Just until now I didn’t know this thing even exists. Two tracks, 12 minutes each. It is an epic.
Massive Attack vs Burial – Four Walls / Paradise Circus
Moby & the Void Pacific Choir – These Systems Are Failing
What. The. Fuck. Is. This. From Moby? It’s like a remixed EBM album with some synth melodies and aggressive drum machines beating the shit out of a Japanese kawaii fangirl. This is totally not expected, and what is bad about that is I totally cannot tell whether it’s sincere or just faking being young and all.
Btw, Moby’s appearing and playing that role in Blunt Talk does not help at all.
Nicolas Jaar – Sirens
Two tracks (The Governor and Three Sides of Nazareth) on this album are completely off here that you don’t see coming, and still, crown jewel. Ambience, electronic music, rythm of dub (in No), and then these two post-punkish upbeat things I cannot really classify into a genre.
VNDL – Gahrena: Structures
Part intimate, part exploration. Ambient and glitches and noises.
Volkova Sisters - Blood Shapes This Faith
It is so strange that this is Volkova Sister’s first long player and it only dropped this year. Feels like they have been around for a long time and have put out much more, like several records. Probably I am biased since I’ve been listening to Dalma’s different bands for the most part of the past decade. And all of them have been a blast, this one’s no different.
Phantogram – Three
This is good pop music.
Xander Harris – California Chrome
Eclectic electronic: retro futurist synthwave, ambient, downtempo, electro, jumpig back and forth. That said it is not a very coherent album, but tracks are fine.
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.
Ocoeur – Reversed
Ambient, piano, strings, soft noises, blue beats if any. Music for watching an asteroid impact, penetrate and destroy earth in slow motion. Music to see rain falling backwards by.
Tim Hecker – Love Streams
Experimental compositions for heartache.