experimental

  • beat

    Though Lapalux’s latest track isn’t exactly lengthy, it’s got a lot of beauty on display between its Angel One sample and glistening synths. I love how the track gets really thick and layered with this synths toward the end, too. Enjoy!

  • Stream: Portal – “The Back Wards” A twisted new track from the forthcoming album from death metal maniacs Portal. It’s as technical as it is atmospheric, and seriously disturbing with its sour melodies, abrasive guitar tones, and soupy mix. Portal’s next album is titled Vexvoid, and it’s looking

  • 2013

    London MC Blue Daisy presents a new hip hop project called Dahlia Black, and the debut track from it is an eerie, minimal experience that reminds me a lot of that Zebra Katz track I dug so much last year.

  • Tomahawk drops a strange new video for the title track off it’s new full-length album, Oddfellows. Video effects are employed to Mike Patton and company to make weird, subtle edits to their faces and bodies. It’s a pretty weird visual experience.

  • [audio:http://www.hardlyart.com/mp3/GraveBabies_NoFear.mp3]”No Fear” [audio:http://hardlyart.com/mp3/GraveBabies_OverAndUnderGround.mp3] “Over And Under Ground” (LOVED) Toward the end of this month, Hardly Art will be releasing the latest album from the post-punk trio Grave Babies. The band has dropped a few

  • midcity by clipping Smooth, chill California flows matched with noisy, strange, glitchy production on this new clipping album, midcity. Some of the rhymes are pretty raunchy as well, so don’t go into this looking for something highfalutin–or even Death Grips-esque, really. clipping’s style may take a lot

  • 2013

    Bongripper // Hate Split by Bongripper / Hate Chicago doom metal experimentalists Bongripper team up with the fast and furious hate for a quick split 45 that’s available on Bandcamp right freakin’ now! Stream it via the widget above, and enjoy! Check out a review for Bongripper’s Satan Worshipping Doom

  • 7

    Right here, you can find a pre-order page for the forthcoming Soap&Skin 7″, which looks like it’s going to feature three new tracks from the Austrian singer-songwriter. Though it was a short release, Soap&Skin’s Narrow still towers as one of my favorite albums of

  • 2013

    Up-and-coming hip hop producer Lee Bannon has a new full-length, solo project out titled Caligula Theme Music 2.7.5. It’s loaded with dark, gritty, and atmospheric hip hop instrumentals that occasionally feature a trap flavor to ’em. Not only is the percussion busy and sharp, but the samples

  • 3

    Saxophone avant-gardist Colin Stetson is gearing up to release a new full-length this April through Constellation, and it’s no surprise that the title is New History Warfare Vol 3: To See More Light. This Warfare series is really growing to become modern music’s most interesting exploration of horn