45:30
progressive rock
Spain
October X Art
50:23
modern jazz
Poznań, Poland
Multikulti Project
32:01
free improvisation
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nendo Dango
44:31
post-rock
Quezon City, Philippines
Independent
51:39
avant-garde jazz
Australia
Iluso
Spine Readers coalesced through the dismemberment of the great prog band Illogicians, which is already a promising start, if you ask me! Then, the band’s new hive mind decided to experiment with various song structures and ideas, going experimental with the progressive rock genre. The result is an astonishing album of genre-hopping madness that doesn’t take itself seriously at all!
What a mind-blowing record this is! The Ekmeles vocal ensemble recorded commissioned works by microtonal aficionados and contemporary classical composers Taylor … Read more
22:15
grindcore, experimental jazz, noise
New Jersey
Harvestman
22:57
grindcore, experimental jazz, noise
New Jersey
Harvestman
22:22
contemporary classical, electroacoustic
London, UK
Independent
44:29
progressive rock
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independent
30:38
noise rock
Athens, Greece
Independent
That’s it! This is the best! Those three albums are the absolute crème de la crème! I wouldn’t let any of those three fall down any further on the list. That’s just how intensely good they are, how gratifying to listen to, how aurally cathartic and heavenly gifted. These are my top 3 albums of 2019.
California’s Car Made of Glass is a peculiar thing indeed. Though it started as a sort of emoviolence, grindcore, and … Read more