just way too short.

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[6.8/10]

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Hyukoh - Through Love

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I like the stripped-back guitars on this EP, not so much the vocals. The falsettos man… they’re pretty rough.

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Release date: 2020-01-30

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[6.7/10]

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Tame Impala - The Slow Rush

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I think there are definitely some R&B influences on this record… I don’t know, I kind of miss the InnerSpeaker era Tame Impala where it’s pure fuzz-dominant indie rock / pop, instead of this retro pop rock sound this album’s got going.

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Release date: 2020-02-14

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[6.3/10]

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Of Montreal - UR FUN

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Quasi new age release from veteran indie rockers. I don’t like bubblegum new age / AOR music…

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[6.3/10]

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Grimes - Miss Anthropocene

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Post-bubblegum pop. While the concepts behind this project seemed pretty interesting when I first read about it the music just isn’t really enjoyable. The songs are just water down versions of other ambient pop artists like Anohni and Charli XCX.

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Release date: 2020-02-21

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[5.3/10]

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Wild Nothing - Laughing Gas

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… What’s the point of releasing new music when it is essentially a regressed version of previous stuff like Nocturne or Gemini?

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Release date: 2020-01-31

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[5.0/10]

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HMLTD - West Of Eden

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Trap / glam rock / post-punk. The vocals are super obnoxious and the band feels like they have an attention span of a snail - this album has no focus whatsoever.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[4.2/10]

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Envy - The Fallen Crimson

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The songs got even more drawn out than their previous record. At the more tolerable moments on this record the band sounds like they’re trying to mimic their earlier materials, which are actual legitimate post-hardcore jams that are raw and aggressive, but on this record it’s pretty lackluster. And the more post-rock songs or the ones with J-pop chanting female vocals are even more excruciating… I mean I bet not one out of ten would consider the song Rhythm an OK song.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[3.1/10]

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Poppy - I Disagree

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I disagree with the release of this album… Nu metal? Metalcore? Bubblegum pop? Trap? Now imagine all these stuff combined and condensed into a full length album… yuck.

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Release date: 2020-01-09

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[3.0/10]

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Infinite Body - Carve Out The Face Of My God

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Ambient / electronica FFO Gas and Tim Hecker.

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Release date: 2010-01-28

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[8.7/10]

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Terry Allen - Juarez

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Outlaw folk. Dope AF.

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Release date: 2016-05-20

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[8.6/10]

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Raime - Planted

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Raime is still on top of their game… dope techno / footwork / club release. Don’t sleep on it.

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Release date: 2018-01-30

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[8.4/10]

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Jon Hassell - Aka / Darbari / Java

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Mystic ambient / world music. This album is much more in line with my idea of how a concept album focused on the SE Asia should sound like, but then I digress…

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[8.4/10]

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Hieroglyphic Being - Synth Expressionism / Rhythmic Cubism

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Jazzy club / techno. I don’t think there’s a bad track on this album…

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[8.3/10]

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Gregg Kowalsky - Through The Cardial Window

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Excellent drone / ambient.

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[8.3/10]

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Burnt Friedman - Anthology (1980-2017)

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Techno / dub / house. Every song on this album is a good song.

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Release date: 2017-12-08

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[8.2/10]

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Resavoir - Resavoir

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Another missed gem from last year. Spectacular jazz hop release.

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Release date: 2019-06-28

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[8.2/10]

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DJ Loser - Urban Survival Anthems

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Rave / industrial. Very hyperactive stuff… Kind of like a more menacing Tsuzing.

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Release date: 2019-08-26

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[8.1/10]

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808 State - Transmission Suite

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I always thought 808 State is one of those spooky sounding obscure industrial bands… obviously I was very wrong (again). Pretty funky electronica / techno. The pace of the songs are really fast. I think the first half of the record is noticeably stronger than the second.

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[8.1/10]

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Eartheater, LEYA - Angel Lust

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Experimental pop / ambient. I wasn’t too keen on Eartheater’s 2018 album Irisiri, and didn’t really spend time to listen to her album Trinity from Last Year. However I really like how the almost whispered vocals are accompanied by detuned harps and the overall eerie, restrained atmosphere, which is definitely present but didn’t really do all that much on Eartheater’s previous efforts.

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Release date: 2019-12-20

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[8.1/10]

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Mary Halvorson, John Dieterich - A Tangle Of Stars

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Quirky, fun experimental music. Free jazz + indie rock?

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[8.0/10]

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Callisto - Guidance Is Internal: Part 1

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Very danceable club music. The sound is super streamlines and stripped back. When is part 2 coming out?

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Release date: 2019-11-29

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[8.0/10]

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Jamael Dean - Black Space Tapes

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Pretty decent nu-jazz / jazz-hop. I dig the chords on this album.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[7.9/10]

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Incredible Self Confidence - Worm

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Short retro psych rock / funk EP from the UK. Too short, but the band is super promising. Wouldn’t be surprised if people dig them.

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Release date: 2010-07-20

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[7.9/10]

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Mukqs - SD Biomix

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Deconstructed electronica. The guy said this album is somewhat comparable to Japanese experimental electronic musicians like Foodman and the artist’s labelmate Toiret Status, which is actually pretty accurate.

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[7.9/10]

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Toiret Status - Omaru

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Abrasive computer music. There’s a song with menacing guitar solos and blast beats, out of place but at the same time pretty cool…

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[7.9/10]

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Emma-Jean Thackray - Ley Lines

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Pretty decent nu-jazz / afrohouse album. What’s really impressive is that all these tracks are played by the artist herself…

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[7.8/10]

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Konduku - White Heron

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Decent ambient / techno / dub techno. It’s got a really subtle eerie atmosphere, which is pretty cool.

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Release date: 2019-11-29

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[7.8/10]

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Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom, Pt. 2

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I missed out on Now Only because A Crow Looked At Me was too strong of an album to make me think, maybe Phil would just quit making music altogether after this album, and if he didn’t the later stuff would be inevitably compared with Crow and would undoubtedly prove to be much less powerful. This album is indeed less heart wrenching to listen to then Crow, but then now I’ve grown and come to the realization that comparing a pretty good album to any god-tier stuff is just pretty unfair…

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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Anyway this is the classic Phil Elverum sound contained within the length of an album.

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[7.8/10]

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Vanishing Twin - The Age Of Immunology

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Sounds like Stereolab with even more pop influences to me…

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Release date: 2019-06-07

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[7.7/10]

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Helm - Chemical Flowers

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Decent ambient / experimental release. Lucinda Chua played on this album.

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Release date: 2019-05-17

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[7.7/10]

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Meemo Comma - Sleepmoss

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Ethereal yet unsettling at times field recordings / ambient.

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Release date: 2021-06-06

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[7.7/10]

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Easy Changes - Miki Biasion

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Pretty decent minimal deep house.

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[7.6/10]

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Buddy Collette Septet - Polynesia

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Unlike more contemporary musicians that sought to blend exotic elements into their music, this one is actually pretty straightforward jazz music. The songs are pretty shadowy but not as grim as some modern dark jazz ensembles, and it is actually the narrations and lyrics in this album, pulled from ancient Polynesian and Japanese manuscripts, that stand out the most.

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Release date: 2013-10-17

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[7.5/10]

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Stephen Mallinder - Um Dada

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I was like “this sounds kinda like Cabaret Voltaire…” and boom there it was. I dig the older CV’s stuff way more than this one though, this album is a bit too much on the pop side than what I’d preferred.

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Release date: 2019-10-11

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[7.5/10]

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Shin Guard - 2020

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Flashy screamo. The chords are pretty dissonant but I think they left too many somewhat distracting materials in this LP.

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[7.4/10]

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Sandunes - 11:11

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Poppy hip-hop / ambient.

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Release date: 2019-05-17

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[7.3/10]

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Amulets - Between Distant And Remote

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Alright ambient release.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[7.3/10]

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John Daly - Sea And Sky

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Deep house / disco. I feel like the songs are a bit too long…

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[7.2/10]

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Duster - Duster

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It’s OK but Stratosphere is significantly better.

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Release date: 2019-12-13

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[7.0/10]

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Hilary Woods - Colt

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Minimalist ambient / indie pop.

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Release date: 2017-05-12

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[7.0/10]

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Fifths Of Seven - Spry From Bitter Anise Folds

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Neoclassical / ambient / cinematic post-rock.

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Release date: 2018-07-27

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[7.0/10]

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Sami Baha - Free For All

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Wacky wonky trap hip-hop.

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Release date: 1976

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[6.8/10]

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William Bonney - All Ten

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Screamo / emo. I like the guitars on this album, but the drums sound way too artificial and drumming sounds pretty mediocre. The vocals don’t help too much either.

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Release date: 2018-12-13

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[6.6/10]

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Chromatics - Closer To Grey

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Electro rock. Not too excited about this album.

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Release date: 2019-10-02

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[6.5/10]

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Ka5sh - Big Pink Loser

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Bipolar cloud rap… meh. The gleeful tracks on this release are way too sugary and only leave the listener with an awful aftertaste. The dark tunes are not any better.

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[3.0/10]

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最近看 Rust 好像還蠻紅的,想說不如趁著工作比較沒那麼忙的時候試著用它來做做看 Advent Of Code,這幾天做得還蠻起勁的… 這兩天被第 15 天的題目卡了超久,結果發現都是卡在一些其實想通了就會覺得很蠢的地方,想說不如紀錄一下。

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Why Rust?

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原本有想過與其學一個之前完全沒有碰過的語言,倒不如把一直以來學得零零落落的 Haskell 好好地用熟跟搞懂,但是 Cargo 做為一個包管理器實在是太好用了,相較之下 Haskell 的 stack 在之前使用的經驗上就比較麻煩,我到現在還是搞不懂什麼時候該 stack install 什麼時候不該。 (理論上貌似是根本就不該做這件事情,但是好像很多執行檔的官方安裝教學都是在使用這個指令?搞不懂…)

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另外 Rust 比起 Haskell 這種純到不能再純的函數語言,在程式的自由度上我覺得還是高上不少,至少那些 C++ 裡面很常見的資料結構諸如 vector、 hash map 跟 hash set 之類的,在 Rust 裡面的用法其實也跟 C++ 裡的沒太大差別。反觀 Haskell 光是 map 要怎麼樣更新我到現在都還沒搞清楚過… 可能實際上沒那麼難?網路上我看過幾乎所有學會 Haskell 的人都說只要一旦能搞懂單子到底在幹嘛的時候,基本上就可以算是半通了,之後有空有心情的時候再看看吧。

+

Rust 實際上使用起來,我覺得最爽的點是在於它的編譯器丟出來的錯誤訊息,與其說是跟你講說哪裡做錯哪裡編不過,更像是跟你講說哪個地方的錯誤該用什麼方式修改。 Rust 當然也是有些東西 (e.g. 聰明指標那部分) 個人覺得設計得有點反人類,可能要真的很常用才會比較熟悉整套 Rust 語法的系統。但是 Rust 編譯器會跟你講說是哪一變數的 lifetime 不夠長、哪一行忘記 dereference、哪個變數在宣告的時候忘記加上 mut (Rust 所有的變數預設都是 immutable 的,需要加上 mut 才能夠在宣告之後去改動變數的值) 等等,其實只要照做就可以修掉那個錯誤。

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最後就是 Rust 本質上是強型別語言,前幾個禮拜在狂刻 Python 的我重新碰到一個會幫我做 type checking 的語言真的是還蠻感動的。

+

Advent Of Code?

+

基本上就是一拯救聖誕老公公的解題遊戲,但他的 puzzle input 都不是有辦法用人肉 parse + 計算的類型,然後好像是亂數產生的,還算有趣。似乎是每年年底會舉行?

+

What’s in day 15?

+

在前幾天裡已經做了一台能夠讀取程式碼並做出相對應反應的電腦,能夠對送進來的程式碼做讀寫修改,同時也能吃外部送進來的輸入值,跟把值輸出到外部。

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在這題裡面,我們要當一個二維平面上面的機器人,平面上會有牆壁擋路,而我們要想辦法走到一個事先不知道位置,只有抵達時才會知道位置的點。機器人一開始是待在 (0, 0),可以朝北南西東四個方向前進。如果機器人想朝北前進,就要把 1 輸入進電腦裡,電腦會輸出 0 (前面是擋路的牆,不能走),1 (前面沒有東西,可以前進到這格) 或是 2 (此移動後抵達終點)。想要朝南則是輸入 2,朝西是 3,朝東是 4。

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第一小題是要算出從起點到終點至少會需要幾步路。

+

第二小題是要算從終點開始,要花多少時間才能把整個地圖上可以填的地方 (也就是不是牆壁的格子) 填滿:

+

(#:牆壁,*:終點,.:還沒被填過的格子,O:被填過的格子)

+
t=0:
+
+##.##..#.
+##....#..
+#.#.*...#
+...#.###.
+.#.......
+
+t=1:
+
+##.##..#.
+##..O.#..
+#.#O*O..#
+...#O###.
+.#.......
+
+t=2:
+
+##.##..#.
+##.OOO#..
+#.#O*OO.#
+...#O###.
+.#..O....
+
+t=3:
+
+##.##O.#.
+##OOOO#..
+#.#O*OOO#
+...#O###.
+.#.OOO...
+
+t=4:
+
+##O##OO#.
+##OOOO#O.
+#.#O*OOO#
+...#O###.
+.#OOOOO..
+
+t=5:
+
+##O##OO#.
+##OOOO#OO
+#.#O*OOO#
+..O#O###.
+.#OOOOOO.
+
+t=6:
+
+##O##OO#O
+##OOOO#OO
+#.#O*OOO#
+.OO#O###.
+.#OOOOOOO
+
+t=7:
+
+##O##OO#O
+##OOOO#OO
+#O#O*OOO#
+OOO#O###O
+.#OOOOOOO
+
+t=8:
+
+##O##OO#O
+##OOOO#OO
+#O#O*OOO#
+OOO#O###O
+O#OOOOOOO
+

在這邊的話需要 8 個單位時間才能夠把整個地圖上所有能夠填的格子都填滿。

+

How to solve this damn thing?

+

第一題

+

我主要是在第一題的時候卡關,卡在一個很呆的點… 我一開始覺得只要用簡單的 BFS 去不停地看目前所知的格子之中,哪些格子可以走到相鄰的未探索的格子,這樣不停地去拓展 frontier,可以很快地就找到終點。但是我忘記要探索一個新的格子時,機器人必須先走到那個格子的旁邊才有辦法:(?:下個要探索的,#:牆壁,O:可以走的格子,*:機器人目前所在地,:機器人還不知道可以探索的格子)

+
grid:
+
+   ?##O###
+  #O#OO#OO
+  #OOO#OO#
+ #OO####O*
+  #OOOOOO#
+

所以為了要探索左上角的 ?,機器人必須從右下角一路走到 ? 下方的格子,才能夠進行探索:機器人不能瞬間傳送,沒辦法在右下角遠端探測左上角待觀測的格子。

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在我的實作裡面,機器人需要記下目前走過的地圖、當前的方向、現在所在的格子,以及下一個需要探索的格子。機器人會輸入自己目前的方向到電腦裡面,再根據電腦的回答來判斷是不是能夠前進到下一個格子裡面,如果可以的話就更新目前所在的格子為下一個格子。

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接下來再算出周遭的格子哪一格可以被作為下一個可以前進的選項:如果周遭有還沒有探測過的格子,那就將它作為下一個格子,並算出從現在的格子走到下一個格子的方向是什麼。如果周遭的格子都探測過了,則選擇周遭格子內所需步數最少的格子作為下一個格子,另外因為我們不希望重複走過之前走過的路,所以把周遭格子之中不是下一個格子,但也不是牆壁的格子的步數設定為很大的數字 (1,000,000,000)。

+
fn get_next(&mut self) -> Coordinate {
+    let c = self
+        .current
+        .neighbors()
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|c| !self.map.contains_key(c))
+        .next();
+    if let Some(result) = c {
+        return result;
+    }
+    let result = self
+        .current
+        .neighbors()
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|c| self.map.get(c).unwrap().0 == Tile::Empty)
+        .min_by(|x, y| self.get_cost(&x).unwrap().cmp(&self.get_cost(&y).unwrap()))
+        .unwrap();
+    for n in self.current.neighbors().iter() {
+        if *n != result {
+            let v = self.map.get_mut(n).unwrap();
+            if (*v).0 == Tile::Empty {
+                (*v).1 = 1_000_000_000;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    result
+}
+

Rust 好用的點我覺得就是那些 iterator 跟 map / filter methods,不然整天都在寫迴圈,一堆大括號看了就頭暈。

+

第二題

+

第二題反而可以用第一題我原先搞錯的做法來做,直接用 BFS 來探索還沒被填過的格子。

+
fn get_time(&self) -> Option<u64> {
+    let os = self.oxygen_system?;
+    let mut result = 0;
+    let mut visited: HashSet<Coordinate> = HashSet::new();
+    let mut frontier: Vec<Coordinate> = os
+        .neighbors()
+        .into_iter()
+        .filter(|i| self.get_tile(i) == Some(Tile::Empty))
+        .collect();
+    visited.insert(os);
+
+    while !frontier.is_empty() {
+        let mut new_frontier = Vec::new();
+        for c in frontier.into_iter() {
+            visited.insert(c);
+            let mut neighbors = c
+                .neighbors()
+                .into_iter()
+                .filter(|i| self.get_tile(i) == Some(Tile::Empty) && !visited.contains(i))
+                .collect();
+            new_frontier.append(&mut neighbors);
+        }
+        frontier = new_frontier;
+        result += 1;
+    }
+    Some(result)
+}
+

Rust 沒有像 Python 裡的 None 或是 C / C++ 裡面的 NULL 之類的東西,而是用基本上跟 Haskell 的 Maybe 完全相同的 Option<> 來包住一個可能有也可能沒有值的變數。但 Rust 裡面的這種 functor (感覺上 Rust 的 functor 跟 iterator 好像是同一件事情?) 又跟 Haskell 裡面的 monad 感覺不太一樣,自己的感覺是 Rust 的型別反而比 Haskell 的再沒限制一點。

+

Codes

+

GitHub

+

用兩個機器人的 struct 應該是完全沒必要的,但實在是懶得 refactor 了…

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+

2020 March Listenings

+
+
+ Posted on March 31, 2020 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Ian William Craig - Red Sun Through Smoke

+

+

[9.5/10]

+

Release date: 2020-03-20

+

Zelienople - Hold You Up

+

+

Meditative slowcore. Best pop record in 2020 so far. If David Sylvian one day decides to make slowcore music it’s very likely to sound just like this album.

+

Release date: 2010-01-01

+

[8.8/10]

+

Loke Rahbek, Frederik Valentin - Elephant

+

+

Ambient / experimental album. Not your average easy listening ambient album, this one uses a lot of different sound textures to create a wide range of moods, from lofi ambient tracks like Touch and Vision to The Heart of Things, which is almost field recording fused with indie folk instrumental ballad, then to tracks with more prevalent electronica influences like Scarlett and Solina. Good stuff…

+

Release date: 2003-04-01

+

[8.5/10]

+

Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe

+

+

FFO Tim Hecker, Kara-Lis Coverdale and Ben Frost. I think that pretty much covers just about every living person on earth?

+

Release date:

+

[8.5/10]

+

Alex Zhang Hungtai, Tseng Kuo Hung - Longone

+

+

Top notch ambient record. Don’t expect any Sunset Rollercoaster style indie rock on this album though, as the grooves in it are pretty well hidden underneath the various layers of synth textures, or in some tracks like the dissonant Scrambled Egg or Broken Gate, a lovely song with organ and piano playing in D major, there really isn’t such thing as a consistent groove.

+

Release date: 1992-01-01

+

這張很好聽

+

[8.4/10]

+

The Fear Ratio - They Can’t Be Saved

+

+

Who doesn’t love quality dub techno / ambient / IDM / industrial techno / any kind of trippy & immersive electronic music that makes you forget how much time has passed as you put the album on repeat and didn’t feel the need to change things up? Fav tracks: Sender, Grey Code, The Invisible Girl, though the entire album is pretty dope.

+

Release date: 2020-03-13

+

[8.4/10]

+

Horse Lords - The Common Task

+

+

Microtonal math rock. Truly an underrated band. Camille thinks it’s super annoying though.

+

Release date: 2020-03-13

+

[8.4/10]

+

Nicolas Jaar - Cenizas

+

+

While not really familiar with the stuff he put out under his own name, the AAL album from last month was spectacular in every aspect. This album is on the same level as the said AAL album: both are equally arresting and gnarly, but this one has more contrasts in tonalities and features more playful lead lines, like those pentatonic synth lines on Gocce.

+

Release date: 1992-01-01

+

[8.3/10]

+

Sega Bodega - Salvador

+

+

Glitchy minimalistic experimental / cloud pop. FFO Sophie and Rina Sawayama.

+

Release date: 2020-02-14

+

[8.3/10]

+

Le Berger - Our Imagined Self Importance

+

+

Twenty minutes of pure ambient goodness. People who dig William Basinski would also dig this.

+

Release date:

+

[8.3/10]

+

Mhysa - Nevaeh

+

+

Claustrophobic bedroom / experimental ambient pop. The extremely minimal instrumentals do contribute to an overall desolate atmosphere in the record. Good stuff.

+

Release date: 2019-10-25

+

[8.2/10]

+

Dan Deacon - Mystic Familiar

+

+

Neo-psychedelia / indie pop. Quality stuff, trippy & quirky & bright. I like his older stuff but I think this one is his best yet.

+

Release date: 2020-01-31

+

[8.2/10]

+

Pantha Du Prince - Conference Of Trees

+

+

Compared to his older stuff this one features more orchestral sounds and elements from the classical genre, but still retains that playfulness and subtle danceability found in other Pantha Du Prince albums.

+

Release date: 2020-03-06

+

[8.1/10]

+

The Flashbulb - Our Simulacra

+

+

I tried listening to The Flashbulb’s older breakbeat stuff when I was in high school and wasn’t impressed… guess people really acquire new appreciation for more interesting / challenging music as they grow older? Anyway this intense IDM album contains tracks ranging from laid back jazz to shredding tunes with catchy beats like Stabmyself. Good stuff.

+

Release date: 2020-03-24

+

[8.0/10]

+

Psypiritual, The Lasso - Kirlian

+

+

Jazz-hop / chill-hop. Didn’t pay a lot of attention to the lyrics but the flows on this album are tight AF. The instrumentals are what you’d expect from The Lasso, whose The Sound Of Lasso from last year is also super fire.

+

Release date: 2005-02-27

+

[8.0/10]

+

Star Searchers - Avatar Blue

+

+

Pretty decent vaporwave.

+

Release date:

+

[7.9/10]

+

Jacaszek - Music For Film

+

+

Haunting dark ambient. Not like one of those spooky dark ambient tunes that achieves nearly nothing music-wise, this one is bleak yet thoroughly enjoyable.

+

Release date: 2005-01-01

+

[7.8/10]

+

Vladislav Delay - Rakka

+

+

This one sounds more like Ben Frost than Vladislav Delay’s older minimal glitch techno. Turbulent yet majestic.

+

Release date: 2021-04-15

+

[7.8/10]

+

Odious Mortem - Synesthesia

+

+

Tech death. The vocals could be done better but the guitars on this record is outta this world.

+

Release date: 2014-05-23

+

[7.8/10]

+

Soccer Mommy - Color Theory

+

+

Indie folk / pop. I like her first album much more than this one… it is still a good album, just not as dazzling and refreshing.

+

Release date: 2020-02-28

+

[7.8/10]

+

Leo Takami - Felis Catus And Silence

+

+

Japanese ambient / new age meets guitar-focused jazz music. Kinda reminds me of softer songs from those Japanese jazz fusion giants…

+

Release date: 2020-02-28

+

[7.5/10]

+

Caribou - Suddenly

+

+

Though somewhat lacking in depth and complexity when it comes to songwriting this is definitely an album I can see people enjoy and for good reasons. I like the lofi hip-hop / R&B / pop vibe going on in this record, and the lead melodies are all done pretty well. The warped guitar and keys are very subtle but somehow still manage to sit in the mix just right.

+

Release date: 2020-02-28

+

[7.3/10]

+

Vyva Melinkolya - Violet

+

+

Shoegaze / indie pop. Fuzzy and worbly.

+

Release date: 2021-05-14

+

[7.3/10]

+

Hilary Woods - Birthmarks

+

+

Melancholic experimental drone folk.

+

Release date: 2013-04-16

+

[7.3/10]

+

Intronaut - Fluid Existential Inversions

+

+

I’d still say their best album is 2013’s Habitual Levitations. This album is least experimental among their discography, and overall doesn’t sound as well constructed. I do like the melodic parts with interesting chord changes, on the other hand the riffs are borderline repetitive and don’t really do much for me.

+

Release date: 2020-02-28

+

[7.0/10]

+

Electric Sewer Age - Contemplating Nothingness

+

+

Eerie experimental / ambient release. I like Coil more than the music Danny Hyde releases under this moniker.

+

Release date:

+

[7.0/10]

+

Real Estate - The Main Thing

+

+

Indie rock veterans tries and succeeds in ripping off their older materials. This is by no means an awful album, all the elements you love from their previous stuff are all present on this album, but the lack of innovations and new ideas places this album in an awkward position in Real Estate’s discography.

+

Release date: 2020-02-28

+

[6.4/10]

+

U.S. Girls - Heavy Light

+

+

I very much prefer U.S. Girls’ 2018 album In A Poem Unlimited, which is delightfully groovy and funky, to this one. This album contains elements from gospel, blues and country, but not really in a way that I find appealing.

+

Release date: 2020-03-06

+

[6.3/10]

+

Tycho - Simulcast

+

+

Wasn’t too keen on catching up with whatever Tycho was putting out… This album sounds like those background music you’d hear on vlogs of some Youtube content provider who happens to claim to be big fan of “alternative” / “indie” music. To be more specific I think the texture of the lead synths is actually pretty cool, but the songs are all pretty predictable and feel rather lackluster. Overall it just wasn’t a lot of fun listening to this album.

+

Release date: 2020-02-28

+

[6.0/10]

+

Code Orange - Underneath

+

+

I don’t like it… If I want metalcore / industrial crossover band I’d look for Vein over Code Orange any given day. The metal songs are pretty obnoxious with cringe worthy The softer, more alternative rock leaning tracks don’t do much for me either. Treading uncharted waters overall is definitely a good thing for bands, but this one just shows how such attempts could fail horribly.

+

Release date: 2020-11-08

+

[5.0/10]

+

Wouter Van Veldhoven - Verzamelen I

+

+

A collection of tracks by the artist in the past decade. Gentle, calm ambient music created with modular synth and recorded onto degraded tapes. More organic sounding than the Japanese variation of this kind of music.

+

Release date:

+

[8.4/10]

+

Zelienople - Pajama Avenue

+

+

Pretty classic slowcore. FFO Aerial M.

+

Release date:

+

[8.3/10]

+

Vatican Shadow - American Flesh For Violence

+

+

Who doesn’t love quality dub techno / industrial albums?

+

Release date: 2019-12-06

+

[8.3/10]

+

juneunit - juneunit

+

+

Very nicely executed dub techno / ambient.

+

Release date: 2019-10-20

+

[8.2/10]

+

輕描淡寫 - 小圈子

+

+

Dreamy vaporwave / ambient from… Shenzhen? 誰啊…

+

Release date: 2017-07-14

+

[8.2/10]

+

R Beny - Echo’s Verse

+

+

Deep, immersive ambient record.

+

Release date: 2019-05-15

+

[8.2/10]

+

SØS Gunver Ryberg - Entangled

+

+

Dark sounding industrial techno. There are danceable tracks like Palacelike Timescale Of Black, and then there are noise tracks like Trispider. Cool album.

+

Release date: 2020-05-09

+

[8.2/10]

+

Lawrence - Films & Windows

+

+

Decent deep house / ambient techno. 11 absorbing tracks, while not like a lot of artists nowadays that fuse their entire album into a singular narrative this still feels like a really cohesive album.

+

Release date: 2013-09-16

+

[8.1/10]

+

Brunnen - The Garden Of Perpetual Dreams

+

+

Experimental / ambient / noise album. Lots of diverse sound going on, there are almost The Caretaker like ambient tracks and then there are harsh tracks like The Revenge Of The Killer Maracas. Or maybe call it sound collage / hauntology music?

+

Release date:

+

[8.1/10]

+

Tony Njoku - Your Psyche’s Rainbow Panorama

+

+

Avant-pop / vaporwave pop. Need some more time to get familiarized with it…

+

Release date:

+

[8.0/10]

+

Roll The Dice - Until Silence

+

+

Epic experimental electronic music. There are growling tracks that reminds me of Ben Frost’s sound, and then there are slow, smooth piano-dominated tracks like Haunted Piano.

+

Release date:

+

[8.0/10]

+

Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading As Matter

+

+

I dig Sacred White Noise a lot but totally slept on this one when it came out in 2018. Compared to the former this record is not as discordant and eerie. Still a stellar black metal album though!

+

Release date:

+

[7.8/10]

+

Pye Corner Audio - Dark Phase

+

+

Acid club / IDM. Groovy stuff.

+

Release date: 2020-07-31

+

[7.7/10]

+

Mavi - Let The Sun Talk

+

+

Lofi jazz-hop. I think the lyrics are on point, but the instrumentals don’t really have a lot of kick.

+

Release date: 2019-10-18

+

[7.7/10]

+

Somaticae - Catharsis

+

+

Spooky ambient.

+

Release date: 2021-06-02

+

[7.6/10]

+

Sudan Archives - Sudan Archives

+

+

Hip-hop / R&B with unconventional violin lead lines. Pretty enjoyable.

+

Release date: 2019-11-01

+

[7.6/10]

+

Oto No Wa: Selected Sounds Of Japan 1988-2018

+

+

When compared with last year’s similarly themed compilation release by Topshelf, this one features tracks that are more playful and less contemplative. Still a good record but I’d take the one release by Topshelf any given day.

+

Release date: 2017-08-18

+

[7.5/10]

+

Nautilis - Are You An Axolotl

+

+

IDM / hip-hop. While stylistically diverse this album feels a bit unfocused than my liking.

+

Release date:

+

[7.4/10]

+

Edmund Finnis, Galya Bisengalieva, Robert Ames - Edmund Finnis: Brother

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Sombre modern classical music. Too short…

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[7.2/10]

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Yukari - Echo

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Korean chillwave / dream pop. The entire album sounds pretty safe and harmless.

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Release date: 2007-09-25

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[7.1/10]

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Kitty - Haha, I’m Sorry

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The lyrics are pretty nonsensical but the songs themselves are alright, pretty neat cloud pop / rap stuff.

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[7.0/10]

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Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still

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Holy balls

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Release date: 2020-04-24

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[9.5/10]

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Yaeji - What We Drew

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Awesome bedroom electro-pop.

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Release date: 2020-04-02

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[8.7/10]

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Farwarmth - Momentary Glow

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FFO Ben Frost.

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[8.6/10]

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Shabazz Palaces - The Don Of Diamond Dreams

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Honestly while I do think they’re definitely one of the best in the experimental hip-hop game I couldn’t really finish any of their earlier albums. This one I can finish, and I dig it… The beats are playful and the instrumentation is lush, don’t really think there’s anything to pick on this album. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2020-04-17

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[8.6/10]

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Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter

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Excellent folk record. Don’t think there’s anybody that would not like this album.

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Release date: 2020-04-10

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[8.5/10]

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Evan Caminiti - Varispeed Hydra

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Deep ambient dub.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[8.5/10]

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Indietronica / folktronica / bedroom music. It’s got that intimacy in last year’s Ernest Hood record, but with more instrumentation and more jazz influence. I really dig it.

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[8.4/10]

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Midwife - Forever

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Slowcore / indie pop.

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Release date: 2021-05-31

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[8.3/10]

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DJ Trystero - High Speed Wind

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Lo-fi dub techno.

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Release date: 2020-03-13

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[8.3/10]

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Mamaleek - Come & See

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FFO Botanist. Though I like the first two songs the most, every track on this album is very enjoyable experimental black metal song. I like how the guitars are drenched in reverb and instead of being ultra high gain they have a somewhat twang-ish quality.

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Release date: 2019-12-06

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[8.3/10]

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Felicia Atkinson - Everything Evaporate

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Droning, hypnagogic ambient. I think this is one of those albums that the listener would have to concentrate on listening in order to fully appreciate the intricacies of the entire thing.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[8.3/10]

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Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind

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I was under the impression that Yves Tumor produces music that are too hard to actually enjoy, although dude’s last album Safe In The Hands Of Love is actually pretty chill. This one carries over the atmospheric experimental R&B vibe from the said album, but the production is more minimalistic and stripped down, and the overall sound is more reminiscent of the old school R&B.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[8.3/10]

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downy - 第七作品集『無題』

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Basically what you’d expect from them. Awesome futuristic post-rock.

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Release date: 2020-03-18

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[8.2/10]

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DJ Python - Mas Amable

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Dub techno / ambient. Super hypnotic stuff.

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Release date: 2020-04-10

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[8.2/10]

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Waclaw Zimpel - Massive Oscillations

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Psyched out jazz + minimal electronica? Mesmerizing stuff.

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Release date: 2020-01-31

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[8.2/10]

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Lyra Pramuk - Fountain

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Experimental choir music? Everything on this record seems to be consisted of her voice only. The artist collaborated with Holly Herndon and Colin Self, so that kind of gives away what to expect on this album.

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Release date: 2017-08-18

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[8.2/10]

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D.K. - The Goddess Is Dancing

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Ambient house with elements from Vietnamese ritual music.

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Release date: 2020-03-13

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[8.1/10]

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Rina Sawayama - Sawayama

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In contrast to her debut mini album, which has a super prevalent vaporwave plus 90’s J-pop vibe, this one feels more grandiose, less nostalgic, and more in the context of contemporary pop music. The nu metal references are pretty evident, though personally I’m way into J-pop / R&B than nu metal I wouldn’t say the element’s appearance is out of place or bizarre. Take the track STFU! for example, when it came out as a single I was a bit taken aback but in the context of the entire album it feels way more natural and refreshing. Cue Poppy who actually came out with a djent-pop record earlier this year and totally butchered it…

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Release date: 2020-04-17

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Anyhow I think aesthetically I prefer Rina to this project but there are tracks that I enjoy quite a bit, like Bad Friend, Comme Des Garcons (Like The Boys) and Akasaka Sad.

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[8.0/10]

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Laurel Halo - Possessed

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This one is another step from the older hypnagogic pop / techno stuff. I think overall while this album is indeed experimental and bold its predecessor Raw Silk Uncut Wood is much more approachable and sonially more appealing. Fav song on this album would be Hyphae, pretty unsettling track.

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Release date: 2021-04-16

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[7.9/10]

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Electric Indigo - Ferrum

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Pulsating ambient techno. I feel like there really isn’t a lot of higher pitches or tones in this album, and it’s full on percussion and wobbly beats.

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Release date: 2021-01-15

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[7.9/10]

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Arca - @@@@@

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On Spotify this album is a sinlge 62 minute track so it’s difficult to really pinpoint the songs or bits I like most. The one at around 40 minutes mark is pretty memorable and definitely the one that leaves the most impression to me but the album in its entirety is pretty enjoyable. Stylistically this one is a continuation from her previous album Arca, but less baroque (well at least that how I felt when listening to that album) and more approachable.

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Release date: 2020-02-21

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[7.8/10]

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Nathan Fake - Blizzards

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Vibrant IDM.

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Release date: 2020-09-18

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[7.8/10]

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Thundercat - It Is What It Is

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Didn’t really check out Drunk, maybe I should… this one doesn’t stray off from his comfort zone too much. The bass and all the other instruments are very stellar, the mix could be done a bit better though in my opinion.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[7.7/10]

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Higher Intelligence Agency - Preform

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Dub techno / IDM.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[7.6/10]

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Daniel Avery, Alessandro Cortini - Illusion Of Time

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I appreciate how this album showcases both artists’ artistic tendencies. Instead of sounding like Avery’s own rave-worthy dub techno this one features a fair share of Cortini’s almost post-rockish ambient textures. To be frank I prefer Song For Alpha more than this album, but this one isn’t a bad album by any means.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.6/10]

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Old Man Gloom - Seminar IX: Darkness Of Being

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Pretty gnarlly post-metal. The first track was really crushing but there are other songs that are borderline cheesy stoner metal like In Your Name, and I don’t really love those tracks.

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Release date: 2020-03-23

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[7.5/10]

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Gil Scott-Heron, Makaya McCraven - We’re New Again: A Reimagining by Makaya McCraven

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Nu jazz / blues.

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[7.4/10]

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Witch Prophet - DNA Activation

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Eastern Africa jazz + R&B. Pretty easy to follow along, but a bit too much on the safe side.

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[7.3/10]

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Menzi - Impazamo

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So there’s this new music genre called Gqom in South Africa, and Menzi is one of the scene’s leading artists. This album can be best described as dark tribal experimental dance music, haven’t listened to any other stuff labeled as Gqom nor done any sort of looking up on more infos about the scene… I guess if you dig Tzusing then this might be your stuff?

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.3/10]

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Dean Blunt - Roaches 2012-2019

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Left field experimental pop compilation. Has a bunch of radio indie rock samples but the vocals are purposely super off-key and weird…

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Release date: 2020-03-25

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[7.2/10]

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Knxwledge - 1988

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Basically a collection of cut up hip-hop / R&B samples. Some tracks are pretty decent but they don’t last long. Think Madvillainy vol. 3 but weaker and less fun.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.2/10]

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Ohyung - Protector

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Aggressive experimental trap. The more noise oriented tracks are my jam, but the track Shenme Gui, I’m like… 什麼鬼?

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[6.8/10]

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P22 - Human Snake

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There’s a ton of Sonic Youth vibes in this EP. Not bad but not really what people would describe as highly original…

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[6.7/10]

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Nghtcrwlr - Let The Children Scream

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Experimental goth trap / lo-fi noise pop. 有點中二…

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Release date: 2020-02-21

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[6.5/10]

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The Strokes - The New Abnormal

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I mean it’s not a bad album but I just don’t like post-punk revival as a whole, and the fact that the chords are pretty predictable does not help. I know this one’s been getting rave reviews but I’m like, meh…

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Release date: 2020-04-10

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Also there’s way too much unnecessary falsettos in this album. Not for me.

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[6.3/10]

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Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters

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我真的是覺得還好……

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Release date: 2020-04-17

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[6.0/10]

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Suhjan Stevens, Lowell Brams - Aporia

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Ambient / new-age electronica. To me the album is overall pretty underdeveloped and feels like a soundtrack to some 80’s sci-fi movie. There are moments reminiscent of other big name ambient musicians, but the songs are just too short to leave any meaningful impression to me. If one wants to try Sufjan’s music it’s probably a good idea to start with another one…

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Release date: 2020-03-24

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[6.0/10]

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Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox

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According to Spotify my go-to musical genre is Fourth World. Not sure why…

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Release date: 1978

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[8.7/10]

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American Grandma - Superdog

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Found this in The Flenser’s Facebook group. Slowcore.

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Release date: 2014-09-29

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[8.6/10]

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Move D, Benjamin Brunn - Let’s Call It A Day

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Deep house / ambient / minimal techno.

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Release date: 2020-02-14

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[8.4/10]

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Cremation Lily - The Processes And Instruments Of Normal People

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Lofi ambient techno.

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Release date: 2017-09-07

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[8.3/10]

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Yazz Ahmed - Polyhymnia

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Outstanding world jazz. No idea why Spotify put this in the recommended for section at Richard Dawson’s page though.

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Release date: 2014

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[8.2/10]

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John Roberts - Can Thought Exist Without The Body

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Classical influenced ambient music. Almost passed out with this on repeat while I was in the tub, damn…

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[8.0/10]

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100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs

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I don’t get it…

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Release date: 2019-05-31

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[5.0/10]

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Ulla - Tumbling Towards A Wall

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Quality lo-fi ambient. Hard to imagine there’d be people not liking this album…

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[8.6/10]

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Various Artists - Still In My Arms: Compiled By Bayu And Moopie

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RA pretty much said it all: cry-in-the-club IDM.

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Release date: 2020-03-16

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[8.5/10]

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Jonny Nash, Suzanne Kraft - A Heart So White

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Ambient / modern classical. Do not miss.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[8.5/10]

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Charli XCX - How I’m Feeling Now

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This one is less polished than last year’s masterpiece album, but it’s still super dope nevertheless. Bass-heavy, hard-hitting electro-pop.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[8.4/10]

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Chekov - Aerated

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Bouncy dub techno / house. Trippy stuff.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[8.4/10]

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問題總部 It’s Your Fault - User Guide: I

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Excellent R&B / fusion. 樂器好讚ㄚ

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Release date: 2020-05-28

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[8.4/10]

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Tilman Robinson - Culturecide

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Intense experimental electronica.

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Release date: 2018-01-26

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[8.3/10]

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Jasmine Infiniti - BXTCH SLÄP

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Futuristic dark techno. Pretty rave worthy.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[8.3/10]

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Perfume Genius - Some Dream

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Man… Pino Palladino played on this album? This album consists of songs ranging from the vibrant rock n’ roll of On The Floor to the slow indie pop track of Borrowed Light. There are just so many different influences on this album, yet Perfume Genius is able to mesh all of them into a cohesive album. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2018-03-14

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[8.2/10]

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Green-House - Six Songs For Invisible Gardens

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Soothing ambient music. This is like Mother Earth’s Plantasia but even more ambient leaning.

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[8.2/10]

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Rose City Band - Summerlong

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Imagine in a parallel universe the band Real Estate decides to play psych country / folk music… The mastermind of this musical project is also in charge of a psychedelic rock band called Wooden Shjps. Wooden Shjps is dope AF.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[8.2/10]

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Grischa Lichtenberger - Kamihan; il y a péril en la demeure

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Deconstructed techno / house. Reminds me of Downy or 非/密閉空間. While I like last year’s Re: Phgrp more this one is still stellar.

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Release date: 2020-05-08

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[8.2/10]

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Valium Aggelein - Black Moon

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Duster side project releases an album that sound exactly like how a Duster album would be, even more so than last year’s release from Duster themselves.

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Release date: 2015-07-17

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[8.1/10]

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Serpent Column - Endless Detainment

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Chaotic mathcore / grindcore. To quote Jules Winnifield, “this is some gourmet shit”.

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Release date: 2020-03-17

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[8.1/10]

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Quelle Chris, Chris Keys - Innocent Country 2

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Decent jazz-hop / alternative rap. This one feels more relaxed and melodic than the previous one.

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Release date: 2020-04-24

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[8.0/10]

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Minor Science - Second Language

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A comment on his Bandcamp page reads “Aphex Twin & Cabaret Voltaire meet a 125th street.” Pretty accurate if you ask me.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[8.0/10]

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Pale Cocoon - Mayu

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70’s Japanese psych prog + Kankyo Ongaku style ambient and field recordings. Think a more trippy Kakashi? Also I dig the track Kumoatsume a lot.

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Release date: 2021-02-20

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[8.0/10]

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Karkhana - Bitter Balls

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World / free jazz. FFO free jazz / improve stuff from Instant Classic.

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Release date: 1998

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[7.9/10]

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Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

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Experimental black metal. While not extremely crushing this album does have a bunch of different sounds in it, from almost symphonic prog rock to psych to almost jazz. Like a more grinding Arcturus…

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Release date: 2020-04-17

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[7.9/10]

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Andy Shauf - The Neon Skyline

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Solid folk record. Just by the music I thought this thing sounds pretty lighthearted, but then upon further googling for the lyrics I found the album is actually a concept album about past love: “Our narrator heads to a bar where he hears that his ex is back in town. From there, he spirals through the course of their relationship from young love to jealous arguments to dreams of starting over. He eventually runs into her and they go their separate ways.” (Stolen from Pitchfork). I guess from paper the story seems pretty cliche but the way he writes about the events is super straightforward without any trace of falling into self indulgence. Pretty good stuff.

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[7.8/10]

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Yair Elazar Glotman, Mats Erlandsson - Emanate

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Quality modern classical music. FFO Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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Release date: 2020-05-31

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[7.8/10]

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Andrea - Ritorno

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Decent IDM.

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Release date: 2020-04-17

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[7.7/10]

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Aksak Maboul - Figures

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Chanson + prog + hip-hop + psychedelic rock, and you’d get this album… what? Nevertheless it is a pretty compelling album.

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Release date: 2018-03-26

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[7.7/10]

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Mosaic Of Transformation

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Meditative synth ambient.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[7.7/10]

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Hanya - Sea Shoes

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Refreshing indie rock / shoegaze.

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Release date: 1987-10-13

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[7.6/10]

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Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts V: Together

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Synth heavy ambient release from veteran industrial rockers. The album isn’t half bad, but there are much more interesting artists around.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.4/10]

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Various Artists - Transition, Vol. 1

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So this is a compilation of tracks released by some of the forerunners of rave music… I always presume rave music is by definition heady and fast paced but this doesn’t seem to be the case here? Dunno as I’m no expert on rave music either.

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Release date: 2020-02-04

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[7.3/10]

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Ka - Descendants Of Cain

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Hip-hop with beats sampled from old time western spaghetti movies? Not a lot of super exciting moments on this thing despite it being overall pretty enjoyable.

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Release date: 2020-05-07

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[7.2/10]

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Zoe Reddy - Wavelength

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Experimental electro-pop.

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Release date: 1978-09

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[7.0/10]

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Phillip Sollmann - Monophonie

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Experiment / ambient made with self-engineered microtonal instruments. The track Stutter contains some really piercing high-pitched noise… so remember don’t turn it up too much or else your eardrums might break. As for music itself I’d stick to his output under the Efdemin moniker.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[6.9/10]

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Night Gestalt - Sudden Rituals, Vol. 1

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Middle eastern music influenced dub ambient.

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Release date: 2020-02-27

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[6.7/10]

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Dijon - How Do You Feel About Getting Married?

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Jazzy but bland hip-hop.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[6.1/10]

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Roger Eno, Brian Eno - Mixing Colours

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Soothing but unspectacular ambient. Not that it sounds bad but the entire thing doesn’t bring any new idea onto the table.

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Release date: 2020-03-20

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[6.0/10]

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Manes - Young Skeleton

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“Experimental metal” in E minor. Like a more pretentious, less tasteful Ulver.

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Release date: 2020-04-17

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[5.5/10]

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Daisy Mortem - Faits Divers

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Hyperactive future pop. I don’t like this one bit…

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[4.0/10]

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Virginia Astley - Hope In A Darkened Heart

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… 我覺得有些和弦跟配器很像末代皇帝的配樂,結果有坂本龍一弄,蠻猛的。 Art-pop with a bunch of off-kilter instrumentations and counterintuitive chord changes. Think ambient pop but a lot more pop. Or hauntology pop, whatever. David Sylvian sang in this album on the first track too.

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[8.7/10]

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Kemistry & Storm - DJ-Kicks

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Fast paced drum & bass / jungle. At first I was like, I didn’t know people still make this kind of stuff in 2020, then I googled and realized this is actually a reissue of the 1999 mixtape. The tracks on this thing is super on point and guaranteed headbangers, I like this one a lot.

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Release date: 1996-08-19

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[8.5/10]

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Joseph Shabason - Anne

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Cathartic new age / ambient jazz from Canadian saxophonist. This is the dude that played in The War On Drugs and Destroyer.

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Release date: 2021-05-21

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[8.3/10]

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Braveyoung - Misery And Pride

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Another find through The Flenser Facebook Group. Wrapped lo-fi ambient. They say this was once a post-metal group called Giants, and this is album is anything but metal - it is a tender album.

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[7.9/10]

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Various Artists - Heterotopia

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Bouncy club music. It’s got Air Max ’97 and Celestial Trax.

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Release date: 2020-12-25

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[7.8/10]

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Planning For Burial - Leaving

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This one is more metal IMO. There’s even a stoner rock song on this thing… sick.

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Release date: 2002-01-01

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[7.8/10]

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Celestial Trax - Listen, Hear, Know, Become, Be

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Minimalistic ambient.

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[7.7/10]

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Frédéric D. Oberland - Labyrinth

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Can’t read French so no idea what the song titles meant, but the artist tagged this music with Georges Bataille so maybe there’s a connection? Drone / modern classical music.

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Release date: 1986-01-01

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[7.5/10]

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Winterquilt - Hymn

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Vaporwave artist doing black metal songs… bizarre and intriguing.

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Release date: 2019-02-08

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[7.5/10]

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Freddie Gibbs, The Alchemist - Alfredo

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Freddie Gibbs can do no wrong… this is a fact.

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Release date: 2020-05-29

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[8.6/10]

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Teleplasmiste - To Kiss Earth Goodbye

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Hauntology music / ambient. Good stuff… FFO Ernest Hood.

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Release date: 2020-06-05

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[8.6/10]

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Vague Imaginaires - L’Île Sous l’Eau

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Vibrant ambient / dub techno. Really good.

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Release date: 2020-06-10

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[8.5/10]

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The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase?

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While one could perhaps describe this album as an ambient / electronic release, to be honest I find there to be just too many styles of music packed into these 9 songs such that it’s basically impossible to be pigeonholed into any musical genre. Also you should read this highly entertaining article on n+1.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[8.4/10]

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Laura Cannell - The Earth With Her Crowns

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Modern classical / chamber music. Fanboying real hard here.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[8.4/10]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia

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Ethereal ambient. FFO Gas.

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Release date: 2020-05-22

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[8.4/10]

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Kenny Segal, Serengeti - Ajai

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Retro jazz-hop. Kenny Segal is the dude that did the beats on Hiding Places, Billy Wood’s album from last year and an album I enjoy very much. I’ve checked out reviews of Serengeti’s stuff but haven’t really checked him out until now. The rapping is somewhat reminiscent of Milo’s stuff, but the lyrics are more detailed and seems to have a more complete plot going on. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2020-04-05

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[8.4/10]

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Apparat - Soundtracks: Dämonen

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Haunting electronica / ambient. It’s got a lot of acoustic instruments on this album and adds to the sometimes dark, sometimes soaring mood shifts very seamlessly.

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[8.3/10]

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Cucina Povera & Haron - Plafond 6

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Cucina Povera’s last album didn’t really impress me all that much, but this one is different. Experimental ambient / electronic music.

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Release date: 2020-03-30

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[8.2/10]

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Wrekmeister Harmonies - We Love To Look At The Carnage

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Doom + slowcore… sloomcore?

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Release date: 2020-02-21

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[8.2/10]

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African Head Charge - Churchucal Chant Of The Iyabinghi

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Tribal pysch dub music. As good as dub gets.

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Release date: 2020-03-06

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[8.2/10]

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Okkyung Lee - Yeo-Neun

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Modern classical. The track The Longest Morning is probably my favorite. Overall the album is quite easy to get into, people who dig small ensemble chamber music would dig this. On top (or sometimes beneath) the chord progressions the cello would occasionally do weird slides across the fingerboard thus creating an unresolved tension in the middle of songs, but the entire album is very melodic and enjoyable.

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Release date: 2020-05-08

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[8.1/10]

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Iszlai - Jazzamped

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Jazzy IDM.

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Release date: 2020-05-26

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[8.0/10]

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Mong Tong 夢東 - Mystery 秘神

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Psychedelic rock.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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I don’t really focus on this kind of stuff lately but this reminds me of a vocal-less Wooden Shjips, the lead guitar playing is almost like what you’d find on a more enjoyable older psych rock mixtape: not a lot of fuzz, just clean playing with tons of delay and wah. The synth doesn’t really remind me of early Taiwanese TV shows, but then I didn’t really get to browse through the channels when I was a kid. Personally I dig the last three tracks more than the first several tracks like Chakra or Jou-Tau, as I wasn’t really that into Indian music and the eerie atmosphere present in these tracks. On the contrary the last two tracks A Nambra and In The K. Court have a pretty strong dub vibe going on. Cool stuff.

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[8.0/10]

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Thou - Blessings Of The Highest Order

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A compilation of all their Nirvana covers.

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Release date: 2020-06-05

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[7.9/10]

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Dom & Roland - Lost In The Moment

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Solid drum & bass album.

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Release date: 2017-10-05

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[7.8/10]

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Warmth - Life

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Droning lo-fi ambient.

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Release date: 2018-08-10

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[7.7/10]

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Psychic Graveyard - A Bluebird Vacation

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Noise rock. FFO Metz and Pissed Jeans.

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Release date: 2020-05-22

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[7.7/10]

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Preservation - Eastern Medicine, Western Illness

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A hip-hop album dedicated to Hong Kong and its people… Kinda weird listening to these spoken word samples in Mandarin, but the album overall is a pretty enjoyable experience. Preservation previously made tracks for the likes of Ka, Mos Def and Aesop Rock, and this one more or less has that alternative conscious rap vibe going on.

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Release date: 2020-05-29

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[7.6/10]

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Deena Abdelwahed - Dhakar

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Jungle + club + dance. I imagine this would be outstanding club music, but then I don’t club…

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[7.6/10]

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Sean McCann, Matthew Sullivan, Alex Twomey - Saturday Night

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Improvisation / ambient / modern classical. I feel like this kind of release would easily venture into unrestricted, devoid-of-melody free-jazz territory, but then this album actually is anything but that. The instrumentation is in face very coherent - there are actually chord progressions going on in this album, and then there would be instruments leading the melody. Overall the entire album provides a very comforting mood, the most intensive part would probably be the drum roll in the beginning of the first track.

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Release date: 1977-11-15

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[7.6/10]

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Military Genius - Deep Web

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An album really difficult to categorize… there are jazz, R&B, ambient, indie rock, folk, pulsating techno tracks on this thing. Pretty insane.

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Release date: 2012

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[7.5/10]

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Plone - Puzzlewood

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Happy sounding indietronica.

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Release date: 2020-04-17

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[7.3/10]

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Run The Jewels - RTJ4

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The lyrics and theme are very fitting to the current turmoil in the US, or to a general disillusionment about the neoliberal world order, but in terms of musicality not much has evolved from RTJ2, which IMO is their best album yet.

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Release date: 2020-06-03

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[7.2/10]

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Backxwash - God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It

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Horrorcore. Haunting and bleak. Also a bunch of distorted guitars…

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[7.1/10]

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White Boy Scream - Bakunawa

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Noise / experimental classical from opera singer. The descriptions on Deathbomb’s Bandcamp page says this album deals with the pre-colonial myths in her home country of Philippines. Didn’t catch that to be honest…

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[7.0/10]

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Aquarian - The Snake That Eats Itself

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Dark techno / IDM / ambient. I like the ambient tracks, but the techno tracks… not as much.

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Release date: 2020-01-24

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[7.0/10]

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Golden Retriever, Chuck Johnson - Rain Shadow

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Ambient / drone. Golden Retriever is composed of a synth player and a bass clarinetist, and I think it’s probably better if they decided to do an album all on their own instead of incorporating Chuck Johnson’s guitar playing - he adds too much heavily modulated notes into the mix, making the overall smooth and expansive atmosphere prevalent in this album less focused. It’d probably be great if Johnson does a collaboration with Alessandro Cortini though.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[7.0/10]

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Xibalba - Años En Infierno

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Old school death metal.

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Release date: 2020-05-29

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[7.0/10]

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Noveller - Arrow

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Cinematic music / ambient / soundscape.

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Release date: 2012-02-14

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[7.0/10]

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Zaliva-D - Immorality

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Jungle / club.

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Release date: 2020-06-08

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[6.9/10]

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Hideto Sasaki, Toshiyuki Sekine Quartet + 1 - Stop Over

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Lounge jazz music.

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Release date: 2020-08-25

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[6.8/10]

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Daniel Davies - Signals

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This is like a soundtrack to a nonexistent movie: there are ambient, grandiose rock guitars, plucked folk guitar tracks, electronica and even post-rock tracks on this thing. Daniel Davies worked for John Carpenter on many of the soundtracks of his films, but I feel like while this album isn’t lacking unsettling moments, it kind of lacks that bizarre playfulness atmosphere so prevalent in John Carpenter’s movie OSTs.

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Release date: 1982-09-09

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[6.8/10]

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Tom Misch, Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music

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Jazz / R&B. Yussef Dayes is a helluva drummer, but this album is too polished and borderline artificial. The guitar tones sound like what you’d hear on any random trending guitar player’s page on Instagram.

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Release date: 2020-04-24

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[6.5/10]

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Deerhoof - Future Teenage Cave Artists

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Glitchy lo-fi indie rock / experimental pop. I guess I might have already grown out of the genre…

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Release date: 2020-05-29

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[6.5/10]

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Cremation - Dissolution Of Balance

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Metallic hardcore. I feel like these bands are more or less trying to recreate the Unsilent Death era Nails sound…

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[6.2/10]

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Squarepusher - Be Up A Hello

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IDM. It’s ok but not great.

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Release date: 2020-01-31

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[6.1/10]

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Elisabeth Elektra - Mercurial

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Electro-pop. The album cover is way more intimidating than the music…

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Release date: 2021-05-28

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[6.0/10]

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Umbra Vitae - Shadow Of Life

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Metalcore. Rather mediocre.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[5.8/10]

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Elder - Omens

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Very proggy stoner rock. Or just prog rock. Some flashy riffs here and there but overall the songs are all pretty bland.

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Release date: 2013-06-14

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[5.3/10]

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Mrs. Piss - Self-Surgery

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8 underdeveloped sludge rock / doom-pop (lol) songs in 18 minutes. The slower songs are alright except they’re way too short, and the faster ones have pretty lame big rock drums on them.

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Release date: 2020-05-29

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[4.2/10]

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Car Seat Headrest - Making A Door Less Open

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It’s pretty lousy.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[4.0/10]

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雨のパレード - Borderless

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Sugary sweet J-Pop. I only checked it out for the Dos Monos feature… turns out that was the only track that I could stand. The other songs are just lackluster pop songs. This is a 3.5 solely because the beginning of the Dos Monos feature track is pretty fire.

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[3.5/10]

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Theseus忒修斯 - 南國再見,南國

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Unoriginal. 老婆:「這什麼爛歌…」

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Release date: 2020-06-08

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個人認為老套到聽不太下去,另外我猜樂團成員應該很喜歡滅火器跟晨曦光廊吧?給個 3 分是因為立意良善,但希望要繼續玩團的話可以多嘗試新的聲音、更奇異的編曲,至於懷舊跟詞彙的堆疊就真的是不要會比較好…

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[3.0/10]

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Sibylle Baier - Colour Green

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Folk. Very minimalistic with respect to instrumentation, and extremely intimate.

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Release date: 2006-01-01

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[8.6/10]

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Ol’ Dirty Bastard - Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

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Hardcore hip-hop. Feels like dude was just winging it and not giving a damn when he made this stuff, and then the stuff is still super dope…

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Release date: 1995

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[8.5/10]

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Tara Clerkin - Hello

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Soothing lo-fi outsider folk. I like it…

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Release date: 2012-01-01

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[8.4/10]

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Gianluca Iadema - Aphàiresis

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Minimal house / techno. Pulsating release… looks like Mille Plateaux is back!

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Release date: 2019-09-20

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[8.3/10]

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Shasta Cults - Shasta Cults

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Ambient electronic music. FFO Ulla.

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[8.3/10]

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Cranes - Loved

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Found through a post in The Flenser Facebook group. Dazzling alternative rock… gothic dream pop.

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Release date: 2020-08-04

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[8.3/10]

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Sister Grotto - You Don’t Have To Be A House To Be Haunted

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Man I really dig this kind of stuff… slowcore with classical instruments. Exquisite stuff. The singer is the lady from Midwife.

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[8.2/10]

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Segue - Pacifica

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Psychedelic minimal house.

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Release date: 2021-05-24

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[8.1/10]

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Sprain - Sprain

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Slowcore / indie rock. The track Deliver Us is pretty rocking, the others are slow Duster-esque jams.

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Release date: 2015-10-23

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[8.1/10]

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Toshiyuki Miyama and The New Herd & Masahiko Sato - Canto Of Libra

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Free jazz. Abrasive stuff… love it. Sounds like Imperial Triumphant’s jazz interludes but stretched and extended into proper songs.

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[8.1/10]

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Angel Bat Dawid - The Oracle

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Contemporary afro jazz / spiritual jazz. The artist did all the instruments except for the drums on track Cape Town. I feel like this album is very fitting to the current events happening in the US…

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Release date: 2010-01-01

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[8.0/10]

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The Utopia Strong - The Utopia Strong

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Electronic music / ambient. This feels almost krautrock-ish. Lots of synth in this album. 裡面有位叫 Steve Davis 的,打撞球打到六座世界冠軍… 猛

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[8.0/10]

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Jay Glass Dubs - Plegnic

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Eerie industrial dub.

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Release date: 2010-01-01

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[8.0/10]

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Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Jaybird

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Psyched out lofi-dub. Trippy stuff.

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Release date: 2007-04-24

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[7.8/10]

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Boldy James, The Alchemist - The Price Of Tea In China

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I dig The Alchemist’s collab with Freddie Gibbs more. Not to say this is a bad album whatsoever though.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[7.8/10]

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Bull Of Apis Bull Of Bronze - Offerings Of Flesh And Gold

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Ritualistic black metal. Although this one features some post-rock moments it’s very different from post-black metal style made prevalent by Deafheaven / Alcest / etc, this one is actually grim AF.

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[7.7/10]

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Jay Daniel - Tala

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Jazzy house. Kinda like Eric Lau but not as funky.

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Release date: 2021-04-21

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[7.6/10]

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The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

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Charlie Hunter’s first ever project? His bass playing on this album is super on point. Nice political rap album.

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Release date: 1992-01-01

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[7.5/10]

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Jay Glass Dubs - The Safest Dub

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Dub made from Sade samples. Ain’t half bad.

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[7.5/10]

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Aco - Trad

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Emotional J-pop. The first half was super dazzling - the first three tracks feature incredibly flashy drums and are fire, but after Teardrop (a Massive Attack cover) it’s just slow rock ballads like those late 90’s early 00’s Japanese pop singers.

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Release date: 2001-01-01

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[7.4/10]

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Interstellar Funk - Caves Of Steel

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Electro / techno.

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Release date: 2017-06-30

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[7.3/10]

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Bjarki - Happy Earthday

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OK IDM.

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Release date: 2019-02-15

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[7.0/10]

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Mare - Mare

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Sludge metal. Kinda like Knut but less mathy and more post-metal-y.

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Release date: 2019-03-08

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[7.0/10]

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Veytra - In Dreamlike States

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Blues + prog + stoner + post-rock, all encapsulated in a very modern sounding mix. Not really my jam though…

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[6.0/10]

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Mortality Rate - You Were The Gasoline

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Metallic hardcore. Some riffs are pretty thrash-ish and pretty fire, but other than that this isn’t the kind of stuff that redefines a genre or does something completely new. And the metalcore breakdowns and blast beats are pretty meh.

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Release date: 2019-05-01

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[6.0/10]

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這次北影真的是卯起來狂看,十幾天下來看了總共二十四部電影,看到眼脫窗

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6/26

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非法跟監

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蠻鳥的。

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★★

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6/27

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熱病幻夢

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看不太懂,不過某些地方感覺還不錯。

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★★☆

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這不是一場葬禮

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~宗儒國認定本屆最佳影片~

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★★★★★

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1917 迷走莫三比克

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還行。

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★★★☆

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春江水暖

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就當你以為故事講得差不多了的時候,就會又再繼續開展一段其實不講也不會怎麼樣的情節,有點煩。那個江光看著也好像沒比醉月湖乾淨多少吧?

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★★☆

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6/28

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夢遊潛水艇

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我覺得這部趙正媛應該會覺得普普通通,但我蠻愛的。

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★★★★

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阿伊努之森

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喜歡黃金神威跟 Oki Dub Ainu Band 的應該都會覺得這部蠻有共鳴的吧?

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★★★★

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下落

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結尾太屁了,但前面還算好看。

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★★★

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人工失格

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糞作,為什麼我要待完全場…

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凝視蕾妮瑪莉佛森

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Empowering documentary.

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★★★★

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6/29

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一日談

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小說的前百分之九十篇幅也像電影裡面的一樣悶嗎?這場我坐不太住。

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★★☆

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6/30

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光榮之路

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Kubrick 早期的片(算吧),還算行吧。

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★★★☆

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7/1

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死神二十來敲門

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本來以為這是這一天看過最好的了,結果不是😅

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★★★★

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拾魂

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非常好看,本屆第三名。

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★★★★☆

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7/2

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麥肯齊金總理密史

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普普通通,沒有想像中的有趣。

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★★☆

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7/3

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千面惡魔

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前面一半都被我睡掉了,真的是睏到爆… 但後半本身也足夠好看了,希望以後有機會可以整個再看過一遍!

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★★★★☆

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7/4

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穿越時空的少女

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老實說有點亂演,但整個效果做得還不錯。散場的時候有聽到其他觀眾在聊天,在聊為什麼星際大戰特效的品質做得比這部好上好幾個層級,我是沒看過曙光乍現啦… 但美國那時候應該比日本有錢很多吧?

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★★★☆

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敬!咆哮二十

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我猜一般來說應該不會喜歡這種好像也沒有什麼重點的片吧?但我是很愛就是了。

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★★★★

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7/5

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無名之歌

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中間男同志的 love line 有點沒頭沒腦,其他的都真的是做得非常好。

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★★★★

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暗夜啟示錄

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我到底看了什麼?

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★★

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7/6

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後人類傳說

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難看得要命… 電影是從 193X 年的小說改編過來的,但整個被搞得很解。配的後搖 / 環境音樂也沒有讓整部片變得更有張力,只是更煩而已。想說這電影真的是爛死了,結果看完片尾才發現導演的確是過世了… but still.

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7/7

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人魚祭

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馬馬虎虎,不太懂整個調成黑白的用意是什麼?

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★★☆

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7/8

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天外奇機

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有些地方ㄎㄧㄤ得很猛,有些地方看不懂。如果有懂安哥拉歷史的應該會看得懂吧?另外就是那些壞掉的冷氣到底哪裡來的…

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★★★☆

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7/9

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大林宣彥:電影藏寶盒

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腦洞大開,另外卡司非常的豪華。

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★★★★☆

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結論是真的很累,不過光點在公司旁邊這點導致週間的場次不太需要趕場,還算不錯。另外這兩週也是光顧了啤酒土狗蠻多次,他們的酒真的都進得不錯,也是很推。

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2020 July Listenings

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Bing & Ruth - Species

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Ambient on electric organ. Why is this so good…

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Release date: 2020-07-17

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[9.4/10]

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R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages

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So this is actually milo after he changed his stage name because of Milo Yiannopoulos. Super dope jazz-hop. Can’t imagine people hating on this record…

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Release date: 2020-03-06

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[9.0/10]

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Olan Monk - Love/Dead

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Glitch gothic post-punk Scott Walker. On my second time listening to this I found that I actually like this one a lot.

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Release date: 2015-10-06

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[8.8/10]

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Blu & Exile - Miles

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Awesome jazz-hop album.

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Release date: 2020-11-15

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[8.7/10]

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Jme - Grime MC

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This month I’ve been listening to a bunch of grime music… this one is pretty hard hitting.

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Release date: 2020-06-01

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[8.6/10]

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Kassel Jaeger - Swamps/Things

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Outstanding ambient album.

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[8.5/10]

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Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol. 4

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To me this is more like a Gas record than a Alva Noto one. I love Gas so that’s fine by me.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[8.4/10]

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Speaker Music - Black Nationalist Sonic Weaponry

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Theory-heavy techno. Really makes you think.

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Release date: 2020-11-27

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[8.4/10]

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Gabor Lazar - Source

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Bouncy, electrifying IDM / techno.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[8.3/10]

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Mechatok - Defective Holiday OST

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Fun ambient / IDM / progressive trance. This is the soundtrack to a… walking simulation game where the player goes on a virtual holiday that is glitchy AF? As weird as that sounds the music is exquisite stuff. Love this.

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Release date: 2020-05-20

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[8.3/10]

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Masaki Batoh - Smile Jesus Loves You

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World / folk / psychedelic. Neat.

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[8.3/10]

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JAF Trio - JAF Trio

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Rising stars of contemporary jazz music. This reminds me of some older, more leftfield jazz records, while still maintaining an uplifting, almost UK electro-jazz-ish vibe.

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Release date: 2020-07-03

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[8.3/10]

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Bill Nace - Both

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Noise / ambient / drone.

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Release date: 2018-03-09

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[8.2/10]

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тпсб - Whities 031

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Kinda like drum & bass Coil.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[8.2/10]

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Asher Gamedze - Dialectic Soul

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This is the debut album of the drummer who played on Angel Bat Dawid’s spectacular album from last year, The Oracle. I guess with that in mind it’s easier to see where this one is going thematically… The first suite of the album, State Of Emergence Suite, is pretty haunting free jazz. The others have more vivid themes going on, the chord progressions are easier to get a grasp on and the grooves are more straightforward.

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[8.2/10]

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Josey Rebelle - Josey In Space

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Black dance music DJ mix. There’s Loraine James and DJ Marcelle on this thing.

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[8.2/10]

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Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Burnt Friedman - Yek 2

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Iranian percussive instrument called tombak plus trance IDM. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[8.1/10]

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Pinch - Reality Tunnels

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UK bass / trip-hop. Vibrant.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[8.1/10]

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Gia Margaret - Mia Gargaret

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Warm, meditative ambient / piano music.

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[8.1/10]

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Various Artists - Stimulus Swim

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Club / footwork / experimental electronic music compilation. So this is the mixtape bunch of artists on Hyperdub made along with Adult Swim. The official Bandcamp says this would be a glimpse into what HD would release later this year, guess it’s going to be pretty fire then.

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[8.1/10]

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Croatian Amor - All In The Same Breath

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IDM / ambient. While not as memorable and strong as Elephant, the album from Loke Rahbek and Frederik Valentin earlier this year and is a strong candidate for my AOTY, this one is nevertheless an pretty decent chillout record.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[8.0/10]

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Armand Hammer - Shrines

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Pretty dope hip-hop. The lyrics are on point and the featured artists in this record are fire.

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Release date: 2012-07-23

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[8.0/10]

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Blawan - Immulsion

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Pulsating industrial techno. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[8.0/10]

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Phoebe Bridges - Punisher

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Indie folk. I love the last track very much.

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Release date: 2020-06-18

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[7.9/10]

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Annanan, Space Afrika - LL.M. 002

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Pulsating ambient techno.

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Release date: 2015-06-01

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[7.8/10]

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Arca - KiCk i

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Avant-pop / glitch hop / experimental electro-pop? This is a lot more approachable than Arca’s other stuff. I guess at times this feels a little too all over the place and distracting? Nevertheless the album still features several decent banger tracks, like Nonbinary and No Queda Nada. Also I’m willing to bet a beer on Grimes feeling more than a little regretful for the fact that instead of going for this kind of stuff she instead pulled off Miss Anthropocene… that album is wack.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[7.8/10]

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Nazar - Guerrilla

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So I still don’t get what exactly the term Kuduro means… Quirky experimental club music. Nazar is son to an Angolan rebel general, and this album is kind of like an sonic exploration / exposition of the history of his entire family.

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Release date: 1999-07-27

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[7.8/10]

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Heather Leigh - Glory Days

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Electronic / ambient / field recording / folk. Weird stuff… this album is very difficult to categorize: the track Death Switch features ethereal folk guitar and birds chirping, two tracks later we get Take Just A Little, a electronica banger that’s super easy to dance to, and then the next track Island is meditative ambient. If only every lockdown album is as good and adventurous as this one…

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Release date: 2016-11-18

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[7.7/10]

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Shinichi Atobe - Yes

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Melodic house mostly in major chords. I dig the more restrained dub techno vibe present in From The Heart, It’s A Start, A Work Of Art, the record that introduced me to this dude, more than the melodic take of Chicago house music in this and his last release, Heat. Boomkat is quite accurate in saying this one showcases a very strong Drexciya influence, but then Drexciya albums are more fun and unpredictable than this one…

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Release date: 1997-03-25

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[7.6/10]

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박혜진 Park Hye Jin - How Can I

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Pop techno / dance. FFO Yaeji but this covers more genres.

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Release date: 2015-04-14

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[7.6/10]

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Shifted - The Dirt On Our Hands

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Futuristic hard techno. FFO JK Flesh.

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Release date: 2020-06-08

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[7.6/10]

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Bolt Gun - Begotten

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Does this have anything to do with the film with the same name… ambient / post-black metal. FFO Lantlôs I guess?

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Release date: 2019-02-15

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[7.6/10]

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Kemba - The World Is Watching

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Contemporary political hip-hop. The hooks aren’t my stuff but the last track really gets it. This is written in 2016… the fact that nothing has really changed between these four years is extremely sobering.

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Release date: 2020-06-25

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[7.5/10]

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Amnesia Scanner - Tearless

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Experimental club / electronic music. I always thought AS stuff were all pretty chaotic and hard to get through, but this is not the case on this album. Lots of tracks on this album carry a strong Sega Bodega vibe, but not as pop-oriented. Not a fan of the album cover though… eww.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[7.5/10]

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Chloe x Halle - Ungodly Hour

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R&B / pop. Songs like Busy Boy and Lonely are pretty dope, the others are just alright though.

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Release date: 2020-06-03

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[7.5/10]

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Illuminati Hotties - Free I.H: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For

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Pretty refreshing indie punk, or “tenderpunk” as the singer / mastermind of this musical project calls it. Some quirky chords and vocals here and there but overall it’s a bit too tamed for my likings.

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Release date: 2020-07-17

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[7.3/10]

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Sekwence - Essentials 2 (Purgatory)

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Chill-hop. I like the instrumentals a lot but not so much his voice.

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[7.2/10]

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100 Gecs - 1000 Gecs And The Tree Of Clues

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I like this more than their highly acclaimed release from last year… hyperactive bipolar pop music.

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[7.1/10]

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Jay Glass Dubs - Soma

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IDM / trip-hop / dub techno (sometimes).

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Release date: 2013-09-17

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[7.0/10]

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Haim - Women In Music Pt. III

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Contemporary soft pop rock. People have been raving over this one… maybe this is the pinnacle of modern pop music? But I’m not really that into this one. Sure the songs are really well written, the instrumentations are intricate and the production is on point, but… I don’t know, aren’t good pop rock albums also being inherently boring and predictable? While this is indeed a very decent album it just doesn’t grow on me.

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Release date: 2021-02-19

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[7.0/10]

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Vile Creature - Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm!

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Sludge / doom metal. Pretty heavy, but the grooves are too steady for my taste.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[7.0/10]

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Hedvig Mollestad - Ekhidna

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Psychedelic jazz fusion.

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Release date: 2020-07-03

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[7.0/10]

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Kamaal Williams - Wu Hen

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Jazz-funk / soul. Imma stick with Black Focus though.

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Release date: 2020-07-24

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[6.8/10]

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Early Adopted - Tarred & Feathered

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Eminem-esque rap album. Not my jam though.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[6.7/10]

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Wire - 10:20

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Old-school post-punk.

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Release date: 2019-11-29

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[6.5/10]

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The Streets - None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive

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His old stuff is better IMO. This one is more melodic and sort of strays away from the Grime sound, and has a bunch of big name features. But the lyrics don’t seem to capture the raw energy prominent in A Grand Don’t Come For Free and other older stuff. The more approachable uplifting songs like Falling Down sound as bland as it can get…

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[6.3/10]

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Paysage D’Hiver - Im Wald

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DSBM. Man this album is long… and I guess this kind of production, while having its historic significance, don’t really do contemporary black metal justice: the ferocious drums and blistering guitars simply get drowned by the unnecessarily raw production.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[6.2/10]

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Cotoba - Name Of The Seasons

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Korean math rock / pop. Think Elephant Gym but with more chops. Gets style points for the licks and rapid fire drumming but the riffs are pretty lackluster.

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Release date: 2020-06-30

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[6.0/10]

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Taylor Swift - Folklore

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Haim’s new album is a much better attempt at making straight up pop album that does not suck. While this is without a doubt Swift’s best effort so far, for me it’s still pretty meh.

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Release date: 2020-07-24

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[5.5/10]

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Khurangbin - Mordechai

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Unmemorable chill-out (not so) psychedelic music.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[5.0/10]

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Hum - Inlet

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I’d suggest sticking to Downward Is Heavenward.

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Release date: 2020-06-24

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[4.3/10]

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Cheriton - Parallel

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No… dad rock is no longer stuff like Papa Roach or Hoobastank. Dad rock in 2020 is this. Cloying indie rock.

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Release date: 1978-09-23

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[3.0/10]

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Silvana Estrada, Charlie Hunter - Lo Sagrado

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Awesome organic jazz-pop. 阿爆可惜了

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Release date: 2017-11-03

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[8.6/10]

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The Streets - A Grand Don’t Come For Free

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I was super into Original Pirate Material and The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living when I was in high school while totally missing out on this one.

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Release date: 2004

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[8.5/10]

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Kevin Drumm - Shut In

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Drone ambient. Very slow and minimalistic, a radiating suite of 30 minutes. The artist seems like a huge black metal fan. Or maybe he plays in a black metal band? Anyway this is probably the best hangover music.

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Release date: 2017-05-01

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[8.5/10]

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Gia Margaret - There’s Always Glimmer

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Soothing indietronica / piano folk.

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Release date: 2019-05-24

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[8.3/10]

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Smerz - Have Fun

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Future-pop / trip-hop. She sounds like a more pop oriented version of Mhysa, which is pretty cool.

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Release date: 2021-06-09

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[8.2/10]

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Jonnine - Super Natural

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Ambient electro-pop. At times this sounds kind of eerie, which is good.

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Release date: 2020-12-28

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[8.1/10]

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Sleaford Mods - Eton Alive

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… British punk-hop? I know they’re a post-punk band but I think this one has a very strong hip-hop vibe going on. This is my first time listening to their stuff, safe to say I’m sold.

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Release date: 2019-02-22

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[8.0/10]

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Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - Circulations

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Obscure cut & paste electronic music from Jan Jelinek. This gravitates more towards sound collage territory.

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Release date: 2014-07-15

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[7.8/10]

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Black Ark Players - Black Ark In Dub

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Reissued last month. Dub album from dub legend Lee “Scratch” Perry.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[7.6/10]

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Ganser - You Must Be New Here

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Indie rock / post-punk. Pretty awesome rock music.

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[7.5/10]

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Lord Mantis - Universal Death Church

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Not as vicious as their previous stuff.

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Release date: 2019-11-22

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[7.3/10]

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Anne Bakker - Vox/Viola

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Classical indie pop?

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Release date: 2016-07-01

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[7.2/10]

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Ø - Kantamoinen

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Psychedelic, eerie ambient electronic music. Not my favorite among Mika Vainio’s catalog though.

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Release date: 2005-05-18

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[7.0/10]

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Annette Brisset - Love Power

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Happy sounding dub love songs.

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Release date: 1992-08-23

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[7.0/10]

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Karkait - Yekum // Kiyum

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Black metal + punk rock? The songs are too short.

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[6.2/10]

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Adoy - Vivid

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I can’t finish this one… I just can’t… Unoriginal lofi indie pop. Not for me. The production was pretty neat though.

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Release date: 2018-03-13

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[4.0/10]

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The Pom-Poms - I Was On The News

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Trap-pop / dance pop. Yuck.

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[3.0/10]

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Regular Citizen - Patsy Hangdog

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Minimalistic ambient arp music. Sublime…………..

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[9.0/10]

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Joyfultalk - A Seperation Of Being

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I did not expect Constellation to deliver this kind of electronica stuff whatsoever. Pretty kraut-ish if you ask me.

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[8.7/10]

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Nyx - Aux Pieds De La Nuit

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Ambient + jazzy drums + vocals drenched in reverb + soundscape. He was the vocalist in Arab Strap, but this album is anything but slowcore. Hazy dream music.

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Release date: 2020-02-14

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[8.6/10]

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Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death

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Quality post-punk. Wife digs this.

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Release date: 2020-07-31

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[8.5/10]

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Shackleton, Wacław Zimpel - Primal Forms

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Their Bandcamp page puts it best: shaman music. Shackleton is known for tribal music-influenced meditative jazz / electronic music (not your typical chill-out jazztronica… his stuff is an entirely different kind of beast), and Wacław Zimpel has been one of my favorite musicians for like two years, cf. his stuff on Instant Classic and his Long Weekend EP earlier this year.

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Release date: 2020-07-31

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[8.4/10]

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Seamus Blake - Guardians Of The Heart Machine

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Nu jazz / contemporary hard-bop. I definitely do not consider myself a jazz head, but this is one that even I enjoy and can see myself coming back to it. Harmonious.

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Release date: 2019-03-15

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[8.4/10]

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Croatian Amor & Varg2™ - Body Of Lila

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Bleak industrial techno / ambient album. I like the ambient tracks like Moraine more, but still this is a pretty dope record. FFO Tzusing.

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Release date: 2020-05-08

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[8.3/10]

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Yukika - Soul Lady

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The pinnacle of Korean retro-pop / chillwave. Wonderfully executed. 歌很好聽 MV 卻拍得有點失敗… 希望更多人能聽到他的音樂!雖說某種程度上是在高仿竹內瑪麗亞,但要做到完成度這麼高配器這麼好聽真的不是說想做就可以做到的

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Release date: 2020-07-21

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[8.3/10]

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Bibio - Sleep On The Wing

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Indietronica / electro-folk. Nostalgic lo-fi sound! Like this a lot.

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[8.3/10]

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Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas

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Pretty awesome neo-soul.

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Release date: 2020-07-17

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[8.2/10]

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Patricia - Maxyboy

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Deep minimal techno. Groooooveeeey.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[8.2/10]

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LEYA - Flood Dream

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Hypnagogic ambient music. Very sad music… which is good.

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Release date: 2020-03-06

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[8.2/10]

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Cucina Povera, ELS - The Oystercatcher

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Haunting stripped-down electronic music. Very ethereal. If you haven’t heard of Cucina Povera yet then you should do so as soon as possible.

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Release date: 2020-05-22

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[8.1/10]

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Giuseppe Ielasi - Five Wooden Frames

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Modern classical composition / ambient. Unnerving, shifting melodies abound. It’s pretty mind boggling to me that this entire album was done with an acoustic guitar… what kind of sick person plays the instrument like that?

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[8.1/10]

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Duma - Duma

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Kenyan experimental electronic grindcore / noise. Insane stuff, it’s like Full Of Hell does a collab with Aphex Twin and WaqWaq Kingdom… I mean, what???

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[8.1/10]

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Jun Kamoda - Escape The Night

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Very funky retro disco house / vaporwave-y city pop. Two songs are not enough though.

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Release date: 2018-05-14

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[8.1/10]

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Irreversible Entanglements - Who Sent You?

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Jazz band fronted by Moor Mother. Stream of consciousness style afro-jazz, super abrasive stuff. 喜歡 Matana Roberts 的話可聽

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Release date: 2020-03-20

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[8.1/10]

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Kate NV - Room For The Moon

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Avant-pop from Russia. Lots of synth-pop elements. Dig it.

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[8.1/10]

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Cory Smythe - Accelerate Every Voice

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Unsettling experimental modern classical, featuring operatic vocal choir, a-capella and atonal piano. Eerie stuff not suited for the faint of heart.

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[8.0/10]

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Jasmine Guffond - Microphone Permission

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Experimental computer music / electronic. Unsettling.

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Release date:

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[8.0/10]

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Stuck - Change Is Bad

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Sounds like Pissed Jeans + Pile’s first two albums. Who wouldn’t like this kind of stuff…

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[7.9/10]

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Various Artists - Join The Future: UK Bleep & Bass 1988-91

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So this is a compilation of proto-UK Bass music. History lesson: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/uk-bleep-and-bass-feature

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.9/10]

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India Jordan - For You

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Dance / club. Very retro stuff.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.9/10]

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Elias Stemeseder, Max Andrzejewski - Light / Tied

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Dissonant improvised modern jazz.

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Release date:

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[7.8/10]

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Trevor - Becoming A Bed

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Experimental techno / drum & bass.

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Release date: 2020-11-06

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[7.8/10]

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Imperial Triumphant - Alphaville

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Avant-gard jazz + black / death metal. This is more playful (albeit in a twisted way) than their previous stuff. TBH I like Vile Luxury more… still I’d recommend this to whoever looking for challenging metal music.

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Release date: 1984-09-27

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[7.7/10]

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Rhodri Davies - Telyn Rawn

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Modern classical with medieval harp. FFO Laura Cannell.

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Release date: 2020-07-31

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[7.7/10]

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Ulthar - Providence

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Unrelenting death metal. Surprisingly melodic.

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Release date: 2016-02-05

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[7.6/10]

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Guedra Guedra كدرة كدرة - Son Of Sun

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Afro-bass from Morocco. RA says this one has a lot of Bedouin themes, which I’m not really familiar with.

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Release date: 2021-04-20

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[7.5/10]

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Realize - Demolition

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Sounds like Godflesh in A World Lit On Fire but less fun.

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Release date: 2021-04-23

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[7.4/10]

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Feu St-Antoine - L’eau Par La Soif

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Hallucination-inducing ambient / modern classical / hauntology music. Lotsa sci-fi synths.

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Release date:

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[7.4/10]

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Wake - Devouring Ruin

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Black / death metal. I think there are some metalcore influences going on here…

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[7.3/10]

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Ann Margaret Hogan - Honeysuckle Burials

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Modern piano classical music.

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Release date: 2020-02-28

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[7.3/10]

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The Fall Of Troy - Mukiltearth

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Some pretty awesome riffs here, but the falsettos still put me off. Also the bass could be louder in the mix IMO. 他真的是很會編那種介於煩跟屌之間的吉他 riff,但他唱歌就真的是有點煩了

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Release date: 2020-08-07

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[7.3/10]

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Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song

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Ambient pop / electronica. The self-titled album is better IMO.

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Release date: 2020-08-28

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[7.2/10]

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Grey Host - The Barrow Path

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Old school stoner doom.

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[7.2/10]

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Floral - Floral

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Chon on steroids / Polyphia without being overtly obnoxious. 硬要說的話 Chon > Floral >> Polyphia

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Release date: 2012-09-18

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[7.2/10]

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Aversio Humanitatis - Behold The Silent Dwellers

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Modern black metal. Songs are above average but overall doesn’t really bring a lot of new ideas to the table.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[7.1/10]

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Regis - Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss

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Industrial techno. While still pretty hard-hitting this one doesn’t feel all that creative.

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Release date: 2020-05-22

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[7.1/10]

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Julianna Barwick - Healing Is A Miracle

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Ambient-pop / ethereal post-rock-y pop. While it is indeed a very calming record it lacks depth when compared with The Magic Place or Nepenthe, two of Barwick’s best records in my opinion. If there’s a cafe that puts this on repeat it’d be pretty dope though. 之前的比較好

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[7.1/10]

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Oded Tzur - Here Be Dragons

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Lounge jazz. Very easy listening.

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Release date: 2016-03-31

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[7.0/10]

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Greg Fox - Contact

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His last album was much more interesting than this one. Check out Eli Keszler btw.

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Release date: 2021-01-16

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[7.0/10]

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E.M.M.A. - Indigo Dream

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Cinematic retro-synth music / club. Got a bunch of synth sounds that wouldn’t feel out of place if they’re in a John Carpenter movie, but the composition on a whole is pretty standard stuff.

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Release date: 2019-08-30

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[6.9/10]

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Jockstrap - Wicked City

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Weird pop music. 聽無

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[6.8/10]

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Infant Island - Beneath

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Screamo / metalcore.

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Release date: 2015-06-05

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[6.8/10]

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Behold… The Arctopus - Hapeleptic Overtrove

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Avant-gard instrumental metal? Anyway this stuff is too much for me… super weird music. Gets a bunch of style points from me for the shreds though. 聽無

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[6.5/10]

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Cut Worms - Unnatural Disaster

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Soft country + indie rock.

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Release date: 2020-07-02

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[6.5/10]

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An Autumn For Crippled Children - Went Quiet

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Post-black metal. I find it pretty confounding and funny how these black metal bands call themselves “experimental” while all they’ve done is simply inserting shoegaze-ish major chords into their songs.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[6.0/10]

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Algiers - There Is No Year

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Gospel + post-punk. This is my first time checking out their music… so they’re known for blending soul music vocals with post-punk instrumentations? On this album it almost sounds like the vocalist had zero regard about what his other bandmates were playing - all these crooning vocals just don’t resonate with the rest of the band. As for the instrumentations they’re pretty bland, nothing really that memorable. Maybe spend more time writing the album next time? 真的是對他們沒愛,但好像也不是說這張沒有新意或是什麼的 - 這是我第一次聽他們的音樂,而是說他唱歌的感覺很煩… 很想在他唱得最投入的時候朝他頭巴下去

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[6.0/10]

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James Dean Bradfield - Even In Exile

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Outdated britpop in tribute to Chilean activist. I have the utmost respect for the Manics but man the songwriting on this album is just insufferable…

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Release date: 2020-08-14

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[5.5/10]

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Washed Out - Purple Noon

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Radio-friendly, empty-on-the-inside indie pop. Or make out music par excellence for year 2020? 美國版 deca joins,一樣是被人叫浪漫音樂但浪漫在哪卻也沒幾個人講得出所以然的樂團

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Release date: 2020-08-07

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[4.0/10]

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Ulver - Flowers Of Evil

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The sad story of Ulver: how a band devolved from black metal overlords to the perfect (or should I say the most miserable) demonstration of how not to make post-punk music. Corny.

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Release date: 2020-08-28

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[2.5/10]

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Lamb Of God - Lamb Of God

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I mean they can definitely play, but this kind of stuff just no longer appeals to me… couldn’t listen to this without nervously cringe smiling. 真的很強!但也真的聽不下去

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[2.0/10]

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Space Afrika - Somewhere Decent To Live

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Dub ambient / minimal house. FFO Jan Jelinek.

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Release date: 2018-03-08

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[8.7/10]

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Barney McAll - Mother Of Dreams And Secrets

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Afro-cuban jazz. Like this a lot.

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[8.2/10]

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Helena Hauff - Discreet Desires

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Fun yet spooky industrial techno. It’s got a bunch of super old synth sounds and 808 beats on it. Pretty cool.

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Release date: 2015-09-04

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[8.2/10]

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Maggi Payne - Ahh-Ahh

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New age / ambient.

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Release date: 2020-05-18

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[8.1/10]

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Cuong Vu, Pat Metheny - Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny

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From what I remembered Pat Matheny is a smooth jazz guy - listened to some of his stuff in highschool and never really connected. But this one, which Metheny did with his long time collaborator sax player Cuong Vu, is anything but smooth jazz, yet still manages to maintain a sense of melodic progression. 請追蹤 @ginjazzyology

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Release date: 2016-05-06

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[8.0/10]

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Quantec - Cauldron Subsidence

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Deep dub techno. The last track is pretty dope.

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Release date: 2009-10-12

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[7.8/10]

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Akira Rabelais - CXVI

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Sound design. Museum music.

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Release date: 2021-04-21

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[7.7/10]

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Alex G - House Of Sugar

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I’m super late to the party… indie rock. I suppose this is many people’s AOTY for 2019? I’m not really into this one though. I do like the abundant presence of math rock elements on this album, but why wouldn’t I just say go grab EEIWALE or Penfold? 這好像很多人推

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[7.5/10]

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Geist & the Sacred Ensemble - Within

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These guys must’ve loved Swans a lot. Doom folk reminiscent of To Be Kind.

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Release date: 2021-04-21

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[7.5/10]

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Less Art - Strangled Light

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Thrice + Kowloon Walled City + Curl Up And Die. Sounds like Thrice and La Dispute mashed together. There are some riffs that totally slay, but the vocals could be stronger IMO.

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Release date: 2017-07-28

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[7.4/10]

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Roger Robinson - Illclectica

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Outsider hip-hop / downtempo.

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Release date: 2005-10-03

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[7.0/10]

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Botanist - Ecosystem

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Post-black metal with zither. Still dig their first and second album more.

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Release date: 2011-11-30

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[6.8/10]

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White Ward - Love Exchange Failure

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Post-black metal. The second song even features a sax solo… but to me the album name could be reduced to contain just the last of the three words really. Bland.

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Release date: 2019-09-20

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[5.0/10]

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Duval Timothy - Help

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Piano music / jazz. If you don’t like this then you have no heart.

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Release date: 1965-08-06

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[9.0/10]

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KMRU - Peel

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Fans of Tim Hecker and William Basinski would love this one. I love this one. Droning ambient goodness.

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Release date: 1995-09-26

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[8.6/10]

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Sprain - As Lost Through Collision

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I thought it’s going to be another pretty good but not really memorable slowcore release but I was very wrong… think Slint + Horseback + Unwound and Sprain’s last album. Wonderful stuff.

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[8.5/10]

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Nicolas Jaar - Telas

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TBH I like this one even more than Cenizas and AAL 2017-2019. Intricate yet fuzzy electronic ambient music.

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Release date: 2020-02-07

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[8.4/10]

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Anna Von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly

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Ambient / modern classical. 看封面很難想像這張有這麼療癒… 很好聽的環境音樂。喜歡 Ellen Arkbro 或是 Kali Malone 的話應該也會覺得這張很讚。

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Release date: 2020-09-25

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[8.4/10]

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Moses Sumney - græ

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Grandiose contemporary baroque-pop (? I feel like that term best captures the theme of the entire thing, but at the same time this does not sound like Cocteau Twins whatsoever…) album. Is there a term to call this kind of modern gothic & artsy avant-pop music like this, Anohni and Yves Tumor?

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[8.4/10]

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Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant

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Ethereal ambient music for late night leetcode sessions. Makes the hard questions so much more bearable.

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Release date: 2020-09-18

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[8.3/10]

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Fleet Foxes - Shore

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雖然說好像不能這樣比?但這張比起年初的 Tame Impala 感覺有誠意很多。印象中之前 Fleet Foxes 花草得蠻徹底的,但這張除了嗓音還是保持一貫的 indie rock 感之外,編曲上多了不少其他元素,而不是像其他可惜團如 Real Estate 跟 Wild Nothing 那樣自我重複。像倒數第二首歌那種整個配器滿到炸裂的做法我就覺得,還蠻讚的,跟想像中會出現的東西很不一樣。好聽!

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Release date: 2018-05-04

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[8.3/10]

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Ghostpoet - I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep

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Downtempo plus post-punk. People say his earlier stuff is better? I think this one is already a pretty stellar album though.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[8.2/10]

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Lafawndah - The Fifth Season

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Experimental chamber pop. Wonderful gothic music.

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Release date: 2019-05-08

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[8.2/10]

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Blacksea Não Maya - Máquina de Vénus

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Sprawling kuduro / footwork. Very intimidating yet engaging, good stuff. Also just subscribed to Príncipe’s mailing list.

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[8.2/10]

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Vatican Shadow - Persian Pillars Of The Gasoline Era

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Soundtrack to Cyclonopedia. So much bass.

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Release date: 2020-09-18

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[8.2/10]

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Phelimuncasi - Phelimuncasi: 2013-2019

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Sprawling dark African club music, or maybe just call it Gqom?

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Release date: 2020-09-17

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[8.1/10]

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Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota

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What if Jon Hassell does lo-fi ambient?

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[8.1/10]

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Otto - Clam Day

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Bedroom club music. 滿古錐的,奇怪的 indietronica。

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Release date: 2020-09-23

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[8.1/10]

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Sevdaliza - Shabrang

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ASMR pop FFO FKA Twigs and Sega Bodega (but then I don’t think there’s anybody besides me that’s a Sega Bodega fan). As the album progresses into the latter tracks the instrumentation becomes more crowded than the earlier ones like Shabrang and Habibi.

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Release date: 2020-08-28

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[8.0/10]

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Elaquent - Forever Is A Pretty Long Time

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Decent chill-hop.

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Release date: 2020-02-21

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[8.0/10]

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Anz - Loos In Twos

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Hypnotic techno… think more futuristic Tsuzing.

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[7.9/10]

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Silvia Tarozzi - Mi Specchio E Rifletto

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Mystical folk FFO Laura Cannell. The track Domina stands out the most IMO.

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Release date: 2020-07-31

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[7.9/10]

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Harmonious Thelonious - Plong

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Playful techno music.

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Release date: 2019-11-01

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[7.8/10]

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JK Flesh - Depersonalization

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Industrial techno / body music. Pretty dope, but I like 2018’s New Horizon more.

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Release date: 2021-05-13

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[7.8/10]

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M. Takara & Carla Boregas - Linha D’Água

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I vaguely recall having read that jazz noir is an actual musical genre… psychedelic jazz maybe? The album feels a bit stagnating at times but there are also plenty of immensely engaging passages. Also these are the guys that play in Rakta, which I dig a lot.

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Release date: 2020-03-29

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[7.7/10]

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Tangents - Timeslips

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Jazz + electronic music. Think jazzy IDM records but much more jazz oriented.

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[7.7/10]

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Dos Monos - Dos Siki

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Not as cool as the self-titled. Still pretty dope though.

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Release date: 2020-07-24

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[7.6/10]

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Dark0 - Zero2

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Trance / drill. I thought I wasn’t going to like this one when I started listening to this one, but surprisingly this one doesn’t feel all that irritating. The track Hardwire is pretty cool.

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Release date: 2020-08-21

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[7.6/10]

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Serena Isioma - Sensitive

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Jazzy R&B / rap. I like the abrupt speed and chord changes. Looking forward to her future outputs.

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Release date: 2020-01-29

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[7.6/10]

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Protomartyr - Ultimate Success Today

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Post-punk. I like Fontaines D.C. more, but this one is alright. I suspect Anthony Fantano probably just dislikes every post-punk band.

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Release date: 2020-07-17

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[7.5/10]

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Fenne Lily - Breach

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Soothing indie folk.

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Release date: 2018-11-08

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[7.5/10]

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Spirit Possession - Spirit Possession

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Gnarly, grim black metal. Some riffs are pretty hardhitting.

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Release date: 2020-07-24

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[7.4/10/10]

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Charlotte Dos Santos - Harvest Time

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Shimmery soul album. Not a fan of the drum machine big beats on Josef and Helio, but the track The Snow Dance reminds me of some weird but awesome video game soundtracks I’ve heard somewhere else…

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Release date: 2020-03-13

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[7.3/10]

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Tricky - Fall To Pieces

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Downtempo pop, basically what you’d expect from him. Imma stick with Nearly God though.

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Release date: 2021-06-04

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[7.2/10]

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Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Viscerals

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Stoner rock. Heavy stuff, but the riffs do get a bit repetitive and isn’t all that groovy.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[7.1/10]

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Lucrecia Dalt - No Era Sólida

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有幾首的最後面聲音超爆大== 聽的時候要注意

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Release date: 2020-09-11

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[7.0/10]

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Princess Nokia - Everything Sucks

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Trap-rap. It’s alright but 1992 Deluxe is more engaging IMO.

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Release date: 2020-02-26

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[7.0/10]

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A. G. Cook - 7G

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Future pop compilation from PC Music mastermind. 真的太長了… 有些歌是還不錯,但聽到一半就有點麻木了

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Release date: 2020-08-12

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[7.0/10]

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Serpentwithfeet - Apparition

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Art-pop that feels somewhat melodramatic…

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Release date: 2020-04-29

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[6.8/10]

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Stanley J. Zappa - Muster Point

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Meandering free jazz / spiritual jazz.

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[6.8/10]

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Marie Davidson, L’Œil Nu - Renegade Breakdown

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瑪丹娜後繼有人

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Release date: 2021-05-26

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[6.6/10]

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Insect Ark - The Vanishing

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Bleak but monotonous post-metal.

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Release date: 1993-05-07

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[6.5/10]

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El Ten Eleven - Shimmered

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Electro-post-rock. I don’t like this kind of stuff a lot as of late.

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Release date: 2019-09-07

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[6.3/10]

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Sufjan Stevens - The Ascension

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Indie synthpop. Just listen to Dan Deacon instead…

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Release date: 2013-09-24

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[6.2/10]

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Osees - Protean Threat

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Psychedelic garage rock. Lots of weird chromatic scales. Not my jam though.

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Release date: 2020-09-18

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[6.1/10]

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Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

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Disco / pop funk. The first track is infectiously groovy but the rest of them are rather bland.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[6.0/10]

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Deftones - Ohms

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Sounds like A Perfect Circle wrote this album and told Deftones to play them.

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Release date: 2020-09-25

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[5.5/10]

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Long Fin Killie - Houdini

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Too Pure art rock outfits’ finest release IMO.

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Release date: 1993-08-31

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[9.4/10]

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St. Germain - Tourist

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Deep house + acid jazz + nu-jazz + jazz-hop + dub. I was 9 yo in 2000. I would’ve loved this album just as much as I dig it at 2020. I bet a bunch of chic (pronounced as corny) European restaurants or high-brow (and pretentious) cocktail bars would play this stuff non-stop though, and whoever decided to put this record on repeat would have zero idea about the concept behind it nor would care for the musicianship behind it.

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Release date: 2010-02-17

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[9.3/10]

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Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

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Shit’s considered a timeless classic for a reason.

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Release date: 1987

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[8.9/10]

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Laika - Sounds Of The Satellites

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When you read Laika you should know it pronounces as underrated. This one is much more dub influenced than I remembered. Stereolab music.

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Release date: 1997-02-24

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[8.9/10]

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Billy Woods - Today, I Wrote Nothing

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I like this more than Hiding Places. The beats are twisted (in a good way).

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Release date: 2015-03-31

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[8.3/10]

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Halo Maud - Je Suis Une Île

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Indie pop / art pop / baroque pop. The good kind of pop music, if you will.

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Release date: 2018-05-25

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[8.2/10]

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Moodymann - Forevernevermore

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A definitive house record they say. It is pretty good though.

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Release date: 2000-01-01

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[8.1/10]

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Caleb Giles - Under The Shade

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A very compact chill-hop release. Followed.

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Release date: 2014-09-29

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[8.0/10]

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Kaidi Tatham - In Search Of Hope

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Jazz-hop beat record. Kinda like a grainier version of Eric Lau.

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Release date: 2008-11-16

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[8.0/10]

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David Lord - Forest Standards, Vol.1

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FFO Tortoise, Jeff Parker’s solo stuff and Bill Frisell.

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[7.8/10]

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Vatican Shadow - Remember Your Black Day

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Bleak industrial techno. When I think of Prurient the word “melodic” would be one of the last words that come to mind, but this is exactly how I would describe this album. The song Enter Paradise even has black metal guitars in it.

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Release date: 2013-10-21

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[7.8/10]

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DJ Nigga Fox - Cartas Na Manga

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Footwork. There’s a track with a pretty significant volume boost, so don’t crank it too much.

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Release date: 2019-10-25

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[7.8/10]

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Ka - Grief Pedigree

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Downtempo-ish conscious rap.

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Release date: 2012-02-11

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[7.6/10]

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The House Of Love - The House Of Love

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Post-punk / proto-britpop.

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Release date: 1988-06

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[7.5/10]

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Mariss Nadler, Stephen Brodsky - Droneflower

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I like this more than stuff by Chelsea Wolfe or Emma Ruth Rundle…

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Release date: 2019-04-26

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[7.3/10]

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Minxus - Pabulum

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Post-punk. Pretty good but nothing too out of the ordinary.

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Release date: 1970-04-17

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[7.1/10]

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Billy Woods - Terror Management

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This is his least interesting album to date. Granted some beats are pretty dope but overall the album is a notch below Hiding Places or Today, I Wrote Nothing.

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Release date: 2019-10-04

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[7.0/10]

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Vansire - Angel Youth

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Bedroom dream pop with guests like Quelle Chris and Jeremiah Jae. I think I’ve grown out of the jangle pop genre…

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Release date: 2018-04-26

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[6.9/10]

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Rui Ho - In Pursuit Of The Sun

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Trance / club / dance music. 這種音樂我就真的沒很愛… 聽超過五分鐘就會開始覺得煩了

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Release date: 2019-08-16

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[6.1/10]

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夢離子 - Time Flows By

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Uninspiring dream pop / Instagram indie pop. The vocals on these tracks are just gross…

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Ai Aso - The Faintest Hint

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我以為他退休了

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[8.8/10]

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Offthesky, The Humble Bee - We Were The Hum Of Dreams

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Ambient pop. Comfort music for sad folks.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[8.6/10]

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Theo Parrish - Wuddaji

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超動感

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Release date: 2020-10-02

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[8.4/10]

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Thy Catafalque - Naiv

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奇怪 folk metal。一開始在家聽我覺得第一首歌很聳,但整張聽完覺得有夠讚… 個人覺得是今年比較好的金屬專輯之一,比 Oranssi Pazuzu 那張還要好

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Release date: 2019-07-26

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[8.3/10]

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Numinos - Grain

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Mille Plateaux 出的 minimal dub techno。反正他們不管出什麼我覺得我應該都會蠻愛的就是了

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Release date: 2021-06-04

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[8.3/10]

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Uniform - Shame

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Industrial noise rock. Godflesh 跟他們一起來台灣的話我絕對夜排。這張很金屬阿

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Release date: 2010-11-02

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[8.2/10]

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Chris Korda - Polymeter

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Piano neoclassical / jazz. Quirky stuff, fun to listen to. 某種程度上有點像 midi 鋼琴音樂

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Release date: 2015-08-07

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[8.2/10]

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Piezo - Perdu

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Gritty dub techno. 蠻好聽的 lo-fi techno… 說他是 techno 有點怪?或是一個叢林風的 Meitei?總之不錯聽

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Release date: 2019-10-10

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[8.2/10]

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Actress - Karma & Desire

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Hautology techno. Actress 真的是每張都值得一聽…

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Release date: 2020-10-23

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[8.2/10]

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Legowelt - Unconditional Contours

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Retro synth music / electronica. 我只想得到很像 John Carpenter 電影配樂的音色… 但蠻好玩的

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Release date: 2020-10-02

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[8.1/10]

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The Alchemist - A Doctor, Painter & An Alchemist Walk Into A Bar

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Instrumental hip-hop. 蠻讚的 beat tape

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Release date: 2020-10-02

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[8.1/10]

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24 Carat Black - III

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Retro R&B / soul.

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[8.0/10]

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Autechre - Sign

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不錯聽ㄚ

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Release date: 1970-08-07

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[8.0/10]

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Hen Ogledd - Free Humans

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Dan Deacon. The album as a whole, even though the songs are all pretty good, somehow feels a bit too long.

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Release date: 2020-09-25

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[8.0/10]

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Nothing - The Great Dismal

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It’s like The Stone Roses + Hum. Say Less is a great track.

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[8.0/10]

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Flora Yin Wong - Holy Palm

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Field recording / experimental electronic music. It’s got a Mariah Carey sample in it… weird stuff.

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[8.0/10]

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Christoph De Babalon, Mark - Split

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動感 techno / breakbeat. 個人是比較喜歡前三首 Christophe De Babalon 的東西,但硬要比的話我覺得 If You’re Into It I’m Out Of It 還是做得比較極端一點,要聽他的東西可以從那張開始聽。這張最後一首的 break 有個人突然講話的聲音有點搞笑,但整首還是蠻動感的。話說回來上班可能不太適合聽就是了,會很難專心做事…

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Release date: 2020-10-06

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[7.9/10]

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Shlohmo - Heaven Inc.

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Electronic music… kinda feels like what Hyperdub would release if they ever decide to do something more approachable.

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Release date: 2020-11-27

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[7.8/10]

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VoidCeremony - Entropic Reflections Continuum: Dimensional Unravel

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Pretty dope tech death. Got a bunch of fretless bass solos. 比較好聽的前衛死金

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[7.8/10]

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Conway The Machine, The Alchemist - Lulu

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I feel that Conway The Machine can cut the number of basketball references on this EP. The Alchemist is still on the top of his game in this one though.

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Release date: 2020-03-30

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[7.8/10]

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HHY & The Kampala Unit - Lithium Blast

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Jungle / techno.

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Release date: 2020-10-22

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[7.8/10]

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David Lord - Forest Standards Vol.2

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Modern Bill Frisell-esque jazz. Two members of the band Tortoise played on this record and their influence is all over the place. Some chord progressions remind me of something John McLaughlin might do: bunch of different chord voicings stacked on top of each other, thus creating a mildly dissonant sound.

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[7.8/10]

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Skyzoo, Dumbo Station - The Bluest Note

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Jazz-hop. 鼓的 tone 不錯,但有些歌的副歌有點重複,感覺不要唱會比較好

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Release date: 2020-04-24

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[7.7/10]

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Further Reductions - Array

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Spiraling techno / trance with female vocals. 還行

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Release date: 2021-01-10

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[7.7/10]

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Eartheater - Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

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不要看這張封面屁股底下噴火好像很狂的樣子,實際上我覺得這張其實蠻順耳的… 這張是他自己在西班牙某個地方做駐點藝術家的時候在十周的時間內尻出來的歌,基本上都是木吉他加唱歌再加一些 electronic textures。我蠻喜歡整張專輯做得沒有太滿這點,但另一方面這張的歌聽起來都有點像…

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Release date: 2020-10-02

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[7.7/10]

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Sparkle Division - To Feel Embraced

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老實說真的不會知道這是 William Basinski 的東西… 很 jazz-hop / oldschool funk 但 reverb 又掛得很有 Basinski 自己東西那種餘音繞樑的感覺,整張聽起來反而聽起來有點 vaporwave 感

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Release date: 2020-07-24

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[7.7/10]

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Hotspring - Obit For Sunshade

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Jazzy new age music.

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Release date: 2020-09-28

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[7.6/10]

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Blakk Harbor - A Modern Dialect

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Industrial techno. Pretty groovy.

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[7.6/10]

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Atsushi Yano - Whole Rotta Love

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Jazz / afro house music. Chillout music.

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[7.5/10]

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Andrew Wasylyk - Fugitive Light And Themes Of Consolation

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Ambient / new age / world fusion / lounge music.

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[7.5/10]

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Illingsworth - I’m In The Studio, Call Me Back

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滑順 chill-hop,但有點難留下印象

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[7.4/10]

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Open Mike Eagle - Anime, Trauma And Divorce

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我以為他這張是今年才開始想的,結果他好像去年就開始寫了,主要是在講他那整年經歷過的事情:跟他合作的像 milo 、 busdriver 這些好像都跟他鬧翻了,在 Adult Swim 上的節目被砍了,然後跟他結婚十四年的太太去年跟他離婚了… 真的是很慘,不過這張的歌寫得以他的水平來說還是沒有那麼好, does he get a pass? Sort of… 另外這裡有首歌叫喬斯達, JoJo 粉可以聽

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[7.3/10]

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Various Artists - The Storm Of Life

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Gospel recordings gathered from the 40s to the 60s. While not exactly a fan of this kind of music I think it’s more like a glimpse into what music was like during that time.

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[7.2/10]

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Boof - Rebirth Of Gerberdaisy

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There are lots of stuff going on… sometimes it’s funky electronica, sometimes sleek IDM / dub techno, and sometimes jazztronica. But then it doesn’t really do any of these music styles particularly outstanding.

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Release date: 2020-06-01

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[7.1/10]

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Jaga Jazzist - Pyramid

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Jazz fusion / nu-jazz. 不到很糟… 只是以他們的標準來看這張真的就是沒到很帥,前半很像 Kamasi Washington 的 backing band 或是 Dungen 在彈迷幻搖滾的時候,但是又比較沒那麼 engaging。最後一首 Apex 感覺就是比較順的現在很紅的那種 nu-jazz ,真的是不難聽,但也真的是會覺得不聽也不會怎麼樣。

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Release date: 2020-05-15

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[7.0/10]

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Bell Witch, Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Volume I

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Doom metal and folk passages. Some parts are pretty hard hitting but overall isn’t BW’s strongest stuff.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[7.0/10]

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clipping. - Visions Of Bodies Being Burned

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老實說我還是比較喜歡 Midcity 跟同名專輯時期的 clipping. ,那時候的歌聽起來比較兇一點,跟現在的這種 gothic rap 很不一樣。不過這張我覺得比上一張好,雖說副歌還是被他唱得有點搞笑…

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Release date: 2020-10-23

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[7.0/10]

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Call Super - Every Mouth Teeth Missing

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House. 聽起來選的音色蠻有機的,但是前幾首不錯到後面就開始覺得重複性有點高了。

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Release date: 2020-10-23

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[6.9/10]

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Defeated Sanity - The Sanguinary Impetus

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Technical brutal death metal. 個人是覺得沒什麼創意…

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Release date: 2020-07-24

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[6.8/10]

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Sen Morimoto - Sen Morimoto

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Bedroom pop / indie hip-hop. This kind of music wears me out after like two songs or so. Fans of Sunset Rollercoaster would probably dig this though.

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Release date: 2020-10-23

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[6.6/10]

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Róisín Murphy - Róisín Machine

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Disco / pop. 不難聽,但我覺得如果整張做成沒人唱歌的話會比較好…

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Release date: 2020-10-02

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[6.5/10]

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逃走鮑伯 - 逃走鮑伯

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狂街傳教士化的五月天?還是五月天化歌也變長的 Ovens?在 2020 年做吉他獨霸式英搖可以有額外加分,但是這張的吉他破音我不太喜歡,歌詞我也覺得有點… 個人聽起來感覺吉他是自己在某個地方錄的,其他東西又是在另外一個比較沒那麼 lo-fi 的地方錄的,搭不太起來。

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[6.3/10]

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Oneohtrix Point Never - Magic Oneohtrix Point Never

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OPN does new age pop music.

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[6.0/10]

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Touché Amoré - Lament

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Lame.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[5.0/10]

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Jónsi - Shiver

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Very underwhelming…

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Release date: 2000-01-01

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[4.4/10]

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Dorian Electra - My Agenda

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看來 PC Music 類型之中我喜歡的可能只有 Sophie 跟 Sega Bodega 了,這個喜歡 Poppy 的人應該會覺得不錯,但我真的是受不了… 煩死我

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[4.0/10]

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Testament - Titans Of Creation

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My attitude towards this album is similar to how I feel about Lamb Of God’s newest album. Just listen to Revocation.

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[2.0/10]

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Yellow Swans - Going Places

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高中不懂事,載了都沒聽… 這個就是很好聽的 ambient / drone music,有點像是沒那麼兇的 Ben Frost 或是沒那麼帶勁節奏感比較沒那麼突出的 Pan Sonic。但不是說這個不好聽或是有點 low 什麼的, 這張很讚…

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Release date: 1965-10-01

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[8.6/10]

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Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges - Clube Da Esquina

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Brazilian folk / psychedelic pop. Fans of city pop would like this a lot.

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Release date: 1972-01-03

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[8.4/10]

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Pub - Do You Ever Regret Pantomime?

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Dub techno / ambient FFO Gas.

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[8.4/10]

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Goldmund - Corduroy Road

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Ambient / new age piano music. Haunting stuff. 我很喜歡他鋼琴按下去的喀擦聲

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Release date: 2016-09-01

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[8.3/10]

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Deaf Center - Owl Splinters

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Haunting ambient. 其實跟去年那張有點像,但就好聽

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Release date: 2011-02-14

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[8.1/10]

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Domu - Return Of The Rogue

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Nujazz. Groovy chillout music, RIYL Yussef Kamaal

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Release date: 2005

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[7.8/10]

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Asha Puthil - Asha Puthil

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喜歡古早味迷幻流行 / proto-city pop 的(或 Kate Bush 粉)應該會愛這個,話說這位阿姨後來唱了 Ornette Coleman 的一張,但那張我也沒有聽過

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Release date: 2003-01-01

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[7.7/10]

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Brother/Ghost - Buried

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Recommended by someone in The Flenser Group. Doom folk / post-rock, kinda like Swans but less heavy metal music.

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Release date: 2021-04-15

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[7.6/10]

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Logos - Imperial Flood

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Sci-fi grime / techno. 聽起來蠻炫的,但個人覺得不是很耐聽

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[7.5/10]

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Dara Tucker - The Seven Colors

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Soul / pop. The songs are not as catchy as the ones on, say, Charlie Hunter and Lucy Woodward album.

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Release date: 2019-05-31

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[7.5/10]

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New Sector Movements - Download This

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Jazz-hop / soul / old school jazz funk breakbeat. Kaidi Tatham played the keys on this album. I like the track Mass Car Raid.

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Release date: 2013-06-14

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[7.3/10]

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Varg2™ - Fuck Varg

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今年他跟 Croatian Amor 合作那張比較好聽,另外他之前叫做 Varg,在這張的時候改名成現在這個,原因是有個德國金屬團寄信說撞名了所以要告他…

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Release date: 2019-12-12

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[7.2/10]

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Kai Whiston - No World Eternal

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Deconstructed club / ambient. 我覺得環境音樂的部分不錯,但其他部分就有點 corny,聽久有點煩

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Release date: 2020-07-03

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[6.8/10]

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Krallice - Mass Cathexis

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At first I was a bit underwhelmed but once I start to actually pay attention to this album I see I was very wrong. This one is bomb… In terms of musical style it somehow reminds me of BTBAM, but quirkier and songs much more condensed. 快去買

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Release date: 2020-08-07

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[8.5/10]

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Ambient. 超好聽,貝多熊可考慮進一下。Another magnificent release from Editions Mego.

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Release date: 2020-09-11

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[8.6/10]

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Ana Roxanne - Because Of A Flower

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Not really that into her debut stuff but this one is golden. Mellow, ethereal ambinent / indietronica.

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Release date: 2020-11-13

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[8.4/10]

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Bill Callahan - Gold Record

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Blues / country / folk. This one is a lot of fun to listen to, and the songs are super catchy. I think I like this one even more than Shepherd. 開始就在那邊說 “Hello I’m Johnny Cash”, LMAO

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[8.4/10]

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Faceless Burial - Speciation

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Ass-kicking death metal. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2020-08-07

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[8.4/10]

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MJ Guider - Sour Cherry Bell

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Downtempo / shoegaze. FFO Grouper.

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Release date: 2020-09-18

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[8.4/10]

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Various Artists - Blue Note Re:imagined

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Bunch of UK artists unite to do a tribute to Blue Note records. Acid jazz / R&B / soul. 好聽

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[8.3/10]

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Adrianne Lenker - Songs

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Simplistic folk songs. Very stripped down album, yet it is an album that becomes increasingly engaging as you play it on repeat. 真的好聽

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Release date: 2002

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[8.3/10]

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Emma Ruth Rundle, Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full

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Another cool release from Thou & Co. Somehow it feels like a grunge album…

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[8.2/10]

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Ireen Amnes - In The Land Of Silence

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Grinding industrial / techno. FFO Vatican Shadow, pretty eerie stuff.

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[8.2/10]

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Moor Jewelry - True Opera

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Noise rock / no wave + Moor Mother. I honestly don’t know how one would describe Moor Mother’s musical output in a word. Maybe spoken word poetry with experimental jazz instrumentals? But Mental Jewelry totally slays on this album.

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Release date: 2020-04-20

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[8.1/10]

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Takayuki Shiraishi - Anthologia

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Playful house & mellow beats with krautrock influences.

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Release date: 2015-10-16

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[8.1/10]

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Botanist - Photosynthesis

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Organic post-black metal. At first I was a bit skeptical about this one but after several spins I think it’s one of these rare instances where a band that does a hybrid of post-rock / black metal music doesn’t actually suck or claims to be “experimental” but is actually just post-rock with harsh vocals… Oh and this one is very melodic.

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Release date: 2020-03-27

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[8.1/10]

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Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2021

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輕鬆無負擔

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Release date: 2020-11-27

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[8.1/10]

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Staraya Derevnya - Inwards Opened The Floor

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Bizarre ritualistic psychedelic folk music. FFO Swans.

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[8.0/10]

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Nadja - Tsukihoshihi

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Obscure Japanese city pop / funk album unearthed. 好聽

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Release date: 2020-11-13

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[7.9/10]

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John Frusciante - Maya

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It’s actually not bad… definitely not what I expected from him though. Drum & Bass / jungle. Pretty retro sound.

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Release date: 2019-08-27

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[7.8/10]

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Goldmund - The Time It Takes

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Minimalistic piano ambient.

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[7.8/10]

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FFT - Month / Sacrifice

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趙正媛說這是 Nicolas Jaar 嗎?我是覺得不到太像…

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[7.7/10]

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Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - Anthology Of American Pop Music

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Jan Jelinek’s alter ego does some dreamy ambient music sampled from alleged pop songs… GES wrote some stuff on their Bandcamp page, pretty interesting read.

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[7.7/10]

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Maarja Nuut & Ruum - World Inverted

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Techno / experimental electro-folk. I like the more folk leaning parts of this album more, the hard hitting techno parts feels kinda like how a NIN album would sound.

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Release date: 2020-09-11

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[7.6/10]

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Dirty Projector - 5 EPs

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Pretty catchy indie roc compilation. So the 5 EPs all sound pretty different, the first being folky, the second more indietronica, the third has a bit of Brazilian folk vibe going on, but then the entire project still feels very coherent. However I’m not really that into indie music right now…

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Release date: 2011-11-08

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[7.6/10]

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Mort Garson - Music From Patch Cord Productions

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More previously unreleased stuff from French electronic music pioneer. This one sounds more mystical, and some tracks feature full band playing along to his synth playing. Personally I still prefer Mother Earth’s Plantasia though.

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Release date: 2020-11-06

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[7.6/10]

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Yellow - 浮世擊

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Acid jazz / R&B. 除了 Meniere’s Buzzing 跟獨上C樓之外,每首歌都編得很好 (那兩首我真的不愛… ) 樂手真的是 played out of their minds,鼓跟貝斯演奏到飛天。不過還是不太耐聽…

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Release date: 2020-10-12

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[7.5/10]

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Aesop Rock - Spirit World Field Guide

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Abstract hip-hop. I actually think the beats on this album are pretty dope, but his voice sounds a bit thin and distracting.

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Release date: 2020-11-13

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[7.5/10]

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Cabaret Voltaire - Shadow Of Fear

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I’ve played this album a bunch at the new job… but I’d suggest sticking with their older, more memorable stuff.

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[7.4/10]

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Gaika - Seguridad

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Dreamy futuristic pop. Never really felt attached to his stuff though…

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Release date: 2020-07-03

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[7.3/10]

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Angel Ho - Alla Prima

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Contorted experimental trap-pop. Basically it’s what you’d expect from Hyperdub.

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Release date: 2021-06-04

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[7.2/10]

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Loscil - Faults, Coasts, Lines

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Soothing cinematic ambient / post-rock / field recording. It’s like music you’d hear at a museum and you’d be like, “the music is alright”, and then you get on with the rest of the exhibition without really paying attention to the music.

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[7.0/10]

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Bongripper - Glaciers

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Meditative heavy music. 超不金屬,感覺是那種宿醉窩在床上會聽到睡著的類型

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Release date: 2021-03-01

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[7.0/10]

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Liturgy - Origin Of The Alimonies

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Black metal opera. There’s a trap song at the end of the album. I mean the more aggressive sections are pretty cool, but the entire thing doesn’t make a lot of sense without context. Maybe I’ll appreciate it more when I get the album…

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[7.0/10]

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Orchid Mantis - Far From This World

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A more shoegaze-y Real Estate. Pretty sounds, not a lot of originality IMO.

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[6.9/10]

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Yo La Tengo - Sleepless Nights

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YTL does soothing country covers.

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Release date: 2012-10-03

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[6.5/10]

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The Killers - Imploding The Mirage

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Arena rock / synth-pop. 聽了幾首決定這張其實還是沒有很好聽

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Release date: 2020-08-21

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[5.2/10]

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Mammal Hands - Captured Spirits

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Uninspiring nu-jazz. 趙正媛說不好聽

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Release date: 2020-09-11

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[5.0/10]

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Cloudkicker - Solitude

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Cloudkicker 還是聽 Beacons 就好了,其他的都差不多… 這張則是特別無聊

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Release date: 1956-01-01

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[4.3/10]

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Mr. Bungle - The Raging Wrath Of The Easter Bunny Demo

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Goofy thrash metal.

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[3.8/10]

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Ovum - Ascension

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[10/10]

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Release date: 2021-06-02

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Jake Muir - Lady’s Mantle

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Field recording / ambient. Psychedelic stuff.

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Release date: 2018-07-27

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[8.5/10]

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Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub

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Dub techno. 買不到了…

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Release date: 1994

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[8.4/10]

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Function - Existenz

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House. Though this album is over an hour long it never feels stagnating. Love this one

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Release date: 2014-06-27

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[8.1/10]

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Yatta - Wahala

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Kinda feel like Mhysa’s album from earlier this year. Experimental spoke n word… or cut-up music?

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Release date: 2019-04-26

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[7.7/10]

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Sky H1 - Motion

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Synth heavy ambient. Pretty good.

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Release date: 2014-10-31

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[7.6/10]

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Rothko - Severed Tense

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It’s basically an extremely twisted bass solo. Experimental post-rock / drone.

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Release date: 2015-07-06

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[7.3/10]

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Roska - Perception

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UK grime / tribal bass. Feels a bit single dimensional.

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Release date: 2017-10-06

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[7.0/10]

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Battles - Juice B Crypts

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感覺隨著他們年紀越來越大,出的專輯好像也變得沒那麼有趣了一點… 當然還是有些部分是不錯的,只是比起一開始那一張真的是差有點多

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Release date: 2019-10-18

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[6.7/10]

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Bruce Haack - The Electric Lucifer

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Psychedelic synth-rock. One of the first few guys to seriously do music with Moog synths?

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Release date: 1970

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[6.5/10]

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2020 December Listenings

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William Basinski - Lamentations

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[9.1/10]

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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Meitei - Kofū

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This is what happens if someone decides to make Lo-Fi Hip-Hop-ized ambient.

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Release date: 2020-09-27

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[8.9/10]

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Pyrrhon - Abscess Time

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This is some Gortuts level stuff.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[8.6/10]

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Asetias - False Peace

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Thrashy death metal. This bad boy is super vicious.

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[8.6/10]

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Phew - Vertigo KO

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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.

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Release date: 2020-09-04

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[8.5/10]

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FUJI||||||||||TA - Iki

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Slow, soothing pipe organ ambient / field recording. I love this kind of stuff.

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Release date: 2006

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[8.4/10]

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Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure?

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Awesome city pop.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[8.4/10]

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Loma - Don’t Shy Away

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Gloomy, minimalistic indie pop. Brian eno played on the last track. 好聽

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Release date: 2020-10-23

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[8.3/10]

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The Koreantown Oddity - Little Dominiques Nosebleed

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Dope jazz-hop.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[8.3/10]

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Drew McDowall - Agalma

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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.

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[8.3/10]

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MIKE - Weight Of The World

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Very enjoyable lo-fi hip-hop. Reminds me of Madvillainy for some reason.

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Release date: 2020-06-21

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[8.2/10]

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Black Wing - No Moon

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FFO Have A Nice Life’s Deathconciousness. Well it’s basically the guy behind HANL so yeah…

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Release date: 2014-08-01

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[8.2/10]

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Sturgil Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2

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Great bluegrass / country music by one of the genre’s most consistent artists.

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Release date: 2020-12-11

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[8.1/10]

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They hate change - 666 Central Ave.

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Kings of bedroom drum n bass rap are still on their streak.

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Release date: 2020-08-14

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[8.1/10]

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U - Lowlands

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It’s got folk, it’s got lo-fi techno, it’s got ambient… pretty good stuff.

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Release date: 2017-12-01

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[8.0/10]

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JPEGMAFIA - EP!

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Pretty good but this feels more like a treaser to something.

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Release date: 2007-06-05

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[7.8/10]

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萬能青年旅店 - 冀西南林路行

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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.

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Release date: 2020-12-22

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Fav tracks: 採石, 泥河

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[7.8/10]

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Kelly Moran & Prurient - Chain Reaction At Dusk

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Kelly Moran’s stuff on this one is on point, but Prurient’s isn’t as interesting. Kelly Moran next full-length album when?

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Release date: 2020-12-04

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[7.7/10]

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Riki - Riki

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Synth pop / retrowave. Pretty old school stuff.

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Release date: 2021-01-31

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[7.6/10]

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Unwed sailor - Look Alive

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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.

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Release date: 2018-02-09

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[7.4/10]

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Inter Arma - Garber Days Revisited

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Established doom metal band does a cover album. March Of The Pigs is pretty dope.

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Release date: 2020-07-10

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[7.2/10]

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Crippled Black Phoenix - Ellengæst

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Proggy hard rock / doom rock. I’d say CBP circa I, Vigilante is the best though.

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Release date: 2020-10-09

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[7.0/10]

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Primitive Man - Immersion

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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.

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Release date: 2010-05-21

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[7.0/10]

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Various Artists - Nick Luscombe Presents Tokyo Dreaming

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Lotsa Japanese music big names are in this compilation, but a lot of them are outdated pop music with soaring lead guitar solos.

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Release date: 2020-07-29

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[6.7/10]

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Ruby Fatale - 彼岸

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OK IDM, none of the tracks really stands out though IMO.

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Release date: 2020-07-15

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[6.7/10]

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Pinegrove - Marigold

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DCFC-ish indie rock. Last track is a pretty expansive drone / post rock track but others are just ok.

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Release date: 2020-01-17

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[6.5/10]

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Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon III: The Chosen

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Even his best album to date sounds only OK-ish.

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Release date: 2020-12-11

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[6.4/10]

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Pallbearer - Forgotten Days

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Its all down tuned doom metal in a minor with clean vocals. I’d say it’s definitely on the boring side.

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Release date: 2020-10-23

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[5.5/10]

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2020 Album Of The Year

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Album Of The Year

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Ian William Craig - Red Sun Through Smoke (9.5)

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不管怎麼說我是很喜歡這張,是阿揚跟我說很好聽我才會去聽的,不過阿揚應該會說他上一張比較讚…?我是覺得這張從第一首好聽到最後一首,Ian William Craig 也真的是很會編又很會唱,後面鋼琴跟一些音效搞得很情感豐沛,然後他唱得又超煽情,真的是很… 我想到年的最後其實這種好像反而不會被選為一年之中最好的幾張專輯之一,不過我是覺得反而就是這張才是到頭來在聽到他歌聲的一瞬間就會覺得「哇我就是這個聲音了」的那種音樂——不會講,總之很好聽。

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台灣最佳專輯

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Alex Zhang Hungtai, Tseng Kuo Hung - Longone (8.4)

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我就真的很喜歡這種音樂…

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Runners-up

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  • Ulcerate - Stare Into Death And Be Still (9.5) +
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    • 不管怎樣一旦 Ulcerate 出新專輯我個人就是一個聽爆
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    • 很好聽的 ambient,好像其實沒有受到很多關注?應該要有的
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  • William Basinski - Lamentations (9.1) +
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    • 其實他比我想像中來得衰老,看他各種花式貼文感覺是個很搞笑的歐吉桑…
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  • Regular Citizen - Patsy Hangdog (9.0) +
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    • 我後來覺得這張應該才是今年最愛專輯,但是評分是絕對的,當然不是說 IWC 不夠好… 但這張很讚
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  • Duval Timothy - Help (9.0) +
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    • 錯過這個真的錯過很多
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  • R.A.P. Ferreira - Purple Moonlight Pages (9.0) +
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    • 這張也是出現在很多年終榜上,話說 Milo 一向都是以作品質量聞名的歌手
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  • Meitei - Kofū (8.9) +
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    • 到這一天你如果還沒聽過我真的是也不知道要說什麼
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  • Olan Monk - Love/Dead (8.8) +
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    • Awesome post-punk music.
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  • Zelienople - Hold You Up (8.8) +
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    • Just when you thought nobody is doing sadcore music anymore…
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  • Ai Aso - The Faintest Hint (8.8) +
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    • 緩飆阿姨重出江湖,跟以前一樣好聽
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    • This one is on a lot of year end lists. Says something about how good this one is.
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    • 古錐合成器音樂
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    • 我覺得很好聽
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Honorable Mentions (aka Other Stuff I Really Like This Year)

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Metal

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  • Pyrrhon - Abscess Time (8.6) +
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    • 我覺得這張是他們出過最讚的
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  • Asetias - False Peace (8.6)
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  • Krallice - Mass Cathexis (8.5) +
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    • 大哥們又出山啦
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  • Faceless Burial - Speciation (8.4)
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  • Uniform - Shame (8.2) +
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    • 這來台灣會回本嗎
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Ambient

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    • Kenyan ambient. 完全是可以跟各大線上 artists 一拼的水準,很好聽
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  • Offthesky, The Humble Bee - We Were The Hum Of Dreams (8.6)
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  • Nyx - Aux Pieds De La Nuit (8.6)
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  • Grand River - Blink A Few Times To Clear Your Eyes (8.6)
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  • Ulla - Tumbling Towards A Wall (8.6)
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    • 老實說我以為這張會更高分的… 這張好聽,但不建議做事的時候聽,聽的時候不專心的話就真的是可惜了
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    • 感想跟上面那張一樣
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  • Racine - Quelque Chose Tombe (8.5)
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  • Anna Von Hausswolff - All Thoughts Fly (8.4)
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  • Sarah Davachi - Cantus, Descant (8.3)
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  • Felicia Atkinson - Everything Evaporate (8.3)
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  • Roméo Poirier - Hotel Nota (8.1)
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    • 好聽,超 dub
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    • 好聽
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  • Theo Parrish - Wuddaji (8.4)
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  • Chekov - Aerated (8.4)
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  • Ana Roxanne - Because Of A Flower (8.4)
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  • Nicolas Jaar - Telas (8.4)
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    • 年底認識了來自波蘭的新朋友 Matt,才知道 Instant Classic 已經關起來了…
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  • Alva Noto - Xerrox, Vol. 4 (8.4)
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    • 一邊聽一邊唸書,讚
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  • Kush Jones - Strictly 4 My Cdjz 6 (8.4)
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    • 好聽
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  • Numinos - Grain (8.3)
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  • Croatian Amor & Varg2™ - Body Of Lila (8.3)
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  • Mechatok - Defective Holiday OST (8.3)
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  • Vatican Shadow - Persian Pillars Of The Gasoline Era (8.2)
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    • 很好聽喔,很讚
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  • African Head Charge - Churchucal Chant Of The Iyabinghi (8.2)
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  • Kenny Segal, Serengeti - Ajai (8.4)
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  • They Hate Change - 666 Central Ave. (8.1)
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  • Phew - Vertigo KO (8.5)
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  • Kassel Jaeger - Swamps/Things (8.5)
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  • Jonny Nash, Suzanne Kraft - A Heart So White (8.5)
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  • The Soft Pink Truth - Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (8.4)
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  • FUJI||||||||||TA - Iki (8.4)
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  • Iceblink - Carpet Cocoon (8.4)
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  • Laura Cannell - The Earth With Her Crowns (8.4)
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  • Rafael Anton Irisarri - Peripeteia (8.4)
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  • Drew McDowall - Agalma (8.3)
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  • Chris Korda - Polymeter (8.2)
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  • Bill Nace - Both (8.2)
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  • LEYA - Flood Dream (8.2)
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  • Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Burnt Friedman - Yek 2 (8.1)
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  • Cory Smythe - Accelerate Every Voice (8.0)
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  • Mong Tong 夢東 - Mystery 秘神 (8.0)
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Punk / Rock

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  • Fontaines D.C. - A Hero’s Death (8.5)
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  • Laura Marling - Song For Our Daughter (8.5)
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  • Sprain - As Lost Through Collision (8.5)
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  • MJ Guider - Sour Cherry Bell (8.4)
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  • Moor Jewelry - True Opera (8.1)
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Pop / R&B

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  • Jessie Ware - What’s Your Pleasure? (8.4)
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  • 問題總部 It’s Your Fault - User Guide: I (8.4)
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  • Bill Callahan - Gold Record (8.4)
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  • Moses Sumney - græ (8.4)
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  • Adrianne Lenker - Songs (8.3)
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  • Yukika - Soul Lady (8.3)
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  • Fleet Foxes - Shore (8.3)
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  • Bibio - Sleep On The Wing (8.3)
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  • Loma - Don’t Shy Away (8.3)
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  • Sega Bodega - Salvador (8.3)
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  • Yves Tumor - Heaven To A Tortured Mind (8.3)
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  • downy - 第七作品集『無題』(8.2)
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  • Ghostpoet - I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep (8.2)
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  • Lafawndah - The Fifth Season (8.2)
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  • Perfume Genius - Some Dream (8.2)
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  • Lianne La Havas - Lianne La Havas (8.2)
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  • Kate NV - Room For The Moon (8.1)
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  • Sevdaliza - Shabrang (8.0)
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Jazz

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  • Seamus Blake - Guardians Of The Heart Machine (8.4)
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  • Deantoni Parks - Silver Cord (8.3)
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  • JAF Trio - JAF Trio (8.3)
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2021 January Listenings

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Shame - Drunk Tank Pink

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

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Release date: 2021-01-15

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[8.2/10]

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Viagra Boys - Welfare Jazz

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

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Release date: 2021-01-08

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[8.1/10]

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Ed Balloon - I Hate It Here

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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.

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Release date: 2020-12-04

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[8.1/10]

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

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Lots of bangers in this one.

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Release date: 2020-12-14

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[8.0/10]

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

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It’s OK

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Release date: 2021-01-01

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[7.6/10]

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Portrayal Of Guilt - Garden Of Despair

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

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Release date: 2021-01-06

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[6.2/10]

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(G)I-DLE - I Burn

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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…

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Release date:

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[6.1/10]

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Holly Childs & Gediminas Žygus - Hydrangea

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

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Release date: 2018-07-03

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[8.7/10]

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Jabu - Sweet Company

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Hypnagogic pop. 喔這很好聽

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Release date: 2020-04-07

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[8.4/10]

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Xyla - Ways

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Techno + IDM + footwork. Q彈電音,讚

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[8.4/10]

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Christoph De Babalon - Recurring Horrors

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

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[8.4/10]

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Serpente - Fe / Vazio

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Jungle + IDM. Groovy stuff, 張揚表示不錯聽

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Release date: 2020-08-06

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[8.4/10]

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Various Artists - Alterity

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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…

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Release date: 2020-09-11

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[8.4/10]

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青葉市子 - Windswept Adan

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

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Release date: 2020-12-02

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[8.3/10]

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Michalis Moschoutis - Classical Mechanics

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

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Release date: 2020-10-02

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[8.3/10]

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Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Peklar - Two Views Of Amami Oshima

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Mystical ambient. Love this stuff.

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Release date: 2020-12-10

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[8.3/10]

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Leila - Like Weather

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Downtempo / trip-hop. Sounds alright.

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[7.9/10]

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Jessy Lanza - All The Time

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

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Release date: 2013-01-01

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[7.8/10]

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Ill Considered - Ill Considered VIII

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Abrasive modern jazz rock.

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Release date: 2020-11-27

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[7.7/10]

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

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Ragtime.

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Release date: 2020-12-04

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[7.7/10]

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Twins - Soon

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Mathy screamo. Like a mathier La Dispute.

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Release date: 2020-02-14

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[7.5/10]

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Moor Mother, billy woods - Brass

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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.

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Release date: 2020-12-18

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[7.2/10]

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

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

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[6.7/10]

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Primitive Ignorant - Sikh Punk

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

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[6.4/10]

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The Golden Filter - Autonomy

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

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Release date: 2020-10-30

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[7.8/10]

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Omni - Deluxe

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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…

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Release date: 2017-03-03

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[6.9/10]

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Kareem - Zones Of Significant Time

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Dark, cold, sprawling hip-hop / electronica. I love this shit. Dissonant yet engaging stuff.

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Release date: 2021-01-07

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[8.5/10]

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Exael - Flowered Knife Shadows

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Acid techno / breakbeat music made on a half broken laptop. This is something you could put on repeat and every spin will be equally rewarding.

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Release date: 2021-02-05

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[8.4/10]

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Abul Mogard - In Immobile Air

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One way to tell if some music is good music is to see if it’s 40 bpm or less, if so then there’s about 90% possibility that it is above average stuff.

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[8.3/10]

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Tassos Chalkias - Divine Reeds

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Greek psych folk. I like this a lot.

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Release date: 2021-02-05

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[8.1/10]

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Yu Su - Yellow River Blue

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Techno / jungle. I don’t like the pentatonic sequence in the first song, but the other tracks are pretty dope.

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Release date: 2021-01-22

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[7.8/10]

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Emptiness - Vide

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Post-post-post-post-post-post-post black metal.

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Release date: 2018-04-20

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[7.0/10]

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Atom TM - 0.9

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Industrial techno. The human voices on this record come off as a little goofy to me…

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Release date: 2008-11-24

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[6.8/10]

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Liquid Son - Garden Of Eden

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Ancient techno that sounds like eurodance to me. Never a fan of that type of music.

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Release date: 2021-01-28

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[6.3/10]

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Weezer - OK Human

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River Cuomo does Disney songs. Disney songs are never that bad, the problem with them has always been their corniness…

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[5.8/10]

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王立 - 我是貓,沒有名字

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唱法像洪申豪的盧廣仲在 cover 星野源

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Release date: 2021-02-22

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[4.4/10]

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Mogwai - As The Love Continues

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This is wack.

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Release date: 2021-02-19

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[4.0/10]

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Lugh - Re Munus

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Don’t sleep on this guy…

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Release date: 2020-10-23

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[8.5/10]

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Various Artists - Sharpen, Moving

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Jungle / dub / techno compilation from Bristol label Timedance. Wobbly stuff, like this a lot.

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Release date: 2020-11-27

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[8.1/10]

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Bonnie Prince Billy - I Made A Place

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Comforting folk songs.

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Release date: 2020-01-31

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[8.0/10]

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Uthullun - Dirges For The Void

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Pretty nasty black metal, kind of like Emperor + Deathspell Omega and a dose of old school heavy metal stuff.

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Release date: 2020-11-13

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[7.9/10]

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Voldy Moyo - Liberty City

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… ambient trap? What?

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Release date: 2020-12-01

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[7.8/10]

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mu tate - Static

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Glitchy electronic music.

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[7.7/10]

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Chris Abrahams - Appearance

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Brooding solo piano modern classical music.

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[7.6/10]

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NikNak - Bashi

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Rhythmic field recordings / sounds of wind blowing.

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Release date: 2020-10-07

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[7.5/10]

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Raspberry Bulbs - Before The Age Of Mirrors

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Raw punk. Think a even more noisy Pissed Jeans. Don’t really see anything that’s black metal in this record though…

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Release date: 2020-02-21

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[7.0/10]

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JPEGMAFIA - EP2!

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LP! WHEN! 老實說一直出 EP 蠻沒誠意的

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Release date: 2021-02-12

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[6.8/10]

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Sam McQueen - Dreams In Sepia

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IDM / Detroit-styled ambient techno. The ideal soundtracks for Sunday afternoon reads.

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Release date: 2019-11-13

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[8.3/10]

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Lugh - Hélico

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Glitchy minimal electronic music. I can listen to this all day…

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Release date: 2020-09-02

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[8.5/10]

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Dawn Ray’d - A Thorn, A Blight

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Poor man’s Panopticon.

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Release date: 2015-10-30

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[7.0/10]

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We Have Never Been On The Same Planet

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也許 Steve Bannon 會很高興看到今年台北雙年展的成果:若是對一個個看完展覽、準備離開展場的民眾提問:「你覺得Steve Bannon 是好人,還是壞人?」,我想十個人裡至少有三個會回答:「應該算是好人吧…」。當公佈此次雙年展策展人之一為著名的社會學家時,我還一度覺得,或許今年不會像之前北美館大多數展覽那樣——基本上是藝術家 / 策展人 / 美術館方互相幫著洗錢的分贓活動吧。但看完這次雙年展之後,覺得自己還是太天真了……

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You Have Never Been On My Planet

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這次的策展主題,根據其策展論述,可以極為簡略地說,看成是對某種 Patchwork Theory 的討論與反思:對人類全體而言,地球不再是單純作為天文概念上一顆孕育生命的行星,而是建立自人的不同視角,其對世界的認知、記憶和反應之間交集或矛盾之「地」。而對於活在不同「地球」的居民之間,要如何互相理解、想像彼此的存在,我認為是本次展覽的重心所在。

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然而,展覽現場對絕大多數作品的佈置,卻鮮少提供線索讓觀眾與作品進行更有意義的交流。觀念藝術抽去了觀念,只以最低限度的文字標示作品名稱與藝術家的大名,了不起附上一片小小的、中文讀起來一點也不通順的說明。先不論作品本身展示主題的有效程度,其可能試圖向觀眾傳達的一切,反而被這樣失敗、但又好像毫不在意自身失敗的規劃給阻絕,因此策展人所提倡的和解 / 溝通就顯得很荒謬了。

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  3. 既然以理論與種種「另類」再現、敘事,作為整個展覽的主軸,那為什麼在展覽現場,這些觀眾能藉以穿針引線的文字卻幾近缺席?或變成考驗觀眾的英文能力?
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I Have Never Been On Your Planet

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展覽命題可追溯至策展人之一 Bruno Latour 在 2018 年發表的一篇文章:“We Don’t Seem to Live on the Same Planet” – A Fictional Planetarium,文章中七個地球的概念,也延伸到這次展覽的主題和空間規劃上。 弔詭的是,觀眾難以在現場理解這些概念,只有說明卡上毫無前提,便硬是推到觀眾眼前的各種疑問跟斷言:

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「對全球化的理想感到失落並覺得被背叛的人們,他們都會去哪裡?大致上,他們傾向去討一塊地、一道邊界或一座避風港,讓自己可以受保護,免受別人騷擾。這便是民粹主義提出的論調,如今此類運動已在許多國家站穩腳跟。這是另一場白日夢:獨立生活,忽視所有你所依賴的人類與非人類。」

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「如果你知道全球化星球的現代化計畫正走入死局,那麼你會去哪裡?如果要按現代的生活方式,必須耗掉整整六顆地球的資源,那麼想生活在單一個行星的範圍內時,你該怎麼辦?」

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「不過這些力量並不像古老的占星學,而是顯示出一種奇特的地緣政治。我們必須適應這種地緣政治,並感受行星間的縱橫捭闔。」

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The Colour Out Of Space

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不過也不能否認一個可能性:七個地球並不足夠,我們所面對的是以極高速度擴張的星系。Latour 想像中處於同一平面的星系,在現實中的維度卻不停攀升,新的與舊的地球互相撞擊,來自不同地球上的居民受到本次展覽的刺激之後,或許催化了不同的感知能力,使原本只是作為比喻的行星變得更加具體,展覽本身欲闡明的意義不再重要,能夠被持續討論的,反倒是雙年展如何作為催化劑作用於各個星球。一個我再也不知道自己身處何處的宇宙…

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老婆幫我改作文,真的是把原本不知道在寫什麼的廢文改得虎虎生風…

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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra - Promises

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<3 <3 <3

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Release date: 2018-08-17

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[8.8/10]

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Elori Saxi - The Blue Of Distance

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Modern composition / new age. I can play this all day.

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Release date: 2021-01-22

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[8.6/10]

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Emeka Ogboh - Beyond The Yellow Haze

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Slithering, funky techno / downtempo. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2021-01-15

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[8.4/10]

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slowthai - Tyron

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UK grime / trap. I think this is the first hip-hop release from this year that I actually enjoy…

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Release date: 2021-02-12

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[8.1/10]

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Dialect - Under~Between

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Zen electronic ambient music. Bubbly sounds!

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Release date: 2021-03-19

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[7.8/10]

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Various Artists - Somewhere Between: Mutant Pop, Electronic Minimalism & Shadow Sounds Of Japan 1980 - 1988

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Wife said she had a nightmare when I played this whiloe she was sleeping. Mystical left-field pop songs.

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Release date: 2021-01-22

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[7.7/10]

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William Doyle - Great Spans Of Muddy Time

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While not as mesmerizing as his late 2019 album, this album is more droning and dissonant.

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Release date: 2021-03-19

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[7.2/10]

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Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club

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The only one who gets a pass for singing like they’re breathing is named Kate Bush.

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Release date: 2021-03-19

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[6.8/10]

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Daniel Lentz, Ian William Craig - FRKWYS Vol. 16: In a Word

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[8.7/10]

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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Priscilla Ermel - Origens Da Luz

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Brazilian folk music. The singer was very much influenced by… Tai-Chi? FFO Ichiko Aoba.

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Release date: 2020-02-20

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[8.6/10]

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Curd Duca - Waves 1

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… easy-listening glitch? Their Bandcamp page says so. Minimalistic musical bliss.

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Release date: 2019-09-12

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[8.6/10]

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Robert Hood - Mirror Man

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Dude may be old but dude be goin’ on strong as ever.

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Release date: 2020-03-30

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[8.4/10]

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Higher Intelligence Agency - Discatron

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Dub techno.

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[8.1/10]

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Sam Prekop - Comma

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Minimalistic indietronica / pop-techno by former member of The Sea And The Cake. Pretty approachable stuff.

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Release date: 2009-08-04

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[7.7/10]

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skillkills - Chunk

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Off-kilter alternative hip-hop. Fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2008-09-16

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[7.6/10]

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Mark Lanegan - Straight Songs Of Sorrow

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Wife hates this QQ, the song Internal Hourglass Discussion is pretty decent though.

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Release date: 2020-05-08

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[7.0/10]

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Karenn - Grapefruit Regret

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彈跳 techno,很讚

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Release date: 2019-11-08

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[8.3/10]

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Jazz Doummunisters - Cupid & Bataille, Dirty Microphone

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Weird spoken-word / jazz-hop by two Japanese middle aged men. One of them played in Cowboy Bebop’s OST and Ground Zero, the other is a columnist and (I think) a visiting scholar in Keio university. Really weird stuff, but in the best way possible.

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Release date: 2017-06-07

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[8.8/10]

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Moe And Ghosts x 空間現代 - Rap Phenomenon

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Math rock-noise-rap? 感覺有點像玉手初美

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Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske - Pavel Milyakov & Bendik Giske

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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.

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Release date: 2021-03-26

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[8.9/10]

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - G_d’s Pee AT STATE’S END!

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OMG

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Release date: 2021-04-02

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[8.8/10]

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Armand Hammer, The Alchemist - Haram

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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.

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Release date: 2021-03-26

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[8.6/10]

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Amulets - Blooming

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Awesome fuzzy ambient album.

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Release date: 2018-04-10

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[8.6/10]

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Various Artists - La Ola Interior (Spanish Ambient & Acid Exotism: 1983 - 1990)

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I can listen to this all day long.

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Release date: 2021-03-05

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[8.5/10]

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Vladislav Delay - Rakka II

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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…

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Release date: 2021-04-15

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[8.4/10]

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PDP III - Piled Up On A Couple Of Doves

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Modern composition / lo-fi ambient. Unnerving, sprawling sounds, gotta love it.

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Release date: 2021-04-09

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[8.3/10]

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Minimal Violence - Phase Two

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Drum & Bass / EBM. Pulverizing tunes that make you shake your head off.

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Release date: 2020-09-15

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[8.0/10]

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Stereolab - Electrically Possessed [Switched On Volume 4]

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I enjoy the longer, drone-ier songs a lot.

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Release date: 2021-02-26

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[7.8/10]

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Benny The Butcher, Harry Fraud - The Plugs I Met 2

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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.

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Release date: 2021-03-19

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[7.7/10]

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Feu! Chatterton - Palais d’argile

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Psychedelic chansson… some tracks like La Mer and Libre are pretty rockin’.

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Release date: 2021-03-12

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[7.5/10]

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Various Artists - Vertige II

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Contemporary experimental pop music. Some tracks are pretty good but some are just duds to me.

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Release date: 2021-03-19

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[7.4/10]

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Andy Stott - Never The Right Time

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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.

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Release date: 2021-04-16

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[7.3/10]

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IU - Lilac

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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.

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Release date: 2019-10-08

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[7.0/10]

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Xiu Xiu - OH NO

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Their most friendly release to date. Honestly not that into this one compared to their other recent stuff.

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Release date: 2021-02-19

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[6.5/10]

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Dinosaur Jr. - Sweep It Into Space

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idk man, I guess just go listen to Super Napkin instead of this stuff?

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Release date: 2021-04-23

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[5.8/10]

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Wode - Burn In Many Mirrors

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Old-fashioned death metal. Not a fan.

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Release date: 2021-04-02

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[5.8/10]

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Benny The Butcher - The Plugs I Met

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This is indeed much more memorable than its sequel. Some Wu-Tang level stuff.

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Release date: 2021-03-19

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[8.4/10]

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Zenker Brothers - Cosmic Transmission

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Wonky drum & bass / techno. Somehow this is very stripped-down and enticing at the same time…

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Release date: 2020-10-15

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[8.2/10]

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Hakushi Hasegawa - Air Ni Ni

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Off-kilter jazzy J-pop.

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Release date: 2019-11-13

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[8.2/10]

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Razen - Robot Brujo

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Modern improvised electronic music + flute. Minimal yet very dissonant. Kinda like dungeon music…

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[7.8/10]

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Teresa Winter - What The Night Is For

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Eerie, sprawling modern composition / electronic. Like the first track.

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Release date: 2018-10-05

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[7.8/10]

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To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View

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If you know me then you know I’m a sucker for minimal techno…

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Release date: 1999-04-30

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[9.0/10]

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2021 May Listenings

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Cities Aviv - The Crashing Sound of How It Goes

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Although it’s probably most fitting to be called an experimental hip-hop album, the songs are actually very easy to approach. Kind of feels like Madvillainy meets vaporwave, and then the whole thing is fed into a lofi chorus pedal.

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Release date: 2021-04-16

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[8.5/10]

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Various Artists - Arc Mountain

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A compilation from artists from Deathbomb Arc and Hausu Mountain, two of my favorite labels right now. Fire-toolz is an underrated producer…

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Release date: 2021-05-21

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[8.4/10]

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Maxwell Sterling - Turn Of Phrase

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Crystalline electronic ambient.

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Release date: 2021-04-23

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[8.4/10]

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Matt Sweeney, Bonnie Prince Billy - Superwolves

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Country. BPB is still on top of the game, love this one.

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[8.3/10]

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Lost Girls - Menneskekollektivet

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Jenny Hval does dance music. It’s actually pretty cool.

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Release date: 2021-03-26

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[8.3/10]

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Minotaur Shock - Qi

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Crystalline techno music. Kind of reminds me of Chekov’s EP from last year. Very enjoyable.

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Release date: 2015-02-04

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[8.3/10]

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Brockhampton - Roadrunner: New Light, New Machine

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This is actually the first Brockhampton album for me… The first 2 tracks are pretty dope. Overall this one feels a lot like something that we hear all the time at around 2000.

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Release date: 2021-04-09

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[8.3/10]

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Yukika - Timeabout,

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Another stellar future pop EP from an artist on top of the K-pop game (not that I’m too indulgent on the genre though). Although one can argue there really isn’t a whole lot of new ideas on this album, the songs on this album is undeniably catchy and enjoyable.

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Release date: 2021-04-07

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[8.1/10]

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Mark Fell, Will Guthrie - Infoldings / Diffractions

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If there ever is a club that plays “Infoldings” on repeat and no drink spilt on the floor and people go there to read books instead of talking about nothing until getting completely wasted, I’d go there regularly.

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[8.1/10]

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Leon Vynehall - Rare, Forever

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Highly enjoyable, slithering club music. I like the first several tracks like “Ecce! Ego” and “Mothra” a lot, but the latter tracks don’t really stand out that much.

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[7.8/10]

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Vatican Shadows - SR71 Blackbird Survivors

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Bleak, elusive industrial ritual music.

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Release date: 2021-03-05

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[7.8/10]

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Masayoshi Fujita - Bird Ambience

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On this record he plays marimba instead of vibraphone, and has more accompanying instruments and textures. That being said, I prefer the pure, sorrowful Apologue to this one though.

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Release date: 2021-05-28

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[7.7/10]

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Lucinda Chua - Antidotes 2

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Too short… 4 really soothing songs.

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Release date: 2021-05-07

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[7.7/10]

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Sons Of Kemet - Black To The Future

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Compared to their 2018 masterpiece, this one isn’t as well composed and overall not as stunning. Still this is a pretty good afro-jazz album.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[7.6/10]

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KMRU - Logue

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Newest release from key Kenyan ambient musician features more organic field recording samples and more glittering electronic sounds.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[7.5/10]

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Caterina Barbieri - Fantas Variations

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Friends of the artist all do a rework of the first track of her incredible 2019 album, “Ecstatic Computation”. I like the tracks from the artists I already love, people like Lyra Pramuk, Bendik Giske, Kali Malone and Kara-Lis Coverdale, but not so much the other techno / breakcore artists. The electric guitar track is pretty dope though.

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Release date: 2021-04-02

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[7.4/10]

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U-zhaan, 環Roy, Chinza Dopeness - Tanoshimi

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Japanese left-field hip-hop with new age-esque instrumentals. U-zhaan is a tabla player, so I guess that makes sense. IMO the instrumental is much more interesting than the vocal performance.

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[7.2/10]

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Scuare - Phenomenal

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Chill-hop. Not bad but not really my jam.

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Release date: 2020-05-02

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[7.0/10]

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Burial, Blackdown - Shock Power Of Love EP

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Compared to Burial’s other stuff this one is tame.

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[6.8/10]

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Fly Pan Am - Frontera

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Somehow this feels more post-punk than post-rock. There are still slow, ambient passages on this album, but they don’t click that much IMO. The post-punk-y songs all have drony guitar and bass line, which is something I like, but the beats are just too predictable and repetitive.

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Release date: 2021-06-07

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[6.7/10]

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Flying Lotus - Yasuke

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Never imagined FL would create something so bland and so unmemorable… and the anime is a complete flop, can’t even finish one episode.

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[6.3/10]

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Telex - This Is Telex

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More often than not I find Synth-pop music in general not really interesting. This compilation gives me the same feeling…

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[6.1/10]

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th1r3en, Pharoahe Monch - A Magnificent Day For An Exorcism

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Imagine rap-rock, but the “rock” here refers to the kind of music from Led Zeppelin…

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Release date: 2021-01-22

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[6.0/10]

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Gruff Rhys - Seeking New Gods

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Ew…

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Release date: 2021-05-21

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[3.0/10]

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Methods Body - Methods Body

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Jungle / ambient. I like this a lot, it’s wonky and majestic and sometimes jazzy.

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[8.8/10]

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Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony

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Jazz-hop. It is very good.

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Release date: 2020-03-13

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[8.4/10]

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Oliver Coates - skins n slime

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Droning contemporary chamber music / ambient. Music for coding.

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Release date: 2020-10-16

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[8.2/10]

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Teller Bank$ - The Grotesque & Beautiful

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Chill-hop. The beat is fluid and the flows are dope.

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[8.1/10]

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Even Less Friends - Starlow

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Bedroom indie pop. Cry emoji all the way…

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Release date: 2020-05-01

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[8.0/10]

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KMRU, Ian Urbina - burmaa

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I’ve always had the impression that while KMRU is one of my favorite ambient music acts right now, they’re consciously staying away from using more straightforward melodies in their music. This is not the case on this EP though.

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Release date: 2012-06-15

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[7.8/10]

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Blessedassistant, Iceberg Theory - The Hierophant

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Jazz-hop. I like the instrumentals (esp. the saxophone) but the singing voice sounds shaky and kinda off putting to me.

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Release date: 2019-05-31

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[7.5/10]

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Rav - I’m On To Me

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Chill-hop.

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Release date: 2020-11-27

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[7.4/10]

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Perc - Bitter Music

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Industrial techno. Makes you want to party really hard even if you’re trapped in the apartment.

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Release date: 2017-05-19

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[8.6/10]

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Rafael Anton Irisarri - The Shameless Years

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FFO Gas, Tim Hecker and GY!BE. Droning ambient music. Also check out his last year’s album “Peripeteia”, real quality music.

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Release date: 2017-08-25

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[8.1/10]

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Bataille Solaire - Documentaires

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Dunno where this band is from, but this sounds a lot like those Japanese new-age ambient music from the previous century. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2013-08-06

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[8.2/10]

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Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang - The Face of the Earth

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I remember listening to Eyvind Kang’s stuff a long time ago in highschool, but I don’t remember anything about it. This one sounds mystical and has a lot of Eastern influence. Almost ritualistic.

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Release date: 2012-12-03

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[7.3/10]

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2021 June Listenings

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Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing

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I can listen to this all day. Shadowy, soft electronic / ambient.

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Release date: 2021-05-21

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[8.8/10]

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Bedwetter - Vol. 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present

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Awesome abstract hip-hop. Every track on this album is a banger, literally 30 minutes of bliss.

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Release date: 2017-08-22

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[8.7/10]

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Khotin - Finds You Well

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Who would not like this…

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Release date: 2020-09-25

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[8.6/10]

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LA Timpa - Modern Antics in a Deserted Place

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Dreamy bedroom avant-pop. I like it.

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Release date: 2020-11-19

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[8.5/10]

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Kenny Segal - Indoors

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One of the best beatmakers in the game strikes again. Lo-fi jazz-hop goodness.

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Release date: 2021-06-11

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[8.5/10]

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Chihei Hatakeyama - Late Spring

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This one might be my favorite amongst all his stuff…

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Release date: 2020-11-29

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[8.5/10]

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Lil Jabba - Grotto

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Great footwork / grime album. Every track on this album is highly enjoyable.

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Release date: 2021-03-05

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[8.5/10]

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Sugai Ken - On The Quakefish

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Japanese ambient / new-age. Meditative sound, delicate stuff.

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Release date: 2016-06-27

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[8.4/10]

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Boo Hiss - Sike Roc

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Cut-n-paste sample music? Anyway I like this.

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Release date: 2020-04-01

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[8.3/10]

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Various Artists - 𝑔𝓁𝒶𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓇°

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An explosive compilation of deconstructed club music. Wicked.

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Release date: 2017-07-28

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[8.3/10]

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Pandit Pam Pam - Quarto Relatorio Anual

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Dub ambient / techno.

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Release date: 2020-09-25

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[8.3/10]

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Death Is Not The End - Death Is Not The End

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So apparently one of the record labels that specialize in preserving sounds from the past decides to make music… I like this a lot, dreamy lo-fi music, FFO The Caretaker.

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Release date: 2009-02-12

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[8.2/10]

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Basic Rhythm - Electronic Labyrinth

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Bouncy techno / grime. Love the tracks Electronic Labyrinth and Larkin Around.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[8.2/10]

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upsammy - Zoom

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Airy ambient / IDM. FFO Pantha Du Prince.

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Release date: 2020-08-24

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[8.2/10]

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Black Midi - Cavalcade

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I like this more than their debut album. Or maybe it’s because I’m not really familiar with that one… Chaotic, all-over-the-place (in the nicest sense of the word) math-rock.

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Release date: 2021-05-26

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[8.1/10]

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Current Value - The All Attracting

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Dubstep / drum & bass. Pretty nasty stuff.

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Release date: 2021-04-15

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[8.1/10]

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Veld Hans - The Becalming

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Lo-fi freak folk. Pretty good, pretty weird.

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Release date: 2021-05-19

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[8.0/10]

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Loraine James - Reflection

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TBH I like her stunning debut from two years ago more than this one. This one just feels more tame, less wonky and freakish. But it’s still pretty good though.

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Release date: 2015-01-30

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[7.8/10]

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Lanark Artefax - Whities 011

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Not as abrasive and memorable as the outstanding Corra Linn from 2019, but still pretty good.

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Release date: 2017-06-09

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[7.8/10]

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Spivak - Μετά Το Ρέιβ

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This is like Actress + The Other People Place, pretty chill dub techno.

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[7.8/10]

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The Body - I’ve Seen All I Want To See

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Anthony Fantano is right in saying that despite this album is the duo’s most stripped down album to date, it is also their nastiest album. I’d still say this isn’t as good as their collab albums with other groups like Thou, Full Of Hell, and Uniform, but still this is their best so far.

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[7.7/10]

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YL Hooi - Untitled

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Hazy ambientronica / dub-ish bedroom music. Pretty good, it’s something while not mindblowingly good still really enjoyable.

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Release date: 2016-03-04

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[7.7/10]

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Miriam Makeba - Keep Me In Mind

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Root / pop from 1974 just got reissued. The songs are pretty good but it’s just not something I’d listen to on a regular basis. Maybe people who dig the retro R&B / pop sound would enjoy this more? That being said the lady is very revolutionary, and her story is truly incredible, would very much recommend the viewer to read up on her biography.

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Release date: 2010-08-31

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[7.6/10]

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Steven R. Smith - In The Spires

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Sounds like the soundtrack to Red Dead Redemption or something. Somber old western music.

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Release date: 2021-06-04

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[7.6/10]

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Eomac - Cracks

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Techno / IDM.

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Release date: 2017-10-22

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[7.5/10]

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Senyawa, Black To Comm - Alkisah Versi Hitam

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Experimental noise music. This doesn’t sound like Black To Comm’s own music, and this is the only Senyawa project I’ve had so far, so not sure how to react to this… it is indeed very abrasive, but other than that I don’t think this album has too much to offer.

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Release date: 2021-06-18

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[7.5/10]

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Peder Mannerfelt - And The Band Played On

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Danceable, wonky percussive techno. Gets a bit tired after a while though, except for the last track which is dissonant and chaotic, full granular synth bliss.

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Release date: 1997-11-25

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[7.4/10]

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The Alchemist - This Thing Of Ours

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Jazz-hop EP from one of the most well-known beatmakers in the game, featuring a bunch of big names like Pink Siifu and Earl Sweatshirt. That being said, this is not really all that memorable, and the songs are just OK.

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Release date: 2021-04-30

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[7.0/10]

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Jimmy Edgar - Cheetah Bend

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Trap. Although I like a lot of the additional artists featured on this album, this album feels one dimensional and doesn’t really do them justice.

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Release date: 2021-02-26

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[6.5/10]

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Dean Blunt - Black Metal 2

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Hypnagogic indie-pop / cloud hip-hop. Comparing this to Black Metal feels like pitting The Matrix 2 against the obviously vasly superior first film.

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Release date: 2021-06-11

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[6.5/10]

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Arca - Madre

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It’s kind of annoying.

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Release date: 2020-12-08

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[6.2/10]

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東京事変 - 音楽

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Very lackluster. They can play but musically speaking there’s nothing new in this album. And the mixing and production on this album is so bad, whoever did these should be ashamed of themselves…

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Release date: 2021-06-09

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[3.3/10]

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Midwife - Luminol

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Best sadcore album I’ve heard this year. My wife likes it as well.

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Release date: 2021-07-16

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[8.8/10]

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Bvdub - Ten Times The World Lied

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<3 <3 <3

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Release date: 2020-04-03

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[8.7/10]

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Skee Mask - Pool

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Awesome IDM / dub techno.

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Release date: 2021-07-23

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[8.7/10]

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Don’t DJ, NWAQ - Fashion

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Subterranean club music. I dig it.

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Release date: 2020-12-15

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[8.6/10]

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WasWaas - Antidote

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Minimal techno / ambient. I like every track on this EP.

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Release date: 2021-01-07

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[8.4/10]

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Malcolm Pardon - Hello Death

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Somber keyboard music. I know they’re very different, but I kind of feel like this and Masayoshi Fujita’s Apologue both have the same solemn, nostalgic mood going on. Good stuff.

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Release date: 2021-04-16

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[8.4/10]

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Perila - How Much Time It Is Between You And Me?

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Museum music. More specifically, the soundtrack to a documentary piece you see in the art museum, the piece being about some extremely slow movements, viewed from infinitely many perspectives. Chilling music.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[8.3/10]

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Turinn - 18 1/2 Minute Gaps

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Mystical techno. Sounds like Burial meets JK Flesh.

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Release date: 2017-02-17

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[8.3/10]

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Tyler, The Creator - Call Me If You Get Lost

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Overall this is a pretty solid album. I like the tracks that have elevator music-ish instrumentals the best. Haven’t really listened to Igor so don’t know how this one holds up against it though.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[8.2/10]

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Pan Daijing - Jade

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I find this to be more easily approachable than 2017’s Lack. Gothic experimental opera music?

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Release date: 2020-07-24

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[8.2/10]

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Perila - Everything Is Already There

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This one is pretty dope too.

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Release date: 2021-06-18

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[8.2/10]

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bdrmm - Bedroom

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Nowadays it’s difficult to come by a quality shoegaze record that doesn’t repeat what has already been done billions of others… This is one of those good shoegaze albums.

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Release date: 2017-06-16

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[8.2/10]

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Tangents - Stateless

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Jazz / IDM. Kinda reminds me of Tortoise’s stuff, although they’re actually completely different…

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Release date: 2007-06-25

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[8.1/10]

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Dos Monos - Dos Siki 2nd Season

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Even Jazz Dommunisters is on this EP… dope. Hopefully they do a full-length instead of pumping out a EP once in a while.

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Release date: 2021-07-23

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[8.0/10]

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Satomimagae - Hanazono

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Ambient / indie-folk. Very reverb heavy, kind of reminds me of Julianna Barwick (well kind of…)

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Release date: 2021-04-23

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[7.8/10]

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Salamanda - Glass Cage

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New-age music from Korea. Is actually pretty nice!

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Release date: 2006-01-01

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[7.8/10]

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Claire Rousay - A Softer Focus

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Soothing field recording / minimal ambient music.

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Release date: 2021-04-09

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[7.7/10]

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Fatima Al Qadiri - Medieval Femme

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Not really digging her stuff from before, although Spotify says I will like her stuff if I enjoy Sophie. This one is mystical and much less of a (hyper)pop album compared to her previous albums, it presents a sparse, semi-deserted ancient city (not sure if it made sense), thanks to the ghostly synth sounds and vocal samples drenched in heavy reverb.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[7.7/10]

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Mica Levi - Blue Alibi

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I don’t know why but I always confuse Mica Levi with Octa Octa… this is left field indie rock + ghostly human voices. Kind of like a less pop focused Dean Blunt. Nothing like Octa Octa…

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Release date: 2021-01-27

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[7.7/10]

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Lilla - Soundness Of Mind

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Meditative new-age electronic music. These two dudes met in a Zen monastary… Very oriental sounding at times.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[7.6/10]

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Ambrose Akinmusire - On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment

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Modern jazz music. I appreciate the more chaotic, more free-jazz-ish tracks like Tide of Hyacinth than the other ones.

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Release date: 2020-06-12

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[7.5/10]

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Panopticon - … And Again Into The Light

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Some songs sound like he’s been listening to Heaven In Her Arms quite a bit… this one feels more influenced by folk metal and melodic death compared to say Kentucky or Roads To The North.

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Release date: 2021-05-15

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[7.5/10]

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The Field Mice - Snowball

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Jangle pop. It’s decent, but I bet there are a bunch of bands that are like this.

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Release date: 1989-01-01

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[7.4/10]

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Wanton Witch - Wanton Witch

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Industrial techno / hardcore from Bangkok. I guess this is something that would be much more impressive if played through high quality PA system in a club or livehouse than my bluetooth speakers…

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Release date: 2021-06-04

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[7.3/10]

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Pom Poko - Cheater

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Art rock / post-punk. Angular guitar tones and hyper energetic vocals. I found this band after I watch the movie Pom Poko, sick anime movie…

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Release date: 2021-01-15

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[7.2/10]

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Eli Keszler - Icons

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Dark jazz. While this album is more structured in terms of songwriting, it is much less exciting compared to his previous album.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[7.0/10]

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Yoshinori Hayashi - Pulse Of Defiance

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Techno. Pretty diverse album in terms of musical style and texture, or you could say it kind of lacks focus, which is sort of how I feel about this album.

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Release date: 2021-04-09

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[7.0/10]

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Spellling - The Turning Wheel

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Gothic synthpop. Sounds like classic Disney cartoons from the 90s. Or a more rock-oriented Kate Bush.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[7.0/10]

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Moin - Moot!

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Math rock. I am not a huge fan of the drums on this album - it could have been done in a much more subtle way. Now it’s way too full and kind of distracting.

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Release date: 2021-03-31

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[6.8/10]

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Suzanne Kraft - About You

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Dream pop. Feels kinda generic…

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Release date: 2021-03-31

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[6.5/10]

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Ann Margaret Hogan - Funeral Cargo

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Modern classical. Richard Clayderman does soundtrack for Red Dead Redemption.

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Release date: 2021-05-28

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[6.3/10]

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Hightide Hotel - Naturally

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I am too old for punk rock. I prefer Nothing Was Missing, Except Me to this one.

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Release date: 2014-09-16

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[6.3/10]

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Year Of No Light - Consolamentum

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It’s either this album simply isn’t that good, or I just no longer enjoy post-metal anymore… Every song on this album sounds the same, and the riffs aren’t really heavy.

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Release date: 2021-07-02

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[6.1/10]

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2021 August Listenings

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Tomasz Bednarczyk - Nothing Much Happens

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Ambient. If you don’t like this I don’t know what to say…

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[9.0/10]

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Space Afrika - Honest Labour

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Downtempo. FFO Dean Blunt and Actress.

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Release date: 2021-08-27

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[8.8/10]

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Pataphysical - Periphera

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Dream like, cosmic ambient / electronic music. Love this stuff.

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Release date: 2015-09-04

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[8.7/10]

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Various Artists - I Stumble And Then I Fall

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It is as if ghosts are capable of playing music, and these are benevolent but sad ghosts, so the songs they play turn you into a ghost as well. Chilling and abstract experimental music.

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Release date: 2020-11-20

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[8.7/10]

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Not Waving, Romance - Eyes Of Fate

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Serene modern classical / ambient. I love it.

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Release date: 2021-03-12

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[8.6/10]

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Erika De Casier - Sensational

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Ethereal pop music. Sounds like something from the 00’s… Like it a lot.

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Release date: 2021-05-21

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[8.5/10]

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Body Sculptures - A Body Turns To Eden

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Industrial ambient / drone music.

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Release date: 2016-06-03

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[8.3/10]

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SMTK - SIREN PROPAGANDA

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Free jazz / prog music with a bunch of rap features. Maybe one could call thius prog rap? Dos Monos also appears on this KLP. Really like this stuff, the track Diablo is dope.

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Release date: 2021-07-14

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[8.3/10]

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Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Dissent

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Dub techno with a lot of jazz influence. Laurel Halo plays in this one.

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Release date: 2021-08-06

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[8.2/10]

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Lingua Ignota - Sinner Get Ready

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Screeching chamber music. I didn’t really like her previous album but this one I actually dig. Make sure you listen to this on a set of headphones, when played through a single mono speaker it is much less powerful.

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Release date: 2021-08-06

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[8.2/10]

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King Woman - Celestial Blues

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Doom metal / heavy rock. I dig it.

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Release date: 2021-07-30

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[8.1/10]

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Ghost Box - Trial and Deleted Scenes

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R&B beat under a thin layer of old tape noise. I do believe in Ghost Box.

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Release date: 2020-03-31

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[8.1/10]

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Oxhy - Respite Unoffered

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Eerie deconstructed club / hardcore. Pretty cool sound.

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Release date: 2017-10-16

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[7.8/10]

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Roy Montgomery - That Best Forgotten Work

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I thought it was somebody else that’s singing on this album, but it was Roy Montgomery himself… I always thought he’s more or less solely focused on doing guitar oriented ambient music, but this one feels more like a gothic indie pop record, which is pretty refreshing.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[7.8/10]

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96 Back - 9696 Dream

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IDM. Kind of like how Pantha Du Prince would sound like if he decides to do club music.

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Release date: 2021-03-16

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[7.8/10]

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Rian Treanor - Obstacle Scattering

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Rhytmic electronic music. I especially like the last track - sounds like a bunch of little explosions in a metal pipe.

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Release date: 2021-02-19

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[7.8/10]

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Koeosaeme - Sonorant

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Futuristic breakcore / cut-n-paste electronic music. Pretty cool.

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Release date: 2017-08-04

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[7.6/10]

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Loveshadow - Loveshadow

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City pop / new-age. Retro stuff.

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Release date: 2021-06-21

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[7.4/10]

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Sharkula, Mukqs - Take Caution On The Beach

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Experimental hip-hop. Really weird stuff, but I guess what else would you expect from a Hausu Mountain release? I like the wonky instrumentals but the vocals are really throwing me off.

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Release date: 2021-04-09

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[7.2/10]

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Krallice - Demonic Wealth

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Less prog-oriented and more traditional black metal / thrash sounding. I appreciate the proggier side of them more though. Sometimes it sounds like Botanist?

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Release date: 2021-03-05

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[7.1/10]

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Black Thought, Salaam Remi - Streams Of Thought Vol. 2

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Old school hip-hop.

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Release date: 2018-11-26

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[7.1/10]

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Portrayal Of Guilt & Chat Pile - Split

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PoG is (still) kind of disappointing on this one. Chat pile is pretty cool though, kind of like Pissed Jeans. Looking forward to their full length LP.

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Release date: 2021-08-17

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[7.0/10]

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Deafheaven - Infinite Granite

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The first half is pretty approachable shoegaze with wailing guitar, the last track Mombasa is the only track on this album that is reminiscent of the Sunbather era Deafheaven. But then it’s not as strong as any of the tracks on Sunbather…

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Release date: 2021-08-20

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[7.0/10]

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Mika Vainio - 25082016235210179 (Live at Berlin Atonal)

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I don’t understand… Sparwling drone / noise music and occasional loud feedback sounds.

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Release date: 2020-10-27

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[6.8/10]

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OMSB - Monkey

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Japanese hardcore rap. I like the first track, others not so much.

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Release date: 2021-05-07

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[6.7/10]

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Lantlôs - Wildhund

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When post-black metal goes beyond shoegaze… it becomes alternative rock.

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Release date: 2021-07-30

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[6.7/10]

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Karate - In Place Of Real Insight

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Emo + slow core. Slow core songs are alright, emo songs have run of the mill riggs and are just meh.

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Release date: 1997-04-15

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[6.5/10]

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Code - Flyblown Prince

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I have never heard of Cradle Of Filth. I imagine this is what CoF sounds like, or if CoF listened to a lot of Arcturus… The high pitched clean vocals are really too silly.

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Release date: 2021-06-04

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[6.3/10]

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Backxwash - I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES

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好吵… industrial rap.

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Release date: 2021-06-20

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[6.3/10]

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Sikth - The Future In Whose Eyes

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Overall weaker than their magnum opus, The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out. The guitart tone is pretty tight though.

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Release date: 2017-06-02

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[6.2/10]

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Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak

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This is actually the first time I heard this album… the instrumentals are alright, but the lyrics is what makes this project such a disappointment - it is at best silly, at worst straight up idiotic. The autotune-d vocals does not help at all.

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Release date: 2008-11-24

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[5.3/10]

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Between The Buried And Me - Colors II

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If incohesion is an album this would be it. Of course it is hard to play, and their technicality is definitely there, but the album as a whole is just a bunch of undeveloped musical ideas forced into songs. And the fact that the songs are all connected (i.e. no stops between songs) does not help one bit.

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Release date: 2021-08-20

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[4.2/10]

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Protest The Hero - Palimpsest

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You play prog metal long enough to see yourself become a Dream Theater clone (well with much better singing and riffing, but still…) I expected them to sound closer to their first three albums than this one, but that wasn’t even close. Songs on this album have those cheesy, annoying symphonic synths, which I really dislike, and the riffs feel like they were done in a way that when the band finished writing the riffs they stopped caring about them.

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Release date: 2020-06-18

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[4.0/10]

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2021 September Listenings

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Tomu - Lonesome Valley

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Ambient. I like.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[8.5/10]

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Bendik Giske - Cracks

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Good stuff.

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Release date: 2021-08-27

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[8.4/10]

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Leslie Winer - When I Hit You You’ll Feel It

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Downtempo / trip-hop. FFO Tricky. An anthology of an artist’s work over three decades, and it is very rewarding even if you (like me) don’t know anything about her before diving in…

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Release date: 2021-08-20

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[8.3/10]

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A Country Western - Birdfeeder

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It is as if the band Hood released a new album in 2021. I love this sound.

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Release date: 2021-09-10

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[8.3/10]

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Low - Hey What

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I played this through a speaker a bunch of times but wasn’t really paying attention to it. Then on the plane back to Taiwan I listened to the album again, this time much less distracted. Initially I wasn’t really that into their sound for the last two albums - instead of guitar-heavy slowcore music, they’ve incorporated more more electronic / noise elements, and I kind of miss the more minimalisitic sound of their older stuff. But on this album the vocals are done meticulously, and blends extremely well with the swirling electronic pads and screechs.

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Release date: 2021-09-10

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I like it!

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[8.3/10]

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Lol K - The Breeze

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Drill / pop. It’s not like this is AOTY material but I enjoy this one quite a bit.

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Release date: 2020-10-29

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[8.2/10]

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Kilowatthours - The Bright Side

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Midwestern emo / post-rock. It is way better than I expected…

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Release date: 2012-07-30

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[8.2/10]

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Dos Monos - Larderello

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The first track is bomb. Overall the previous one has more bangers but this one is still pretty fire.

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Release date: 2021-09-14

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[8.2/10]

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Facta - Blush

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I don’t think it sounds similar but I guess people who like Pantha Du Prince would like this? Joyous, tingling house music.

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Release date: 2021-08-13

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[8.0/10]

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John Glacier - SHILOH: Lost For Words

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Gloomy bedroom trippy hip-hop / hypnagogic rap? Pretty good stuff.

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Release date: 2021-07-30

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[7.9/10]

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Yves Tumor - The Asymptotical World EP

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Gothic pop. Feels like a continuation of the last LP’s direction, pretty catchy stuff.

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Release date: 2021-07-15

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[7.8/10]

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Sofie Birch, Johan - Repair Techniques

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New-age / ambient.

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Release date: 2021-08-04

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[7.8/10]

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Tomaga - Intimate Immensity

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This stuff is hard to categorize to any musical genre… downtempo electro jazz dub with a hint of grime music? Sad that one of them passed away last year, pretty good stuff.

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Release date: 2021-03-26

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[7.8/10]

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UMAN - Chaleur Humaine

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New-age / world music from 1992.

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Release date: 2021-09-17

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[7.8/10]

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Unrecovery - Look! It Fits You To Size

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Bedroom lo-fi sadcore. I like how the guitars are very grainy and the vocals way out of tune.

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Release date: 2021-08-31

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[7.7/10]

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Pedro Singery - Death For Never

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Old school new wave (an oxymoron? lol) and rock & roll. Pretty interesting music.

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Release date: 2021-03-17

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[7.6/10]

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Arpanet - Inertial Frame

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Cyber-futuristic techno.

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Release date: 2006-11-24

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[7.6/10]

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Devi - Popp

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World / percussion music. Pretty interesting sound, much more fun than Eli Keszler IMO haha.

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Release date: 2021-07-09

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[7.6/10]

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The Bug - Fire

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Industrial grime.

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Release date: 2021-09-01

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[7.5/10]

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33.10.3402 - Iz Usta

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Tropical sounding techno / jungle. Chillout vibes.

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Release date: 2021-09-10

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[7.5/10]

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The Killers - Pressure Machine

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Dad rock at its best. They revisit the heartland rock theme, but this time it’s more somber and less of a fantastical made-up world like Sam’s Town.

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Release date: 2021-08-13

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[7.4/10]

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Smerz - Believer

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Ghostly gothic indie pop.

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Release date: 2021-09-25

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[7.4/10]

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Lolina - Smoke

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Trippy bedroom indietronica. Or indie-grime / indie-trap? Is that a thing?

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Release date: 2018-03-14

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[7.3/10]

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serpentwithfeet - DEACON

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Gothic R&B / pop. Not bad, but in my opinion could be a bit more adventurous.

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Release date: 2021-03-26

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[7.2/10]

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Knifeplay - Pearlty

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Shoegaze / sadcore. Pretty good indie rock music, but not something that really stands out.

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Release date: 2019-03-13

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[7.2/10]

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Ojerime - B4 I Breakdown

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Sounds like gothic pop female singers like Spellling or Nhasa decides to do half crass, half catchy pop songs.

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Release date: 2021-03-13

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[7.1/10]

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Anunaku - 042

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Slick house / club. Feels a bit one dimensional…

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Release date: 2021-04-09

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[6.8/10]

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Little Simz - Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

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Some songs are pretty catchy, but overall this sounds much more ingratiating (contrary to the album title…) compared with Grey Area from 2019.

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Release date: 2021-09-03

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[6.8/10]

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Iceage - Seek Shelter

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Britpop. Overall on the uninspiring side, except for the last track which is pretty dope.

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Release date: 2021-05-07

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[6.3/10]

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無妄合作社 - No Mercy

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Taiwanese indie rock with faux teenage angsty punkish aesthetics.

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Release date: 2021-09-24

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Honesty I was expecting this to be much, much worse than this - I thought it was going to be a clusterfuck of poorly written punk riffs, but actually the execution was rather on point. The problem with this LP is that it’s just a bland hodgepodge of pseudo-psych dad rock and midlife crisis post-punk elements. Except for the last track, which is a thrashy, hardcore punk song with squealing guitar solos. I guess this track is meant to be a more lighthearted joke song but to be honest this easily the most memorable track on this LP.

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專輯叫 No Mercy 歌寫得倒是挺討好的

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[5.5/10]

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Drake - Certified Lover Boy

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Certified shitty pop rap.

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Release date: 2021-09-03

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[3.3/10]

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Picnic - Picnic

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FFO Roman Poirier and KMRU. Or basically anyone that likes music.

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Release date: 2021-07-07

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[9.1/10]

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JPEGMAFIA - LP!

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Glorious! Might his best one yet.

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Release date: 2021-10-22

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[8.7/10]

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To Rococo Rot - Kölner Brett

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Minimal techno masters do an soundtrack collection for a house. Underrated album for sure.

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Release date: 2001-01-01

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[8.6/10]

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Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol. 1

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Pleasant techno / UK bass. FFO Mount Kimbie & St. Germaine (kind of…). I think this is one of the most balanced techno records I’ve heard this year…

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Release date: 2021-08-13

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[8.5/10]

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Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals

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Drone / modern composition. Think taking a walk in an abandoned temple that has yet to decay into a ruin, and this is the music you’d hear in your head even if there’s really no one else around you.

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Release date: 2021-09-10

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[8.5/10]

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Call Super - Cherry Drops I

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Techno / house. Sounds like floating in mid air. I like it way better than last year’s full length LP.

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Release date: 2021-09-24

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[8.4/10]

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Miguel A. Ruiz - Climatery

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Hazy ambient. Feels like an Apichatpong film…

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Release date: 2018-11-09

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[8.3/10]

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h hunt - Playing Piano for Dad

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Piano solo music. Found this through the recommended list for Duval Timothy. Played it through a speaker with a lot of low end, the thump he made when he hit the keys kind of reminds me Bendik Giske, but the noise on piano is much more subtle than hitting the sax keys.

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Release date: 2016-05-20

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[8.3/10]

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Tarotplane - Horizontology

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Mystical new-age / ambient.

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Release date: 2021-03-05

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[8.3/10]

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Tara Clerkin Trio - In Spring

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Lo-fi chamber noir-jazz / downtempo.

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Release date: 2021-04-07

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[8.1/10]

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Kit Downes, Lucy Railton - Subaerial

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Modern composition. This is some spooky music… But the more I listen to it the more I feel drawn to it.

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Release date: 2021-08-13

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[8.1/10]

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Perila, Ulla - Memories Of Log

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Degraded tape / ambient. Warbly sounds, should be longer though.

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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[7.9/10]

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M. Sage with The Spinnaker Ensemble - The Wind Of Things

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Organic, brooding ambient / field recording.

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Release date: 2021-04-16

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[7.8/10]

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Jü - III

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Math-ish jazz-rock with a lot of ethnic music influences, like gamelan scales or Japanese mode. Pretty cool sound. Kind of sounds like a more rock-based Horse Lord.

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Release date: 2019-09-13

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[7.8/10]

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Benoît Pioulard - Sylva

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Ambient pop. Maybe this would be a more immersive and holistic experience if paired with the companion photo book instead of doing housework, but I gotta mop the floor so there ya go.

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Release date: 2014-05-13

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[7.5/10]

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Catherine Wheel - Chrome

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I imagined this to be more like Cocteau Twins but it’s more like Failure / Hum. Pretty cool alt rock.

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Release date: 2018-03-09

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[7.4/10]

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Two Shell - SoulCity EP

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Techno / bass. I like the second track Soft Core the most, the others aren’t really that impressive. Must be total bangers in a club though.

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Release date: 2021-03-12

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[7.3/10]

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Vanishing Twin - Ookii Gekkou

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FFO Stereolab and Sun Ra. Psychedelic jazztronica / krautrock. Personally I like the jazzier cuts on this album than the psych pop ones.

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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[7.3/10]

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Vertaal - Paradigm Shifting

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Nu-jazz a la Yussef Kamaal, but less flashy. I feel like this kind of stuff is probably not something I’d revisit too frequently, sure they can play but the songs don’t offer too muchh impression, at least to me.

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Release date: 2020-04-23

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[7.2/10]

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Black Country, New Road - For The First Time

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A less abrasive, less shredy, more post-punk-y Black Midi.

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Release date: 2021-02-05

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[7.1/10]

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佐井好子 - 萬花鏡

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Before I listened to this I thought this was the seminal Japanese psych-ambient pop album, but turns out it’s just radio friendly pop music that gets stale pretty quickyly. Maybe my expectation was too high.

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Release date: 1975-08-25

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[6.8/10]

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Audiobook - Astro Tough

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Weird indie pop. I feel like the first and the last couple of songs are very different from the ones in the middle - the former more dance oriented, while the latter features more traditional instrumentation.

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Release date: 2021-10-01

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[6.7/10]

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Priya Ragu - damnshestamil

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Pop mixtape from Indian / Swiss artist. A lot of Indian sounding elements on this album.

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Release date: 2021-09-03

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[6.7/10]

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Joyer - Perfect Gray

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Slowcore. I feel like it’s all the same song on the entire album…

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Release date: 2021-09-24

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[6.5/10]

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Explosions In The Sky - Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television)

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Don’t feel like they’ve brought anything new to the table.

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Release date: 2021-10-01

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[6.1/10]

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2021 November Listenings

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Phase Selector Sound - Disassemble Dub

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I’ve been looking for a dub record like this for so long, and it’s just sitting there in the drawer the whole time…

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Release date: 1999-07-22

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[8.8/10]

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Christophe De Babalon - 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst!)

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Gothic drum & bass. Man this is tight.

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Release date: 2021-09-24

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[8.6/10]

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Curd Duca - Waves 2

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Sequel to last year’s fantastic Waves 1, and just as exhilarating to listen to.

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Release date: 2021-11-12

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[8.5/10]

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Various Artists - Sound Storing Machines: The First 78rpm Records from Japan, 1903-1912

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A compilation of really ancient Japanese music recordings. A sublime listen.

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Release date: 2021-04-20

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[8.4/10]

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aya - im hole

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Eerie experimental electronic pop. Claustrophobic stuff, and yet it is so good…

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Release date: 2021-10-22

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[8.3/10]

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Grouper - Shade

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Hypnotic bedroom pop / folk. Very stripped back yet powerful.

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Release date: 2021-10-22

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[8.3/10]

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Richard Dawson, Circle - Henki

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Old school prog rock meets Richard Dawson. Circle is one of the very few bands that do prog music like how Yes or Camel, and while this sound like an odd fit it’s actually very compelling.

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Release date: 2021-11-26

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[8.3/10]

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Various Artists - “I Could Go Anywhere But Again I Go With You”

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The music you hear when you enter a shrine in Breath of the Wild.

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Release date: 2018-01-19

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[8.2/10]

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Novi_sad - Κεραυνός

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Organic ambient music.

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Release date: 2021-10-29

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[8.2/10]

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snd - Tenderlove

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Minimal techno like how it should be. Pretty good. And I snatched it for 5 bucks…

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Release date: 2018-09-10

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[8.1/10]

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The Stranger - Watching Dead Empires In Decay

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Evil Caretaker be like.

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Release date: 2013-10-28

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[8.1/10]

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Kid Koala - Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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Eccentric lo-fi hip-hop. Lots of fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2000-02-22

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[8.1/10]

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Breakwater - Five 7”

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Obscure emo / screamo gem. Pretty dope.

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Release date: 1995

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[7.8/10]

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Soho Rezanejad - Honesty Without Compassion is Brutality, Vol. 2

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Dramatic experimental pop music. On this album her vocal prowess is on full display - sometimes it sounds like Jenny Hval, sometimes it sounds like King Woman.

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Release date: 2020-01-20

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[7.8/10]

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Marina Rosenfeld - Teenage Lontano

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This is the recording of two different sound art happenings. The first suite is avant-garde choral music, glossolalia music? Second suite is like a bunch of R&B songs stacked on dissonant electronic sounds. Eerie stuff but oddly comforting…

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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The Bandcamp page for the album contains a lot more information, such as the locations and the meanings of those pieces.

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[7.8/10]

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Kidcrash - Jokes

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Screamo-ish math rock. The riffs are pretty cool.

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Release date: 2007-06-30

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[7.8/10]

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Succumb - XXI

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Death metal. Pretty filthy stuff.

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Release date: 2021-10-01

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[7.7/10]

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The Body, BIG|BRAVE - Leaving None But Small Birds

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This is more folk than doom, the track Oh Sinner sounds like it could be from a recent Earth album. The last two tracks feature grinding doom guitar riffs, but still retain a lot of the old time blues / country feel. Pretty good, I feel like The Body is better when they’re collaborating with other artists than doing their own thing…

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Release date: 2021-10-01

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[7.6/10]

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BADBADNOTGOOD - Talk Memory

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Fusion. The first couple of songs sounds like Dungen’s instrumental tracks, and overall it’s more jazz oriented than the lo-fi hip-hop sound they’ve been known for.

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Release date: 2021-10-08

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[7.5/10]

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Full Of Hell - Garden of Burning Apparitions

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The guitar tone in this album sounds more like alt rock than death metal… which I kind of enjoy. Some songs are less powerful than others but the ones that are good are really pretty good.

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Release date: 2021-10-01

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[7.5/10]

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Shackleton - Departing Like Rivers

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Mystical tribal electronic music.

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Release date: 2021-09-10

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[7.4/10]

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Youth Novel - Youth Novel

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Screamo. In terms of song structures this one isn’t exactly groundbreaking, but it does have some pretty decent riffs.

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Release date: 2021-02-14

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[7.3/10]

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Leah Dou - GSG MIXTAPE

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Chill-hop. Not bad but not really my mood.

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Release date: 2020-11-28

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[7.3/10]

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Trustfall - Trustfall

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Gothic pop. Kind of reminds me of a more restrained Arca or a more approachable David Sylvian. OK but not great.

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Release date: 2020-03-20

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[7.2/10]

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James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart

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Electro-indie-pop. This is definitely better than 2019’s Assume Form, but is still no where near his self-titled LP from a while back. The songs that features only himself are better than the ones with other featured guests.

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Release date: 2021-10-08

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[7.1/10]

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Busdriver - Jhelli Beam

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Experimental hip-hop / abstract rap. I get that the dude must be really talented but his talents are definitely not on full display in this album.

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Release date: 2009-06-09

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[6.3/10]

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當代電影大師 - 告訴我他們都在本來的什麼地方

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There is a pretty drastic improvement from their EP to this one. I still dislike the vocals (and the lyrics… man are they cringey), and overall the songs are all lacking in the bass frequencies, though this is due to Spotify shitting on qualities of uploaded songs… But the songs where they appropriated other bands like 草東 or 透明雜誌 are fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2021-11-05

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[6.3/10]

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Portrayal of Guilt - CHRISTFUCKER

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Another lackluster release from once-promising hardcore band… maybe this is what should’ve been expected all along…

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Release date: 2021-11-05

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[5.8/10]

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2021 December Listenings

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The Armed - Ultrapop

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Noise rock (the highly enjoyable kind). Gorin! AOTY material.

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Release date: 2021-04-16

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[9.1/10]

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Susumu Yokota - Magic Thread

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I always thought he only did ambient work, turns out this is a really decent minimal techno record… FFO Jan Jelinek.

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Release date: 1998-01-07

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[8.8/10]

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Arca - KicK iii

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I like this way more than last year’s KiCk I, which felt way too ritualisitic. This album strikes the perfect balance between Arca’s works for the last couple of years, and more club friendly, more danceable electronic music. Good stuff…

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Release date: 2021-12-01

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[8.7/10]

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Molero - Ficciones Del Trópico

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Magical synth music. FFO Mort Garson.

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Release date: 2020-06-19

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[8.5/10]

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Steve Hauschildt - Strands

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Minimalist electronic ambient music. The perfect music to wake up to.

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Release date: 2016-10-28

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[8.3/10]

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Princess Diana of Wales - Princess Diana of Wales

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Sad ghosts playing dream pop music, or something.

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Release date: 2021-11-29

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[8.3/10]

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Lyra Pramuk - Delta

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A compilation of remixed versions of the songs from 2020’s Fountain, and some collaborative materials between Pramuk and artists such as Kara-Lis Coverdale and KMRU. I really like the Tendril rework from Hudson Mohawke…

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Release date: 2021-09-17

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[8.2/10]

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Killie - 犯罪者が犯した罪の再審始まる

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Legendary Japanese screamo band finally issued their first proper full length album. This one feels more cohesive than their previous stuff. It’s got a lot of melodic punk influence, but not to the point where it becomes too iritating to listen to.

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Release date: 2021-01-01

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[8.1/10]

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Meitei - Kofu II

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Is he listening to more funk records nowadays?

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Release date: 2021-12-10

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[8.1/10]

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Plebeian Grandstand - Rien ne suffit

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Avant-garde black metal. Sounds real nasty.

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Release date: 2021-11-19

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[8.1/10]

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Celestial - I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night

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Soothing guitar ambient music. Kind of like Roy Montgomery, but less reliant on reverb and more emphasis on lo-fi aesthetics.

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Release date: 2021-08-05

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[7.9/10]

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Arca - KICK ii

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This feels like it’s the link between KicK iii and KiCk I. I like the track Confianza a lot but the others feel a bit tame (compared with KicK iii.)

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Release date: 2021-11-30

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[7.8/10]

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Sega Bodega - Romeo

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Not as bombastic as his previous record, but still pretty dope.

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Release date: 2021-11-12

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[7.7/10]

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This Mortal Coil - It’ll End In Tears

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Monumental dream pop album. To me the vocals feel too grandiose, but then I should probably give this a bit more spins to fully understand why people love this album so much…

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Release date: 1984-10-01

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[7.6/10]

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Klein - Harmattan

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Modern composition. I don’t think I fully understand this music… it is indeed very eerie though. Something that should definitely be revisited.

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Release date: 2021-11-19

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[7.6/10]

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GAS - Der Lange Marsch

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This is more in line with Rausch than Pop, though some snippets of the latter can be found in this album quite easily. I guess it kind of makes sense, with the rumor that this is the final album under the GAS moniker… The steady bass drum makes this album feel unnerving, even with the synths doing major chord pads.

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Release date: 2021-12-03

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[7.6/10]

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Rival Consoles - Overflow

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Dub techno / IDM. It is not bad but also not all that interesting, and the philosophy references don’t really help…

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Release date: 2021-09-24

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[7.3/10]

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Fluxion - Parallel Moves

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OK dub techno.

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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[7.2/10]

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Vacant Position - Luna

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Saw this nice little screamo release on Reddit. Straight up screamo stuff, sounds pretty tight but too short.

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Release date: 2021-11-20

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[7.2/10]

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END - Splinters from an Ever-Changing Face

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Nails-esque metalcore. But not as good as Nails…

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Release date: 2020-06-05

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[6.9/10]

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2021 Year End List

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Picking one album out of everything I’ve heard all year is hard… I’m just gonna pick an album for each genre of music.

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Most of those album can be purchased via Bandcamp, so if you like those do consider buying them.

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Ambient

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  • Tomasz Bednarczyk - Nothing Much Happens
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  • Perila - How Much Time it is Between You and Me?
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  • Tarotplane - Horizontology
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  • Abul Mogard - In Immobile Air
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  • Curd Duca - Waves 2
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  • Sarah Davachi - Antiphonals
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  • Tomu - Lonesome Valley
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  • Christophe De Babalon - 044 (Hilf Dir Selbst!)
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  • Space Afrika - Honest Labour
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  • Colleen - The Tunnel and the Clearing
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  • PDP III - Piled Up on a Couple of Doves
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  • Skee Mask - Pool
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  • Arca - KicK iii
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  • Vladislav Delay - Rakka II
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  • Joy Orbison - Still Slipping Vol. 1
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  • Kareem - Zones of Significant Time
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  • Erika De Casier - Sensational
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There isn’t really a pop record that I particularly like…

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  • Pavel Miklyakov & Bendik Giske - Pavel Miklyakov & Bendik Giske
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  • Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
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  • Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Dissent
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  • The Armed - ULTRAPOP
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  • Richard Dawson & Circle - Henki
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  • black midi - Cavalcade
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  • Midwife - Luminol
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  • A Country Western - Birdfeeder
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  • Low - HEY WHAT
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  • Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - Haram
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  • BROCKHAMPTON - ROADRUNNER: NEW LIGHT, NEW MACHINE
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  • JPEGMAFIA - LP!
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2022 January Listenings

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Rothko - A Continual Search For Origins

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The beauty of this album is that everything is so restrained, yet through this restraint everything gets brought to the foreground. A magnificent post-rock album.

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Release date: 2002-05-27

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[9.2/10]

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黃雨晴 - 化為人形

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Is this a candidate for AOTY 2022? Maybe… Lo-fi pyschedelic bedroom pop.

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Release date: 2022-01-05

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[8.7/10]

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Chris Herbert - Mezzotint

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Ambient album from Kranky from 2006. Listening to this album I’d imagine the concept of time has ceased to exist, or maybe that’s what really good drone music does?

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Release date: 2006-09-18

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Cool thing about this album is that Chris Herbert is not a professinal musician: calls himself a non-musician, and all this music is composed of samples and bits retrieved while he’s at his day job. Yet this album feels not any less than the works of ambient greats in terms of completeness.

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[8.7/10]

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Sky H1 - Azure

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IDM. This one would have been a strong candidate for AOTY 2021 if I caught it when it just came out…

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Release date: 2021-11-12

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[8.6/10]

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Koji Nakamura, foodman, Takashi Numazawa - Humanity

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Footwork fusion? Dope stuff.

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Release date: 2022-01-12

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[8.6/10]

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Ripatti - Fun Is Not A Straight Line

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Footwork. I only knew this is actually Vladislav Delay after I checked out the Bandcamp page… Always thought he’s an ambient dub techno guy but no idea he’s this good at this kind of music. A bunch of rap samples cut up and reassembled, there really is no weak track on this album.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[8.4/10]

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Helm - Axis

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Industrial electronic music. Don’t remember much about his last album Chemical Flowers, but this one definitely puts him on the map for me. The last track Tower sounds like a track out of the OST of some John Carpenter movie. All in all this is a very melodic album.

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Release date: 2021-11-12

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[8.3/10]

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Hanno Leichtmann - Loop Music

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FFO Mort Garson. Electronic music loops.

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Release date: 2020-12-07

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[8.3/10]

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Joyul - Earwitness

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Ambient / dream-pop. There are tracks that are ethereal and also ones that are eerie. A really good debut album.

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Release date: 2021-11-05

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[8.3/10]

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Boris - W

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I didn’t really pay much attention to their last couple of releases, but this one I do enjoy quite a bit. It’s got grainy lo-fi pop tracks that lead straight into raging doom metal tracks, yet it does not sound out of place. I also like Wata’s cooing vocals on this album.

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Release date: 2022-01-21

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[8.3/10]

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Cold Dew - 欲欲

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I love their live shows, and their album slays as well. Really awesome psych rock.

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Release date: 2021-10-20

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[8.3/10]

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Takuma Watanabe - Last Afternoon

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Really good ambient music.

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Release date: 2021-05-07

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[8.2/10]

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Container - Creamer

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Bombastic techno. IMO it’d be nicer if it had more tracks.

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Release date: 2021-08-27

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[8.0/10]

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Midori Takada - Through The Looking Glass

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Exotic ambient / world. It is alright.

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Release date: 1987-03-02

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[7.8/10]

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HTRK - Rhinestones

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Minimalistic gothic dream-pop / sadcore. This is Boomkat’s AOTY 2021. Sad music for sad people.

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Release date: 2021-09-17

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[7.8/10]

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Wild Adoration - EP2

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Gothic, minimalistic electro-pop. Looking forward to a longer album!

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Release date: 2019-06-17

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[7.8/10]

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Four Tet - Parallel

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The first track is a 26 minutes long ambient track, most of which is pretty good but the last bit with vocal samples kind of makes it a bit goofy. The others are more club friendly house tracks, among them my fav is probably Parallel 7.

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Release date: 2020-12-25

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[7.7/10]

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Love Lost But Not Forgotten - Love Lost But Not Forgotten

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Screamo. Not a huge fan of the high pitched shrieks, but there really aren’t a lot of band that still get this kind of raw energy in their records.

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Release date: 2000-06-01

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[7.5/10]

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Madteo - Head Gone Wrong By Noise

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I don’t really know what to make of it… this sounds like the club / jungle music you’d hear on a late night radio station. IIRC his last album is more impressive than this.

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Release date: 2021-09-24

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[7.4/10]

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Burial - Antidawn EP

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I was really looking forward to this one, but it turns out this is much less memorable than I was expecting.

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Release date: 2022-01-06

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[7.4/10]

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Charlie Hunter, Lucy Woodward - I’m A Stranger Here

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This one is not as catchy as Music! Music! Music.

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Release date: 2021-06-25

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[7.4/10]

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Alex Twomey - Days Off

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Easy listening ambient with post-rock vibes. Feel like the mood on this one is kind of akin to the really over the top, really tiring post-rock big names. Not really that into it…

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Release date: 2021-11-05

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[6.6/10]

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珂拉琪 - MEmento·MORI

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The production is pretty good but it sounds like your average Japanese pop-heavy punk bands with occasional growls… This is actually the first time I’ve heard their music, not really sold though.

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Release date: 2021-12-23

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[6.6/10]

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Various Artists - 滾石40撞樂隊 40團拼經典

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There are 30 songs in this album but only 5 of them are good… I like Sunset Rollercoaster’s cover a lot though, the bassist played his mind out on that track. (Update: there are 40. I can’t be bothered.)

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Release date: 2022-01-01

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[5.5/10]

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2022 February Listenings

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Aerial M - Aerial M

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Classic math rock / slowcore album. What’s most impressive is that they’re able to create moods just by experimenting with arrangements and interspersing different chords. Awesome stuff.

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Release date: 1997-10-14

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[9.2/10]

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Nobukazu Takemura - Child and Magic

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Magnificent Japanese experimental music. It is new-age, it is post-classical, it is muffled drum & bass, it is noisy techno, it is… very hard to say what this is. A hidden gem that deserves much more recognition.

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Release date: 1997-12-15

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[9.0/10]

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Nueen - Circular Sequence

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Minimalistic electronica. I like this a lot, whoever that likes Ulla would love this too.

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Release date: 2021-09-01

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[8.6/10]

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Piotr Kurek - World Speaks

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Chamber music / minimal modern classical. Unsettling and thoroughly awesome.

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Release date: 2022-01-31

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[8.5/10]

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Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is OK

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Indietronica. I’ve always imagined them to be a post-rock band that sounds extremely similar to Sigur Ros, but this is actually a lot more interesting than that. This one even got some drum & bass beats.

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Release date: 2005-10-04

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[8.5/10]

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Cities Aviv - Man Plays The Horn

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I like this just as much as I like his last year’s album, The Crashing Sound of How It Goes.

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Release date: 2022-02-04

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[8.4/10]

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Celeste - Assassine(s)

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This is probably my favorite release of theirs. I’ve always felt their stuff is a bit one dimensional, but this one incorporates more screamo elements, which I dig.

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Release date: 2022-01-28

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[8.4/10]

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Bloodmoney Perez, Messiah Musik - Second Hand Accounts

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Dope conscious rap.

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Release date: 2022-01-28

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[8.3/10]

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Francesco Cavaliere - Xylomania

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Abstract modern composition / ambient. Tingling sounds, listened through it a bunch of times before finally deciding that I am digging this quite a bit.

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Release date: 2018-05-10

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[8.2/10]

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Cikada - Lamplighter

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Sludgy doom metal. Knew about them when scrolling through IG and saw Thou’s post about Imperial Triumphant’s show in New Orleans. This slays.

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Release date: 2019-10-31

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[8.2/10]

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yeule - Glitch Princess

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Post-apocalyptic pop. Way better than Poppy, way better than GFOTY, way better than those two combined.

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Release date: 2022-02-04

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[8.1/10]

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Debit - The Long Count

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Man this is some weird stuff. Mayan music instruments? What?

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Release date: 2022-02-18

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[8.1/10]

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Mark Lanegan - Blues Funeral

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Bluesy indie rock. RIP Mark Lanegan.

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Release date: 2012-02-06

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[8.1/10]

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Eiko Ishibashi - Drive My Car OST

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Jazz / new-age. This soundtrack is better than the actual movie by a long shot.

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Release date: 2021-08-18

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[8.0/10]

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James Rushford - Lake from the Louvers

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Ambient / field recording. Haunting soudnscape.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[7.8/10]

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Orphx, Kareem - As Your Skies Are Fading Away

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Industrial techno. Kareem’s Zones of Significance was one of my favorite albums from 2021. This one is more techno and less ambient / experimental than that one.

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Release date: 2022-02-11

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[7.8/10]

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Comets On Fire - Field Recordings from the Sun

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Lo-fi stoner metal. I’ve always remembered them as a psych rock band that leans on the less heavier side of the spectrum, but this one is as hard hitting as it gets.

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Release date: 2002-06-15

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[7.7/10]

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Berk Icli - Glimpses of an Eternal Bloom

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Ethereal, melodic modern classical / chamber music. Lots of fun.

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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[7.7/10]

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Simon Farintosh - Aphex Twin for Guitar

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Fun little EP for Aphex Twin covers. I thought Avril 14th was a cover of Kanye’s Blame Game though, did he really sample Aphex Twin on that one?

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[7.5/10]

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宇多田光 - BADモード

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Alright J-pop. Dig the A.G. Cook feature, dislike the Skrillex feature.

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Release date: 2022-01-19

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[7.5/10]

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Emma Ruth Rundle - Some Heavy Ocean

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I didn’t know she’s in Red Sparrowes, and I never really paid attention to Marriage, but maybe I should… I like the song Run Forever a lot, but overall these songs gets a bit tiring after a while.

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Release date: 2014-05-20

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[7.4/10]

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Earthless - Night Parade of One Hundred Demons

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I like the track Death To The Red Sun, but others have too much Japanese scale runs in them, and it sounds kind of silly…

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Release date: 2022-01-28

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[7.4/10]

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DJ Python - Club Sentimientos Vol. 2

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This is much tamer than his 2020 masterpiece, Mas Amable.

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Release date: 2022-01-21

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[7.3/10]

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Undo K From Hot - G.A.S. Get A Star

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Erractic industrial experimental rock. A bit too much for me.

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Release date: 2021-05-07

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[7.2/10]

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問題總部 It’s Your Fault - BLUE LEAK / 水體

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Not as cool nor as memorable as their last album. With all the flash gone it’s just a pretty standard nu jazz record.

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Release date: 2022-02-23

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[6.8/10]

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Shinichi Atobe - Love of Plastic

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This feels a lot weaker than the more minimalist albums from before. Never really a big fan of balearic house…

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Release date: 2022-01-21

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[6.7/10]

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tricot - 上出来

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Never a big fan of them… it’s got chops but it really isn’t that good.

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Release date: 2021-12-15

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[6.4/10]

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Converge, Chelsea Wolfe - Bloodmoon: I

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Release date: 2021-11-19

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[6.4/10]

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2022 March Listenings

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Phonophani - Kreken

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Trippy electronic music. This is very good music… It’s kind of like Bibio but more psychedelic and jazzier. And I got it at Amoeba for less than 5 bucks.

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Release date: 2010-06-21

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[8.7/10]

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Olivia Block - Innocent Passage in the Territorial Sea

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Electro-acoustic modern classical music. This is really good synth music… don’t miss it.

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Release date: 2021-11-19

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[8.7/10]

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Pavel Milyakov, Yana Pavlova - Blue

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Love it.

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Release date: 2021-07-26

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[8.6/10]

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JK Flesh - New Religions Old Rules

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New bangers old dude.

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Release date: 2022-02-12

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[8.4/10]

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Only Now - Indian Unclassical, Vol. 1

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From the cover art I thought it’s going to be a stoner / folk metal kind of album, but it’s actually very nice drone / noise. Love it.

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Release date: 2021-10-25

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[8.4/10]

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Huerco S. - Plonk

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At first I didn’t really know what to make of it: is it better than Huerco S.’s last album from six years ago? And then several days went by and during which I’ve been listening to this album and could not decide whether I like it or not. Now one third into the month I think I actually like it, it is less ambient leaning and more club friendly, but still you probably can’t really imagine someone dancing to this.

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Release date: 2022-02-25

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[8.3/10]

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o` - Moment Mist Glass Mayflower

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Crystalline ambient / techno. I really like stuff like this, if only this is longer…

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Release date: 2021-04-20

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[8.3/10]

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Abul Mogard - In a Few Places Along the River

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One day I was chilling on the couch, and wanted to play his earlier stuff on YouTube and just stare at the sky turn from bright to navy blue. But then whenever a song ends the UberEat commercial always popped up, so it’s not exactly the most satisfying experience…

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Release date: 2022-02-01

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[8.3/10]

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Hajj - Drag Me Into The Void

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This is much better than the Antidawn EP from Burial earlier this year IMO…

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Release date: 2022-03-11

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[8.2/10]

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Ssaliva - I’m the One with No Soul

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Hypnogogic pop / bedroom indietronica. FFO Dean Blunt.

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Release date: 2020-10-22

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[8.2/10]

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Krallice, Dave Edwardson - Loüm

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This one has a lot of melodic passages, which I like a lot. The last track is something I think I’ll learn when I have time.

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Release date: 2017-10-27

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[8.1/10]

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caroline - caroline

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Indie-folk. It’s kind of like Ian William Craig doing midewest emo, if you can imagine that.

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Release date: 2022-02-25

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[8.0/10]

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Misantrop - Reproaching the Absurd

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Wonky noise / techno. Or when club music goes horribly wrong, when everyone’s left the venue and it’s only the things not from this world that are on the floor.

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Release date: 2021-06-24

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At times it is a bit too abrasive though, I dig the atmosphere but this is not something you’d want to put on repeat.

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[7.8/10]

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Tomu DJ - FEMINISTA

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It’s like The Field’s Cupid's Head but even more organic and vibe-y.

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Release date: 2021-08-06

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[7.8/10]

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Soshi Takeda - Floating Mountains

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When a club musician decides to use exclusively new-age sound textures in an album.

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Release date: 2021-10-08

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[7.8/10]

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No Love In The House Of Gold - there is no such thing as a jellyfish

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Kind of like Bedwetter but a bit easier to the ears.

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Release date: 2021-04-21

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[7.8/10]

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Pan-American - The Patience Fader

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Brain Eno: “Duane Eddy playing Erik Satie”. I think of Roy Montgomery plus Bill Frisell.

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Release date: 2022-02-18

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[7.7/10]

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Societe Etrange - Chance

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Kind of sounds like Mong Tong.

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Release date: 2022-03-25

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[7.6/10]

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Big Brave - Vital

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Doom metal. Like the first track, but as it approaches the end of the album it gets more dragging.

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Release date: 2021-04-23

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[7.6/10]

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Loscil - The Sails, Pt. 1

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Pulsating ambient.

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Release date: 2022-03-01

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[7.5/10]

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Charli XCX - Crash

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Release date: 2022-03-18

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[7.5/10]

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OKnice - Have You Tried Being Happy?

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Underground rap. The lyrics are as honest as it gets.

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Release date: 2022-03-01

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[7.4/10]

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Beats Unlimited - Beats Unlimited

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Microhouse / dub techno. Not exactly a bad album but also not something that leaves a lot of impression on me.

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Release date: 2021-07-30

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[7.1/10]

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Rerekat - Balance Through Imbalance

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Dancefloor friendly, hardhitting techno. But not really something that I enjoy all that much.

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Release date: 2021-09-30

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[7.0/10]

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Vein.fm - This World is Going to Ruin You

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Nu metal / metalcore. Flesh Juicer could become something like this but they went for the cheesier way instead.

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Release date: 2022-03-04

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[7.0/10]

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Deathspell Omega - The Long Defeat

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The most recent band to decide to dabble in dad rock territory is Deathspell Omega, who would’ve thought.

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Release date: 2022-03-23

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[6.3/10]

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Yaya Kim - a.k.a YAYA

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Mediocre jazz pop. And it’s 2.5 hours long…

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Release date: 2022-01-17

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[5.8/10]

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billy woods - Aethiopes

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This thing rips… I like his past projects but not nearly as much as I enjoy this one. Sparse and intensive at the same time? And the lines are crazy.

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Release date: 2022-04-08

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[9.0/10]

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Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassou

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Funk fusion / post-punk. Got to know about this artist through a (review on Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/11/oki-tonkori-in-the-moonlight-review-ainu-people). Probably will check out other ZE Record artists as well.

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Release date: 1981

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This album is awesome.

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[8.8/10]

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Yage - 3 - 17 October 1984

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~ I really like screamo music ~

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Release date: 2000-03

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[8.6/10]

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Violet - Transparências

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Club / ambient. I like the ambient cuts a lot, like the first track Música para acordar, but the wonkier tracks on this album are also very fascinating.

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Release date: 2022-02-23

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[8.5/10]

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Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8

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Great contemporary jazz. The last track sounds like Gas with sax on top. Totally missed out on this one last year…

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Release date: 2021-09-03

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[8.5/10]

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Pixel - The Drive

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Minimal electronic music from raster-noton. Normally when you see them publish something you should just check it out, chances are it’s gonna be lit.

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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[8.5/10]

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Serwed - Serwed III

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Boomkat’s review is quite accurate: Chain Reaction + Huerco + Actress + Kuedo = this. Pretty good stuff.

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Release date: 2022-02-15

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[8.4/10]

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Oki - Tonkori In The Moonlight

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The Bandcamp page will basically tell you everything you need to know about this project. As for me anything that comes from Oki’s making is guaranteed to be quality stuff.

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Release date: 2022-02-04

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[8.3/10]

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Chat Pile - Remove Your Skin Please

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It’s like Godflesh meets Pissed Jeans meets The Body, but different from all of those bands at the same time. Looking forward to their new stuff.

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Release date: 2019-11-15

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[8.3/10]

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Booker Stardrum - CRATER

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Abstract experimental electronic music from L.A. percussionist. Some of the sounds remind me of OPN’s Returnal. The last track Walking Through Still Air is really nice.

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Release date: 2021-07-02

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[8.3/10]

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Patrick Shiroishi - Hidemi

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Jazz concept album. Mesmerizing.

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Release date: 2021-10-29

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[8.2/10]

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Black Thought - Streams of Thought Vol. 1

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I think this is definitely better than Vol. 2… Conscious rap.

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Release date: 2018-06-01

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[8.1/10]

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Tangerine Dream - Raum

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Cosmic synth ambient.

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Release date: 2022-02-24

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[8.0/10]

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Rex - Waltz

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Slowcore / country. Like it a lot, if there’s a band in Taiwan that plays this kind of stuff I’d go to every single one of their shows.

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Release date: 1996-03

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[8.0/10]

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Denzel Curry - Melt My Eyez See Your Future

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I never expected a jazz-hop album from him… Some featured guests don’t really fit the tracks that well, but all in all this is quite an enjoyable album, and definitely a departure from his older, more abrasive style of music.

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Release date: 2022-03-25

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[8.0/10]

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ROSALÍA - MOTOMAMI

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Bombastic reggaeton.

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Release date: 2022-03-18

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[7.8/10]

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Ka Baird, Pekka Airaksinen - FRKWYS Vol. 17: Hungry Shells

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Eerie experimental album. A bit difficult at first but gets better over repeated listening at work.

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Release date: 2021-10-22

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[7.8/10]

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FKA Twigs - Caprisongs

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Art pop. Nowadays it is hard to know when to call a musical project a full-length and when a mixtape… I actually think the featured artists on this album kind of don’t fit in the muscial context, it’d be much nicer I think if there are less features and more of herself. Like the songwriting a lot.

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Release date: 2022-01-14

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[7.8/10]

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Ikarus - Plasma

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Progressive jazz-rock, or just modern zeuhl. Jazzy stuff, didn’t know there are still people making this kind of music.

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Release date: 2022-02-01

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[7.6/10]

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They Hate Change - Blatant Localism

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I think their older tracks are much more fire than those three, when are they going to release a full length album though…

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Release date: 1981-07-01

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[7.5/10]

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Jeff Parker - Forfolks

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Jazz guitar looping music.

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Release date: 2021-12-10

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[7.4/10]

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Benny The Butcher - Tana Talk 4

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Quite enjoyable east coast hip-hop, but doesn’t really push the envelop.

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Release date: 2022-03-11

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[7.4/10]

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Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double - March

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Free jazz.

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Release date: 2018-05-18

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[7.3/10]

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Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

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Hardcore punk + rap… Hardcore rap?? Pretty fun stuff.

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Release date: 2022-03-25

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[7.2/10]

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Saga Asad - New Man

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Pretty smooth jazz-hop.

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Release date: 2020-06-26

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[7.1/10]

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Teller Bank$, Ed Glorious - The Part & Parcel

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Boom bap.

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Release date: 2021-11-11

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[7.1/10]

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The Silver - Ward of Roses

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Alright black metal. The tones are pretty decent, but in terms of songwriting it isn’t exactly what I’d call innovative or refreshing.

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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[7.0/10]

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Haru Nemuri - Shunka Ryougen

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J-rock meets spoken words-ish rapping with occasional hardcore screams.

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Release date: 2022-04-22

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[6.5/10]

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SeeYouSpaceCowboy - The Romance of Affliction

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And I thought everyone stopped doing pop metalcore a long time ago…

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Release date: 2021-11-05

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[4.0/10]

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2022 May Listenings

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Pataphysical - Hapticality

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Synth heavy ambient / experimental electronic music. FFO Space Afrika & KMRU I guess?

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Release date: 2021-07-22

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[8.6/10]

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Astrid Sonne - outside of your lifetime

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Really awesome electronic music. Beautiful sounds.

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Release date: 2021-09-22

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[8.5/10]

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billy woods - History Will Absolve Me

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Sound-wise this is more boom-bap than the kind of stuff he does right now. Lyrics-wise I’d say billy woods is consistently on a level of his own… or on a level that most rappers would not even be able to comprehend.

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Release date: 2012-04-10

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[8.5/10]

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They Hate Change - Finally, New

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If you want sick beats you listen to this.

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Release date: 2022-05-13

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[8.5/10]

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Susumu Yokota - Symbol

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Techno filled with classical samples. It’s probably the most observably playful album I’ve heard from him.

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Release date: 1995-03-19

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[8.4/10]

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Fennesz - Hotel Paral.lel

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Somehow this kind of feels like where OPN’s first album sits in his discography: probably the darkest and dissonant of the entire line, but still kind of hints at what’s to come in the future. Anyways I can’t seriously imagine someone would not like this…

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Release date: 1997-09-01

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[8.4/10]

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Organ Tapes - 唱着那无人问津的歌谣

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Didn’t really understand his last album, which my friends all seem to love so much, but this one I totally get. Bedroom pop that feels genuine and deeply emotional.

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Release date: 2022-04-29

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[8.3/10]

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Imaginary Softwoods - So Extra Bronze Lamp

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Synth ambient.

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Release date: 2020-08-06

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[8.3/10]

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Kilo Kish - American Gurl

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FFO Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama’s self-titled EP. Futuristic electro-pop… the not annoying kind.

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Release date: 2022-03-25

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[8.2/10]

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Lee Gamble - A Million Pieces of You

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Deconstructed club music is probably the best way to describe this. Dope stuff.

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Release date: 2021-09-10

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[8.2/10]

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Dean Hurley - Concrete Feather

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Desolate ambient field recording. Somehow sounds like something that could be the soundtrack to Factorio…

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Release date: 2021-06-18

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[8.1/10]

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claire rousay - everything perfect is already here

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Soothing ambient / field recording. Dig it.

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Release date: 2022-04-22

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[8.1/10]

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Conway the Machine - God Don’t Make Mistakes

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This is more impressive than his last LP. Decent conscious hip-hop.

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Release date: 2022-02-25

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[8.0/10]

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Tarotplane - Light Self All Others

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More new-age ambient than hauntology. Still pretty dope.

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Release date: 2022-05-12

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[8.0/10]

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IDK - Simple.

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Why is this one 18 minutes long and Spotify calls it an “album”, while MassMan’s is 26 and it’s an EP? Someone better explain this shit…

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Release date: 2022-05-06

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[8.0/10]

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Drum & Lace - Natura

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Ethereal IDM. Pretty cool.

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Release date: 2022-04-08

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[7.8/10]

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Ilia Belorukov - Someone Has Always Come

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Drone music for haunted brutalist ruins.

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Release date: 2021-10-01

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[7.7/10]

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Alabaster DePlume - GOLD

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Smoky noir-jazz / spiritual jazz.

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Release date: 2022-04-01

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[7.6/10]

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Rachika Nayar - fragments

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Solo math-rock guitar / ambient. This is like Ichika but with less focus on showmanship and more on the textures and overall feel of the songs. I dig it. Normally I’d find stuff like this insufferable but definitely not this…

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Release date: 2021-08-13

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[7.6/10]

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Ravyn Lenae - HYPNOS

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Alternative R&B like the 90s is back.

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Release date: 2022-05-20

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[7.6/10]

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Jonny Nash, Ana Stamp - There Up, Behind the Moon

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Mystical Romanian folk songs + lo-fi solo Joe Hisashi-ish piano (well not really).

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Release date: 2021-12-17

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[7.4/10]

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Gabber Modus Operandi - PUXXXIMAXXX

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Gamelan + hardcore techno. Pretty intense.

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Release date: 2018-10-08

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[7.3/10]

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Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

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No one:

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Absolutely no one:

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Me: To Pimp a Butterfly > Good Kid, M.A.A.D City >> Mr. Morale & The Big Stepers > DAMN.

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To be fair it’s not a bad album, but this year there are just a bunch of really good hip-hop album, and Kendrick’s new LP simply does not stand out among the bunch.

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Release date: 2022-05-13

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[7.0/10]

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Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

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Emo / post-punk / chamber pop. Feels much more approachable than their last one… don’t hate it but I guess I like Modest Mouse more?

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Release date: 2022-02-04

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[7.0/10]

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Minoru Fushimi - Thanatos of Funk

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Psych-funk / proto-hip-hop from Japan. A rare one, but I don’t really dig it that much.

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Release date: 2022-05-06

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[6.7/10]

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Gospel - The Loser

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Why do almost all rock bands I like all decided to do dad rock… Innovative progressive screamo band turns stale.

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Release date: 2022-05-13

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[5.0/10]

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2022 June Listenings

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Hermit and the Recluse - Orpheus vs. the Sirens

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Every track on this album is a banger. Love this.

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Release date: 2018-08-18

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[8.7/10]

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Whatever the Weather - Whatever the Weather

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… I think this is probably my favorite LJ release? It’s got ambient, minial techno, drum & bass, and then it sounds like one coherent album instead of a mish mash of things. Really good stuff.

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Release date: 2022-04-08

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[8.7/10]

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DJ Rozwell - None of This is Real

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Instrumental cloud-rap. FFO cLOUDDEAD… really good stuff.

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Release date: 2020-08-30

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[8.5/10]

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Sofie Birch - Holotropica

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… I guess I am really late to the party. Intricate, therapeutic ambient.

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Release date: 2022-05-27

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[8.5/10]

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Quells Chris - Deathfame

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Took me several listens to fully appreciate it… this is a good one.

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Release date: 2022-05-13

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[8.4/10]

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Luminous Vault - Animate the Emptiness

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Black metal guitars meet industrial vibes. Like Godflesh playing black metal? Anyways this stuff is right up my alley.

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Release date: 2022-05-20

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[8.3/10]

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Cities Aviv - GUM

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Hypnagogic rap. Really like his production.

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Release date: 2017-04-21

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[8.3/10]

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Best Available Technology - Fixing Until Broke

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Ambient… or more precisely lo-do cloud rap tronica. Dope stuff.

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Release date: 2022-04-01

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[8.3/10]

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Boldy James, The Alchemist - Bo Jackson

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Griselda Records is on a strong streak these days… at first I didn’t really pay attention to Boldy’s lyrics, but damn these bars are really sick. The Alchemist on the other hand is doing his usual stuff: awesome beats that go flawlessly with the flow. Really good stuff.

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Release date: 2021-08-13

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[8.3/10]

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Mach Hommy - HBO (Haitian Body Odor)

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This probably should’ve been his first album I listen to… a concept album centered around Haiti, very nicely executed east coast hip-hop with splendid jazz hop beats.

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Release date: 2016-08-17

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[8.2/10]

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Daniel Rossen - You Belong Here

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Freak folk / chamber pop. There are a bunch of quirky parts on this album, some even reminding me of earlier Richard Dawson stuff.

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Release date: 2022-04-08

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[8.2/10]

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Ricardo Villalobos, Samuel Rohrer - Microgestures

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Villalobos’ RE: ECM felt way too abstract for me when I heard it a while back… this one in contrast is very enjoyable minial techno.

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Release date: 2022-04-08

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[8.1/10]

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Pyramids - A Northern Meadow

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I knew this was gonna be a banger but somehow I never really listened to this… until I found out one of them is actually a member of TheSounds of Animals Fighting. It’s kind of like maudlin of the well, but less experimental and more black metal. It is indeed very intense.

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Release date: 2015-03-17

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[7.8/10]

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E L U C I D - I Told Bessie

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2022 is indeed a strong year for alternative hip-hop… maybe there’ll be a new Armand Hammer release later this year? While his previous albums all felt like they were missing the target, this one is much more cohesive and really feels enjoyable.

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Release date: 2022-06-10

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[7.8/10]

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Priori - Your Own Power

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Cozy house / dub techno.

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Release date: 2021-11-12

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[7.8/10]

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Luis - 057 (Schwyn)

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Joyous IDM.

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Release date: 2022-06-17

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[7.7/10]

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Rachika Nayar - Our Hands Against the Dusk

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Compared to fragments this is more ambient, more heavy on reverb. I like the arpeggios at the end of the first track The Trembling of Glass.

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Release date: 2021-03-05

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[7.6/10]

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S A D - Children of the Sun

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FFO Meitei & new-age ambient.

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Release date: 2021-03-20

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[7.5/10]

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Cremation Lily - Dreams Drenched in Static

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Industrial noise-pop. Think less refined, less slithery Sega Bodega.

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Release date: 2022-04-15

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[7.4/10]

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Maxo - LIL BIG MAN

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Downbeat jazz-rap.

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Release date: 2019-03-15

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[7.2/10]

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Mach Hommy - Dollar Menu

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The first and the last songs are dope, the others only mid-tier.

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Release date: 2022-01-20

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[6.8/10]

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Ghais Guevara - Black Bolshevik

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Political hip-hop with JPEGMAFIA aspirations. The bars aren’t that crazy though.

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Release date: 2021-04-17

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[6.6/10]

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Meshuggah - Immutable

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Better than their last one (by a considerable margin), but I guess this kind of music just doesn’t get me anymore.

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Release date: 2022-03-31

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[6.3/10]

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2022 July Listenings

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Chat Pile - God’s Country

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OMG the hype is really real…

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Release date: 2022-07-29

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[8.9/10]

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Wormrot - Hiss

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This shit slaps. Every single track is killer.

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Release date: 2022-07-08

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[8.8/10]

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Racine - Amities

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Post-industrial piano music. Very haunting music, I’ve been listening to this album for days…

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Release date: 2022-01-28

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[8.5/10]

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Felicia Atkinson - Image Language

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Stellar soothing ambient. Great as always.

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Release date: 2022-06-24

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[8.4/10]

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Pavel Milyakov, Richie Culver - A Change of Nothing

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Visceral, abrasive ambient / electronic music. Hard-hitting.

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Release date: 2022-07-29

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[8.4/10]

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Caterina Barbieri - Spirit Exit

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This one features more singing than Exstatic Computation, so in a sense it is even more pop? It is pretty good though.

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Release date: 2022-07-08

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[8.2/10]

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Cate Le Bon - Pompeii

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Post-punk-ish art pop. Pretty good stuff…

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Release date: 2022-02-04

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[8.2/10]

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Thou, Mizmor - Myopia

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Really heavy doom metal. I am a sucker for anything Thou does.

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Release date: 2022-04-22

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[8.1/10]

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Vladislav Delay - Isoviha

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This is quite gnarly.

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Release date: 2022-07-15

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[8.1/10]

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Jenny Hval - Classic Objects

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In terms of songwriting this feels like one of her most accessible albums to date. Not saying it’s bad, but I actually expect a bit more experimentation from this project. Lyrics wise this feels more introspective, but I really haven’t spend that much time figuring out what she’s singing on this album. Maybe I should revisit this one in the future…

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Release date: 2022-03-11

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[8.0/10]

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Scarcity - Aveilut

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It sounds like Russian Circles (in their current, more atmospheric form rather than the mathier sound they’re known before) decides to do black metal. This is pretty good.

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Release date: 2022-07-15

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[8.0/10]

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Imperial Triumphant - Spirit of Ecstasy

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I feel like this one is more accessible than any of their previous albums: it even has friggin’ Kenny G on Merkurius Gilded… the jazz influence is much more prevalent on this album. Dig it.

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Release date: 2022-07-22

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[8.0/10]

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black midi - Hellfire

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Though this is called Hellfire it feels more accessible than their previous album, which I like very much and prefer compared to this new album. This thing definitely is a fun album in its own way though.

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Release date: 2022-07-15

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[7.7/10]

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more eaze, claire rousay - Never Stop Texting Me

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This is like if people never known for doing pop music but listen to a lot of it start doing it all of a sudden. Pop music that seems normal everywhere you check but still feels somewhat uncanny…

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Release date: 2022-02-11

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[7.4/10]

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Panopticon - Collapse

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His second full-length album just got remastered. Songs on this album feel less polished or consistent than his later works, but this is still pretty good black metal nonetheless.

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Release date: 2009-06-21

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[7.4/10]

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Zola Jesus - Arkhon

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I’ve always felt Zola Jesus’ music, although mainly known as a darkwave gothic project, has that hidden (or probably not hidden just ignored) pop sensibility. Here that pop influence takes the front stage.

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Release date: 2022-06-24

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[7.3/10]

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Slow Fire Pistol - Rabbit Town Blues

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Screamo. It’s alright, but not the most memorable thing ever. They got plenty of coverage on the internet, which is always a nice thing to have for lesser known bands.

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Release date: 2021-06-09

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[7.3/10]

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cktrl - zero

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Jazzy R&B / pop trap. I like the first and second tracks, but I feel like as the album goes on it gets increasingly influenced by pop trap music…

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Release date: 2021-09-13

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[7.0/10]

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Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8

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I’ve listened to this album a bunch of times but it just does not click… this is her most ambient-ish album to date, and I guess making the comparison to the genre’s giants is unfair but I would pick Laurel Halo over this any day of the week.

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Release date: 2022-04-29

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[6.8/10]

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To Be Gentle - Love is the Only Way Out

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OK screamo / hardcore.

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Release date: 2022-07-07

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[6.8/10]

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Gospel - MVDM

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Better than their full-length this year, still a far cry from The Moon is a Dead World.

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Release date: 2022-07-11

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[6.5/10]

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Rolo Tomassi - Where Myth Becomes Mystery

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At first I thought this is what 珂拉琪 would sound like 10 years from now, but the more I listen to this one the worse it sounds…

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Release date: 2022-02-04

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[4.4/10]

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2022 August Listenings

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Marina Herlop - Pripyat

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Mystical, abstract vocal music / ambient. I like this a lot, and I bt whoever likes Jenny Hval and Lyra Pramuk would too.

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Release date: 2022-05-20

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[8.6/10]

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.glia - Ouanem

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Bubbly beats… I don’t know what it is, it’s like Meitei meets Dilla meets Aphex Twin??

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Release date: 2022-06-03

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[8.6/10]

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Maria BC - Hyaline

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Beautiful slowcore. Really dig this.

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Release date: 2022-05-27

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[8.5/10]

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KMRU, Aho Ssan - Limen

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Another stellar release from KMRU. This one reminds me of Ben Frost’s music more than his usual ambient output. Real heavy.

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Release date: 2022-04-29

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[8.3/10]

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Various Artists - Sounds from the Iranian Ultraverse

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Techno compilation from artists with Iranian heritage. All of those are bangers, good stuff.

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Release date: 2022-03-25

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[8.3/10]

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Shelley Parker - Wisteria

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Wonky drum & bass / ambient. Always love me some real good, headbangin’ DnB.

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Release date: 2022-03-25

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[8.2/10]

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Harvey Sutherland - Boy

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Upbeat disco / funk. Dig this stuff a lot, thoroughly enjoyable.

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Release date: 2022-04-29

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[8.2/10]

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Arpanet - Quantum Tansposition

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Minimal techno that focuses on quantum physics. This is one of the more left field stuff out there, like it.

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Release date: 2005-08-15

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[8.1/10]

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Hudson Mohawke - Cry Sugar

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A hyper-pop album that’s fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2022-08-12

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[8.1/10]

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Mat Ball - Amplified Guitar

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solo electric guitar music from guitarist in Big Brave. Minimalistic in composition, rich in timbre and tonality changes. FFO Richard Dawson’s guitar work on Nothing Important.

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Release date: 2022-07-01

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[8.1/10]

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LEYA - Eyeline

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Lots of big names on this mixtape… I really enjoy this one, it’s just as dream-like as their full length album from 2 years ago.

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Release date: 2020-03-04

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[8.1/10]

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Modern Collapse - Anti-club Music Club

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Glitchy club-music-inspired techno. I like the heavier, more intense tracks.

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Release date: 2021-01-29

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[7.8/10]

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Janel Leppin - Sister Mirror

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Modern classical featuring eerie cello and melodic pedal steel. I like how this album is abundant with both unsettling moments and enticing melodies.

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Release date: 2020-05-29

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[7.7/10]

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Cheri Knight - American Rituals

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Playful experimental music from the 80’s. This is somewhat reminiscent of Yasuaki Shimizu’s stuff… at least to me.

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Release date: 2022-07-21

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[7.7/10]

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Jamal Moss - Thanks 4 the Tracks U Lost

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Above average club music.

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Release date: 2022-05-06

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[7.7/10]

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Clube Tormanta - O Som Do Labirinto OST

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Ambient OST for some experimental film. The ambient tracks are pretty spooky, and then there’s one oddball heavy metal track. Not really sure why it’s there but it’s definitely an interesting choice.

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Release date: 2022-07-29

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[7.6/10]

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Moor Mother - Jazz Codes

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Nowadays jazz-hop has become something that whole bunch of artists do but you rarely get really good stuff from. Well I guess it’s debatable whether this counts as jazz-hop… nevertheless this is Moor Mother’s most (probably) easily approachable album to date. As for me I like the first track, which is probably the track with least jazz influence…

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Release date: 2022-07-01

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[7.6/10]

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Maria w Horn - Kontrapoetic

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Somber, ceremonial synth music / noise. I don’t dislike it but the songs feel a bit all too homogenous to me…

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Release date: 2018-10-19

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[7.4/10]

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Shackleton - The Majestic Yes

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Jungle / dub. I find this to be a bit too repetitive to my likings, maybe it’ll grow on me…

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Release date: 2022-07-30

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[7.2/10]

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Kode9 - Escapology

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Cyber-punk club music. To be honest I’ve never really been that big of a fan for Kode9, and this one does not change that attitude… To me there are simply too many filler songs in this album, maybe they make sense in the context of being the companion soundtrack to his sonic fiction, but without it they just feel unfocused.

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Release date: 2022-07-15

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[6.9/10]

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Boris - Heavy Rocks

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When are we gonna get Heavier Rocks? Like, Amplifier Worship kind of heavy…

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Release date: 2022-08-12

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[6.1/10]

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Russian Circles - Gnosis

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Probably their most repetitive album to date, and it’s not like I hold their last two albums in a high place or anything. Sad to see their creativity dip after the release of Memorial still continuing to this day.

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Release date: 2022-08-19

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[5.0/10]

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Coby Sey - Conduit

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Trip-hop. Or as he said it himself, post-grime? I’m not really that familiar (nor really a fan) of grime music though…

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Release date: 2022-09-09

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[8.6/10]

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Valentina Magaletti - A Queer Anthology of Drums

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This stuff is pretty good… improvised percussion music. While extremely minimalistic there’s still a very strong sense of structure in the songs. It is very avant-garde but not at all hard to follow.

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Release date: 2022-05-27

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[8.5/10]

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Patricia Wolf - See Through

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Brooding synth ambient. Immersive.

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Release date: 2022-05-13

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[8.4/10]

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JID - The Forever Story

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Another killer release from JID. Really dig the way he raps.

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Release date: 2022-08-26

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[8.4/10]

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Time Wharp - Spiro World

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It’s like Tortoise meets Jaga Jazzist. I dig this.

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Release date: 2022-06-17

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[8.3/10]

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Kali Malone - Living Touch

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Kali Malone is still killer.

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Release date: 2022-07-08

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[8.3/10]

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Om Unit - Acid Dub Studies II

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Gotta love me some quality dub techno that leans much more on the dub side than the techno side.

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Release date: 2022-09-02

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[8.2/10]

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Cucina Povera, Ben Vince - There I See Everything

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Calm, sad ambient. This might be my favorite Cucina Povera release yet.

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Release date: 2022-08-05

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[8.0/10]

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Picnic - Creaky Little Branch

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While this is still pretty good I still prefer last year’s very awesome self-titled album to this one. The latter feels more like incidental music, and that’s kind of what made it so interesting and engaging. The songs on this one is a lot more comforting, and the overall sound is more familiar. Still pretty good though.

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Release date: 2022-09-14

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[7.8/10]

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Svaneborg Kardyb - Knob

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Maybe it’s just me but I feel like a lot of Nordic jazz bands remind me a lot of Jaga Jazzist… pretty neat jazz music.

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Release date: 2015-11-13

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[7.6/10]

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Sam Gendel - Superstore

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Humorous modern jazz. This is pretty fun stuff, none of the songs really stand out but it’s quite coherent overall.

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Release date: 2022-06-10

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[7.5/10]

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Pariah - Caterpillar

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Upbeat dance techno. Sounds alright, doesn’t really click for me.

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Release date: 2022-06-17

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[7.2/10]

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Codeine - Dessau

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Slowcore giant’s sophomore album from 30 years ago just got unerathed and released. To be honest I am never really that into Codeine’s stuff - they’re not as emo as Red House Painters or cool as Duster. One thing for certain is that this one feels much more angular than Frigid Stars, but it’s not like this release will change my opinion on them or anything… Maybe I should listen to The White Birch?

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Release date: 2022-09-02

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[7.2/10]

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Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia

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Not as majestic as A Hero's Death.

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Release date: 2022-04-22

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[7.1/10]

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Vladislav Delay, Eivind Aarest - Singles

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Grinding noise that kind of inherits the raw, slow burning energy of Vladislav Delay’s Rakka series and Isoviha, but combined with more ambient elements and at a more galacial pace. I don’t dislike it but I find this one a bit lacking in terms of highlights.

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Release date: 2014-03-24

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[7.0/10]

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700 Bliss - 700 Bliss

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Experimental hip-hop. I like Moor Mother a lot but while this is pretty fun to listen to (lots of self referential humor), it does not really have that moving power that’s usually present on Moor Mother’s albums…

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Release date: 2022-05-27

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[7.0/10]

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Grace Ives - Janky Star

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Vintage voice meets modern pop music production. I’m kinda indifferent to this one…

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Release date: 2022-06-10

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[7.0/10]

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Yaya Bey - Remember Your North Star

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Jazzy R&B / hip-hop. I dunno, the lyrical theme is about something I’m very interested in but the music just does not feel all that interesting, and I was not really paying a lot of attention whenever I decided maybe I should give this a more serious listen…

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Release date: 2022-06-17

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[6.8/10]

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Tomu DJ - Half Moon Bay

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Chill, uplifting, enjoyable but actually kinda forgettable club techno.

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Release date: 2022-08-12

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[6.7/10]

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salute - Ultra Pool

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Dancehall friendly, super glossy, rather annoying club house music.

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Release date: 2022-08-25

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[6.3/10]

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2022 October Listenings

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Mamaleek - Diner Coffee

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Noir-jazz meets sludge metal. This is a strong year for The Flenser for sure. Come and See from two years ago was one of my favorite albums from that year, and this tops that.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[8.8/10]

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Nobukazu Takemura - Hoshi No Koe

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Glitchy ambient, kind of like Susumu Yokota. I enjoy this very much.

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Release date: 2001-03-20

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[8.6/10]

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Jigen - Blood’s Finality

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Chopped-up techno / drum & bass. This is very dope…

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Release date: 2022-09-27

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[8.5/10]

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quiqui - もう少しの暦

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IMO they’re the most overlooked band in Japan, super dope skramz.

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Release date: 2021-11-26

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[8.5/10]

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Loraine James - Build Something Beautiful for Me

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Probably her most accessible work to date.

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Release date: 2022-10-07

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[8.4/10]

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Steve Bates - All the Things That Happen

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Fuzzy droning ambient / noise. Very immersive music, I like it a lot.

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Release date: 2022-09-23

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[8.4/10]

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Mister Water Wet - Significant Soil

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Ambient (from afro-cuban jazz ambient, to illbient, to field recordig). This is a lot of fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2022-08-22

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[8.3/10]

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Hattori Takashi - Moon

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Somehow I thought about video game soundtracks a lot when I was listening to this album… Psyched out experimental new age?

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Release date: 2015-11-13

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[8.3/10]

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T. Gowdy - Miracles

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IDM. Or as Boomkat puts it post-techno. Dig the sounds in this album.

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Release date: 2022-09-08

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[8.2/10]

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Ian William Craig - Music for Magnesium 173

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Man I gotta play the game.

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Release date: 2022-09-23

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[8.1/10]

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Lightning in a Twilight Hour - Overwintering

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Soothing indie-folk / dream-pop.

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Release date: 2022-04-01

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[8.1/10]

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billy woods - Church

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Not as groundbreaking as Aethiopes, but the sick bars are still here.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[8.0/10]

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Tarotplane - Aeonium

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Psychedelic synth ambient. Not as impactful or fun as last year’s Horizontology (love that one soooo much).

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Release date: 2022-09-22

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[7.8/10]

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Cult of Luna - The Long Road North

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I think CoL is one of those bands that I don’t really expect nor follow closely, but when I stumble upon their new stuff it’s always something pretty good…

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Release date: 2022-02-11

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[7.8/10]

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Om Unit - Acid Dub Studies

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I feel like Vol. 2 is more exciting than this one. Maybe because they’ve studied more?

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Release date: 2022-09-02

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[7.7/10]

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City of Caterpillar - Mystic Sisters

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After 20 something years the screamo legends decide to do it one more time. This is not as amazing as their full-length album, but it’s one that makes me expect whatever they’re gonna do next.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[7.6/10]

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Iota Phi - Homo Pauperis

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Art-pop with dystopian lyrical themes. Quite enjoyable, but not especially memorable…

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Release date: 2022-09-28

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[7.6/10]

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Sam Prekop, John McEntire - Sons Of

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Duo of former The Sea & Cake bandmates do a house record. Pretty fun to listen to but probably not something I’d revisit.

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Release date: 2022-07-22

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[7.4/10]

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Makaya McCraven - In These Times

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Modern nu-jazz / fusion. Got vibes but personally not really that exciting…

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Release date: 2022-09-23

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[7.4/10]

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Liturgy - As the Blood of God Bursts the Veins of Time

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There are heavy, groovy riffs here and there but overall this is stuff that makes you feel like you kind of wish Greg Fox is still on the squad…

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Release date: 2022-10-05

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[7.3/10]

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Arctic Monkey - The Car

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If you can hear disappointing this is it.

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Release date: 2022-10-21

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[4.5/10]

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The Mars Volta - The Mars Volta

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The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment……

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Release date: 2022-09-16

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[3.0/10]

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2022 November Listenings

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Moin - Paste

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Math-rock / post-hardcore. Really glad there are still people making this kind of music.

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Release date: 2022-10-28

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[8.7/10]

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Emeralds - Solar Bridge

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Sparwling electronic drone.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[8.4/10]

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Duval Timothy - Meeting with a Judas Tree

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Wonky, warbly R&B solo piano. I dig this.

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Release date: 2022-11-11

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[8.4/10]

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Oren Ambarchi - Shebang

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Droning jazz. Like Bill Frisell but less friendly… I dig this a lot.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[8.3/10]

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Lynyn - Lexicon

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Kinetic IDM. Normally I’d find this kind of stuff a little hard to sit thru, but not this one.

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Release date: 2022-07-15

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[8.2/10]

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Clark - 05-10

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Haven’t really listened to any of his stuff other than the marvellous Body Riddle, but this is quite pleasant to listen to. The first several tracks are super fire, whereas the latter tracks are more atmospheric ambient tracks.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[8.2/10]

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Nas - King’s Disease III

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I didn’t expect this one to be this good… the beats are dope and the flows are nice, don’t see what’s not to like on this one.

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Release date: 2022-11-11

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[8.1/10]

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Ulla - Limitless Frame

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Although I still think Tumbling Towards a Wall is her best work to date, this is nevertheless pretty solid ambient music. While the former focused more on the lo-fi, heavily degraded instrumental loops and glitches, this one wants to create an atmosphere that is at once warm and immersive. Or I guess I’m just trying to say this is more like traditional ambient music (which I enjoy) than TTaW…

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Release date: 2022-08-10

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[8.1/10]

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Girl In Synthesis - The Rest is Distraction

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Noisy post-punk. I dig the riffs and vibe on this one.

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Release date: 2022-10-14

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[7.9/10]

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Horse Lords - Comradely Objects

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This one feels a lot more conventional than their earlier stuff. Or maybe conventional is not the correct way to describe this, but that this is an album where you can find many similarity with a lot of other bands like Black Midi, The Comet is Coming and so on.

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Release date: 2022-11-04

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[7.7/10]

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Ulla - foam

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This feels more lighthearted than her other stuff. Or just a bunch of pretty good samples stacked together…

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Release date: 2019-06-21

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[7.7/10]

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Sarah Davachi - Two Sisters

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Mood today: extreme gloom ambient pipe organ music…

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Release date: 2022-09-09

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[7.5/10]

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Daniel Avery - Ultra Truth

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Club-friendly ambient techno. I can imagine me banging my head to it if I go to a club (I don’t) and the DJ is playing this, but when I’m listening alone I’d stick with Song for Alpha instead of this.

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Release date: 2022-11-04

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[7.4/10]

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Rival Consoles - Now Is

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This is more fun than their album from last year.

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Release date: 2022-10-14

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[7.3/10]

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Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork

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Post-punk-y Stereolab? Or at least it gives me that kind of vibe. But then I guess I would stick to just, I don’t know, Stereolab themselves?

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Release date: 2022-10-21

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[7.1/10]

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Gloria de Olivia, Dean Hurley - Oceans of Time

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Dean Hurley has always (or at least as far as I know of) been doing somewhat spooky electro-ambient, so this is definitely very different from that… Really really dreamy dream-pop. Sounds pretty good but doesn’t have those kind of songs that make bands like Beach House great.

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Release date: 2022-09-16

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[7.0/10]

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Sudan Archives - Natural Brown Prom Queen

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R&B / pop. This one is extremely well received but honestly I really don’t get the hype…

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Release date: 2022-09-09

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[6.6/10]

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Angry Son - Pranks for the Memory

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Screamo. I like the angrier songs on this EP, but even so they’re not really that good.

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Release date: 2020-05-11

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[6.2/10]

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Ripatti Deluxe - Speed Demon

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Gets repetitive after a while. Still dig the Vladislav Delay project than the other projects he’s done.

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Release date: 2022-10-28

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[6.0/10]

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2022 December Listenings

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Leyland Kirby - The Death Of Rave (A partial flashback)

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Unsettling ambient tracks sampled from rave tracks. Read an article from Fact that says this album was a dig at the rave scene , and was conceptualized when he went to a famous Berlin club… wild. That last track is very brutal.

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Release date: 2016-01-15

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[8.5/10]

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Richie Culver - I was born by the sea

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Experimental ambient. At first I wasn’t paying attention to the spoken word parts, and then I did, and then I realized how dope this thing is. Boomkat’s recommendation article on this album is also a pretty good read.

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Release date: 2022-11-11

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[8.4/10]

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Asian Glow, Weatherday - Weatherglow

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No idea Weatherday had an EP this year… Really good indie rock. The production quality went up a lot on this one.

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Release date: 2022-03-17

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[8.4/10]

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Ginger Root - Misemono

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Jazzy bedroom pop funk / city-pop. The chord progressions on this EP is mind blowing.

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Release date: 2022-09-09

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[8.2/10]

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Pole - Tempus

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Slippery ambient dub techno with piano. I enjoy this.

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Release date: 2022-11-23

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[8.1/10]

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Galya Bisengalieva - Aralkum Aralas

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Slick experimental electronic music. It’s got Moor Mother, Jlin, Actress, Coby Sey on it… pretty wild stuff.

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Release date: 2021-10-15

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[8.1/10]

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Loke Rahbek, Frederik Valetin - Together

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This is way more club-friendly, way more carefree than Elephant. They made this album as a reimagined soundtrack to Chris Marker’s documentary.

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Release date: 2022-10-14

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[8.1/10]

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Christinaa Vantzou - No. 5

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Modern composition. Felt very personal.

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Release date: 2022-11-11

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[8.0/10]

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Cakes da Killa - Svengali

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House-rap is definitely something I didn’t know I’d dig before I heard it. Also the queer theme is still quite prevalent on this one, which is always pretty cool to see.

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Release date: 2022-10-28

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[7.8/10]

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Ashenspire - Hostile Architecture

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Avant-garde metal. I like the more straight up metal tracks more than the more classical-influenced ones.

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Release date: 2022-07-15

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[7.7/10]

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Franck Vigroux - Magnetoscope

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Dystopian drum & bass / techno. Infectious sound.

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Release date: 2022-11-25

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[7.5/10]

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Dungen - En Är För Mycket och Tusen Aldrig Nog

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Psych-pop. It still sounds pretty good, but just feels way too restrained and not all that interesting to me. I dig the track Var Har Du Varit? though.

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Release date: 2022-10-07

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[7.2/10]

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Curd Duca - Waves 3

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This one feels more random than the previous ones. Like a pretty good sample pack, but hard to figure out the overall theme.

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Release date: 2022-04-18

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[6.9/10]

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Roman Flügel - Balmy Evening

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IDM / minimal house. I enjoy the ambient tracks bu not so much the more upbeat techno tracks.

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Release date: 2022-10-14

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[6.8/10]

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TLF Trio - Sweet Harmony

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Chamber music / jazz-noir / modern classical.

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Release date: 2022-07-14

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[6.8/10]

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The Umlauts - Another Fact

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Club influenced post-punk / synth pop. This wouldn’t feel out of place if this is in the Cyberpunk anime series.

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Release date: 2022-10-14

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[6.7/10]

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Floating Points - Someone Close

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This one feels more club-friendly than the other ones from his discography…

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Release date: 2022-11-09

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[6.5/10]

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SZA - SOS

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Pop rap. The only song that I really like on this album is definitely Kill Bill. The rest are more miss than hit for me.

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Release date: 2022-12-09

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[6.5/10]

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Plaid - Feorm Falorx

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I was expecting a lot more than this… IDM that feels like some video game’s bland OST. It is not horrible, but just kind of half-hearted.

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Release date: 2022-11-11

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[6.0/10]

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Precipitation - Glass Horizon

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Ambient house. Quite unmemorable…

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Release date: 2022-07-29

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[6.0/10]

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ssabæ - azurescens

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Lo-fi modern classical music. FFO Mort Garson.

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Release date: 2022-10-19

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[8.8/10]

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Romance, Dean Hurley - In Every Dream Home a Heartache

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So basically they took a bunch of daytime soap opera footages and made them into David Lynch styled synth drone ambient music. The songs are all very good.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[8.6/10]

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Maxime Denuc - Nachthorn

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Dub techno played on organ. This thing is right up my alley…

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Release date: 2022-10-21

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[8.5/10]

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Blut Aus Nord - Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses

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Psychedelic black metal. Insane stuff.

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Release date: 2022-05-20

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[8.5/10]

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Mister Water Wet - Top Natural Drum

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This one feels more jazz than ambient to me. I dig this a lot!

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Release date: 2022-10-28

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[8.4/10]

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Yunzero - Butterfly DNA

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Dub techno. Dope sounds.

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Release date: 2022-05-06

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[8.3/10]

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Honour - Beg 4 Mercy

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I like Dean Blunt and Cities Aviv so I like this EP.

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Release date: 2022-12-09

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[8.3/10]

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Amaarae - The Angel You Don’t Know

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Afropop / trap pop / alternative R&B. There’s no doubt this is a pop album with absolute banger tracks but there’s also a ton of dance / afrobeat references.

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Release date: 2020-11-12

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[8.2/10]

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N’Djila Wa Mudujimu - Lady Aicha & Pisko Crane’s Original Fulu Miziki of Kinshasa

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Otherworldly percussive music. This stuff made me headbang at office.

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Release date: 2022-10-21

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[8.1/10]

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Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain

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Fiery tech death. To me I like it better if it’s more on the heavier side (cf. Ulcerate), but this is still quite decent metal music.

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Release date: 2022-06-03

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[8.0/10]

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Fuubutsushi - Birthingbodies

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Ambient jazz with Patrick Shiroishi playing sax. This feels kind of like Bill Frisell’s more soft country tracks for me.

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Release date: 2022-10-17

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[7.8/10]

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Simon Raymonde - Solo Works 96 - 98

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Dream-pop that is more pop than shimmery shoegaze from Cocteau Twinsmember.

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Release date: 2022-12-09

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[7.8/10]

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Benedek - Zebrano

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Hi-energy disco / dance.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[7.5/10]

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Designers - Designers

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Delicate modern jazz music.

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Release date: 2019-06-07

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[7.1/10]

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Hildur Guðnadóttir & Sam Slater - Battlefield 2042

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I guess when you’re playing FPS games and Pan Sonic is being played in the background it’s gonna be pretty good? On its own it kind of feels a little too over the top though.

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Release date: 2021-09-09

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[7.1/10]

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Ela Minus, DJ Python - ♡

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Balaeric house with dream-pop vocals.

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Release date: 2018-08-15

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[7.0/10]

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Hen Ogledd - Hen Ogledd

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Noise music with distorted acoustic guitar and harp. It’s easy to tell it’s Richard Dawson playing the guitar, and there is definitely some good parts but overall this is kind of too all over the place.

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Release date: 2023-01-27

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[6.5/10]

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Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island

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Dance-pop. Not really feeling it…

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Release date: 2022-12-05

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[6.0/10]

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2023 February Listenings

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David Edren, H. Takahashi - Flow

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Shimmery ambient. This is exactly the kind of music I enjoy.

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Release date: 2023-01-13

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[8.3/10]

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Pavel Milyakov - project mirrors

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Majestic experimental techno. Buttechno never disappoints.

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Release date: 2023-02-03

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[8.3/10]

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Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy

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I’ve been following them since their first EP a while back, but I still haven’t figured out what kind of music they make… Hip-hop / R&B / neo-psychedelic / gospel maybe? Someone on RYM said it’s like This Heat does Animal Collective, which is actually quite on point.

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Release date: 2023-02-03

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[8.2/10]

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Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades

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African traditional music meets experimental electronic music. This is probably my favorite among rian treanors discography, pretty awesome stuff.

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Release date: 2023-01-20

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[8.2/10]

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Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You

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Alternative country music. I love Adrianne Lenker but somehow Big Thief has always evaded me, or maybe it is the other way around.

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Release date: 2022-02-11

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[8.1/10]

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Atom™ - Nacht

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Sprawling, gnarly techno. Awesome stuff.

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Release date: 2022-07-08

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[8.0/10]

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Harmonious Thelonious - Cheapo Sounds

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Hypnotic rhythmic synth loop album. Dig this kind of stuff.

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Release date: 2023-01-20

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[8.0/10]

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Mdou Moctar - Afrique Victime

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Psychedelic Saharan rock. The album fully captures the energy present in their KEXP live show video.

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Release date: 2021-05-21

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[8.0/10]

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Drum & Lace - Frost

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Ambient vocal music. Very soothing to listen to.

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Release date: 2017-06-30

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[7.5/10]

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Parannoul - After the Magic

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Dream-pop from Korea. Some tracks are pretty good.

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Release date: 2023-01-28

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[7.4/10]

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Radioactive Man - Radioactive Man

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Old school IDM.

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Release date: 2001-09-17

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[7.3/10]

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Facta - Emeline

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Bouncy, organic house music.

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Release date: 2022-04-01

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[7.1/10]

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Farid El Atrache - Nagham Fi Hayati

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Mystical Arabian traditional music. Seems to be a soundtrack to a movie, would love to watch it someday.

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Release date: 2008-01-01

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[7.0/10]

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Kelly Lee Owens - LP.8.2

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Minimalistic electronic / pop.

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Release date: 2023-02-10

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[6.8/10]

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Paperclip Minimiser - Paperclip Minimiser

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Dub techno. Alright but doesn’t really stand out.

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Release date: 2022-10-14

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[6.6/10]

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Meitei - Shiturai

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Soothing but somewhat unmemorable ambient piano music. Hope he does another full-length album sooner than later…

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Release date: 2023-02-04

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[6.5/10]

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2023 March Listenings

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Cecil Taylor Unit - Dark To Themselves

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Free jazz. Holy balls this is some intense music…

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Release date: 1990-05-01

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[9.0/10]

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King Tubby - The Best of Dub

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It is indeed the best of dub.

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Release date: 1983-01-01

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[8.6/10]

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Material Girl - i85mixx21-22

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Experimental cloud hip-hop / drum & bass. This is so good.

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Release date: 2022-03-25

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[8.4/10]

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betcover!! - 時間

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Super psychedelic Japanese R&B. This one is really wild.

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Release date: 2021-08-25

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[8.3/10]

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Kate NV - Wow

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Left field synth pop. I like Nobukazu Takemura and Nyege Nyege Tapes so I like this.

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Release date: 2023-03-03

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[8.3/10]

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JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES

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This feels more like a JPEG album with a Danny Brown feature. Bombastic left-field alternative rap.

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Release date: 2023-03-24

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[8.2/10]

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slowthai - UGLY

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Abrasive post-punk + alternative rap. Wasn’t much of a fan of his previous stuff but this I totally dig.

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Release date: 2023-03-03

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[8.1/10]

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Liturgy - 93696

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This is a lot more black metal than Origin of Alimonies, while still retaining that dramatic sense with those operatic passages. The track 93696 reminds me of the band Cobolt.

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Release date: 2023-03-24

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[7.7/10]

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Ill Considered - Liminal State

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Modern spiritual jazz.

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Release date: 2021-11-12

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[7.4/10]

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Ibrahim Alfa Jnr - Sirius A

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Wonky techno. At first it sounded pretty fresh, but as I finish the album I feel that the tracks are just way too similar to each other both in terms of sonic texture and speed.

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Release date: 2023-03-10

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[6.7/10]

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The Necks - Travel

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Jazz-noir. Too minimalistic, sparse, and not in an interesting way.

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Release date: 2023-02-24

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[6.7/10]

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Gorgonn - Six Paths

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Claustrophobic, somewhat monotonic industrial noise-dub. Probably great as DJ material though.

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Release date: 2023-01-31

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[6.6/10]

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Fever Ray - Radical Romantics

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Sounds like Bjork…

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Release date: 2023-03-10

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[6.3/10]

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Enon - Grass Geysers… Carbon Clouds

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Noise pop / indie rock. Very radio friendly… not really my thing.

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Release date: 2007-10-09

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[5.0/10]

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2023 April Listenings

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Lucinda Chua - Yian

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Wonderful minimalistic modern classical pop. This is so good…

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Release date: 2023-03-24

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[8.5/10]

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Carla del Forno - Come Around

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Dub-y bedroom pop / minimal wave. I quite enjoy her previous albums but this one is my favorite yet. Super lo-fi, huge post-punk vibes.

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Release date: 2010-10-19

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[8.3/10]

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Grant Chapman - Indentations

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Ambient. It’s like Meitei + Julianna Barwick. It is very good.

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Release date: 2023-01-31

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[8.2/10]

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Stephan Mathieu, David Sylvian - Wandermüde

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Wonderful ambient tracks.

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Release date: 2012-12-10

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[8.2/10]

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Tim Hecker - No Highs

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I like the sound on this album. Very subdued.

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Release date: 2023-04-07

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[8.1/10]

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MJ Guider - Temporary Requiem

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Doomy shoegaze.

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Release date: 2021-06-18

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[8.1/10]

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Piotr Kurek - Edena

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Synth electronic loop music.

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Release date: 2022-10-28

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[8.1/10]

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Joanne Robertson - Blue Car

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Dreamy indie folk. FFO Cat Power and Grouper.

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Release date: 2023-03-10

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[8.1/10]

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Binker & Moses - Feeding the Machine

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Modern jazz. Instruments wise this is very stripped down, but it’s overflowing with musical ideas. I enjoy the parts where they’re just shredding or getting moody, the parts between those I feel is a bit less appealing and borderline forgettable.

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Release date: 2022-02-25

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[7.7/10]

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Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

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R&B / art-rock. With each album release their music gets more grandiose and stadium rock oriented. I don’t dislike it but I’d say Heaven to a Tortured Mind is the album that achieves the most out of this kind of sound.

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Release date: 2023-03-17

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[7.6/10]

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Dastardly Kids - Delinquent

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Detroit hip-hop. The beats are quite nice, shame there’s only fifteen minutes of it.

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Release date: 2023-01-27

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[7.6/10]

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Yaeji - With a Hammer

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I feel kind of similarto when I first heard Rina Sawayama’s first full-length LP: they’re both pretty good, but not really anywhere close to the EP that made me want to follow their discography. I just don’t think it’s as bombastic and catchy as the What We Drew.

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Release date: 2023-04-07

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[7.1/10]

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Fatima al Qadiri - Gumar

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Minimal ambient-pop. Sprawling, suspensful middle eastern vibe.

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Release date: 2020-09-11

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[7.1/10]

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Chunky - Somebody’s Child

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UK rap. Not really feeling it…

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Release date: 2023-02-03

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[6.8/10]

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Patrick Shiroishi - Evergreen

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Ambient / field recording. To me this is much less focused than the marvellous Hidemi from 2021.

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Release date: 2021-05-14

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[6.7/10]

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Pile - All Fiction

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I feel like they’ve been on a trajectory since A Hair Shirt of Purpose from noisy indie rock band that occasionally does insanely catchy but still very playful songs, to right now where they discard that dissonance to a large degree and focus more on Rick’s vocal lines.

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Release date: 2023-02-17

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[6.6/10]

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Contact U - Dancing Inner Space, 1982 1984

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Funk / dance. I can definitely recognize the sound on this LP from some records that I really like, but a record comprised of this and only this type of electronic funk is kind of numbing.

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Release date: 2022-03-30

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[6.6/10]

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Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Evil in Oslo

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Blues rock / stoner rock. Guitar tone is quite chunky but the virtuosity is just not there IMO.

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Release date: 2022-11-10

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[6.0/10]

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2023 May Listenings

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Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit

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Insanely good cut-up abstract jazz rap.

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Release date: 2023-02-17

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[8.8/10]

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Richard Skelton - selenodesy

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It’s kind of like GAS’s more orchestral moments with Ben Frost-esque ambience. Dope stuff.

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Release date: 2023-03-31

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[8.5/10]

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Midwife, Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving

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Sadcore. I still think their best album is Forever, but this is also quite nice.

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Release date: 2023-05-12

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[8.3/10]

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The Space Lady - The Space Lady’s Greatest Hits

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Cosmic psychedelic outsider pop. To call this “outsider music” does not really do it justice, it’s like calling off Stereolab as alt-rock and just leave it at that. The lady’s story behind her oeuvre is also very fascinating.

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Release date: 2013-11-18

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[8.3/10]

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Colorlist - Full Circle

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Modern jazz / electronic. FFO of Tortoise. I enjoy this very much. The track Kink in the Line has some really sick drums.

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Release date: 2018-11-09

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[8.3/10]

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Marissa Nadler - The Path of the Clouds

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Dream-pop + gothic country… Dream-country?

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Release date: 2021-10-29

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[8.2/10]

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Ital Tek - Timeproof

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Introspective, dark techno music. I like it.

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Release date: 2023-04-21

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[8.2/10]

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billy woods, Kenny Segal - Maps

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Another banger from these two.

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Release date: 2023-05-05

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[8.1/10]

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Blind Girls - Residue

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Violent screamo record. Quick and on point.

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Release date: 2018-11-13

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[8.1/10]

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Earth - Even Hell has its Heroes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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Earth is one of those super rare bands whose discography is so consistently awesome.

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Release date: 2023-01-01

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[8.0/10]

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CS + Kreme - Orange

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Jazz-noir + techno. I thought I didn’t like it when I listened to it numerous times absentmindedly at work, but when I really did listen to it it’s actually a banger.

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Release date: 2023-02-02

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[8.0/10]

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100 gecs - 10000 gecs

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Why this can be so corny yet so much fun at the same time is beyond me…

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Release date: 2023-03-17

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[7.9/10]

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Kassem Mosse - Workshop 32

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I think abstract house is probably the right term to describe this one. It’s pretty good.

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Release date: 2023-02-10

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[7.8/10]

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Rina Sawayama - Hold The Girl

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This is probably her most accessible album to date.

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Release date: 2022-09-16

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[7.8/10]

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mudy on the 昨晚 - An Instrumental

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My favorite Japanese math rock released a new album after a hiatus of who knows how long. The louder songs still kick a lot of ass.

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Release date: 2023-04-28

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[7.8/10]

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Black Math Horseman - Black Math Horseman

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I wasn’t expecting this to be more metal than doom… it’s pretty good, hopefully they keep it going and tour a bit. I’d definitely go see.

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Release date: 2022-10-21

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[7.5/10]

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Christoph De Babalon - Leaving Time

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This is tamer than his last several releases.

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Release date: 2021-01-11

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[7.3/10]

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Hauschka, Hildur Guonadottir - Pan Tone

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Modern classical / chamber post-rock.

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Release date: 2011-09-23

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[7.1/10]

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Flume - Things Don’t Always Go The Way You Plan

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Hyperpop. I actually don’t dislike it, but it’s not one of those spectacular albums that I’d go back to from time to time. People are criticizing it for being inconsistent, but I find it to be miles ahead of a bunch of K-pop and contemporary Taiwanese pop albums in terms of overall production quality. Maybe it’s all a matter of comparison? But then it does pale in comparison to Arrived Anxious, Left Bored.

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Release date: 2023-02-08

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[7.0/10]

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Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You

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Pop. I still don’t get why people are so into her… to me it’s quite mediocre.

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Release date: 2023-02-14

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[5.5/10]

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Portrayal of Guilt - Devil Music

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It’s as meh as it can be. The last chamber music suite is just… strange in a bad way.

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Release date: 2023-04-20

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[4.8/10]

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2023 June Listenings

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Romance - Fade Into You

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Nostalgic dreams. Sampled ballads weaved into synths and orchestral music.

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Release date: 2023-04-28

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[8.6/10]

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Mandy, Indiana - I’ve Seen a Way

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Visceral noise / freak techno. I dig this one a lot.

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Release date: 2023-05-19

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[8.5/10]

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bar italia - Tracey Denim

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RYM puts this under the category of slacker rock, which I’ve never heard of before… Post-punk britpop / dream pop.

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Release date: 2023-05-19

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[8.4/10]

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King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse

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Psychedelic thrash metal. This entire album rips, so many great riffs and the drums are crispy and super menacing.

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Release date: 2023-06-16

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[8.4/10]

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Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard

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Indie pop / country. A very simple album.

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Release date: 2023-06-09

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[8.3/10]

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Godflesh - Purge

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The breakbeat and hip-hop samples are back in this one, and for that I’m really digging this one.

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Release date: 2023-06-09

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[8.1/10]

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Ka - Languish Arts

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Conscious hip hop. I think this is on par with Honor Killed the Samurai.

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Release date: 2022-09-16

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[8.1/10]

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Decisive Pink - Ticket to Fame

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Electro-pop / new age-y post-punk.

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Release date: 2023-06-09

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[8.0/10]

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Caterina Barbieri - Myuthafoo

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An album comprised entirely of arpeggiating synth sounds. I like the more melodic tracks like Math of You and Myuthafoo.

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Release date: 2023-06-16

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[7.7/10]

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DJ Lostboi - Untitled

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Hypnogogic electronic music. I like how surreal it feels.

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Release date: 2016-03-04

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[7.6/10]

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Amaarae - Fountain Baby

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While not as rhythmically intensive as her debut album, this album does have more catchy songs, and showcases the vast array of styles she can manage.

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Release date: 2023-06-09

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[7.5/10]

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atameo - it sure is sad to hope for the best while expecting the worst

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Sadboi screamo. The chugs are pretty good.

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Release date: 2022-02-14

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[7.3/10]

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Khanate - To Be Cruel

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Pretty heavy stuff. Not as gnarly as I’d like though.

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Release date: 2023-05-19

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[7.0/10]

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Geld - Currency // Castration

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Hardcore punk.

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Release date: 2023-06-09

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[6.8/10]

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Jessie Ware - That! Feels Good!

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Last album is way better. This is just alright disco.

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Release date: 2023-04-28

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[6.6/10]

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Full of Hell, Primitive Man - Suffocating Hallucination

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This is probably the sludgiest FoH can get. This album is too melodic, and considering these are the two most dissonant bands out there I can’t help but feel it a little out of character. And it’s not like those melodic ideas are all that interesting…

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Release date: 2023-03-03

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[6.5/10]

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Dave Lambardo - Rites of Percussion

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I don’t think this shows how great of a drummer he is.

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Release date: 2023-05-05

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[5.7/10]

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Shame - Food for Worms

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Catchy post-punk, although I really dig the track different person I find the majority of the rest of the album to be more miss than hit.

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Release date: 2023-02-24

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[5.7/10]

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Dawn Ray’d - To Know the Light

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While I think we need more anarchist black metal in the world, music wise this is pretty underwhelming.

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Release date: 2023-03-24

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[5.5/10]

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Clark - sus dog

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Synth heavy indie electro-pop IDM. This is much less sonically impressive than Body Riddle. Quite forgettable.

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Release date: 2023-05-26

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[5.3/10]

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Boris, Uniform - Bright New Disease

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Release date: 2023-06-16

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[4.5/10]

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Sigur Rós - Átta

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Wack. OST for Avatar the movie.

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Release date: 2023-06-16

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[3.0/10]

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2023 July Listenings

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Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World

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Strong AOTY candidate. So good.

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Release date: 2023-02-10

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[9.0/10]

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Not Waving - The Place I’ve Been Missing

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Electronic / ambient pop / trip-hop. Cohesive and beautiful.

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Release date: 2023-06-23

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[8.4/10]

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Squid - O Monolith

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I imagine this is what Frank Zappa would do if he’s a millenial? Discordant / weirdly harmonious prog post-punk music.

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Release date: 2023-06-09

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[8.4/10]

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Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction

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FFO Thou. This thing totally rips, I dig it.

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Release date: 2023-05-12

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[8.3/10]

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Regis - Gymnastics

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Pounding industrial techno.

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Release date: 2016-09-09

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[8.3/10]

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Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis

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Chaotic avant-garde black metal band is back, and is just as gnarly as before. Menacing stuff.

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Release date: 2023-06-02

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[8.2/10]

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Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar

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This is like if Justin Broadrick was a millenial.

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Release date: 2023-01-27

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[8.2/10]

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upsammy - Germ in a Population of Buildings

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Nimble IDM. Sounds very nice.

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Release date: 2023-05-05

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[8.1/10]

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ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross

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I’ve never heard of Antony and the Johnsons so I came into this one thinking maybe it’s like the last ANOHNI album, which is an outstanding experimental synth-pop album. And stylistically it’s nothing alike - this is straight up soul music. But it is also very good.

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Release date: 2023-07-06

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[8.1/10]

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Agriculture - Agriculture

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Romantic post-black metal. Lots of post BM bands out there but you rarely get a good one. This band is one of those good ones.

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Release date: 2023-07-21

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[8.0/10]

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Knoll - Metempiric

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Deathgrind. Has its moments.

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Release date: 2022-06-24

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[7.5/10]

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Bendik Giske - Bendik Giske

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Abrasive, stripped down solo saxophone album. Compared to previous albums this is much less flashy and more introspective. I kind of dig the previous ones more though…

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Release date: 2023-06-09

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[7.3/10]

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Temps - PARTY GATOR PURGATORY

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Experimental abstract hip-hop. A very strange sounding album…

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Release date: 2023-05-19

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[7.0/10]

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Anthony Naples - Orbs

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Chilled-out dub house. Sounds pretty good but feels just OK.

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Release date: 2023-06-02

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[6.6/10]

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Blindfolded and Led to the Woods - Rejecting Obliteration

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Technical death metal. Some parts are pretty good, some parts are kind of generic death metal, some parts are borderline deathcore chugs.

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Release date: 2023-05-19

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[6.3/10]

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Sunrot - The Unfailing Rope

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Metallic hardcore. Kinda meh… the spoken word parts don’t really mesh all that well into the music. But it’s got a Thou feature track.

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Release date: 2023-04-07

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[6.2/10]

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The Ocean - Holocene

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Pretty lackluster. The metal tracks don’t really feel all that enticing, and the ballads are no better. A far cry from Anthropocentric.

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Release date: 2023-05-19

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[5.5/10]

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2023 August Listenings

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Kelela - Raven

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Alternative R&B / electronica. It’s very good.

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Release date: 2023-02-10

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[8.4/10]

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Jockstrap - I Love You Jennifer B

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Awesome pop album.

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Release date: 2022-09-09

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[8.3/10]

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LA Timpa - Pity by One All Good Measure

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Surreal dream-pop / trip-hop loops.

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Release date: 2022-09-22

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[8.3/10]

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Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss

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It’s Krallice doing John Carpenter music. Pretty weird when you think about it… I would say this is more atmospheric than their previous stuff, it’s not like the past albums aren’t but on this album I get the impression that they’re consciously pushing for that. In a sense it is probably their most proggy album? Or maybe it is just the synth…

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Release date: 2023-05-05

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[8.2/10]

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Ὁπλίτης - Τρωθησομένη

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Chinese prog black / thrash. Sounds killer. Riffs hit hard as hard can be.

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Release date: 2023-04-09

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[8.2/10]

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Dustin Wong - Perpetual Morphosis

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Loopy new-age ambient electronic. FFO Kankyo Ongaku.

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Release date: 2023-08-04

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[8.1/10]

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Headache - The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth

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Spoken word / trip-hop. It’s not the most complex lyrics ever but it fits quite well with the instrumentals. Vegyn certainly doesn’t miss.

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Release date: 2023-05-31

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[8.1/10]

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Jan Jelinek - SEASCAPE polyptych

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The maestro drops the latter word of minimal techno altogether and focuses on abstract museum music. I can appreciate this one more than the other abstract stuff he did in the past though.

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Release date: 2023-04-28

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[7.8/10]

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Celestial - Listen to the Sky

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Folky ambient.

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Release date: 2023-03-23

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[7.7/10]

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Jeromes Dream - The Gray in Between

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On one hand it is great to see a band come back and is doing stuff just as raw and aggressive as before, on the other hand it sounds too much like Loma Prieta, especially the guitar noises.

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Release date: 2023-05-05

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[7.5/10]

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Doon Kanda - Celeste

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No wonky classically influenced dance floor music, just straight up solo classical piano on this one.

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Release date: 2023-02-27

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[7.4/10]

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Shizuka - Heavenly Persona

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Ghostly gothic dream-pop. I think I’ve read people being influenced by it but I never had the chance to listen to this until now.

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Release date: 2023-04-07

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[7.3/10]

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Machine Woman - In the Basement of 83 Men

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Minimal techno.

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Release date: 2020-11-06

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[6.8/10]

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Larry June, The Alchemist - The Great Escape

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The Alchemist is still great at making beats, but the flow does feel someone monotonic and what he has to say in his lyrics isn’t really interesting to me.

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Release date: 2023-03-31

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[7.3/10]

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Genesis Owusu - Struggler

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I was really into his freshman album, but this one feels more bland and just all crescendo without much buildup or restraint.

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Release date: 2023-08-18

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[6.5/10]

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Blur - The Ballad of Darren

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When middle age dudes want to prove their relevance by doing whatever they’re doing when they’re much younger it’s called dad rock. Speaking in terms of music genre this is not dad rock, but aethestically this is exactly that.

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Release date: 2023-07-21

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[5.4/10]

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The Sound of Animals Fighting - Apeshit

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I still love The Ocean and the Sun, but this one is really… underwhelming.

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Release date: 2022-12-08

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[5.0/10]

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Noname - Sundial

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Conscious jazz-hop. Musically it sounds pretty good, but honestly including Jay Electronica is just… makes it very difficult to take her lines as something that’s been well thought out.

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Release date: 2023-08-11

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[4.6/10]

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Laurel Halo - Atlas

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Impressionist neo-classical / ambient jazz. Postmodern Joe Hisashi is what came to mind. Love virtually every track on this album.

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Release date: 2023-09-26

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[9.0/10]

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Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

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Abstract conscious hip-hop. The lyrics on this album is, like, really out there…

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Release date: 2023-09-29

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[8.8/10]

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Grischa Lichtenberger - Works for Last Work

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Modern composition. I dig this a lot.

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Release date: 2023-04-16

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[8.7/10]

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yeule - softscars

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Glitch pop / dream pop. While not sounding as distinct / left-field as Glitch Princess, this is simply a really good pop album with banger songs.

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Release date: 2023-09-22

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[8.6/10]

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Radian - Distorted Rooms

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Minimal electronic noir-jazz. Love this stuff.

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Release date: 2023-09-22

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[8.4/10]

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Tirzah - trip9love…???

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Minimalist downtempo pop. People are saying it’s somewhat repetitive but I don’t think so at all - when the loops are so nice it’s not repetitive, it’s just pretty good.

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Release date: 2023-09-05

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[8.2/10]

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Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation

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IDM / drill and bass. Love the songs on this one.

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Release date: 2023-09-22

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[8.2/10]

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The Body - I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant

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Drone metal / industrial. The first half of this album is basically their identically named album from ~10 years ago remade (or is it just remastered?) The original sound is heavier and more unforgiving whilst this one sounds a lot more refined. Second half is what was going to become a companion album to the aforementioned album, and to me it is a lot more industrial / hip-hop leaning.

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Release date: 2023-06-30

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[8.1/10]

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Ὁπλίτης - Ψευδομένη

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Like the other album this one’s also pretty good. It’s a bit less thrash and a bit more prog though in my opinion.

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Release date: 2023-01-01

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[8.0/10]

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Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE

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Probably one of the best pop punk albums I’ve heard in a long time.

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Release date: 2023-08-31

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[8.0/10]

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I’d say this is their groove metal album, the riffs are more melodic at the expense of soaring guitar solos. Hopefully they stick around and Takafumi Matsubara is able to stay healthy.

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Release date: 2023-09-15

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[7.4/10]

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Haunter - Please Understand

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Droning shoegaze music. Some songs have riffs that had me think of the nu metal drop D riffs.

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Release date: 2019-07-22

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[7.3/10]

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Nerves Baddington - No Survivor

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Drum and bass / industrial hip-hop. Pretty grim sounding.

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Release date: 2023-06-16

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[7.2/10]

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what is your name? - My Name Is…

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Indie rock / midwest emo.

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Release date: 2023-09-23

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[7.0/10]

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Croatian Amor - A Part of You in Everything

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Ambient techno. It’s OK I guess…

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Release date: 2023-05-26

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[6.8/10]

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2023 October Listenings

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Sprain - Lamb as Effigy

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Experimental post-noise rock / drone. Strong AOTY candidate.

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Release date: 2023-09-01

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[9.1/10]

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Sampha - Lahai

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I love basically every track on this album.

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Release date: 2023-10-20

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[8.6/10]

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Marica BC - Spike Field

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Spectral, melancholic dream pop / folk. Compared to Hyaline this one features lusher instrumentation and is overall better produced. The songs are incredibly well written. Great album! FFO Grouper and Midwife.

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Release date: 2023-10-20

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[8.4/10]

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Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full On

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FFO Curd Duca, Actress. Abstract collage music.

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Release date: 2023-06-30

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[8.3/10]

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McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?

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Jazz-rap / conscious hip-hop. A great album! Awesome jazz beats and awesome lyrics.

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Release date: 2023-06-02

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[8.3/10]

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Shygirl - Nymphs

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Hypnogogic R&B / trap. FFO Sega Bodega.

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Release date: 2022-09-30

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[8.3/10]

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SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite

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It’s like the Knobs or collector//emitter pedal demos extended to be a standalone album. Dreamy lo-fi guitar ambient music.

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Release date: 2023-10-06

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[8.2/10]

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Maral - Ground Groove

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Sprawling lo-fi industrial dub, or “folk club” as the artist described her music. Maral is an Iranian-American artist, and a lot of the samples on this album is from her personal archive of Iranian folk, pop & classical albums.

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Release date: 2022-10-18

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[8.2/10]

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Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

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Angular post-punk. I like the last track, which is the most tranquil track among the album.

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Release date: 2023-02-24

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[8.0/10]

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Various Artists - V4 Visions: Of Love & Androids

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House / funk / R&B. Basically 90’s music. I like the R&B cuts on the first disc.

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Release date: 2022-03-11

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[7.6/10]

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The Armed - Perfect Saviors

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Poppy alternative punk. Not nearly as explosive as Ultrapop, instead this is much more in line with the usual alt-rock path.

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Release date: 2023-08-25

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[7.3/10]

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Oneohtrix Point Never - Again

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Compared to his earlier stuff this is extremely safe.

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Release date: 2023-09-29

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[6.8/10]

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Lee Gamble - Models

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Ambient pop. The vocals on this album is generated by AI. The theme he’s exploring on this album is very Hauntological, but I’d say it’s something one have to do some extra digging to find out.

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Release date: 2023-07-06

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[6.7/10]

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Eartheater - Powder

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Art pop / experimental R&B. I think there are just too many producers on this album, making this album lacking a bit in terms of songwriting coherence, and sounding more like it’s from a generic pop artist that claims to be avant garde but doesn’t really know what they’re doing. There are cool tracks here and there, but as a whole it’s just a bit too all over the place.

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Release date: 2023-09-20

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[6.6/10]

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Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

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Club-friendly electro-pop.

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Release date: 2023-10-27

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[6.3/10]

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James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven

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UK garage. While I still don’t really dig the minimal dubstep / r&b fusion sound he’s going for all that much, this is a breath of fresh air compared with his previous more pop oriented albums.

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Release date: 2023-09-08

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[6.1/10]

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2023 November Listenings

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Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding

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Ambient drill / trip-hop / spoken word. I love this album a lot.

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Release date: 2023-11-16

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[8.8/10]

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Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réel

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Synth music with a lot of delays. When I first listened to this I wasnt paying attention and thought it’s ok but not something really spectacular, but then I stopped doing things and listened and it was truly magical.

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Release date: 2023-09-22

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[8.4/10]

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L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog

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Indie dream-pop / neo-soul. Wonky but tender, generally just a great pop album.

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Release date: 2023-10-13

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[8.3/10]

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Lost Girls - Selvutsletter

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While Menneskekollektivet is epic, brooding and more “serious”, Selvutsletter is pure dark avant-pop goodiness.

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Release date: 2023-10-20

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[8.3/10]

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Black Thought, El Michels Affair - Glorious Game

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Cconscious hip-hop. The beats are sick and the flows are dope.

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Release date: 2023-04-14

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[8.3/10]

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Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

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Ambient / R&B / downtempo. It sounds like a weird combination, but it actually makes sense.

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Release date: 2023-11-10

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[8.3/10]

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M. Sage, Zander Raymond - Parayellowgram

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Ambient cosmic jazz. Reminds me of some of Tortoise’s subtler tracks on TNT.

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Release date: 2023-09-15

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[8.1/10]

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38 Spesh, Conway the Machine - Speshal Machinery

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Conscious hip-hop. The Benny the butcher feature track is dope AF. I been digging Conway the Machine a lot and this project does not disappoint.

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Release date: 2023-09-08

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[8.1/10]

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Sleep Sinatra, TELEVANGEL - Incorruptible Saints

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Boom-bap / jazz-rap.

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Release date: 2023-06-20

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[7.9/10]

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Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions

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Abstract hip-hop. The forte of this album is definitely his lyrics, most of all his ability to pin down the snippets of things that are simply beyond the grasp of seemingly ubiquitous technological domination. Even though the title is Integrated Tech Solutions, the songs are about the copmlete opposite. As for production I think the individual tracks are pretty good, but 15+ songs with very similar BPMs, grimey rhythms and bass synths, after like 5 songs it gets repetitive.

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Release date: 2023-11-10

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[7.6/10]

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Cameron Graham - Becoming a Beach Angel

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Colorful percussive synth music.

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Release date: 2023-08-18

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[7.5/10]

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Ragana - Desolations Flower

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Post black metal. It’s alright.

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Release date: 2023-10-27

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[6.8/10]

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Danny Brown - Quaranta

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The first half was pretty good, the second was kinda lackluster.

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Release date: 2023-11-17

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[6.6/10]

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André 3000 - New Blue Sun

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New age improv / ambient. I like the tracks where the flaut isn’t so up front better, like the third and fourth track. The album as a whole feels kind of drawn out, the ideas just take too long to develop into interesting things and when that happens it is also not really that interesting. That said I’ll still be looking out for André’s coming up releases and see what he brings to the table.

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Release date: 2023-11-17

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[6.6/10]

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Shabazz Palace - Robed in Rareness

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At this point I don’t know if this album’s low effort or Black Up is just an anomaly.

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Release date: 2023-10-27

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[5.3/10]

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今年最愛專輯

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Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit

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最近很少聽到這種既絲滑又幽默的音樂了,有的話也沒有跟這個一樣耐聽。段落不停切換,節奏跌宕起伏,真的很讚。

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年終榜

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Sprain - Lamb as Effigy (9.1)

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  • 這麼好的樂團怎麼就這樣解散了……
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Laurel Halo - Atlas (9.0)

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Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (9.0)

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Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit (8.8)

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Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (8.8)

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Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding (8.8)

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Grischa Lichtenberger - Works for Last Work (8.7)

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yeule - softscars (8.6)

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空間現代 - Tracks (8.6)

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Romance - Fade Into You (8.6)

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Sampha - Lahai (8.6)

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Kali Malone, Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton - Does Spring Hide Its Joy (8.5)

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Lucinda Chua - Yian (8.5)

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Richard Skelton - selenodesy (8.5)

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Mandy, Indiana - I’ve Seen a Way (8.5)

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Radian - Distorted Rooms (8.4)

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Kelela - Raven (8.4)

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bar italia - Tracey Denim (8.4)

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King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse (8.4)

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Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réel (8.4)

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Maria BC - Spike Field (8.4)

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Not Waving - The Place I’ve Been Missing (8.4)

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Squid - O Monolith (8.4)

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David Edren, H. Takahashi - Flow (8.3)

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LA Timpa - Pity by One All Good Treasure (8.3)

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Pavel Milyakov - project mirrors (8.3)

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Midwife, Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving (8.3)

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Kate NV - Wow (8.3)

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Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard (8.3)

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L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (8.3)

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Lost Girls - Selvutsletter (8.3)

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Black Thought, El Michels Affair - Glorious Game (8.3)

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Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation (8.3)

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Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full On (8.3)

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McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz? (8.3)

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Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction (8.3)

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Grant Chapman - Indentations (8.2)

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Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy (8.2)

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Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades (8.2)

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Ital Tek - Timeproof (8.2)

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Tirzah - trip9love…??? (8.2)

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Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation (8.2)

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Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss (8.2)

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Ὁπλίτης - Τρωθησομένη (8.2)

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JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES (8.2)

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SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (8.2)

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Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis (8.2)

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Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar (8.2)

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Tim Hecker - No Highs (8.1)

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Joanne Robertson - Blue Car (8.1)

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billy woods, Kenny Segal - Maps (8.1)

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The Body - I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant (8.1)

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Dustin Wong - Perpetual Morphosis (8.1)

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Headache - The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth (8.1)

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slowthai - UGLY (8.1)

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Godflesh - Purge (8.1)

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M. Sage, Zander Raymond - Parayellowgram (8.1)

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38 Spesh, Conway the Machine - Speshal Machinery (8.1)

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upsammy - Germ in a Population of Buildings (8.1)

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2024 January Listenings

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Bark Psychosis - SCUM

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

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Release date: 2017-08-11

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[8.7/10]

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Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt

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

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Release date: 2024-01-26

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[8.7/10]

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Bondo - Print Selections

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

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Release date: 2023-02-24

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[8.5/10]

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Bianca Scout - The Heart of the Anchoress

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Haunting hypnagogic pop.

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Release date: 2023-01-20

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[8.4/10]

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Tujiko Noriko - Crépuscule I & II

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2 hours of ambient awesomeness.

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Release date: 2023-01-13

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[8.3/10]

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Unsung - Hand Painted Model Trains

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

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Release date: 2023-07-31

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[8.3/10]

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Wata Igarashi - Agartha

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

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Release date: 2023-05-26

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[8.2/10]

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Ambient / dub techno. Love stuff like this.

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Release date: 2023-09-15

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[8.2/10]

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Voice Actor - Fake Sleep

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Hypnagogic pop. It’s pretty good.

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Release date: 2023-10-10

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[8.0/10]

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DJ Danifox - Ansiedade

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

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Release date: 2023-04-26

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[7.8/10]

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betcover!! - 馬

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

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Release date: 2023-10-17

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[7.8/10]

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Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel - The Room

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

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Release date: 2023-06-30

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[7.5/10]

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ML Buch - Suntub

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Glistening dream-pop.

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Release date: 2023-10-27

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[7.4/10]

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Fatboi Sharif - Decay

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

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Release date: 2023-07-21

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[7.4/10]

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Natural Beauty Wonder Concept - Natural Beauty Wonder Concept

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

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Release date: 2023-07-14

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[7.2/10]

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Tara Clerkin Trio - On the Turning Ground

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

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Release date: 2023-11-03

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[7.0/10]

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LITE - Strata

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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…

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Release date: 2024-01-31

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[6.0/10]

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Föllakzoid - V

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

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Release date: 2023-10-21

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[5.8/10]

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2024 February Listenings

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Material Girl - Izumi Hazuki End of Days

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The jungle / hip-hop producer dropped a new one with a lot of indie rock last year. It was very good.

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Release date: 2023-11-15

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[8.6/10]

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Hysterical Love Project - Lashes

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Downtempo / shoegaze. I love this so much..

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Release date: 2023-03-21

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[8.5/10]

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betcover!! - 卵

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This is probably my favorite album of theirs. It’s got just the right amount of flair without making the whole thing sounding like a jumble of underdeveloped ideas.

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Release date: 2022-12-21

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[8.3/10]

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Maya Shenfeld - Under the Sun

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Electro-acoustic synth music / neoclassical. Surreal and sad. Love it.

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Release date: 2024-01-19

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[8.3/10]

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Speaker Music - Techxodus

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Experimental techno. I’m gonna buy his book.

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Release date: 2023-09-08

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[8.3/10]

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Erika de Casier - Still

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Y2K R&B. Sounds dope.

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Release date: 2024-02-21

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[8.2/10]

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Kim Gordon - The Collective

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No-wave noise guitars on trap / industrial beats. Pretty cool stuff.

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Release date: 2024-03-08

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[8.1/10]

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Porcelain - Porcelain

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I would tell my kids that they are Unwound. Well a little less experimental and more hardcore-y, but the similarity is definitely there. Looking forward to what they are up to next.

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Release date: 2007-06-04

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[7.8/10]

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Stik Figa, The Expert - Ritual

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Conscious jazz-rap. The lyrics is fire, the beats are mid though.

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Release date: 1990-08-21

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[7.6/10]

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William Doyle - Springs Eternal

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This one has that Elvis Costello kind of vibe to it. Not bad but also not a huge fan of it.

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Release date: 2024-02-16

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[6.9/10]

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Goyard Ibn Said - Goyard Comin’: Exordium

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Ghais Guevara’s alter ego. Compared to the main persona this one’s more clout driven, but still has its serious moments.

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Release date: 2023-07-09

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[6.6/10]

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The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist

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The Dillinger Escape Plan with a bunch more samples and melodic passages. Not gonna lie but this is kind of annoying…

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Release date: 2022-09-02

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[6.0/10]

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2024 March Listenings

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Laurel Halo - Octavia

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Haunting ambient. Still so so good.

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Release date: 2024-03-01

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[8.7/10]

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Bill Orcutt - Four Guitars Live

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Blissful contemporary guitar music. This album makes me want to play guitar even more.

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Release date: 2024-03-22

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[8.6/10]

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Tujiko Noriko - From Tokyo to Naiagara

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Indie electro-pop. This is more Stereolab than ambient music in her more recent works. A lovely album.

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Release date: 2004-06-08

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[8.6/10]

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Dario Zenker - Reflections

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I’m always gonna front the Zenker brothers. Another stellar dub techno album.

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Release date: 2023-10-05

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[8.3/10]

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Masaka Masaka - Barely Making Much

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Lo-fi IDM. It’s been a while since I last heard IDM that’s actually good.

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Release date: 2024-03-22

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[8.2/10]

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Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field

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Soothing piano music. This sounds more conventional than I thought it would be.

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Release date: 2024-03-29

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[7.7/10]

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Jlin - Akoma

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Experimental footwork. I feel like whatever Jlin does they all sound kind of similar, it will have unsettling beats and any melodic elements will be used as rhythmic tools instead of providing their own motif.

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Release date: 2024-03-22

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[7.6/10]

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Shygirl - Club Shy

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Clubby dance pop that brings it back to the 00’s.

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Release date: 2024-03-01

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[7.3/10]

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Zazen Boys - らんど

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This is one of their least chaotic album to date. To be frank I enjoy the noisier stuff more.

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Release date: 2024-01-24

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[7.0/10]

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Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet

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Loma Prieta sans the chaotic riffs. Only the vocals sounds skramz-y, the other things are more like modern, atmospheric post-hardcore. Quite melodic but no real hard hitters here.

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Release date: 2024-03-29

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[6.8/10]

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Geotic - The Anchorite

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This is what it would sound like if Roy Montgomery does big chords country ambient.

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Release date: 2024-02-21

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[6.3/10]

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2024 April & May Listenings

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Still House Plants - If I Don’t Make It, I Love U

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Warbly jazzy post-rock with R&B vocals. Sick album. Every track is worth recommending.

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Release date: 2024-04-12

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[8.9/10]

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Dip Friso - Dip Friso

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Drunk bedroom indietronica. Hazy lo-fi music, I like this a lot.

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Release date: 2024-03-01

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[8.4/10]

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samlrc - A Lonely Sinner

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Lo-fi post-rock / shoegaze. FFO Weatherday. One dude on RYM said it’s deathconsciousness for furries and I kinda agree.

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Release date: 2024-03-08

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[8.4/10]

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Lanark Artefax - Metallur

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Hits just as hard as the last one.

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Release date: 2024-03-20

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[8.4/10]

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Not Waving, Romance - Infinite Light

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This is just as good as the last one. Ambient bliss.

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Release date: 2024-05-03

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[8.4/10]

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claire rousay - sentiment

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Low + Organ Tapes. I love her earlier, much more experimental work, but I also love emo and slowcore.

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Release date: 2024-04-19

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[8.3/10]

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Ulla, Ultrafrog - It Means A Lot

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Abstract shoegazy ambient.

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Release date: 2024-04-12

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[8.2/10]

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Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

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Indie folk. Normally I’m not too excited about this kind of music but this is pretty awesome.

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Release date: 2024-03-22

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[8.2/10]

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Serengeti - KDIV

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Jazz-hop. Gotta follow the Kenny Dennis story arc… Also sick beats by Kenny Segal. Sulfjan Stevens is on this one as well?

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Release date: 2024-04-05

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[8.2/10]

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Sega Bodega - Dennis

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Intimate, dark-club-friendly electro-pop. I really like the lead singles Deer Teeth and Kepko, in fact I think these two are the tracks that really stand out in the end - the other tracks are also pretty good but I don’t think they’re as thoroughly developed as the two lead singles.

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Release date: 2017-06-16

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[8.0/10]

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Bongripper - Empty

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The heaviest band on earth is back.

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Release date: 1969-06-06

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[7.8/10]

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Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited

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Deep house. I like his stuff on DJ Kicks. I think people who like St Germain’s Tourist would dig this.

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Release date: 2014-03-24

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[7.9/10]

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R.J.F.- Strange Going

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Dark minimalist indie pop. Album cover looks like dude having time of his life but songs are gothic and dark AF.

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[7.7/10]

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Andrew Pekler, SG - Rain Revisited

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Ambient / modern classical. Quite lovely.

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Release date: 2024-04-12

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[7.6/10]

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Oldboy, Sekwence - Good Guys Don’t Wear White

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I like the beats but Sekwence’s raspy voice doesn’t really do it for me.

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Release date: 1966-01-01

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[7.3/10]

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Ὁπλίτης - Παραμαινομένη

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Prog black metal. This one feels more forced than their previous albums. It features a lot more sax, folk guitars and even a little bit of Dream Theater-ish synth solos but they all sound kind of out of place.

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Release date: 2024-01-12

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[6.3/10]

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Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To

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I don’t get the hype around this album. To me it’s very annoying to listen to, those downtuned guitars and open chords and breakdowns just are no longer my thing.

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Release date: 2024-05-10

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[5.5/10]

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2024 June Listenings

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Charli XCX - brat

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Is this her best album yet?

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Release date: 2024-06-07

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[8.7/10]

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Kevin - Laundry

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Sadcore / folk. This is precisely my kind of jam.

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Release date: 2024-03-13

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[8.6/10]

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Actress - Statik

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Hazy ambient techno. To be honest I like this more than last year’s LXXXVIII

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Release date: 2024-06-07

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[8.6/10]

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ZULI - Lambda

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Extremely subdued post-industrial ambient club. It’s very different from hard-hitting club music he’s been known for. This one has a Coby Sey feature so you know it’s good.

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Release date: 2024-07-05

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[8.5 /10]

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Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

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Exquisite folk album. Majestic songwriting.

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Release date: 2024-05-17

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[8.4/10]

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Thou - Umbilical

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Good. I don’t think they’ve ever slowed down on this one, which makes this one probably their most unrelenting album yet. Earlier albums would have some more mellow moments, this one just makes me wanna punch air the whole time.

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Release date: 2024-05-31

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[8.4/10]

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Iceboy Violet, Nueen - You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through the Fire

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Minimalistic abstract rap. This is probably the most exquisitely crafted break-up albums I’ve heard in a long time.

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Release date: 2024-06-07

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[8.3/10]

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Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke - It’s Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry

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Lingering electronic ambient.

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Release date: 2016-06-24

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[8.2/10]

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Sumac - The Healer

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Unforgiving experimental sludge metal / post-metal. Four tracks all exceeding 12 minute mark, all heavy AF.

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Release date: 2024-07-19

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[8.2/10]

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Ebi - Space Teddy Collection

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Acid dub techno from late ambient master Susumu Yokota. Still very danceable, still very dope.

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Release date: 2022-01-03

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[8.2/10]

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Racine - Boue

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Gritty , glitched out experimental club / post-industrial music. This sounds like stuff my friend would dig. I enjoy it quite a bit, but I think Amerites, which came out in 2022, had more memorable moments.

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Release date: 2024-03-24

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[8.1/10]

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L.B. Dub Corp - Saturn to Home

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Dub house. The first half is more club friendly, drenched-in-reverb melodic dub, and after that the beats get a lot more intense, which is more to my liking.

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Release date: 2024-05-24

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[7.8/10]

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Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub

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First side is dub second side is house. I like dub more than house. A landmark release, I can definitely see why this is so influential but at the same time in 2024 there are already things that are more intense / captivating than this.

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Release date: 1994-04-01

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[7.6/10]

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王若琳 - 破爛酒店

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Eclectic art pop / lo-fi cabaret pop. It’s always awesome to see Taiwanese artists get great reviews, and I think this album deserves it. It’s just I’m past the age when I would enjoy this kind of music.

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Release date: 2024-05-07

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[7.6/10]

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Yaya Bey - Ten Fold

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Neo soul / r&b. Production is pretty good and the songs are well written, but I’m just never really that into this kind of music, where the groove has to take the time backseat. Live shows are probably really awesome though.

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Release date: 2024-05-10

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[7.5/10]

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Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement

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I think everyone on this album showed up but it just doesn’t have that same kind of epicness in his first two albums. This is more like really well produced contemporary jazz music, great players, great songwriting, but not really sound that sticks.

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Release date: 2024-05-03

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[7.5/10]

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Various Artists - Someone Like Me

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Folk country music compilation. Individually they all sounded alright, but I feel like it’s music that you’d hear when you walk into a thrift shop.

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Release date: 2024-04-26

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[7.3/10]

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Dos Monos - Dos Atmos

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I guess their bars are still tight but the instrumentals just aren’t as far out there as in Dos City. Dos City was rad.

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Release date: 2024-05-31

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[7.0/10]

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Galcher Lustwerk - Lustwerk III

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Pretty standard dub techno. In other words, pretty meh.

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Release date: 2024-05-31

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2024 July & August Listenings

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Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God

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AOTY so far.

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Release date: 2024-06-14

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[9.3/10]

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Angel R - Selkie Reflections

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Dreamy modern classical vocal music. It’s like you’re in a cave and a spirit is singing to you and you’re not scared and they’re really, really good at it.

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Release date: 2024-08-09

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[8.6/10]

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JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

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This one is really good, like it stands out even in a discography stacked with hard hitters. The bars are filthy and I feel like he put a lot of effort into making the beats as wicked as possible. Sick.

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Release date: 2024-08-01

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[8.5/10]

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Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahōgakkō

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At first I thought it’s too chaotic and all over the place, but as I listened to it multiple times it turns out it’s just a really good hyper pop album. Wonky and a lot of fun to listen to.

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Release date: 2024-07-24

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[8.4/10]

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7038634357 - Neo Seven

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Warm synth drone / noise. These pulsating notes are so delicate. FFO DJ Lostboi.

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Release date: 2024-04-16

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[8.3/10]

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baby___asl - Snakeskin

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FFO Bianca Scout. Bedroom avant-pop.

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Release date: 2020-05-08

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[8.2/10]

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Blind Girls - An Exit Exists

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Chaotic screamo with lots of dissonance. Pretty sick stuff, just like the last album.

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Release date: 2024-07-05

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[8.1/10]

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H TO O - Cycle

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Japanese new age ambient in 2024, still so good. Bubbly sounds. Always been a fan of H. Takahashi.

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Release date: 1997-07-22

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[8.1/10]

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Fontaines D.C. - Romance

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I was really into Pile, and then I wasn’t and I was thinking maybe I just don’t like indie rock as much as I did before? And then I heard this and it’s so good.

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Release date: 2024-07-12

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[8.1/10]

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Clothing - From Memory

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Glitchy pop. The songs are very well written, sounds super huge, and L’Rain is a great singer. The tracks featuring Amber Coffman from Dirty Projector really make me think it’d sound much more enticing if they were sung by L’Rain.

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Release date: 2024-07-26

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[7.9/10]

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Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2

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I thought he’s gonna continue down the Melt My Eyez See Your Future, more modern sounding path, but here he is doing old school southern rap.

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Release date: 2024-07-19

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[7.6/10]

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lang - There is no reply, but sweet wind blew

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Melodic emotive hardcore from Japan. I think their live show should be really really awesome.

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Release date: 2018-08-27

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[7.6/10]

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Holy Tongue, Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now

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Tribal dub. I think their own projects are better than this collaboration.

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Release date: 2024-08-23

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[7.6/10]

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Zeta Io, Ingenue - Zetapop

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Techno-pop. I like the more abstract tracks more than the Balaeric beat ones, but this is still an interesting project to check out.

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Release date: 2024-08-07

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[7.6/10]

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渡邊琢磨 - RoOT Original Soundtrack

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Pantha du Prince-esque electronic music and Eiko Ishibashi style modern classical. This sounds quite pleasant, the drama itself kinda sucks.

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Release date: 2023-07-20

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[7.5/10]

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Terry Green - Provisional Living

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Screamo with a lot of indie rock influence. Pretty raw.

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Release date: 2024-06-03

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[7.4/10]

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FUJI||||||||||TA - MMM

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Unsettling ambient / drone / experimental music. TBH I enjoy iki much more than this one.

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Release date: 2004-11-16

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[7.0/10]

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Wisp - Pandora

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Shoegaze. Don’t really get the hype.

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Release date: 2024-04-05

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[6.5/10]

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toe - Now I See the Light

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Better than Hear You but still not nearly as good as For Long Tomorrow or their first album.

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Release date: 2024-07-10

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[6.0/10]

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Houston We Have a Problem - The Sky Did Not Crack and the Stars Did Not Fall

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Raw, emotional post-rock-ish screamo. Stumbled upon them when trying to find reference for a new band I want to do, this probably isn’t it.

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Release date: 2014

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[5.5/10]

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+ Posted on September 6, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God

+

+

AOTY so far.

+

Release date: 2024-06-14

+

[9.3/10]

+

Angel R - Selkie Reflections

+

+

Dreamy modern classical vocal music. It’s like you’re in a cave and a spirit is singing to you and you’re not scared and they’re really, really good at it.

+

Release date: 2024-08-09

+

[8.6/10]

+

JPEGMAFIA - I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

+

+

This one is really good, like it stands out even in a discography stacked with hard hitters. The bars are filthy and I feel like he put a lot of effort into making the beats as wicked as possible. Sick.

+

Release date: 2024-08-01

+

[8.5/10]

+

Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahōgakkō

+

+

At first I thought it’s too chaotic and all over the place, but as I listened to it multiple times it turns out it’s just a really good hyper pop album. Wonky and a lot of fun to listen to.

+

Release date: 2024-07-24

+

[8.4/10]

+

7038634357 - Neo Seven

+

+

Warm synth drone / noise. These pulsating notes are so delicate. FFO DJ Lostboi.

+

Release date: 2024-04-16

+

[8.3/10]

+

baby___asl - Snakeskin

+

+

FFO Bianca Scout. Bedroom avant-pop.

+

Release date: 2020-05-08

+

[8.2/10]

+

Blind Girls - An Exit Exists

+

+

Chaotic screamo with lots of dissonance. Pretty sick stuff, just like the last album.

+

Release date: 2024-07-05

+

[8.1/10]

+

H TO O - Cycle

+

+

Japanese new age ambient in 2024, still so good. Bubbly sounds. Always been a fan of H. Takahashi.

+

Release date: 1997-07-22

+

[8.1/10]

+

Fontaines D.C. - Romance

+

+

I was really into Pile, and then I wasn’t and I was thinking maybe I just don’t like indie rock as much as I did before? And then I heard this and it’s so good.

+

Release date: 2024-07-12

+

[8.1/10]

+

Clothing - From Memory

+

+

Glitchy pop. The songs are very well written, sounds super huge, and L’Rain is a great singer. The tracks featuring Amber Coffman from Dirty Projector really make me think it’d sound much more enticing if they were sung by L’Rain.

+

Release date: 2024-07-26

+

[7.9/10]

+

Denzel Curry - King Of The Mischievous South Vol. 2

+

+

I thought he’s gonna continue down the Melt My Eyez See Your Future, more modern sounding path, but here he is doing old school southern rap.

+

Release date: 2024-07-19

+

[7.6/10]

+

lang - There is no reply, but sweet wind blew

+

+

Melodic emotive hardcore from Japan. I think their live show should be really really awesome.

+

Release date: 2018-08-27

+

[7.6/10]

+

Holy Tongue, Shackleton - The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now

+

+

Tribal dub. I think their own projects are better than this collaboration.

+

Release date: 2024-08-23

+

[7.6/10]

+

Zeta Io, Ingenue - Zetapop

+

+

Techno-pop. I like the more abstract tracks more than the Balaeric beat ones, but this is still an interesting project to check out.

+

Release date: 2024-08-07

+

[7.6/10]

+

渡邊琢磨 - RoOT Original Soundtrack

+

+

Pantha du Prince-esque electronic music and Eiko Ishibashi style modern classical. This sounds quite pleasant, the drama itself kinda sucks.

+

Release date: 2023-07-20

+

[7.5/10]

+

Terry Green - Provisional Living

+

+

Screamo with a lot of indie rock influence. Pretty raw.

+

Release date: 2024-06-03

+

[7.4/10]

+

FUJI||||||||||TA - MMM

+

+

Unsettling ambient / drone / experimental music. TBH I enjoy iki much more than this one.

+

Release date: 2004-11-16

+

[7.0/10]

+

Wisp - Pandora

+

+

Shoegaze. Don’t really get the hype.

+

Release date: 2024-04-05

+

[6.5/10]

+

toe - Now I See the Light

+

+

Better than Hear You but still not nearly as good as For Long Tomorrow or their first album.

+

Release date: 2024-07-10

+

[6.0/10]

+

Houston We Have a Problem - The Sky Did Not Crack and the Stars Did Not Fall

+

+

Raw, emotional post-rock-ish screamo. Stumbled upon them when trying to find reference for a new band I want to do, this probably isn’t it.

+

Release date: 2014

+

[5.5/10]

+
+ +]]>
+ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-09-06-july-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2024 June Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-07-20-june-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on July 20, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Charli XCX - brat

+

+

Is this her best album yet?

+

Release date: 2024-06-07

+

[8.7/10]

+

Kevin - Laundry

+

+

Sadcore / folk. This is precisely my kind of jam.

+

Release date: 2024-03-13

+

[8.6/10]

+

Actress - Statik

+

+

Hazy ambient techno. To be honest I like this more than last year’s LXXXVIII

+

Release date: 2024-06-07

+

[8.6/10]

+

ZULI - Lambda

+

+

Extremely subdued post-industrial ambient club. It’s very different from hard-hitting club music he’s been known for. This one has a Coby Sey feature so you know it’s good.

+

Release date: 2024-07-05

+

[8.5 /10]

+

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown

+

+

Exquisite folk album. Majestic songwriting.

+

Release date: 2024-05-17

+

[8.4/10]

+

Thou - Umbilical

+

+

Good. I don’t think they’ve ever slowed down on this one, which makes this one probably their most unrelenting album yet. Earlier albums would have some more mellow moments, this one just makes me wanna punch air the whole time.

+

Release date: 2024-05-31

+

[8.4/10]

+

Iceboy Violet, Nueen - You Said You’d Hold My Hand Through the Fire

+

+

Minimalistic abstract rap. This is probably the most exquisitely crafted break-up albums I’ve heard in a long time.

+

Release date: 2024-06-07

+

[8.3/10]

+

Fennesz, Jim O’Rourke - It’s Hard for Me to Say I’m Sorry

+

+

Lingering electronic ambient.

+

Release date: 2016-06-24

+

[8.2/10]

+

Sumac - The Healer

+

+

Unforgiving experimental sludge metal / post-metal. Four tracks all exceeding 12 minute mark, all heavy AF.

+

Release date: 2024-07-19

+

[8.2/10]

+

Ebi - Space Teddy Collection

+

+

Acid dub techno from late ambient master Susumu Yokota. Still very danceable, still very dope.

+

Release date: 2022-01-03

+

[8.2/10]

+

Racine - Boue

+

+

Gritty , glitched out experimental club / post-industrial music. This sounds like stuff my friend would dig. I enjoy it quite a bit, but I think Amerites, which came out in 2022, had more memorable moments.

+

Release date: 2024-03-24

+

[8.1/10]

+

L.B. Dub Corp - Saturn to Home

+

+

Dub house. The first half is more club friendly, drenched-in-reverb melodic dub, and after that the beats get a lot more intense, which is more to my liking.

+

Release date: 2024-05-24

+

[7.8/10]

+

Basic Channel - Quadrant Dub

+

+

First side is dub second side is house. I like dub more than house. A landmark release, I can definitely see why this is so influential but at the same time in 2024 there are already things that are more intense / captivating than this.

+

Release date: 1994-04-01

+

[7.6/10]

+

王若琳 - 破爛酒店

+

+

Eclectic art pop / lo-fi cabaret pop. It’s always awesome to see Taiwanese artists get great reviews, and I think this album deserves it. It’s just I’m past the age when I would enjoy this kind of music.

+

Release date: 2024-05-07

+

[7.6/10]

+

Yaya Bey - Ten Fold

+

+

Neo soul / r&b. Production is pretty good and the songs are well written, but I’m just never really that into this kind of music, where the groove has to take the time backseat. Live shows are probably really awesome though.

+

Release date: 2024-05-10

+

[7.5/10]

+

Kamasi Washington - Fearless Movement

+

+

I think everyone on this album showed up but it just doesn’t have that same kind of epicness in his first two albums. This is more like really well produced contemporary jazz music, great players, great songwriting, but not really sound that sticks.

+

Release date: 2024-05-03

+

[7.5/10]

+

Various Artists - Someone Like Me

+

+

Folk country music compilation. Individually they all sounded alright, but I feel like it’s music that you’d hear when you walk into a thrift shop.

+

Release date: 2024-04-26

+

[7.3/10]

+

Dos Monos - Dos Atmos

+

+

I guess their bars are still tight but the instrumentals just aren’t as far out there as in Dos City. Dos City was rad.

+

Release date: 2024-05-31

+

[7.0/10]

+

Galcher Lustwerk - Lustwerk III

+

+

Pretty standard dub techno. In other words, pretty meh.

+

Release date: 2024-05-31

+

[6.0/10]

+
+ +]]>
+ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-07-20-june-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2024 April & May Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-05-29-april-and-may-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on May 29, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Still House Plants - If I Don’t Make It, I Love U

+

+

Warbly jazzy post-rock with R&B vocals. Sick album. Every track is worth recommending.

+

Release date: 2024-04-12

+

[8.9/10]

+

Dip Friso - Dip Friso

+

+

Drunk bedroom indietronica. Hazy lo-fi music, I like this a lot.

+

Release date: 2024-03-01

+

[8.4/10]

+

samlrc - A Lonely Sinner

+

+

Lo-fi post-rock / shoegaze. FFO Weatherday. One dude on RYM said it’s deathconsciousness for furries and I kinda agree.

+

Release date: 2024-03-08

+

[8.4/10]

+

Lanark Artefax - Metallur

+

+

Hits just as hard as the last one.

+

Release date: 2024-03-20

+

[8.4/10]

+

Not Waving, Romance - Infinite Light

+

+

This is just as good as the last one. Ambient bliss.

+

Release date: 2024-05-03

+

[8.4/10]

+

claire rousay - sentiment

+

+

Low + Organ Tapes. I love her earlier, much more experimental work, but I also love emo and slowcore.

+

Release date: 2024-04-19

+

[8.3/10]

+

Ulla, Ultrafrog - It Means A Lot

+

+

Abstract shoegazy ambient.

+

Release date: 2024-04-12

+

[8.2/10]

+

Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

+

+

Indie folk. Normally I’m not too excited about this kind of music but this is pretty awesome.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[8.2/10]

+

Serengeti - KDIV

+

+

Jazz-hop. Gotta follow the Kenny Dennis story arc… Also sick beats by Kenny Segal. Sulfjan Stevens is on this one as well?

+

Release date: 2024-04-05

+

[8.2/10]

+

Sega Bodega - Dennis

+

+

Intimate, dark-club-friendly electro-pop. I really like the lead singles Deer Teeth and Kepko, in fact I think these two are the tracks that really stand out in the end - the other tracks are also pretty good but I don’t think they’re as thoroughly developed as the two lead singles.

+

Release date: 2017-06-16

+

[8.0/10]

+

Bongripper - Empty

+

+

The heaviest band on earth is back.

+

Release date: 1969-06-06

+

[7.8/10]

+

Leon Vynehall - Music for the Uninvited

+

+

Deep house. I like his stuff on DJ Kicks. I think people who like St Germain’s Tourist would dig this.

+

Release date: 2014-03-24

+

[7.9/10]

+

R.J.F.- Strange Going

+

+

Dark minimalist indie pop. Album cover looks like dude having time of his life but songs are gothic and dark AF.

+

[7.7/10]

+

Andrew Pekler, SG - Rain Revisited

+

+

Ambient / modern classical. Quite lovely.

+

Release date: 2024-04-12

+

[7.6/10]

+

Oldboy, Sekwence - Good Guys Don’t Wear White

+

+

I like the beats but Sekwence’s raspy voice doesn’t really do it for me.

+

Release date: 1966-01-01

+

[7.3/10]

+

Ὁπλίτης - Παραμαινομένη

+

+

Prog black metal. This one feels more forced than their previous albums. It features a lot more sax, folk guitars and even a little bit of Dream Theater-ish synth solos but they all sound kind of out of place.

+

Release date: 2024-01-12

+

[6.3/10]

+

Knocked Loose - You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To

+

+

I don’t get the hype around this album. To me it’s very annoying to listen to, those downtuned guitars and open chords and breakdowns just are no longer my thing.

+

Release date: 2024-05-10

+

[5.5/10]

+
+ +]]>
+ Wed, 29 May 2024 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-05-29-april-and-may-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2024 March Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-04-16-march-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on April 16, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Laurel Halo - Octavia

+

+

Haunting ambient. Still so so good.

+

Release date: 2024-03-01

+

[8.7/10]

+

Bill Orcutt - Four Guitars Live

+

+

Blissful contemporary guitar music. This album makes me want to play guitar even more.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[8.6/10]

+

Tujiko Noriko - From Tokyo to Naiagara

+

+

Indie electro-pop. This is more Stereolab than ambient music in her more recent works. A lovely album.

+

Release date: 2004-06-08

+

[8.6/10]

+

Dario Zenker - Reflections

+

+

I’m always gonna front the Zenker brothers. Another stellar dub techno album.

+

Release date: 2023-10-05

+

[8.3/10]

+

Masaka Masaka - Barely Making Much

+

+

Lo-fi IDM. It’s been a while since I last heard IDM that’s actually good.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[8.2/10]

+

Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field

+

+

Soothing piano music. This sounds more conventional than I thought it would be.

+

Release date: 2024-03-29

+

[7.7/10]

+

Jlin - Akoma

+

+

Experimental footwork. I feel like whatever Jlin does they all sound kind of similar, it will have unsettling beats and any melodic elements will be used as rhythmic tools instead of providing their own motif.

+

Release date: 2024-03-22

+

[7.6/10]

+

Shygirl - Club Shy

+

+

Clubby dance pop that brings it back to the 00’s.

+

Release date: 2024-03-01

+

[7.3/10]

+

Zazen Boys - らんど

+

+

This is one of their least chaotic album to date. To be frank I enjoy the noisier stuff more.

+

Release date: 2024-01-24

+

[7.0/10]

+

Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet

+

+

Loma Prieta sans the chaotic riffs. Only the vocals sounds skramz-y, the other things are more like modern, atmospheric post-hardcore. Quite melodic but no real hard hitters here.

+

Release date: 2024-03-29

+

[6.8/10]

+

Geotic - The Anchorite

+

+

This is what it would sound like if Roy Montgomery does big chords country ambient.

+

Release date: 2024-02-21

+

[6.3/10]

+
+ +]]>
+ Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-04-16-march-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2024 February Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-03-13-february-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on March 13, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Material Girl - Izumi Hazuki End of Days

+

+

The jungle / hip-hop producer dropped a new one with a lot of indie rock last year. It was very good.

+

Release date: 2023-11-15

+

[8.6/10]

+

Hysterical Love Project - Lashes

+

+

Downtempo / shoegaze. I love this so much..

+

Release date: 2023-03-21

+

[8.5/10]

+

betcover!! - 卵

+

+

This is probably my favorite album of theirs. It’s got just the right amount of flair without making the whole thing sounding like a jumble of underdeveloped ideas.

+

Release date: 2022-12-21

+

[8.3/10]

+

Maya Shenfeld - Under the Sun

+

+

Electro-acoustic synth music / neoclassical. Surreal and sad. Love it.

+

Release date: 2024-01-19

+

[8.3/10]

+

Speaker Music - Techxodus

+

+

Experimental techno. I’m gonna buy his book.

+

Release date: 2023-09-08

+

[8.3/10]

+

Erika de Casier - Still

+

+

Y2K R&B. Sounds dope.

+

Release date: 2024-02-21

+

[8.2/10]

+

Kim Gordon - The Collective

+

+

No-wave noise guitars on trap / industrial beats. Pretty cool stuff.

+

Release date: 2024-03-08

+

[8.1/10]

+

Porcelain - Porcelain

+

+

I would tell my kids that they are Unwound. Well a little less experimental and more hardcore-y, but the similarity is definitely there. Looking forward to what they are up to next.

+

Release date: 2007-06-04

+

[7.8/10]

+

Stik Figa, The Expert - Ritual

+

+

Conscious jazz-rap. The lyrics is fire, the beats are mid though.

+

Release date: 1990-08-21

+

[7.6/10]

+

William Doyle - Springs Eternal

+

+

This one has that Elvis Costello kind of vibe to it. Not bad but also not a huge fan of it.

+

Release date: 2024-02-16

+

[6.9/10]

+

Goyard Ibn Said - Goyard Comin’: Exordium

+

+

Ghais Guevara’s alter ego. Compared to the main persona this one’s more clout driven, but still has its serious moments.

+

Release date: 2023-07-09

+

[6.6/10]

+

The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist

+

+

The Dillinger Escape Plan with a bunch more samples and melodic passages. Not gonna lie but this is kind of annoying…

+

Release date: 2022-09-02

+

[6.0/10]

+
+ +]]>
+ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-03-13-february-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2024 January Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-02-09-january-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on February 9, 2024 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

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]

+ +

+

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]

+
+ +]]>
+ Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2024-02-09-january-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2023 Year End List + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-12-31-year-end-list.html + +
+ Posted on December 31, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

今年最愛專輯

+

Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit

+

+

最近很少聽到這種既絲滑又幽默的音樂了,有的話也沒有跟這個一樣耐聽。段落不停切換,節奏跌宕起伏,真的很讚。

+

年終榜

+

Sprain - Lamb as Effigy (9.1)

+
    +
  • 這麼好的樂團怎麼就這樣解散了……
  • +
+

Laurel Halo - Atlas (9.0)

+

Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World (9.0)

+
    +
  • 我自認不是YTL的鐵粉,不知道這張專輯在真正的粉絲眼中到底算是如何?感覺這張討論度其實不太高,但這張是真的好聽。
  • +
+

Celestaphone - Paper Cut From the Obit (8.8)

+

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips (8.8)

+

Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding (8.8)

+

Grischa Lichtenberger - Works for Last Work (8.7)

+
    +
  • 我覺得他被嚴重低估了。
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+

yeule - softscars (8.6)

+

空間現代 - Tracks (8.6)

+

Romance - Fade Into You (8.6)

+
    +
  • Hauntology music in 2023.
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+

Sampha - Lahai (8.6)

+

Kali Malone, Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton - Does Spring Hide Its Joy (8.5)

+
    +
  • 其實我覺得這張我沒有聽得很熟,聽得更熟的話可能會更愛吧?
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+

Lucinda Chua - Yian (8.5)

+

Richard Skelton - selenodesy (8.5)

+

Mandy, Indiana - I’ve Seen a Way (8.5)

+

Radian - Distorted Rooms (8.4)

+

Kelela - Raven (8.4)

+

bar italia - Tracey Denim (8.4)

+

King Gizzard and Lizard Wizard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse (8.4)

+

Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réel (8.4)

+

Maria BC - Spike Field (8.4)

+

Not Waving - The Place I’ve Been Missing (8.4)

+

Squid - O Monolith (8.4)

+

David Edren, H. Takahashi - Flow (8.3)

+

LA Timpa - Pity by One All Good Treasure (8.3)

+
    +
  • 雖說這張是2022就出了,但我是今年才聽到的,這樣應該也算數吧。
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+

Pavel Milyakov - project mirrors (8.3)

+

Midwife, Vyva Melinkolya - Orbweaving (8.3)

+

Kate NV - Wow (8.3)

+

Youth Lagoon - Heaven is a Junkyard (8.3)

+

L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog (8.3)

+

Lost Girls - Selvutsletter (8.3)

+

Black Thought, El Michels Affair - Glorious Game (8.3)

+

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation (8.3)

+

Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full On (8.3)

+

McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz? (8.3)

+
    +
  • 我後來一直聽這張,覺得當初應該要把他排高一點的…
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+

Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean - Obsession Destruction (8.3)

+

Grant Chapman - Indentations (8.2)

+

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy (8.2)

+

Rian Treanor & Ocen James - Saccades (8.2)

+

Ital Tek - Timeproof (8.2)

+

Tirzah - trip9love…??? (8.2)

+

Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation (8.2)

+

Krallice - Porous Resonance Abyss (8.2)

+

Ὁπλίτης - Τρωθησομένη (8.2)

+

JPEGMAFIA, Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES (8.2)

+

SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (8.2)

+

Thantifaxath - Hive Mind Narcosis (8.2)

+

Sightless Pit - Lockstep Bloodwar (8.2)

+

Tim Hecker - No Highs (8.1)

+

Joanne Robertson - Blue Car (8.1)

+

billy woods, Kenny Segal - Maps (8.1)

+

The Body - I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant (8.1)

+

Dustin Wong - Perpetual Morphosis (8.1)

+

Headache - The Head Hurts but the Heart Knows the Truth (8.1)

+

slowthai - UGLY (8.1)

+

Godflesh - Purge (8.1)

+

M. Sage, Zander Raymond - Parayellowgram (8.1)

+

38 Spesh, Conway the Machine - Speshal Machinery (8.1)

+

upsammy - Germ in a Population of Buildings (8.1)

+

ANOHNI and the Johnsons - My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross (8.1)

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+ +]]>
+ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-12-31-year-end-list.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2023 November Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-12-09-november-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on December 9, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Rainy Miller & Space Afrika - A Grisaille Wedding

+

+

Ambient drill / trip-hop / spoken word. I love this album a lot.

+

Release date: 2023-11-16

+

[8.8/10]

+

Colleen - Le jour et la nuit du réel

+

+

Synth music with a lot of delays. When I first listened to this I wasnt paying attention and thought it’s ok but not something really spectacular, but then I stopped doing things and listened and it was truly magical.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.4/10]

+

L’Rain - I Killed Your Dog

+

+

Indie dream-pop / neo-soul. Wonky but tender, generally just a great pop album.

+

Release date: 2023-10-13

+

[8.3/10]

+

Lost Girls - Selvutsletter

+

+

While Menneskekollektivet is epic, brooding and more “serious”, Selvutsletter is pure dark avant-pop goodiness.

+

Release date: 2023-10-20

+

[8.3/10]

+

Black Thought, El Michels Affair - Glorious Game

+

+

Cconscious hip-hop. The beats are sick and the flows are dope.

+

Release date: 2023-04-14

+

[8.3/10]

+

Niecy Blues - Exit Simulation

+

+

Ambient / R&B / downtempo. It sounds like a weird combination, but it actually makes sense.

+

Release date: 2023-11-10

+

[8.3/10]

+

M. Sage, Zander Raymond - Parayellowgram

+

+

Ambient cosmic jazz. Reminds me of some of Tortoise’s subtler tracks on TNT.

+

Release date: 2023-09-15

+

[8.1/10]

+

38 Spesh, Conway the Machine - Speshal Machinery

+

+

Conscious hip-hop. The Benny the butcher feature track is dope AF. I been digging Conway the Machine a lot and this project does not disappoint.

+

Release date: 2023-09-08

+

[8.1/10]

+

Sleep Sinatra, TELEVANGEL - Incorruptible Saints

+

+

Boom-bap / jazz-rap.

+

Release date: 2023-06-20

+

[7.9/10]

+

Aesop Rock - Integrated Tech Solutions

+

+

Abstract hip-hop. The forte of this album is definitely his lyrics, most of all his ability to pin down the snippets of things that are simply beyond the grasp of seemingly ubiquitous technological domination. Even though the title is Integrated Tech Solutions, the songs are about the copmlete opposite. As for production I think the individual tracks are pretty good, but 15+ songs with very similar BPMs, grimey rhythms and bass synths, after like 5 songs it gets repetitive.

+

Release date: 2023-11-10

+

[7.6/10]

+

Cameron Graham - Becoming a Beach Angel

+

+

Colorful percussive synth music.

+

Release date: 2023-08-18

+

[7.5/10]

+

Ragana - Desolations Flower

+

+

Post black metal. It’s alright.

+

Release date: 2023-10-27

+

[6.8/10]

+

Danny Brown - Quaranta

+

+

The first half was pretty good, the second was kinda lackluster.

+

Release date: 2023-11-17

+

[6.6/10]

+

André 3000 - New Blue Sun

+

+

New age improv / ambient. I like the tracks where the flaut isn’t so up front better, like the third and fourth track. The album as a whole feels kind of drawn out, the ideas just take too long to develop into interesting things and when that happens it is also not really that interesting. That said I’ll still be looking out for André’s coming up releases and see what he brings to the table.

+

Release date: 2023-11-17

+

[6.6/10]

+

Shabazz Palace - Robed in Rareness

+

+

At this point I don’t know if this album’s low effort or Black Up is just an anomaly.

+

Release date: 2023-10-27

+

[5.3/10]

+
+ +]]>
+ Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-12-09-november-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2023 October Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-11-11-october-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on November 11, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Sprain - Lamb as Effigy

+

+

Experimental post-noise rock / drone. Strong AOTY candidate.

+

Release date: 2023-09-01

+

[9.1/10]

+

Sampha - Lahai

+

+

I love basically every track on this album.

+

Release date: 2023-10-20

+

[8.6/10]

+

Marica BC - Spike Field

+

+

Spectral, melancholic dream pop / folk. Compared to Hyaline this one features lusher instrumentation and is overall better produced. The songs are incredibly well written. Great album! FFO Grouper and Midwife.

+

Release date: 2023-10-20

+

[8.4/10]

+

Klara Lewis & Nik Colk Void - Full On

+

+

FFO Curd Duca, Actress. Abstract collage music.

+

Release date: 2023-06-30

+

[8.3/10]

+

McKinley Dixon - Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?

+

+

Jazz-rap / conscious hip-hop. A great album! Awesome jazz beats and awesome lyrics.

+

Release date: 2023-06-02

+

[8.3/10]

+

Shygirl - Nymphs

+

+

Hypnogogic R&B / trap. FFO Sega Bodega.

+

Release date: 2022-09-30

+

[8.3/10]

+

SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite

+

+

It’s like the Knobs or collector//emitter pedal demos extended to be a standalone album. Dreamy lo-fi guitar ambient music.

+

Release date: 2023-10-06

+

[8.2/10]

+

Maral - Ground Groove

+

+

Sprawling lo-fi industrial dub, or “folk club” as the artist described her music. Maral is an Iranian-American artist, and a lot of the samples on this album is from her personal archive of Iranian folk, pop & classical albums.

+

Release date: 2022-10-18

+

[8.2/10]

+

Model/Actriz - Dogsbody

+

+

Angular post-punk. I like the last track, which is the most tranquil track among the album.

+

Release date: 2023-02-24

+

[8.0/10]

+

Various Artists - V4 Visions: Of Love & Androids

+

+

House / funk / R&B. Basically 90’s music. I like the R&B cuts on the first disc.

+

Release date: 2022-03-11

+

[7.6/10]

+

The Armed - Perfect Saviors

+

+

Poppy alternative punk. Not nearly as explosive as Ultrapop, instead this is much more in line with the usual alt-rock path.

+

Release date: 2023-08-25

+

[7.3/10]

+

Oneohtrix Point Never - Again

+

+

Compared to his earlier stuff this is extremely safe.

+

Release date: 2023-09-29

+

[6.8/10]

+

Lee Gamble - Models

+

+

Ambient pop. The vocals on this album is generated by AI. The theme he’s exploring on this album is very Hauntological, but I’d say it’s something one have to do some extra digging to find out.

+

Release date: 2023-07-06

+

[6.7/10]

+

Eartheater - Powder

+

+

Art pop / experimental R&B. I think there are just too many producers on this album, making this album lacking a bit in terms of songwriting coherence, and sounding more like it’s from a generic pop artist that claims to be avant garde but doesn’t really know what they’re doing. There are cool tracks here and there, but as a whole it’s just a bit too all over the place.

+

Release date: 2023-09-20

+

[6.6/10]

+

Sofia Kourtesis - Madres

+

+

Club-friendly electro-pop.

+

Release date: 2023-10-27

+

[6.3/10]

+

James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven

+

+

UK garage. While I still don’t really dig the minimal dubstep / r&b fusion sound he’s going for all that much, this is a breath of fresh air compared with his previous more pop oriented albums.

+

Release date: 2023-09-08

+

[6.1/10]

+
+ +]]>
+ Sat, 11 Nov 2023 00:00:00 UT + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-11-11-october-listenings.html + Tsung-Ju Lii +
+ + 2023 September Listenings + http://usefulalgorithm.github.io/posts/2023-10-11-september-listenings.html + +
+ Posted on October 11, 2023 + +
+ + Tags: + +
+
+

Laurel Halo - Atlas

+

+

Impressionist neo-classical / ambient jazz. Postmodern Joe Hisashi is what came to mind. Love virtually every track on this album.

+

Release date: 2023-09-26

+

[9.0/10]

+

Armand Hammer - We Buy Diabetic Test Strips

+

+

Abstract conscious hip-hop. The lyrics on this album is, like, really out there…

+

Release date: 2023-09-29

+

[8.8/10]

+

Grischa Lichtenberger - Works for Last Work

+

+

Modern composition. I dig this a lot.

+

Release date: 2023-04-16

+

[8.7/10]

+

yeule - softscars

+

+

Glitch pop / dream pop. While not sounding as distinct / left-field as Glitch Princess, this is simply a really good pop album with banger songs.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.6/10]

+

Radian - Distorted Rooms

+

+

Minimal electronic noir-jazz. Love this stuff.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.4/10]

+

Tirzah - trip9love…???

+

+

Minimalist downtempo pop. People are saying it’s somewhat repetitive but I don’t think so at all - when the loops are so nice it’s not repetitive, it’s just pretty good.

+

Release date: 2023-09-05

+

[8.2/10]

+

Loraine James - Gentle Confrontation

+

+

IDM / drill and bass. Love the songs on this one.

+

Release date: 2023-09-22

+

[8.2/10]

+

The Body - I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant

+

+

Drone metal / industrial. The first half of this album is basically their identically named album from ~10 years ago remade (or is it just remastered?) The original sound is heavier and more unforgiving whilst this one sounds a lot more refined. Second half is what was going to become a companion album to the aforementioned album, and to me it is a lot more industrial / hip-hop leaning.

+

Release date: 2023-06-30

+

[8.1/10]

+

Ὁπλίτης - Ψευδομένη

+

+

Like the other album this one’s also pretty good. It’s a bit less thrash and a bit more prog though in my opinion.

+

Release date: 2023-01-01

+

[8.0/10]

+

Jeff Rosenstock - HELLMODE

+

+

Probably one of the best pop punk albums I’ve heard in a long time.

+

Release date: 2023-08-31

+

[8.0/10]

+ +

+

I’d say this is their groove metal album, the riffs are more melodic at the expense of soaring guitar solos. Hopefully they stick around and Takafumi Matsubara is able to stay healthy.

+

Release date: 2023-09-15

+

[7.4/10]

+

Haunter - Please Understand

+

+

Droning shoegaze music. Some songs have riffs that had me think of the nu metal drop D riffs.

+

Release date: 2019-07-22

+

[7.3/10]

+

Nerves Baddington - No Survivor

+

+

Drum and bass / industrial hip-hop. Pretty grim sounding.

+

Release date: 2023-06-16

+

[7.2/10]

+

what is your name? - My Name Is…

+

+

Indie rock / midwest emo.

+

Release date: 2023-09-23

+

[7.0/10]

+

Croatian Amor - A Part of You in Everything

+

+

Ambient techno. It’s OK I guess…

+

Release date: 2023-05-26

+

[6.8/10]

+
+ +]]>
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