Welcome to the first of this year’s best of lists, curated by yours truly! As you might have noticed by now, this year is going to be separated by genre, or style, or attribute… it’s rather inconsistent between categories! On top of that, some categories are rather spread-out within themselves! I mean, there’s more than one kind of “hardcore” music out there for example, and I’m trying my best to keep my categories straight, but it’s often difficult to decide in which category such and such album should go, especially with the miscegenous music I usually listen to! Nevertheless, in … Read more
Weekly Release Dump
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Friday, 24 December
Goût-Gueule – Hoquet
22:47
ambient noise rock
International
Independent
Mineral King – Mineral King
24:03
progressive rock
Los Angeles, California
Independent
Neorhythm – Triad
13:08
progressive metal
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Independent
Recent Ancestors – Recent Ancestors
9:10
math rock, noise rock… Read more
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Friday, 17 December
Charnel Altar – Abatement of the Sun
47:04
blackened death metal
Adelaide, Australia
Independent
Consider the Source – Hybrid, Volume 1: Such as a Mule
54:50
progressive rock, jazz fusion
New York, New York
Ropeadope
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Friday, 10 December
Аферист – Ни конца ни края
13:08
hardcore
Russia
Chaika
Asthma Choir – Spent My Life in Sugar Town
34:41
art rock
Berlin, Germany
Independent
Atlas – Ukko
42:32… Read more
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Friday, 3 December
Abiotic – A Universal Plague: Mutation
38:01
progressive metal
Miami, Florida
The Artisan Era
Adam Rudolph & Go: Organic Guitar Orchestra – Resonant Bodies
43:12
avant-garde jazz
New York, New York
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