(((O))) Category: Reviews

Various Artists – Household Objects (And Sundry Massed Gadgets)

This album is not just a tribute to Pink Floyd’s lost experiment; it is a celebration of sound in its purest, most unfiltered form.

She’s Green – Chrysalis EP

She’s Green play these familiar sounds both effectively and gracefully, but they do shuffle them around in a manner that makes that sound quite their own and oh so appealing at the same time.

Malthusian – The Summoning Bell

The Summoning Bell is an album you are going to need to spend time with to really enjoy. The murkiness can feel too much at times but given repeated listens, the music unfurls into something quite dramatic and encompassing.

Alison Goldfrapp – Flux

Flux is another set of glorious pop songs to add to her wonderful back catalogue.

Wolves – Self-Titled

A confident, razor-sharp record that feels both meticulously constructed and dangerously volatile. It’s quite a rare combination, ferocious, fearless, and utterly uncompromising. A band to keep an eye on.

Scardust – Souls

Scardust is quite a revelation when it comes symphonic and classical music, mixed in with powerful riffs, metallic forces, and elements of Edenbridge, Within Temptation, and Nightwish. You can’t go wrong with that.

Manslaughter 777 – God’s World

God’s World is a fantastic album and one that sees Manslaughter 777 elevating their music to an even higher plateau.

Doomsday – Never Known Peace

Fast, mind-blowing sounds, and maximum mosh pits throw in into the mix, Doomsday’s Never Known Peace should be played really, really, really fucking loud!

alice does computer music – bliss

Gerlach tries to make a detailed sense out of it all and comes out of the process with quite some flying colours, skipping the now standard algorithm music discovering system, making it quite a personal one.

Beheaded – Għadam

Progressive, with one foot in the horror genre, and the other in exploring how far they can take the various aspects of death metal.

Duncan Park – Path to the Gallows

If lo-fi instrumental folk sounds like something you’d be interested in, this is an excellent entry point into Duncan Park’s work.

Various Artists – Yeah Man, It’s Bloody Heavy!! Volume 1

Rise Above have scored a home run with Yeah Man, It’s Bloody Heavy to delve into the proto-sounds of early metal and hard rock that deserves to see what you’ve been missing.

ZD Grafters – Chop Club On Road

Chop Club On Road is a reflective meditation. Less grafting, more zoning out this time. 

Leon Todd Johnson – Wa Kei Sei Jaku

What we get is music that is not only suited for a specific time of day, or a tea ceremony for that matter, but something you can play at any time, along with anything you can drink.

Machina Kore – Ghosts Of Everest

Machina Kore have created an impressive debut album that is full of melodic hooks, intelligent song writing and technical musicianship.

Pharaoh Overlord – Louhi

If you’re in the mood for some zone out drone psych it absolutely hits the spot.

Ba’al – The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here

With this record, Ba’al makes a powerful statement: they strike like a forceful maul and leave a lasting echo in the realm of extreme metal.

Boneflower – Reveries

Reveries is an outstanding collection that will be revered in years to come. A contender for album of the year.

Abigail Williams – A Void Within Existence

A Void Within Existence may not break any real genre necessities and ultimately sticks to a USBM template but they do it in a way which deserves attention.

Markus Reuter & Stephan Thelen – Promise of a Better World

This isn’t just a meditated composition, this is a piece where you are free from all of the complicated situations Reuter and Thelen put to the table.

Reginald Omas Mamode IV – Rivière Noire

Throughout, Mamode presents the inventiveness of somebody like Tricky when he is fully focused on creating music.

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