Experimental compositions for heartache.
Tim Hecker – Love Streams
Kangding Ray – Ardent
Dark techno. Yes, please.
Everybody Wants to Rule the World covers
After watching Mr. Robot’s S02E08 and heard Portia Doubleday sing Everybody Wants to Rule the World in a karaoke bar I got totally hooked on the tune and just couldn’t let it go from my head. And since the whole thing started with someone else singing the song and it was not the original Tears For Fears version, I started searching for even more renditions of this track.
This is how I came across the 2014 Spotify Landmark recording of the song with the original band just 30 years after and it’s an awesome video to watch, also the guys just totally kill it even 30 years later. This video is right here below, and then there are some more covers after it that I found interesting.
Spotify Landmark: Tears For Fears plays “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” (in 2014)
Hol Baumann – [Human]
Cyberpunk triphop sci-fi atmosphere thing.
Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas – Mariner
Heavy. Deep. Touching. And all that once again. And again. Powerful. This is nothing I have seen coming, and a beautiful surprise that is.
In a way reminds me of the latest Karyn Crisis record, and that is a good thing. Oh yes, that is a good thing. These records make me believe once again and again that metal is here to stay with me.
The Heavy – Hurt & the Merciless
The best pop album I hear this year so far. And it is such a treat that music like this is released under the roof of Ninja Tune. We all mature together.
The Last Shadow Puppets – Everything You’ve Come To Expect
Moderately interesting pop-rock music but there are some good tracks I cannot deny, like Aviation. The music video of which I cannot make much sense of though.
Tacocat – Lost Time
Summer breeze, pop punk.
Max Richter – Sleep Remixes
Max Richter created a composition called Sleep, which is 8 hours long. There are a few occasions when it is played in its entirety live. Could be one beautiful experience to listen to it played all the way long. Anyhow there is a remixes album with the remixes of three segments making fifteen pieces altogether. It is just wonderful. Although I am always stuck at the first piece called Path 5 and its Mogwai and Digitonal remixes. Stunning, soothing, a cradle, a womb. I haven’t felt this way for an ambient song for a long time.
Guy Andrews – Our Spaces
Experimenting around electronics this album is heavy, atmospheric, deep, powerful. Has a certain world-creating feel to it like that of the Fuck Buttons, but with certain patches of softness, like a caring god touch the void with hands able to destroy yet also create tender lives.