Somehow I went backwards with Protomartyr’s discography. I can conclude that their first album is just as great as the last one.
Protomartyr – No Passion All Technique
Saint Agnes - Welcome To Silvertown
That Saint Agnes arrived with the debut long player. It is all that good as I expected it to be. Porn level sexualistic dark witchery rock and roll. Also, I’ve come to adoring this woman, Kitty Arabella Austen.
John Digweed – Last Night at Output
Pretty good backdrop music for a long afternoon working session. The mixed version is four and a half hour long roll of uncut house.
Red Axes – Sound Test
The tune in Shabak Shalom gets me hooked like when I couldn’t listen to anything but Forget the Timing on repeat. Fantastic tech house.
King Prawn – The Fabulous New Sounds Of…
KOMPROMAT – Traum Und Existenz
KOMPROMAT is Vitalic and Rebeka Warrior. I don’t really know what this is in terms of genre or style, and it uses the two languages that are pretty remote to me. But listening this on repeat made me start to like German as a language. Wonderful music, moods, colors (of grey). Once it’s an electronic thing, then I have a cognitive hyperlink to Heilung. They themselves say dark and neopunk, Discogs writes electroclash and industrial. Hard to say. But it’s a mandatory listen at the moment.
Ritual Howls – Rendered Armor
I feel this to be the least special of the three albums so far, but that said with having the high bar of Ritual Howls itself in mind.
Let’s give it some context. In 2009 I had this first shock about the resurgence of new and really authentic goth music that came with Led Er Est and O. Children. Then there was this second coming with the likes of Ritual Howls, The KVB, and She Past Away. Nowadays I’m just not surprised anymore that good new goth music can happen. As unlikely as it is, it’s a wonderful thing though.
Ibibio Sound Machine – Doko Mien
Very summer world-pop.
Kincaid feat. Blancmange – Big Fat Head
“You’re going through events from last night in your big fat head.”
Funny house should be a subgenre. Also, the record label is Disco Halal. *smirk
Mdou Moctar - Ilana (The Creator)
Saharan rock, now I know. Although it is somewhat different then rock and more like what indie is to rock—not in a quality sense, but more in a sidestepping different thing sense. On a different note: this cover.