(((O))) Category: Reviews

Jerome Froese – Sunsets in Stereo

That’s how incredible Jerome really is. He wants to prove himself that he’s more than just a member of Tangerine Dream.

Cover of Gentle Brontosaurus album Three Hares, showing an drawing of a rabbit drinking at a pond, his reflection, and a skeleton of a rabbit to the side

Gentle Brontosaurus – Three Hares

Three Hares is lovely and listenable, with many pleasing details. It’s almost too pretty to feel heartfelt, but fans of sweet folk-pop will find much to enjoy.

Kiiōtō – Black Salt

It is more of an acoustic take of the original, full of the electronic side of trip hop, and if it was out of  Kiiōtō’s comfort zone, maybe they should stay out of it for a while.

Grice – Filter

It is challenging, yes, but it’s given an astonishing point of wonder and unexpected sceneries that’ll keep you going back more and more to see and hear of what you’ve been missing.

Sunglasz Vendor – ‘Guilty Pleasure’

Flipping its intensity (and volume) up and down throughout its short 3:15 runtime, the track has all the hooks of a soon-to-be-classic indie rock song, but isn’t shy to slice with its experimental edges.

Lightning Bolt / OOIOO – The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral

Literally a game of two halves, this release. For the Lightning Bolt half, it’s another blast of sublime aural extreme greatness.

Trimmo – Arizona

This ‘Arizona’ might not be full of sand, but it is these seemingly small grains of music that make it sound quite big, actually.

VLMV – There Will Come Soft Rains

This is at times a mournful listen, but the songs may offer a little hope to lost souls, with their ornate beauty.

Gout – Actual Bastard

Actual Bastard brings hopelessness, self doubt, nihilism, psychic dread, social anxiety and all yer best boys over for a bag of cans and a pitch black laugh.

Aziola Cry – Dysphoria Ritual

These compositions within the six tracks that is on here, blend in their maturity and distinctive voices throughout their arrangements.

Conic Rose – Wedding

It seems that Conic Rose has further perfected their craft of bringing some fresh air to current modern jazz trends.

Jacob Roberge – The Passing

The Passing is quite the emotional ride with unbelievable results and wonderous sense of arrangements Jacob has brought to the fold.

Crippled Black Phoenix – Sceaduhelm

This album truly lifted my spirit and is a contender for album of the year.

The Heads – yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell

Two decades on from their last album, The Heads fifth is a heady stew of the sounds that make them such a vital force in psychedelic music.

Loula Yorke (feat Charlotte Jolly) – Salix

The music is like a willow dipping its boughs in a stream, turning its leaves in the wind like a shoal.

Angine de Poitrine – Vol. II

The second volume gets even wacky, dadaist, crazy, insane, and brilliant in a way those two guys can show how much wonderful music can come out of the Great White North.

Aggressive Perfector – Come Creeping Fiends

If you like metal, then this album is for you. It’s unabashed in its delivery, and more fun than an afternoon eating pizza, watching Return Of The Living Dead 3.

Green Carnation – A Dark Poem, Part II: Sanguis

Sanguis is harder, edgier, powerful, and it still manages to see what the band will do next for the third and final chapter in the Dark Poem saga that waits for us.

Sugar Horse – Not A Sound In Heaven

Sugar Horse pull off the unlikely feat of sounding like OMD and Ministry at the same time.

Immolation – Descent

It’s an album which towers tall over the recent death metal revival and shows how it should be done.

Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore – Tragic Magic

You feel as if you’re watching the duo, pouring their heart and soul into the album and bringing all of these wonders to life to make sure they’ve got it all down to a T.

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