Black Dahlia is a relentless sonic departure and nuanced droning record of ominous, ecstatic and sublime fractures that will certainly appear among best albums of the year for lovers of adventurous music with ascending spiritual motifs.
Reviews
Sea of Suns :: Come Out To Play EP (Self Released)
Drawing comparisons to brothers Sandison and Eoin and a handful of like-minded artists such as Faex Optim, Skytree, Zachary Gray, Pentagrams Of Discordia, clocolan, Hanut Munson, The OST, Christ., and Sinerider, Sea of Suns maintains a grounded, elemental essence.
Single Cell Orchestra :: A.M. (Self Released)
An immersive ambient electronic album that captures emotional complexity with unflinching honesty, and comes highly recommended.
Myoptik :: Depth Of The Ventricoule (Móatún 7)
Flickering beats cascade as stretched drone textures unfold and fade, while Myoptik constructs a colossal, abstract sonic avalanche—complex yet as smooth as silk.
Roel Funcken :: Data Curation 2 (EC Underground)
Whatever I may have thought about the interesting structures of the start of this release, I can’t deny there’s a special place in my heart for taking it up a notch and I bet there’s one in yours too.
Deuter :: Mångata (Curve Blue)
A collection of nine songs, inspired by the natural world, bringing a pleasing sense of inner peace and healing, while slowing down the madness of this world. Mångata explores the connection between the Earth and the Moon’s reflected light on water.
V/A :: Distant Arrays Volume 08 (Satellite Era)
The Distant Arrays series comes to a close with its eighth release, showcasing for one last time, new entries in the Satellite Era family, and generally upcoming artists that would benefit from some kind of push like this.
Earthen Sea :: Recollection (Kranky)
Combining calming dub, shoegaze (shoegauze), and sinuous psychedelic/guitar inflections, Recollection delivers an emblematic return to some familiar sounds, easily pulling in fans of these genres, and others besides.
Virus2020 :: A frog a gun and a sad man (Unexplained Sounds Group)
The result is more cryptic and hermetic than the previous release with a vast palette of aleatoric sound manipulations and sensient immersion in rituals taken from everyday life.
nnirror :: destory (Evel)
Music like this makes the difference between production and artistic creation clear: in this sense, the generative substrate underlying these tracks is a starting point, a bedrock of naturally occurring variation that nnirror cherry-picks and spotlights with arrangements pushing the limits of complexity.
Ümlaut :: Un Être Humain Ordinaire (Audiobulb)
Sounds puncture space, and things float to the surface. It’s just another ordinary day for being human and listening to music when the smallest detail might make the biggest waves.
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