15 Gein & the Graverobbers – “Of Gods and Monsters” (The Passion of the Antichrist) These Bostonians carry a Satanic shtick around with them that, truly, is as goofy and feather-light as their music, which is three albums composed of all instrumentals that race-along like skittish surf-rock firecrackers. I’m not sure why their drummer is […]
10 Parallel Thought – “Tabula Rasa” This duo billed as a “hip-hop” team on Bandcamp, though they don’t seem to do much rapping, weave here a weird, undulating ride of atonal, physical sound informing an IDM album that pledges allegiance to breakbeat and dubstep. .. 9 Alfred Banks & Luther Vandals – “Window” New Orleans’ […]
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10 Mammal Hands – “Fallow Tide” UK’s Mammal Hands nail that chill, vibe-y jazz I seem to favor on this site in spite of myself. For some reason, I chose a sort of interlude track for this list, “Fallow Tide”; a modest, two-minute selection that seems conceptual in its simplicity and quite textural, replete with […]
Welcome back, everyone, to a very festive expedition, the season when bands and artists from all over the world battle it out for end-of-year blogosphere glory. Get your clicking fingers ready. And, luckily for me, I am funded by my own lowly wage jobs I work, and not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the newly […]
10 Iona Zajac – “Bowls” “Bowls” kicks off Iona Zajac’s new album Bang with stark, painstaking deliberateness, ensuring the listener that she’s doing nothing to try to cater to conventional musical standards, rather letting things crawl along at the spooky pace of her own dark, enchanting muse. Zajac hails from Glasgow and sounds very much […]
1 Pearl Jam – “Alive” 2 Soundgarden – “Burden in My Hand” 3 Stone Temple Pilots – “Lady Picture Show” 4 Nirvana – “Heart-Shaped Box” 5 Radiohead – “Fake Plastic Trees” 6 The Verve – “Bittersweet Symphony” 7 The Breeders – “Cannonball” 8 Spacehog – “In the Meantime” 9 Soul Asylum – “Black Gold” 10 […]
10 Herbert & Momoko – “Mowing” This electro-pop collabo between an indie veteran an a precocious young crooner lays down as just as organic and earthen as you might expect out of an old guru who never got his due props, with approachable, textural percussion sounds forming the rudiments of “Mowing”; ceding to Momoko Gill’s […]