Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

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Friday, 14 August

Quatuor Andara – À travers les Amériques

45:07
chamber music
Montréal, Québec
Independent

Balkan Ethno Orchestra – Zora

13:33
world fusion, folk
Sydney, Australia
Independent

Camila Nebbia – Aura

43:31
free improvisation
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ears & Eyes

Crust – … And a Dirge Becomes an Anthem

34:10
blackened doom metal
Russia
Addicted

Dan Rosenboom – Points on an Infinite Line

48:13
avant-garde jazz
Los Angeles, California
Orenda

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Temple Mist, Jacob Collier, Sam Weinberg, Leviathan Owl, Soojin Suh, and Titan to Tachyons

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Temple Mist – Ye Invocatioun of Hys Kynge

Just like a haunting soundtrack, Ye Invocatioun of Hys Kynge leaves you battered and confused. For this record, the mysterious entity Temple Mist improvised eerie soundscapes outside the realms of conventional harmony, even throwing away core concepts such as tempo out the window. The result is a thirty-five minute album that makes you question everything, and made people who overheard it playing at my place very uncomfortable.

Jacob Collier – Djesse, Volume 3 (Decca (UMO))

ⅩⅪ century musical genius Jacob Collier is back with the third instalment of his Djesse suite. On … Read more

Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay


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Friday, 7 August

Anthony Gatto – The Making of Americans

59:29
opera
New York, New York
New Focus

https://newfocusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-making-of-americans

Bartłomiej Krysiuk’s Батюшка (Batjuška / Batushka) – Раскол

30:30
atmospheric black metal
Poland
Witching Hour

Benjamín Vergara & Ben Bennett – Birds of Our Abyss

35:03
free improvisation
New York, New York
Orbit 577

Black Crown Initiate – Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape

50:01
progressive metal
Reading, Pennsylvania
Century Media

Blood Tower – Astral Folklore

24:45
dungeon synth
Omaha, Nebraska
Moonworshipper

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Needle Play, Otis Sandsjö, Byzmuti, Thanya Iyer, Quinsin Nachoff, and Pedro Melo Alves

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Needle Play – Death by Dying

Boston’s Needle Play claim to play “math fusion” and “jazzcore”, and they do not lie! Their sophomore release, Death by Dying—and its instrumental version, Death by Detail—proves it once again. Variable geometry riffs clash with very few things that could be labelled “jazz”, safe the occasional clean section and usual complex harmonies. Great album for angry dying.

Otis Sandsjö – Y-Otis 2 (We Jazz)

OK, the album artwork and title might be detrimental to its first impression, but it’s all going to go out of the window once you hit play. Swedish … Read more

Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

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Friday, 31 July

Æpoch – The Scryer

29:26
progressive death metal
Cambridge, Ontario
Independent

Alam Khan – Solace

32:26
Indian classical, world fusion
San Francisco, California
Worlds within Worlds

The Aphelion – Control

11:08
progressive metalcore
Brighton, UK
Independent

Architecture of the Absurd – Beluga

42:24
avant-prog
Madrid, Spain
Independent

Black Harvest – Sun across the Fields

31:31
progressive black metal
Lowell, Massachusetts
Independent

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