Part intimate, part exploration. Ambient and glitches and noises.
VNDL – Gahrena: Structures
Volkova Sisters - Blood Shapes This Faith
It is so strange that this is Volkova Sister’s first long player and it only dropped this year. Feels like they have been around for a long time and have put out much more, like several records. Probably I am biased since I’ve been listening to Dalma’s different bands for the most part of the past decade. And all of them have been a blast, this one’s no different.
Phantogram – Three
This is good pop music.
Whipper – Shit Love
Perfect press kit says it all: “Debut single of red hot punk for three shitbags from Melbourne.” Best new punk music by far.
Danny & The Darleans – Bug Out
This is a rock record, which definitely doesn’t sound like anything from 2016. It has all the festival jump around rock and roll shake it shake it vibe of all the past ten years and even some of the Beatles in its veins.
Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings
Another good ol’ punk rock record, nothing more and nothing less.
Xander Harris – California Chrome
Eclectic electronic: retro futurist synthwave, ambient, downtempo, electro, jumpig back and forth. That said it is not a very coherent album, but tracks are fine.
Coves – Peel
This one has been sitting in my “play later” list for quite some time. I like it a lot, listened to it several times, but couldn’t put it in a specific drawer in my mind. Now I read a review of the album where it was said to be similar to Garbage and that is a fair point. Although this is how Garbage could sound in 2016, so that’s good, too. I so rarely listen to music nowadays, which could be labelled as classic and simple alternative rock. This is one of those.
VA – Emerging Organisms vol. 5
This is the best compilation album I have heard in quite a while. Didn’t know any of the artists and now have albums queued from all of them. This is a gold mine.
Oneohtrix Point Never did a video for the track Animals starring Val Kilmer. It is so minimal that you are not sure if this is it but still you cannot not watch. Anyhow, I like it.
Pitchfork writes that “Kilmer is falling asleep on the side of a bed”. What did these guys watch? He is clearly listening to the track. That is the best part of the whole thing.