Category Archives: Music

Giant Claw, Fucked Up, Oh Yung, and Grey Aura

by Dæv Tremblay

Giant Claw – Mirror Guide (Orange Milk)

It’s not the first time I mention Giant Claw here, and that’s for a good reason. Giant Claw is the moniker of Keith Rankin himself playing with keyboard and digital percussion pad. With this very minimalistic yet versatile instrumentation, Keith is able to craft and perform amazing psychedelic journeys. On Mirror Guide, this takes the form of an almost-electroacoustic thematic suite filled with rubato and expression. It’s truly something and you should go in ready to be taken away!

Fucked Up – Year of the Horse (Tank Crimes)

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Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

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Friday, 16 April

The Armed – Ultrapop

38:47
noise rock
Detroit, Michigan
Sargent House

Arteries – Outdoor Claustrophobic

23:25
metalcore
Sydney, Australia
Independent

Basilisk – The Journey

19:52
post-metal
The Netherlands
Independent

Ben Haskins – Mothership

38:28
post-rock
Cambridge, Ontario
Independent

Bend the Future – Without Notice

40:19
progressive rock
Grenoble, France
Independent

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Gian Slater, Yautja, Ensemble 1, and Hail the Sun

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Gian Slater – Grey Is Ground (Biophilia)

The experienced singer-songwriter Gian Slater just released her new opus: Grey Is Ground. On this album, Gian brings complex and atmospheric synth pop songs that hit a certain balance between complexity, with its odd-time grooves, metric modulations, and harmonic progressions, and relatability, thanks to Gian’s soaring melodies and general sense of composition, which turns emotion into music, which is in turn switched back to emotion in our brain. It’s an elegant and brilliantly written album that will appeal to all avant-garde pop fans.

Yautja – The Lurch (Relapse)

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Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

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Friday, 9 April

Absent Chronicles – Tiny Words for Tiny Worlds

41:14
avant-pop, R&B
Netherlands
Independent

أرْهَان أفندْي – حِكَايَة تَاجِر

36:24
jazz fusion
Palestine
Independent

Aetheria cōnscientia – Corrupted Pillar of Vanity

55:56
progressive black metal
Nantes, France
Independent

Akropolis Reed Quintet – Ghost Light

79:36
contemporary classical
Detroit, Michigan
New Focus

Anna Heflin – The Redundancy of the Angelic: An Interluding Play

28:50
contemporary classical
New York, New York
Infrequent Seams

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Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

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Friday, 2 April

Álvaro Pérez & Álvaro Domene – Zodos

41:23
avant-garde jazz, free improvisation
Australia
Iluso

Arelseum – Swamps

17:13
ambient
Queens, New York
Independent

Bâtard – Brise-lames

25:52
experimental black metal
Vaudreuil Dorion, Québec
Independent

Bones of the Earth – Ⅱ: Eternal Meditations of a Deathless Crown

33:57
post-metal
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Deader Than Distro

Bridge Burner – Disempath

26:14
blackened hardcore
Auckland, New Zealand
Hibernation Release

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