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Monthly Recommendations: 2016

by Dæv Tremblay

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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

Monthly Recommendations: December 2016

by Dæv Tremblay

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There we go, one last set of monthly recommendations to end the year on a high note!

‘Japanese math-pop band Jyocho just released their first album, 祈りでは届かない距離 (A Prayer in Vain). It has a very strong indie-folk feel, but is enhanced by the presence of a flute. A friend commented that it sounds just like Uchu Conbini and The Perfect Sports – which it does! -, so I guess that means I also have to check out these wonderful bands. This album is quite captivating, thanks to the very capable musicians behind the scenes. It’s a bit difficult to get … Read more

EXCLUSIVE SONG PREMIERE: Auri – Regressions of the Seeker and Vision

by Dæv Tremblay


Auri is the name of the atmospheric dissonant black metal project of drummer and multi-instrumentalist Sol Sinclair, which has grown and developed under secrecy for years. That’s until now! ‘Regressions of the Seeker and Vision’ is the second track off of Auri’s debut album, The Crown of Doubt, a twenty-eight-minute EP unleashing the forces of evil upon you. The first and last tracks are examples of their more atmospheric sound – and they are nothing to sleep on either -, while the core of the EP consists of fifteen minutes of in-your-faceism.

Diminished and minor intervals clash against each … Read more

Mini-Reviews XLVI

by Dæv Tremblay

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That’s the People’s mini-review! Well, mostly, anyway… Thanks for pointing out many of our lacunas in music knowledge! To another great year of music discovery!
Shabaka and the Ancestors is a band from Johannesburg, fronted by tenor saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings. The aim of Wisdom of Elders is to create British jazz through South African musicians, with their own, very different experience with music. The result is an entrancing seventy-six minutes of jazz that’s, yes, very British, but that’s also slightly ethnic and always true to the musicians’ origins. Truly, a must for the jazz passionate.

Lerdo is a Chilean progressive … Read more

Mini-Reviews XLV

by Dæv Tremblay

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Switzerland’s Eclecta is an art pop/jazz duo comprising Marena Whitcher (of her famed Shady Midnight Orchestra) and Andrina Bollinger. A Symmetry was released earlier this year and unfortunately slipped under my attention, but it’s a very enjoyable album! Although not as out there as Marena’s avant-jazz ensemble, Eclecta brings to the table intellectual and thoroughly pleasing jazzy pop tunes that are minimalistic yet harmonically full and complex. These songs are sure to be stuck in your head, and you’ll love every bit of it.
Levels is an American progressive metalcore/deathcore band, and Exist, their debut EP, came out in … Read more