Gros groupe is a Saguenayan big band who’s released their eponymous jazz full-length in April of 2016. The twelve compositions on Gros groupe go through various genres of jazz music, and is fuelled by a dozen seasoned musicians. Songs range from the funky ‘Angle mort’ to the more experimental ‘Barry’, to the tikilke ‘Hawaï 2.0’. Each track is interesting in its own right, and utterly enjoyable for any fan of jazz music.
Forests is a math post rock band from Singapore, and they released the wonderful Sun Eat Moon Grave Party EP earlier last year. Their brand of emo, indie, … Read more
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Mini-Reviews XLVIII
Krokmitën is a progressive death metal project from Montréal, and Heta is a thirty-six-minute single about how a particle collider – which can somehow disrupt stars -, rips through spacetime, and thus unleashes the most violent, primal instincts of mankind? However utterly insulting to one’s intelligence that concept is, the actual music is all right! It’s nothing groundbreaking, especially for a genre now used to very over-the-top musicianship and out-of-left-field ideas. The riffs themselves are quite mundane, if not exasperating, but the drums sound very raw, and I like that a lot. Throughout the course of the song, you’ll be … Read more
Dave’s Best of 2016
For my personal list, I’ll write about the albums that struck me and that still evoke something when I hear them, or even when I only see their cover art. It’s a very subjective and eclectic list, and shouldn’t be taken as an objective best-of. Instead, I’ll tell you a bit more about what albums I still like, and try to explain why. This list isn’t ranked either; it’s only ordered in alphabetical order of the bands. Let’s move on!
Black Peaks really impressed me, with Statues, which came out in early 2016. And what surprised me even more … Read more
Mini-Reviews XLVII
Baswoom & Stationer is a Polonoportuguese collaboration that gave birth to Depths, a thirty-minute ambient album. The sounds on record are layered, vibrant, and numerous, which really gives it a lush feeling. The seven tracks feel like modern soundtracks: with glitch, electronica, and just a bit of post-rock thrown in. A nice, relaxing album!
Greek progressive black metal Spectral Lore broke their one-year silence with Fossils, an ambient classical album. While Voyager and Gnosis were more tranquil than usual, for the band, this one is the barest and most contemplative one. While I haven’t been blown away by … Read more
Monthly Recommendations: 2016
2016 has been a truly amazing year, in music. I’ve never ceased to be surprised and amazed by discoveries and recommendations from friends and readers of the website. Over the course of twelve months, we’ve picked fifty albums that are more than worth your time. To make things easier, we’ve compiled them all into a huge picture, and we’ll put links to all of these albums in this article, so you don’t have to search the website for every separate recommendation we’ve made.
On top of that, we’ll also be writing personal favourites from our little team. Each person will … Read more