Memory keeper. Mostly music and movies, plus some series and video games. Obscure darkness meets pop culture glow.
Power pop. That kind of band that has a few great and powerful tracks, and then an album packed with the same stuff with minor differences, which feels repetitive. Probably this is the kind of pop music that’s better and just enough in single format. They should write and focus on pop hits and there’s no need to push out a bunch of fillers just to make it a long player’s length worth.
First half is slow tempo electro, or as he says “cold-wave disco throb”. Great background for work or staring out of a window. Then the second half is more like an acid beast along the lines of Nid & Sancy, absolutely love it.
We would have called it trip hop a decade ago, now she labels herself as techno. Things just go around. Thumping rhythm, humming bass, noisy soundscapes, eerie vocals.
It’s like The Knife with more tempo and an industrial touch. Ends up with a cyberpunk soundtrack feel to it.
And another great synthwave game OST, like they’re flocking.
Hecker’s Japanese trip is an elegantly spaced ambient composition. Negative space, Japanese instruments, digital noise, ritual, calm, sacral scents.
Electronic, pop, soul. It’s like the Bristol rework of German nu jazz. Great concept of cover series for the singles and the album.
This is the best piece of retro futuristic synthwave record I heard in a while. I haven’t played the game yet, but definitely makes me want to.
Another totally unexpected turn in 2019. I was never a Rammstein fan per se but always liked many of their songs. Now this album comes and I’m just blown away. There are a lot of stuff in my listening queue right now but just cannot let this one go and I’m listening to it on repeat. Also deepens my strange feeling that I’m coming to like German as a language. On another note, Puppe is super dark gem of creation. It reminds me of hearing Korn’s Daddy for the first time and thinking omfg.
Eerie and beautiful. Couldn’t say whether it’s electronic or not, totally not the appropriate attribute to address this music. I feel some resemblence of Björk, Portishead, and Lamb, but not so much because of the musical style but rather that it has depth filled with meaning and weight. It’s almost not about the music specifically but the attention put into creating these songs and the feelings they invoke.
Also: “recorded in a castle in the countryside and two years in the making”. Both I can hear coming through.
PS: I just realized that Houndstooth is one of my favorite labels.