This is good pop music.
Phantogram – Three
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.
Kangding Ray – Ardent
Dark techno. Yes, please.
Guy Andrews – Our Spaces
Experimenting around electronics this album is heavy, atmospheric, deep, powerful. Has a certain world-creating feel to it like that of the Fuck Buttons, but with certain patches of softness, like a caring god touch the void with hands able to destroy yet also create tender lives.
Thug Entrancer – Arcology
Science-fiction electronic music. I see distant low-poly planets and orbiting geometrical structures but no suns just suble light barely outlining the shapes in the deep space. Best sci-fi music this year so far.
MMTOHS – Luneworks
Slow, ambient, deep techno, intelligent electronic music. Huge soul, embracing, intimate.
Brood Ma – DAZE
Long time no see, kūlt.
Hitting off this year with this experimental flow of deep sounds glued together on an album by Brood Ma. Follows tracks of noize, glitch, bass music, breaks, from slow no-beats to mid-tempo bangers. Not for the dancefloor but for dark clubs. Does not shade your sunshines but lights up your nights.