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A ton of work clearly went into producing this album, but it’s all so grossly gaudy.
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93696 not only stands as one of the best avant-garde metal albums you’ll hear this year, but also serves as a conceptual retrospective celebrating 10+ years of music from Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix’s Liturgy. 93696 by Liturgy
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Promises is a tasteful, spellbinding, and beautiful intersection of jazz, classical, and electronic music.
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At its best, Lei Line Eon‘s new direction exposes the nuances and beauty of Iglooghost’s production, but it’s not without its incongruities and growing pains.
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Age Of is abstract ear candy at its highest points, but is ultimately Oneohtrix Point Never’s least realized album in some time. The vocal tracks in the front half are particularly an Achilles’ heel.
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The pieces on Park Jiha’s Communion are lovely individually, but overall, the blend of sounds could have been a bit more consistent and more attention could have been paid to the album’s flow.
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An excerpt from cellist and electroacoustic musician Alec Livaditis’ LP Clear and Cloud, out in January via Kye.
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仰望海平面 Light Shining Through the Sea by Cicada A pretty chamber music/post-rock project from Taiwanese quintet Cicada. If you dig that, preview the group’s next album Ocean, out December 2 via flau:
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The opening track from Dutch saxophonist/electronic composer Jorrit Dijkstra’s new album, Never Odd or Even, out soon via Driff.
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NPR is streaming Icelandic composer Anna Þorvaldsdóttir’s new work In the Light of Air ahead of its August 28 release on Sono Luminus. Listen in if you’re in the mood for haunting music evocative of a remote land.
