Author Archives: Dæv Tremblay

I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part XII: 919-820

by Dæv Tremblay

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Part III: 1819-1720

Part IV: 1719-1620

Part V: 1619-1520

Part VI: 1519-1420

Part VII: 1419-1320

Part VIII: 1319-1220

Part IX: 1219-1120

Part X: 1119-1020

Part XI: 1019-920

Part XII: 919-820

Eclectic Maybe Band – Reflection in a Mœbius Ring Mirror

74:23
experimental rock, avant-prog
Sheffield, UK
Discus Music

Dury Dava – Dury Dava

69:17
progressive rock, krautrock
Athens, Greece
Inner Ear

Burton Greene, Damon Smith, and Ra Kalam Bob Moses – Life’s Intense Mystery

52:17
free improv
Boston, Massachusetts
Astral Spirits

Boltzmann Brain – Spacesquid Brain

37:24
progressive rock, drone
Germany
Independent

Big, Brave

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I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part XI: 1019-920

by Dæv Tremblay

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Part III: 1819-1720

Part IV: 1719-1620

Part V: 1619-1520

Part VI: 1519-1420

Part VII: 1419-1320

Part VIII: 1319-1220

Part IX: 1219-1120

Part X: 1119-1020

Part XI: 1019-920

Unknown Artist – A Pig’s Head on a Stick

28:15
blackened death metal
France
Standalone Complex

Time Bomb – Equus

11:28
experimental deathcore
Fresno, California
Independent

Good Night Owl – Truthmaster

65:31
progressive metal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independent

Sunday, 26

Krzysztof Drabikowski’s Батюшка (Batjuška) / Batushka – Панихида (Panixida)

42:11
blackened death metal
Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
Independent

Doctor 9 – Doctor 9

34:51
free jazz
Ojai, California
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Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

Friday, 3 January

Ando San – Schemin Season

21:47
math rock, hip-hop
Los Angeles, California
Independent

Karfagen – Birds of Passage

57:04
progressive rock
Ukraine
Caerllysi Music

Ekmeles – A Howl, that Was Also a Prayer

57:36
contemporary classical
New York, New York
New Focus

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Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra – Iron in the Blood

69:45
avant-garde jazz
Sydney, Australia
Earshift Music

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Kaelen Ghandhi, Michael Larocca, and Jonathan Milberger – Bones of a House

46:03
free improvisation
Connecticut
Independent

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I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part X: 1119-1020

by Dæv Tremblay

Part I: 2019-1920

Part II: 1919-1820

Part III: 1819-1720

Part IV: 1719-1620

Part V: 1619-1520

Part VI: 1519-1420

Part VII: 1419-1320

Part VIII: 1319-1220

Part IX: 1219-1120

Part X: 1119-1020

A Constant Knowledge of Death – Volume Ⅲ​b: Cognitive Predation

30:18
progressive metal
Long Beach, California
Independent

Thursday, 27

Andrzej Kowalski Quartet – Abstrakt

63:39
jazz fusion
Warsaw, Poland
Independent

Tuesday, 25

The Haters & Sissy Spacek – Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways

69:33
experimental metal, noise, grindcore
Los Angeles, California
Helicopter

Sissy Spacek & Smegma – Ballast

36:12
experimental metal, noise, grindcore
Los Angeles, California
Helicopter

Hijokaidan & Sissy Spacek –

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16-17, Tiny Planet, Spine Readers, Jeremy Rose, Ekmeles, and Sec

by Dæv Tremblay

16-17 – Phantom Limb (Trost)

Phantom Limb stems from an instrumental recording from 1995 of Naked City-esque noise jazz, to which was superposed a vocal recording in 2018! The result is something that’s at the same time straight out of the nineties and right at home in the twenties’ contemporary music scene. It’s noisy, it’s aggressive, it’s hectic, and it’s all the more beautiful for it!

Tiny Planet – Tiny Planet

Nothing kicks off the year quite like a Panzerballett-lite! While the compositions on the Seattle band’s self-titled debut aren’t near as intellectually strenuous as the jazz-metal legends’ … Read more