The new IAMX album is the most beautiful many shades of black. Unexpected, blows me away. Feels like ebony silk flowing through my brain, drops of dark ink running through my veins, escaping light at the crack of a door.
IAMX – Metanoia
Kingbastard – XY34R5 “A Decade of Bastardism!”
Kingbastard celebrates his 10th birthday with this moniker by collecting all his previous releases in one big bundle. First thing to note here: this is a USB drive release, music actually placed on a flash drive, which is placed in a box-set kind of box. Sounds kinda funny but actually it looks surprisingly great. Then he created a compilation of the compilation by selecting 28 tracks, which is then released as a digital album with the same name. It is an awesome collection, quite a pleasure and broad spectrum of styles to dig through.
Booka Shade – Wildest Thing
Soft smooth electro, nice, calming, drives the mind.
Group Rhoda – Out Of Time Out Of Touch
All different kinds of waves from new wave to cold wave with a characteristic tone of post-industrial but with a hint of silliness at certain points.
The Future Sound Of London – Archived 8
Lost and found stuff from the FSoL drawers, low-to-mid tempo electronic explorations, nice bunch of tracks even if just scratches from the past.
Submotion Orchestra – III
Kutmah – Closure
Amazing atmospheres, moody stuff, probably not for the joyful of souls. Kept me stick for the full length and worth some replays.
Fun fact: after the last track here Rdio continued the auto-play with Four Tet – And They All Look Broken Hearted. Spot on.
Nuage – Prints of You
Half casual background music, half beautiful compositions. Half IDM glitches and soft noizes, half soulful house. Perfect soundtrack for a rainy day.
The Black Dog – Neither/Neither
The new Black Dog album provides an equal amount of moody-darkish electronics, some ambient peace and pleasant techno. For the first run I listened to it five times in a row. And still rolling once a day. Something I didn’t see coming and offers a great deal of pleasant surprise.
Dead When I Found Her – Harm’s Way
And one more brilliant album of melodic electro-industrial music that I came across just these days. This kind of music helps a lot to hold on right now.