drone
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Life Metal is Sunn O)))’s best sounding album to date, though not their most adventurous.
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Among Tim Hecker’s least direct efforts, Konoyo at its best is sonically and conceptually rich thanks to contributions from gagaku ensemble Tokyo Gakuso. Unfortunately, the sound-play is lacking on a few of the pieces.
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The level of artistic freedom Trent and Atticus give themselves on the somewhat uneven Bad Witch is more exciting than just about any Nine Inch Nails release since 2008.
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Dead Magic is Swedish singer-songwriter and organist Anna von Hausswolff’s best work to date.
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“Luciferian Towers” is the first Godspeed album we didn’t need.
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Susanne Sundfør teams up with former Czars frontman John Grant on “Mountaineers,” probably her spaciest track to date – with an amazing ending to boot. It’s the second single from the Norwegian singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Music for People in Trouble, which will be released August 25 via Bella Union.
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Blanck Mass makes a grand, industrial-flavored return with World Eater.
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William Basinski returns with one of his most accessible and compositionally satisfying sets of drones yet.
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds return with one of the most despondent albums in their discography.
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This powerful, droning ballad kicks off Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds‘ forthcoming record Skeleton Tree (out September 9 through the band’s Bad Seed imprint). The accompanying video is an excerpt from the feature-length film One More Time with Feeling, which will be screened worldwide for one night only
