• ambient

    juche by juche juche is a colorful and relaxing little musical project that came to my attention shortly after I did that Macintosh Plus review. In that video, I questioned the legitimacy of a genre label like vaporwave, and led to a lot of comments and dramaaaaaaaaa. I did, however,

  • Someone’s Got It In For Me / But There Has To Be More by Lower Denmark’s Lower has a new single up on its Bandcamp, and both tracks take the post-punk outfit into some pretty heavy, dismal, and depressing territory. Both songs work at a slow pace, and feature

  • banger

    Starkey is the latest purveyor of bass and bangers on Civil Music. His latest album is out now, and it’s title is Orbits. The label has seen fit to stream the whole thing on YouTube, and “Dystopia” is a true stand-out thanks to its trap-style hi-hats, massive kicks, and

  • The Dream Is Gone, Now All I Wanna Do Is Make You Dance! by 1 Minute Miracles 1 Minute Miracles drops a new album and changes his tone a bit, shifting into a much more dance-oriented style. Yeah, his initial string of instrumentals were danceable as well, but the his

  • 2012

    Unconscious Collective by Unconscious Collective Chaotic and flashy jazz fusion from the Unconscious Collective, which actually features one of my favorite things in jazz: Vibraphone. Yeah, weird thing favor in such a genre, but whatever. What’s interesting is the drums and vibraphone on this record are played by the

  • While Bish Bosch isn’t the strangest thing walking the planet, that certainly seems to be what he aims for on what is easily his most absurd album yet. WATCH THE REVIEW

  • Sweden’s Cult of Luna sticks to its guns on this new track from their forthcoming album, Vertikal, which is set to drop January 29th. The new track, “I: The Weapon” mixes the heavy, spacious sounds of atmospheric sludge metal with the melodic sensibilities of post-hardcore very nicely. The song

  • 2012

    Nervously Counting Rosary Beads by Guzzlemug On their bandcamp, Chicago’s Guzzlemug promises a 29-minute epic with the piece “Nervously Counting Rosary Beads,” and they more or less deliver with a group chorus, sludgy guitar riffs, and intensely improvised freakouts! Enjoy via the widget above, and check out the band’

  • el-p

    From his new, free EP that he released via Scion, here is a music video for Nick Hook’s “Sirens.” It’s a playfully dark set of visuals featuring a girl lip syncing to rap verses as if she were telling a ghost story. She puts the perfect amount of

  • 2012

    Romanian metal outfit Dordeduh combines elements of folk music from their home country with black metal and progressive metal. While the recording is a little rough and muddy, the resulting sound still maintains a lot of beauty. There’s a foreign mysticism to Dordeduh’s music, which fans of Negură