The friendly alternative rock band in the neighborhood that you hear over as they are rehearsing in the garage. It’s low-fi, relatable, and genuine.
The Beths – Straight Line Was A Lie
Lorna Shore – The Pain Remains
I can so see the appeal of Lorna Shore and what the massive and dedicated fan base loves about this. I’ve put off listening to them for a long time, and now starting with this. It’s an incredible, heavy-punching deathcore metal album with some symphonic injections. It brutally kicks teeth and grinds, it’s guitars and drums are drilling while the words are spit with barks, but it’s also beautifully emotional and melodic at the same time. This is a classic for sure. It feels like listening to Cradle of Filth for the first time, decades ago. Goosebumps.
TOKiMONSTA – Eternal Reverie
Soulful hiphop, lounging r&b, quality chill-out electronics. It’s such an understated and elegant album, so good to listen to. Perfect soundtrack to a day when I’m just going about my things and want something to keep me smoothly sailing along.
This has quickly become one of the soundtracks of this year, and by yet another fantastic female artist; this is a women’s year, no question about that.
Ductape – Ruh
Post-punk with classic goth vibes. Drum machines and synths, not a rock sound.
Linea Aspera – Preservation Bias
Coldwave. Goth but experimental.
Jimmy Svensson – Beyond The Black
Atmospheric dark ambient. It’s like a movie soundtrack and spans a wide range: creepy, eerie, wondering, whimsical. Makes my imagination run rampant.
I’m currently preparing to GM a Mörk Borg adventure and this is an amazing soundtrack to that setting. It’s dark enough to fit the grim world, but also has so much more layers than just the usual doom metal soundtrack that the canon usually suggests, makes the game atmosphere more versatile.
Client_03 – Testbed_Assembly
This is definitely the best electro album I’ve heard in a long while. Amazing sound. Definitely stands on the shoulders of giants that came before, but sounds current and of very high quality. And I love that with today’s standards it can be considered long, so there’s an hour’s worth of material to listen to.
7038634357 – Waterfall Horizon
Soothing glitchy ambient. Mostly with autotune vocals (amazingly I find it comforting here, while I usually hate it), sometimes with bits of chiptune sounds.
Mammo – General Patterns
Ambient, dub techno, IDM.
Felix K – Berlin
I find it surprising to see “drum and bass” as the main call sign for this music on its Bandcamp page (based on self-tagging and quoted reviews). I would have never used that genre here. If I’m looking for one word in that area then rather dubstep, or I’d rather say broken beat rhythmic noise with a techno aesthetic. Although, maybe the latter is just one way to elaborate what dubstep is.