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

I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part IX: 1219-1120

Jan9, 2020 by Dæv Tremblay

Part IX: 1219-1120

Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance

38:28
death metal
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
20 Buck Spin

Swim, Gustavo! – El mar mi amor

33:39
post-hardcore
California
Independent

Simon Nabatov Quintet – Last Minute Theory

50:33
avant-garde jazz
Cologne, Germany
Clean Feed

Naima – Bye

54:22
progressive rock, jazz fusion
Washington, D.C.
Cuneiform

Moray Pringle – Sunday Lines

19:39
progressive metal, jazz fusion
London, UK
Independent

Mefitis – Despair

20:32
progressive black metal
Beijing, China
Independent

Lingua

CTEBCM: Can This Even Be Called Music?

Music breaking barriers

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

Part XI: 1019-920

Unknown Artist – A Pig’s Head on a Stick

Time Bomb – Equus

Good Night Owl – Truthmaster

Sunday, 26

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

Doctor 9 – Doctor 9

Weekly Release Dump

Friday, 3 January

Ando San – Schemin Season

Karfagen – Birds of Passage

Ekmeles – A Howl, that Was Also a Prayer

Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra – Iron in the Blood

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

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

Part X: 1119-1020

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

Thursday, 27

Andrzej Kowalski Quartet – Abstrakt

Tuesday, 25

The Haters & Sissy Spacek – Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways

Sissy Spacek & Smegma – Ballast

Hijokaidan & Sissy Spacek –

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

16-17 – Phantom Limb (Trost)

Tiny Planet – Tiny Planet

I Can’t Believe This Is Called Music! Top 2019 Albums of 2019, Part IX: 1219-1120

Part IX: 1219-1120

Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance

Swim, Gustavo! – El mar mi amor

Simon Nabatov Quintet – Last Minute Theory

Naima – Bye

Moray Pringle – Sunday Lines

Mefitis – Despair

Lingua

Part XI: 1019-920

Unknown Artist – A Pig’s Head on a Stick

Time Bomb – Equus

Good Night Owl – Truthmaster

Sunday, 26

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

Doctor 9 – Doctor 9

Friday, 3 January

Ando San – Schemin Season

Karfagen – Birds of Passage

Ekmeles – A Howl, that Was Also a Prayer

Jeremy Rose and the Earshift Orchestra – Iron in the Blood

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

Part X: 1119-1020

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

Thursday, 27

Andrzej Kowalski Quartet – Abstrakt

Tuesday, 25

The Haters & Sissy Spacek – Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways

Sissy Spacek & Smegma – Ballast

Hijokaidan & Sissy Spacek –

16-17 – Phantom Limb (Trost)

Tiny Planet – Tiny Planet

Part IX: 1219-1120

Tomb Mold – Planetary Clairvoyance

Swim, Gustavo! – El mar mi amor

Simon Nabatov Quintet – Last Minute Theory

Naima – Bye

Moray Pringle – Sunday Lines

Mefitis – Despair

Lingua

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