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 […]
10 Zar – “Slip” Premiere among London’s new crop of DJ’s for a focused devotion to expansive, original techno, Zar here crafts his magnum opus by way of thumping beats, busy, echoing synth and a whole bevy of texture. It’s the way this track thoughhas of wallowing in the concept of time and being both […]
It’s my pleasure and honor to welcome you back to the Dolby Disaster year-end list, a tradition which I take pride in upholding. This year has been another subsuming adventure in genre, style, emotion, structure, heart and soul, and I’m here to capture it the best I can, in my own little way. I do […]
10 merope – “Namopi” Bandcamp’s writeup of merope’s new album Vejula claims that it “roots itself in Lithuanian folk forms,” which was surprising to me, since at first, this music sounded like drone ambient electronic. Indeed, the instrumentation list is enough to edify in itself, here, with the band taking a precocious knack to ebb […]
10 The Mechanical Man – “Just Dance Tonight” DJ The Mechanical Man, hailing from Naples, Italy, makes the kind of easy, hypnotic techno music that seems familiar, even if you’ve never heard it, like something naturally destined to be around for ages. “Just Dance Tonight” kicks off his professional-grade-but-casual Original Vibes EP, just out this […]