The Best Thing I’ve Heard All Week: Kilter – La suspendida


I’ve been a huge fan of the progressive metal band Kilter since their Axiom album back in 2020, and they’ve kept busy with the amazing Sys album and, coming in March, La suspendida. This upcoming album is an experience on a whole other level.

First off, the album is sold as a jazz-metal opera about a woman discovering herself through death, and for this occasion they brought together Folterkammer singer Andromeda Anarchia, the impossibly cool Growlers Choir, and the Seven Suns string quartet, and that’s without mentioning dancers Fanny Coulm and Yutaka Nakata, who are central to the … Read more

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Friday, 2 February

Amenra – Skunk

€7 EUR
23:50
ambient post-rock
Kortrijk, Belgium
Independent

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Anchor and Burden – Extinction Level

$10 USD
66:31
progressive rock
Berlin, Germany
Moon June

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The Best Thing I’ve Heard This Week: Vicarious – Esoteria



So apparently the thing that makes me pick up my keyboard again is having so much fun listening to an album and seeing that it has literally zero person who bought it on Bandcamp.
Because that’s the injustice that’s happening right now.
Vicarious seems to be the brainchild of bassist-vocalist Brad Williamson (who has an absolutely wild Youtube channel). Those who’ve been reading this blog for a while will know that I crave good bass. Being a bassist myself, this is hardly surprising—everyone’s a little bit chauvinistic, I guess—but let me sell you on Esoteria.
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Friday, 26 January

Antistatic – Relics

$10 USD
39:54
experimental post-rock
Denmark
Cuneiform

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Jim Baker, Steve Hunt, and Jakob Heinemann – Horizon Scanners

€7 EUR
49:28
avant-garde jazz
Chicago, Illinois
Clean Feed

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Best of January 2024


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Monday, 1 January

Good Night Owl – Belief

$7 USD
47:32
progressive metal
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Independent

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Fredrik Nordström – Big Band Stories

€9 EUR
73:35
modern jazz
Stockholm, Sweden
Independent

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