The tracks tended to cavort rather than progress across their brief lengths, with no piece out- playing its own enthusiasm, conveying infectious attitude in the spirit of people like The Pixies, Sonic Youth, Andrew Wk and even a dash of The Smiths. Tree of Sores - Tree of Sores. Witchhunter. Trio from Leeds make epic ep of crushing shapeshifting doom. The production might need a bit of beefing to add some more weight, but it's not so necessary. The gnarly grunting basslines and sheer walls of guitar screed morph between solemn chugging and cyclones of kinetic fury with an intrinsically momentous sense of composition. No aimless drift between segments, just pure atmospheric build and howling release. The Rosebuds - Louds Planes Fly Low. Merge. After a decade of writing albums reflecting their developing relationship, The Rosebuds latest comes to some kind of conclusion in documenting their divorce. It's a beautiful, painful listen with the ex- couple swapping vocals over soulful guitar music and occasional flight into disco fancy as they unpack their relationship out of their hearts and minds and onto a soberly platonic plane. An unswervingly bleak and fast storm of metal that whips Death and Thrash into a domineering eye of Blackness choking the air from the speakers as its torrid mass of aggressively writhing riffs pours forth across six relentless tracks.
Advertising Programmes Business Solutions +Google About Google Google.com . Search; Images; Maps; Play; YouTube; News; Gmail; Drive; More. Thee Oh Sees is an American garage rock. The EP was released as a benefit for. Gkfoes vjgoaf - The Joy of Awakening / Healing / Nature Eternal Striving (Inner Islands) / Spirit Dance (Full of Nothing) / Glacial Ways (Self- Released)Rustic, naturalistic and for the most part, humid, except the album devoted to icy water, this Californian born globe- wanderer has found himself addicted to the myriad faunal landscapes of New Zealand and has stopped there for over a year now. Four of these five albums were his own solo work, one with his partner but all follow the same languid path of collaged tapestries of nature recordings, ambient sounds, ethnic instruments and guitar playing into states of organic trance. Dark Castle - Surrender To All Life Beyond Form. Profound Lore. Two- piece boy- girl doom band bring in a whole load of friends including members of Nachtmystium, YOB and . Sounds like both sides of the pond, both sides of the 6. They tried too hard and overbaked it, but Crystal Stilts drive their psychedelic rock through a narrower stretch of darkness and come out with a set of songs that, as edgy and uncomfortable as they are, sit fluently together. Nothing forced or cynically reproduced here. A propulsive post- club world, drawn up from the ground with a bass- heavy bed of warped and foggy drones punctuated by shafts and shards of lighter electronic glitch and melodic throbbing. Doped out into another dimension it unravels longer episodes of faded- bliss garagey- pop with almost glitch like vignettes of loops that cut in and out of the deeper tracts like the jumps in your hypnogogic states. With barely any hooks throughout its reflective textures it was almost the antithesis to the practically danceable debauched revelry of Two Dancers, but that was the key to its greatness. The Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World / Leyland Kirby . Both utterly mesmerising. Holy Other . Craft Spells - Idle Labor. Captured Tracks. Beauty Above All says it all. Another wonderful album from a label that can do no wrong, this one as clear and sharp as cut diamond. No haze, no fog, no dirt, just beautifully clean pop songs loaded with gorgeous melodies and heart- fluttering hooks. Everyone to the Anderson - The Man Born From Inside Of A Horse. Unlabel. Brighton rock band destroys the scene with their long- anticipated full length that bridges post rock and hardcore with a twitchy sense of danger and subtlety that sounds as unlike anything else as much as it does Shellac or Fugazi. Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage. Southern Lord. The final album from this incarnation of WITTR, the closing chapter to a trilogy of albums is also their finest, and a fitting way to go out, disappearing back into the ground that bore them, waiting to be reincarnated in another form when the moment arises. Majestically invoking the feral, harsh, beautiful and feminine spirit of nature, Celestial Lineage Many Black Metal albums strive for this ecological, environmental connectivity but fall way short of what this band can convey. Evoking a sense of claustrophobia in wide open spaces through the combination of it's propulsively dank rhythm section and umbral take of surf riffing, the sunshine is clouded over, the joy occluded as it was with the Paisly Underground psych bands who tinged their technicolour acid trips with a dark paranoia. Recorded with no overdubs and a raw vocal performance, this is a brutally naked feeling album. Vatican Shadow - Kneel Before Religious Icons. Hospital Productions. Dominik Fernow has had a good year as Prurient, in Cold Cave and as Vatican Shadow (and probably a whole load more). It's in the latter incarnation that he produced his most awesome work, right at the start of 2. Playing games like that has me eating out of your hand, but then when you start flipping the switches down on them and a grimy minimal pulse starts oozing out the speakers, caked in the dust of collapsed industry, burning with the dystopian glow of mechanical failure, things really start to get fetishistic. The Antlers - Burst Apart. French Kiss. Brooklyn's Antlers second album could never hope to continue or better the crushing heartbreak of their debut Hospice, so instead they have greated an almost- equal parallel, an inverted version of that swaps the hopelessness of Mortality for that of Relationship. The punk/rock/metal hybrid jams this band kick out are all impossibly infectious stadium- sized cock- rock anthems in waiting, as deadly serious as they are faintly ridiculous. Surfing a wave of distorted electronics and feral guitar lines as its base, the tracks blend in elements of cold- wave, post- punk and garage rock across their course resulting in a stone- cold classic in waiting. Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand + Aluk Todolo . Unclear which band takes the lead in these four grimly tense torch- lit forays into cavernous netherworld of sound, as the eerily foreboding clanging, chanting and dissolving rhythmic patterns could belong to either act's main works, contorting and igniting ideas planted by each other in a hypnotic procession of dark trance. The Advisory Circle - As The Crow Flies. Ghost Box. Radiophonic experimentalism from the renowned Ghost Box label didn't get better than Jon Brook's second album for the imprint. A record of two halves, with the more propulsive explorations taking up a first half combining wyrd folk electronics, Delia Derbyshire hauntology and abstracted kosmiche, with a divergent set of shadowy, very English sounding ambient sci- fi soundtracking on the second, there was a lot to absorb from this . The other vocalists in the outfit . Whilst including passages of misty industrial ambience and space, both those elements only serve to enhance the extremely violent and unrelentingly claustrophobic atmosphere, which is again reinforced through a murky production . By taking their third full length down an even darker more airless avenue they have found a voice and style that demands attention. The near- mythological heroism of the undertaking, coupled with its futility (the sinking cannot ever be stopped) all infuse the epic tone waves ebbing and flowing throughout this album, directing their course through murky passages, shafts of lightness and cruel eddies of distortion with an ever present sense of optimism. The Field - Looping State Of Mind. Kompakt. Axel Willner's third album beautifully eclipses the previous two by gently widening the palette of sounds that make up his already mesmeric meditative minimal techno trance, resulting in an even deeper and more rewarding experience. Expanding the lush throbbing base of loops with the sunset atmospheres of Balearic house and gospel- tinged soul harmonies Willner's organic melding of elements has resulted in an album interwoven with a textural subtlety and density that allows the initial eye- widening impact of the tracks to slowly dilate into an even greater all consuming masterpiece. Released on the label run by Matthewdavid producer Matthew Mc. Queen, solo Belgian artist Fran. Absolutely perfect Summer album, pretty much essential at all other times. Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler/The Dream. In The Red. Possibly John Dwyer's greatest ever Oh Sees album, this just drips Cool out of every sweat soaked pore. Everything that sounds wild- eyed and flailing is also the sound of a composed and measured creator . Whether Dwyer conceived this set of songs during the same epiphany or held on to them over time to load into a succinctly killer album is almost not worth contemplating. Here's a guy who's totally in control even when he seems to be about to lose his shit entirely. Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. Judges. Constellation. Distended, warped surrealist poly- timbral/rhythmic/textural/tonal jazz, Colin Stetson's second solo saxophone record blurs musical boundaries, limitations and expectations as much as the physical senses, and apparently the physical realm in which it is performed. Wreck and Reference - Black Cassette. Self- Release. Old NFR indie- rock favourites Bison disbanded with one member forming this remarkable doomy black metal duo creating one of the most bleakly euphoric albums of the year, eschewing guitars to produce these jaw- dropping results with just synths and electronics. For god’s sake (or other guy) , this is so infectious. Whatever label will works for you, . Label: Yik Yak. Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, White. Country: USReleased: 2. Tracklist. 1 If I Had A Reason 3: 2. Second Date 3: 1. The Pool . Thomas 1: 5. Along The Way. 1: 4. Crime On My Mind 3: 1. Get Thy Bearings ? Rainbow 1: 4. 68 Go Meet The Seed 5: 5. I Can’t Get No 1: 5. Soda St. 1 + 2. Label: Castle Face. Format: 2 . 1. Label: Bruise Cruise Records. Format: Vinyl, 7.
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