Focusrights, Vultress, Abhasa, Beaten to Death, Botanist, and Agonanist

by Dæv Tremblay

Focusrights – Ew, Music!

The Ukrainian mathgrind unit Focusrights just released the Ew, Music! EP. As befits its genre, it’s relatively short, standing at a little under twenty minutes, but this time is incredibly busy with time changes, genre hoppings, eclectic rhythms, dissonant chords, and confusing melodies. It’s an angry, heavy, and creative album that you should absolutely love!

Vultress – Hypnopompia

Vultress is one of those hidden pearls. A prog band that for the most part no one knows about, but that delivers amazing material over and over. I stumbled upon them with their previous album, Distance, which … Read more

Monthly Recommendations: October 2020

by Dæv Tremblay

Polymorphie – Claire Vénus (Compagnie 4000)

“A musical and allegorical digression of a romantic relationship.” That’s how the French experimental jazz quintet Polymorphie describe their most recent project, Claire Vénus. The album follows a series of poems and serves as a living soundtrack to it, which exacerbates the force of each medium exponentially. The kind of music Polymorphie plays is jazz, first and foremost, but it’s the hard-hitting, distortion-tangled, polyrhythm-loving kind. You know what kind. You know you love this. With the various poems, the album goes through a wide array of emotions, and it conveys them superbly. When … Read more

October in 256 Albums

by Dæv Tremblay


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Thursday, 1 October

The Erkonauts – I Want It to End

38:08
progressive metal
Geneva, Switzerland
Independent

藤掛正隆と小埜涼子 – New Duo, Series 021

20:36
free improvisation
Nagoya, Japan
Independent

Manet – My Demo(n)s

26:50
dark jazz
Stavanger, Norway
Independent

No Sax No Clar – Kahmsïn

42:40
avant-garde jazz
Nantes, France
Yolk

Olivier Hestin – Résonances parallèles

42:53
jazz fusion
Melun, France
Independent

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Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay


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Friday, 23 October

Ale Hop – The Life of Insects

36:41
experimental rock, electroacoustic
Lima, Peru
Buh

Bandler Ching – Sub Surface

28:14
nu jazz
Ghent, Belgium
Sdban

The Brooks – Any Day Now

49:14
funk
Montréal, Québec
Duprince

Chamber – Cost of Sacrifice

29:02
mathcore
Pasadena, California
Pure Noise

Chugga Boom! – Chugg Wars: The COVID-19 Saga

13:26
djent
UK
Independent

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Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

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Friday, 16 October

Anthony Pirog – Pocket Poem

42:29
avant-garde jazz
Washington, DC
Cuneiform

Autocatalytica – Powerclashing Maximalism

37:47
progressive metal
Toronto, Ontario
Independent

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Chaos Divine – Legacies

62:18
progressive metal
Perth, Australia
Independent

Edenic Past – Red Amarcord

29:20
death metal
Brooklyn, New York
Independent

Fred Pallem & le Sacre du tympan – Les Fables de La Fontaine

40:41
jazz fusion
Paris, France
Train fantôme

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