Search Results for: best of 2021

Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

Friday, 31 January

Baraque à free – Baraque à free

30:47
experimental jazz, free jazz
Toulouse, France
Independent

The Conjuration – Gospel

42:39
avant-garde death metal
Danville, Virginia
Independent

Dan Rosenboom – Absurd in the Anthropocene

64:19
modern jazz
Los Angeles, California
Independent

David Brenner & Christian Molenaar – Uninvited Savior

81:22
avant-garde jazz, noise
California
Nefarious Industries

Deathwhite – Grave Image

48:43
progressive metal
United States
Season of Mist

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Weekly Release Dump

by Dæv Tremblay

Friday, 30 August

Alex Hahn – New Flight (jazz fusion, modern jazz)

Los Angeles, California

Big Dead – Bone White Branches (post-rock, alternative)

Brisbane, Australia
On Art as Catharsis

Blosse / Aster Wreath – Stranded [Split] (avant-garde black metal)

Montréal / Saint Paul, Québec / Minnessota
On Fólkvangr

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bryce Dessner, and Eighth Blackbird – When We Are Inhuman (contemporary classical)

Chicago, Illinois
On 37d03d

Dal Sasso Big Band – The Palmer Suite (jazz fusion, big band)

Paris, France
On Jazz & People

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Caleb Burhans, Gaspard, and Editrix

by Toys Etcetera

Caleb Burhans – Past Lives (modern classical)

A gorgeous grouping of the composer’s pieces offering a great deal of variety in terms of approach and texture, Caleb Burhans certainly lives up to his “emo-classical” moniker with this effort. The ability of the composer to define and convey subtle emotion through his music is exceptional. Also notable is the fact that each of these … Read more

Matt’s Top 40 Albums of 2018

by Matt Matheson

Introduction

Here’s the generic opening sentence where I mention that 2018 was another fantastic year for music and that I listened to more new stuff than ever before.

That’s technically true.

Here’s a more honest opening: 2018 was both a little bit underwhelming for new music (2017 was a lot better) and a scattered year for my listening habits. My hierarchy of audio consumption over the past calendar year was something like: 1) sports podcasts; 2) old jazz, as two friends and I sought to explore the 52 [now 54] sub-genres listed on Wikipedia in 52 weeks; 3) extended loops … Read more

Monthly Recommendations – September 2017

by Dæv Tremblay

II II II – Frequency Illusion

What is there to say, honestly? The works presented on this full-length album takes what the band’s debut was all about, but with slightly better production and composition overall. You still get the mathy riffs, the jazzy grooves, and the hardcore-style vocals, but you get more of them, and you get only the best of them.

Mini-review.

Rivener – Rivener

The band definitely borrows a lot from free jazz, but they apply their knowledge of it successfully to experimental and noise rock. Well, maybe it’s just not jazz by omission. Lay down some saxophone

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