Calm, intimate and good for thoughts. Also good for work, inspiration, little candy pieces for brain.
Barnaby Carter – While It Still Blooms
Submerse – Works
Very much soothing glitchy-chilly-heady IDM.
Mark Pritchard – Under the Sun
This. Is. Beautiful. Intimate, soothing, calm, enchanting. And all that without the slightest trace of being cheesy, wearing any fluff or trying to be over the top mainstream chillout. Cannot help to replay right away. This is a gem.
Massive Attack – The Spoils
The video for The Spoils reminds me of the recent video of Oneohtrix Point Never in terms of such minimal use of a movie star for an underground music video. This is still cool.
As for the music. The Spoils is a beautiful and soulful piece. The B side with Ghostpoet mostly sells because it’s Ghostpoet and I love the sound of his voice, but other than that it is really B-side material. Not bad, nevertheless.
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.
Skee Mask – Shred
Triphop tempo, ambient textures, breakbeats. Night time music, atmospheric, feels home.
Esbe – Bloomsday
Came accross this one completely randomly while image searching for ESB and the cover caught my eye. And it turns out to be a triphop-downtempo album, which is just great! Easy going, no moody depth here, just some nice tunes and beats.
Rival Consoles – Howl
Something large and operating with elemental forces, but then switching back and forth between kind and overwhelming. Something in the crossroads of techno, ambient, power noise and idm, in the world of dreamscapes and wonders. Beatiful record.