Best Albums of the Month
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Thursday, 6 November
Quivik – Manantial
$9 USD
46:38
art rock
Chimbarongo, Chile
FFO: Adelaida, Tinta China, Chico Bestia
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. El Dolor del Bosque [03:54]
2. Silencio-Ruido [02:20]
3. Las Densas Nubes [03:29]
4. Engañoso Cielo Azul [04:06]
5. Extiendo Mis Manos [03:52]
6. Dónde se ha ido mi alma? [04:30]
7. Dragón Púrpura [04:51]
8. Manantial [05:27]
9. Soy el Sol [05:52]
10. Bruma [04:28]
11. Roxanne (Bonus Track) [03:49]
Rosalía Vila Tobella – Lūx
49:28
art pop
CT, Spain
FFO: Nathy Peluso, Bad Gyal, JUDELINE
Independent
Friday, 7
Astronoid – Stargod
45:13
post-metal
Lowell, Massachusetts
FFO: MØL, Lantlôs, Holy Fawn
Many Hats Distribution
Capyac – Sobbing Ecstasy
$12 USD
37:54
nu disco
Austin, Texas
FFO: Franc Moody, Tuxedo, Roman Kouder
Nettwerk
Tracklist (click to display)1. How the Earth Lies still [00:50]
2. I Won’t Ever Leave You Behind [03:48]
3. U Know Y [03:43]
4. Sexy in my Bodyyy [03:11]
5. FEEEL [02:58]
6. ((( strange pressure ))) [feat. Ciceley Fullylove] [04:28]
7. This Tether [03:36]
8. Keep Me Close Pt. I [01:37]
9. Keep Me Close Pt. II [02:21]
10. Grief is an ~ o p e n i n g (feat. Def Sound) [01:57]
11. ANGEL EYE CONTACT [06:51]
12. The Credits (Stripes Theme) [feat. Reggie Watts] [02:34]
Deconstructing Sequence – Tenebrīs cosmicīs tempora
28 PLN
47:57
black metal
Szczecin, Poland
FFO: Veld, Ur Draugr, Withered
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. A Journey through the Event Horizon [04:39]
2. Echoes of a Dying World [04:16]
3. Wulfsige Walbend [05:03]
4. The Last Terraform – A Eulogy of a Failed Dream [05:21]
5. Cyber Angels – Masters of Opression [04:50]
6. The Final Battle for Dominance in the Binary Realms [05:06]
7. The Undying Void [03:42]
8. Ethereal Descent Into Chaos [05:22]
9. Torn Between Worlds [04:59]
10. Igniting the Skies of Creation [04:39]
Jack Gardiner – 漆
£9 GBP
24:05
nu prog
Liverpool, UK
FFO: Moray Pringle, Owane, Plini
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Shibuya Meltdown feat. Gianluca Pellerito & Riccardo Oliva [03:16]
2. Sandglass feat. Andy Timmons [03:54]
3. Eightfold Fence feat. Mariko Muranaka [03:56]
4. Mugen feat. Henrik Linder [03:51]
5. Place To Be feat. Mariko Muranaka [06:06]
6. Moon Over Mango [03:02]
Mad Vantage – Minutiae
$12 AUD
47:35
jazz fusion
Melbourne, Australia
FFO: Coast, Transit Method, Voronoi
Art as Catharsis
Tracklist (click to display)1. Matriarch [06:16]
2. Perpetual Cave [08:00]
3. Terranea [07:26]
4. Ictus [07:30]
5. Pervade Your Mind [08:19]
6. Cataclysm Pt 1: Fuma [01:33]
7. Cataclysm Pt 2: Magma [07:21]
8. Cataclysm Pt 3: Tephra [01:10]
Christian Molenaar – Folies meurtrières
Name your price
52:50
experimental metal
San Diego, California
FFO: Disdjointed, Jet Engine Dragons, Nick Grey + Nicholas Davis
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Hallidie’s Folly [02:08]
2. Spellvexit [03:46]
3. Last Flag Flying [07:13]
4. Morning Song [06:45]
5. Layman’s Folly [02:09]
6. Darconville’s Alarm Clock [04:42]
7. Butterfly Tenderloin [05:08]
8. Whatever!! [09:14]
9. (Bear Trap) Lost Youth [04:21]
10. Beach Blanket Babylon Blvd By Bus [07:24]
Novembre – Words of Indigo
£9 GBP
63:#0
progressive doom metal
Roma, Italy
FFO: Daylight Dies, Saturnus, The Foreshadowing
Peaceville
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sun Magenta [07:23]
2. Statua [06:05]
3. Neptunian Hearts [06:11]
4. House Of Rain [07:33]
5. Brontide [06:21]
6. Intervallo [01:14]
7. Your Holocene [05:29]
8. Chiesa Dell`alba [07:26]
9. Ipernotte [06:52]
10. Post Poetic [06:27]
11. Onde [02:29]
Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World
£6.66 GBP
50:16
avant-garde death metal
London, UK
FFO: Teitanblood, Heresiarch, Wrathprayer
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. So Spoke the Silent Stars [12:02]
2. Slithering Serendipity [12:51]
3. And You Shall Know Perdition As Your Shrine… [08:30]
4. The Womb of the World [16:53]
Town Portal – Grindwork
€9 EUR
42:12
post-metal
Copenhagen, Denmark
FFO: The Physics House Band, Alpha Male Tea Party, Dios Trio
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Heart’s Content [05:58]
2. Plowshare [04:25]
3. Touching Grass [03:30]
4. A Reasonable Amount of Screaming [06:49]
5. Mammal [01:50]
6. Crushed Under Something Gentle [05:17]
7. Sudoku [01:19]
8. Gold-Plated [04:08]
9. Grinding the Margins [03:06]
10. Pleasure Chamber [05:50]
Wednesday, 12
Niyoh – Viridian
€7 EUR
35:19
nu prog
Bremen, Germany
FFO: Connor Kaminski, The Resonance Project, Adarsh Arjun
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Ajitama [06:14]
2. So Long [03:26]
3. A Final Lie [05:28]
4. In The Hanging Garden [05:01]
5. Charon [03:24]
6. Trabantenstadt [04:11]
7. There’s No Lie In Her Fire [01:14]
8. Blood | Flower [06:21]
Wheel of Time – Asymmetry
$8 USD
50:17
progressive metal
Beijing, China
FFO: Robert Berry, Pasi Sivula, Curse My Name
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Grand Cosmos [06:40]
2. Freedom Day [05:40]
3. Blind Sight [06:52]
4. Addicted!… [04:45]
5. … To the Awakening [07:12]
6. The Night of Eternity [07:38]
7. China Moon [05:03]
8. 2063 [06:44]
Thursday, 13
Yoshie Fruchter’s Pitom – Alive and Well
$9 USD
46:01
avant-garde rock
Brooklyn, New York
FFO: Yoshie Fruchter, Jamie Saft, Masada String Trio
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. The Faint of Heart [04:00]
2. Stark Reality [04:57]
3. False Profits [03:58]
4. Song 3 [05:56]
5. Buzzsaw [06:32]
6. Emotion and Intellect [06:27]
7. Alive and Well [06:39]
8. Lament [07:32]
Friday, 14
Ancient Fragments – Vestige
€9.99 EUR
36:05
progressive metalcore
Barcelona, Spain
FFO: Novena, A kew’s tag, TB project
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Naive [03:06]
2. Fever Dream [03:34]
3. Here I Remain [04:56]
4. On Shore [03:58]
5. Horizon [06:18]
6. Tideworn [04:59]
7. Windskin [04:54]
8. Stormchild [04:20]
Asira – As Ink in Water
£9 GBP
44:33
blackgaze
Reading, UK
FFO: King Apathy, Sorrow Plagues, Dynfari
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Silence of Mind [11:07]
2. Clarity [05:13]
3. Descent [01:36]
4. Cauterise [06:14]
5. In Sunrise [11:20]
6. Ascent [01:12]
7. Still [07:51]
Bookburner! – Volume Ⅰ: In Preparation for Cemeteries
Name your price
43:11
mathcore
Fresno, California
FFO: Euclid C Finder, The Sound That Ends Creation, The Ones You Call Good Looking
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Drawing Parallels [01:46]
2. Shy Boy (featuring Face Yourself) [02:55]
3. Trace Amounts [03:15]
4. House Coughing [01:49]
5. Angel Lust [03:13]
6. Dour Door [03:29]
7. Everyone’s Dying [03:41]
8. Everybody’s Dead [03:41]
9. Rusted 1500 [02:17]
10. Sadness Rules [02:52]
11. My Love [03:06]
12. When You’re Cold [02:50]
13. I’ll Be There [08:17]
Levitation Orchestra – Sanctuary
£9 GBP
42:58
nu jazz
London, UK
FFO: Waaju, Pimpono Ensemble, Daniel Casimir
5dB
Tracklist (click to display)1. Sanctuary [06:25]
2. Embrace [05:50]
3. Breathe It In [02:04]
4. Home [05:25]
5. Within Us, Without Us [03:01]
6. Imladris [05:30]
7. Premedetatio Malorum [05:40]
8. Another Way [09:03]
Steve Morse Band – Triangulation
€9 EUR
48:15
progressive rock
Florida
FFO: Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse, Spock’s Beard
Mascot Group
Tracklist (click to display)1. Break Through [05:00]
2. Off the Cuff [04:54]
3. TexUS (feat. Eric Johnson) [04:01]
4. The Unexpected [06:04]
5. March of the Nomads (feat. Scott Sim) [05:23]
6. Ice Breaker [04:42]
7. Tumeni Partz [10:59]
8. Triangulation (feat. John Petrucci) [04:50]
9. Taken by an Angel (feat. Kevin Morse) [02:22]
Seims – Ⅴ
$10 AUD
38:46
math rock
Sydney, Australia
FFO: Luo, Mushroom Giant, Coldbones
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Double Standards [01:42]
2. Chaos Within a Construct [04:22]
3. Forever the Optimist [05:58]
4. Flowing Upstream [04:31]
5. Preoccupations [06:00]
6. Abandonment Is Expected [03:57]
7. My Memories Retain Nothing [04:29]
8. End’s Tether [05:04]
9. A Moment Never Returned [02:43]
Spinifex – Maxximus
€9 EUR
70:00
experimental jazz
Amsterdam, Netherlands
FFO: Rez Abbasi, Bill Frisell, Trio HLK
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Smitten [10:17]
2. Sack & Ash [13:57]
3. Phoenix [11:16]
4. Springend [10:24]
5. Annie Golden [14:31]
6. The Privilege of Playing the Wrong Notes [09:35]
Saturday, 15
Orphanage Named Earth – Slaves and Kings
€9 EUR
37:32
post-metal
Poland
FFO: Anopheli, Guantanamo Party Program, Myteri
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Slaves [19:16]
2. Kings [18:16]
Thursday, 20
Human – Concetto transeunte
€8 EUR
31:50
technical death metal
Adria, Italy
FFO: Pyrrhon, Blindfolded and Led to the Woods, Heruvim
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Lure [02:34]
2. Conceptum Abhorrere [03:29]
3. Martyred Bloodlines [03:38]
4. The Ascended’s Sight [04:06]
5. Concetto Transeunte [03:42]
6. Chromatic Flow [04:15]
7. Essence [04:17]
8. Awareness [02:33]
9. Egeria [03:16]
Friday, 21
The Algorithm – Recursive Infinity
€10 EUR
43:07
electro-metal
France
FFO: Anup Sastry, Andromida, Shades of Black
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Race Condition [04:18]
2. Advanced Evasion Technique [04:31]
3. Endless Iteration [04:52]
4. Graceful Degradation [04:52]
5. Hollowing [05:23]
6. By Design [05:26]
7. Rainbow Table [04:01]
8. Mutex [04:19]
9. Recursive Infinity [05:21]
Antinoë – The Fold
€10 EUR
42:09
dark classical
Madrid, Spain
FFO: Myrkur, Grift, Nel Buio
Dark Essence
Tracklist (click to display)1. Night Falls [02:06]
2. The Devil’s Voice [04:08]
3. Turn to Dust [05:15]
4. Indulgence [02:13]
5. Flock [04:41]
6. Threshold [04:10]
7. Chaos in the Sky [03:39]
8. Ulven… [02:18]
9. Si Te Dejo Ir [03:04]
10. Når Du Dør [03:33]
11. Light Bringer [02:21]
12. Four Things [04:41]
Crossing the Rubicon – Knowledge
$20 USD
125:26
progressive metal
Dayton, Ohio
FFO: Divinex, Starsystems, Acadence
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Veritas [08:28]
2. Shattered Reflections [05:53]
3. Spirals [06:50]
4. The Ghost in the Machine [05:55]
5. Beneath Two Suns [05:04]
6. Interlude I: The Veil of Tomorrow [01:35]
7. Virtus [06:24]
8. Penumbra [03:59]
9. Paradox [07:04]
10. Vanitas [04:34]
11. Interlude II: The Silent Tree [01:48]
12. The Abyss Beckons [05:53]
13. Of Dagger and Die [07:17]
14. Knowledge [04:39]
15. Paradox (Fragments in Fading Light) [04:31]
16. Beneath Two Suns (Vocal Version) [05:05]
17. Virtus (Ethereal Shadows Mix) [03:02]
18. Spirals (Vocal Version) [06:00]
19. Spirals (Darkplane Transmission) [07:25]
20. Beneath Two Suns (Nocturne for the Forgotten Future) [02:57]
21. Knowledge (Vocal Version) [04:39]
22. Virtus (Vocal Version) [06:22]
23. Paradox (The Fire Stays Burning) [02:11]
24. The Abyss Beckons (Vignette of Collapse) [01:48]
25. Afterglows of the Largest Explosions in the Universe (10 Year Anniversary Redux) [04:51]
26. Knowledge: Letters Never Sent (E Minor Reverie) [01:12]
Echo, Bravo – Glasfisk
5 DKK
38:02
experimental rock
Copenhagen, Denmark
FFO: Tender Youth, SiBiRiCA, ØNDI
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Benhus [04:36]
2. Elegi [03:44]
3. Aborres Egtved, Beograd Revset & Broager Svedte [04:31]
4. I Hver En Ryg [03:59]
5. Af Karsken Bælg [03:53]
6. $hitpunk [02:40]
7. I Dine Hårrødders Kolonnader [09:49]
8. Glasfisk [04:50]
Milton Man Gogh – Fully Stretched
$12 AUD
34:02
jazzcore
Brisbane, Australia
FFO: Anna Webber, Petter Eldh, Moskus
Art as Catharsis
Tracklist (click to display)1. Lizard Breath [00:51]
2. 5c Grinder [03:59]
3. Fully Stretched [06:23]
4. Ill Man (on Plane Flight) [04:06]
5. Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman [04:50]
6. haha 2 [04:19]
7. Hybrid [04:33]
8. Rollover for the Takeover [05:01]
Spock’s Beard – Archaeoptimist
£9.99 GBP
61:00
progressive rock
Los Angeles, California
FFO: Neal Morse, Transatlantic, The Flower Kings
Madfish Music
Tracklist (click to display)1. Invisible [06:33]
2. Electic Monk [06:16]
3. Afourthoughts [07:31]
4. St. Jerome In The Wilderness [08:46]
5. The Archaeoptimist [20:57]
6. Next Step [10:58]
Twins – It’s Complicated
€9 EUR
31:00
math rock
Dresden, Germany
FFO: 容祖兒, 楊千嬅, 陳慧琳
Zegema Beach
Tracklist (click to display)1. FAILURE [03:24]
2. GOODBYE [03:29]
3. STORIES [03:03]
4. FOLLOW [04:03]
5. PRESENCE [04:31]
6. CUTS [02:49]
7. SIGNS [03:44]
8. PROMISE [05:57]
Saturday, 22
Dead Eye – In Orbit
€8 EUR
38:48
jazz fusion
Cologne, Germany
FFO: Solenoid, Robert X. Stillman, Diotallevi
Dox
Tracklist (click to display)1. Azrael [02:07]
2. Total Sportek [04:00]
3. Form of Attack [03:11]
4. Hard Time Killing Floor Blues [05:22]
5. Radio Deadeye (Pivot & Swivel) [01:11]
6. Deadeye’s Day Off [04:19]
7. Tartar [03:34]
8. Deadeye In Orbit [01:55]
9. Rue Ballu [04:30]
10. Michelangelo Antonioni [04:58]
11. Radio Deadeye (Sun Prayer) [01:08]
12. Low Gravity Gospel [02:33]
Monday, 24
The Tea Club – Chasm
$15 USD
53:10
progressive rock
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
FFO: Rikard Sjöblom’s Gungfly, Keor, In The Presence of Wolves
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Like Little Soldiers [04:24]
2. Silicon Sally [03:46]
3. Low and Lonely [04:45]
4. Quicksand [02:11]
5. Ear on Arm [03:51]
6. The Bell Ringer [04:31]
7. Go To Hell [04:15]
8. A Small and Passing Thing [02:37]
9. All the Living [04:06]
10. Altered One [03:03]
11. Vineyard [05:08]
12. Sonata [03:15]
13. Get the Bullet [03:57]
14. The Lunar Eclipse [03:21]
Friday, 28
Albatros – Correct
$8 CAD
29:55
sludge metal
Québec, Québec
FFO: Shahman, State Faults, Massa nera
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Minor Tull – Jethro Threat [06:03]
2. René Angélil d’Orléans [02:27]
3. Jean Schoune [03:31]
4. Eau mal vidée [03:04]
5. Certifié ISO420 [02:53]
6. Bébéplastie [02:58]
7. Une pyramide avec des lunettes fumées [04:07]
8. Albo-Club 7 (La intense 3) [04:42]
Dyssidia – Deeper Wells of Meaning
$13.50 AUD
44:37
progressive metal
Adelaide, Australia
FFO: Thematic, Edge of Reality, Opus Of A Machine
Wild Thing
Tracklist (click to display)1. Hellish Embellishment [08:53]
2. Few and Far Between [06:45]
3. Serum Sickness [05:33]
4. Anatomy of a Cloud [06:02]
5. A Statue of Time and Depth [06:20]
6. Dream Persuasion [04:56]
7. Impulsivity [06:08]
Moron Police – Pachinko
€20 EUR
59:44
progressive rock
Norway
FFO: The Dear Hunter, Meer, 22
Independent
Tracklist (click to display)1. Nothing Breaks (A Port of Call) [04:45]
2. Alfredo and the Afterlife [02:31]
3. Waiting Around for You [03:31]
4. Cormorant [03:35]
5. Make Things Easier [02:38]
6. Pachinko, Pt. 1 [11:44]
7. Pachinko, Pt. 2 [04:10]
8. King Among Kittens [03:48]
9. Take Me to the City [03:49]
10. The Apathy of Kings [05:10]
11. Hanabi [00:51]
12. Okinawa Sky [04:15]
13. The Sentient Dreamer [02:57]
14. Giving Up the Ghost [06:00]