Half casual background music, half beautiful compositions. Half IDM glitches and soft noizes, half soulful house. Perfect soundtrack for a rainy day.
Nuage – Prints of You
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.
Death By Stereo – If Looks Could Kill, I’d Watch You Die
Best album title.
Fear Factory – Genexus
Ladies and gentlemen, the new Fear Factory album has landed. Does what it has to do. I love that it has both the drilling industrial metal speed and the singed verses at the same time. I’m not saying that it’s good that it’s like the old times. It is new times it’s just still fucking great. See you guys in Vienna in november!
Kimyan Law – Daimyo Vip / Lavish / Chai
OMG, this. Slow to mid tempo, deep basslines, and Chai is so beautiful. Something to re-listen many times.
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.
Urceus Exit – Contra [Bonus Tracks and Remixes]
This is something unexpected that popped up in the dark electro-industrial station on Rdio with a track and listening through the whole album was well worth doing so. I will be interested to check out the full discography of Urceus Exit now. Has something like the same stumble upon experience when I came across VAST back at the time.
Electronic, melodic, something underground something, but could not be more specific than that. It just feels deeply personal and intimate.
Cradle Of Filth – Hammer of the Witches
Just one post ago I wrote about Karyn Crisis creating the metal album of 2015 and now after quite some days of listening to the new Cradle of Filth ablum on repeat I am seriously thinking: may 2015 be an year of metal? There is also a Fear Factory record in the works, Disturbed seems promising, and strange to say but Bullet for My Valentine released three very much okay singles so far.
So, as for Cradle of Filth. This album truly resembles the greatest days when I listened to a lot of speedy metal like this, and this was around the gloriuos times of Cruelty & The Beast. Actually I wonder what the whole ablum would be withouth the track “Deflowering the Maidenhead, Displeasuring the Goddess”, because this one is like poison infecting my mind and the chorus hooks come back to me throughout the day always wanting a re-listen.
I least expected to be totally addicted to a CoF album this year but this one deserves some replays. Would be great to catch a live show this year with this lineup and some of the new tracks.
Karyn Crisis’ Gospel of the Witches – Salem’s Wounds
It’s hard to find words if there are any. Karyn Crisis created the best metal album of 2015 and I have few doubts it will be successfully challenged in second half of the year. Will try to add some more articulated thoughts later when I will have listened to it ten more times and carefully digested the lyrics as well.
Professor Kliq – The Scientific Method, Vol. III
Electronic music but sounds much live, although the Bandcamp page clearly says what tools were used. Hiphop tempo mostly, soft edges, cool atmosphere, some lounge, some dancefloor, definitely music for the summer.
I have developed some hook on this album, been listening to it for the past few days and it is really pleasant for work, home entertainment and chilling out, too. Don’t get me wrong this is not just background music, there’s a lot detail if you pay attention. Great compositions all over, good choice of instruments, pleasant on the level of !K7 quality, resembles some Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tosca stuff et al.
I just noticed one thing, worth noting: “All original works have been released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license.” Wow.