Romantic, Visceral is highly recommended for those who enjoy challenging music with semi-classical overtones and chilling stylistic pathways dominated by energetic electronic textures. Without neglecting its own originality and trippy, chameleon-like strength, this album stands as the missing link between Brendan Moeller, Burial, and Michel Portal.
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Julien Ash & M.Nomized :: Rotostyles (Lotophagus)
Rotostyles is a vertiginous and exhilarating demonstration of sonic craftsmanship, draped in colossal, almost Dantean orchestration. Highly recommended—uneasy and captivating in equal measure.
Ludvig Cimbrelius :: Moonshadows (Sound in Silence)
Moonshadows is dedicated to the most impressionistic, oceanic-tinged, and neoclassical dimension of his music. The pieces are built around the piano’s delicate, gently moving, semi-improvised detached melodies. Repetition, stillness, and peacefulness form a body of feelings.
BedouinDrone + Brainquake :: Mood Starters (Mahorka)
(Mood Starters) is a dark, hypnotic, and eerie techno-ish industrial album surrounded by dystopian themes of a humanity trapped in an uncertain future, standing before unspeakable malefic forces.
Mana ERG :: Concealed Under A Strange Tongue (XBDA)
Concealed Under A Strange Tongue suggests an elegant, diversified, and pleasant listening experience where meandering emotional chords meet spacious ambient electronica, processed field recordings, occasional sampled voice elements with a near new-age tone, and a neo-psychedelic/cosmic Americana feeling (for the sunlit psych-country-esque guitar sequences), along with near Steve Tibbetts-influenced mystic grooves.
Dimitar Dodovski :: Sculptures in Time (Shimmering Moods)
Despite a multiplicity of aggregated elements and cascading effects, the general mood of Sculptures in Time remains cohesive and mysteriously flowing, with deeply transportive sequences working as an evocative mind trip.
Build Buildings x Molly Gochman :: Continuum (Unending Loop)
A peaceful, singular, and cozy post-ambient journey made of lush sounds, with some chilling moments based on fragmented memories, that will ravish listeners of digitalized tape music and carefully crafted, slowly moving soundscapes.
Netherworld :: The Hermit (Glacial Movements)
Following chilling mysteries emerging from Arctic expeditions and unveiling the metaphysical strength captured in ice-cold landscapes, the droning sound art project Netherworld (alias Alessandro Tedeschi, founder of Glacial Movements Records) is back to the forefront.
IUGA :: Meldrop (Unexplained Sounds Group)
A really enjoyable eerie, isolationist and wistful electronic ambient release with enough ideas and well-designed textures to enthrall the listener.
Bluetech :: Petite Constellations (DiN / Behind The Sky Music)
Petites Constellations develops shifting and subtle soundscapes with a retro-ish feeling, emerging from analog keyboards and vintage electronic equipment. However, it also stands as a thoroughly modern album, filled with kinetic grooves and bold compositional ingredients.
Moonphase :: Dark Assembly (Petroglyph)
Dark Assembly is at once cold, organic, desolate, and turbulent. The album unfolds like a powerful ascending electronic ritual, shrouded in a vertiginous blackened aura where cinematic tension and spiritual desolation coexist in fascinating balance.

















