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
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.
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.
Biosphere – The Way of Time
This is an amazingly good ambient record. I haven’t been so enthusiastic about a piece of ambient release for a long time. Maybe it’s because in the age of “everyone’s a musician” and “AI generated shit”, it’s so easy to flood the web with cheap drones and low tempo loops and slap ambient on it. Then something like the Etna Sessions, the HYbr:ID series, or this album comes along, and there’s no explanations needed, I instantly feel the difference a real artist and craftsman of ambient music makes.
Mitch Murder – Hurricane
Liquid drum and bass. This music and this album cover is an exceptionally strong mood.
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Hello Meteor – The Oahu GP 3: Factory Team
It’s the breakbeat I love and remember done now, with some big beat, drum and bass, and video game sound aesthetics. This is such a fun album from the music through the concept to the cover art.