After covering several hundred releases in 2022, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Tag: C Mantle
C Mantle :: Photisms (Kaer’Uiks)
Right from the onset we can consider this album as an electronic exploration—its tangled, mangled, and clanging industrial tropes are in full swing (ref. “F.rr.t–Cer”) and sliding through crunchy sonic acrobatics.
Aelk Minsur :: Catalyst (Self Released)
Catalyst doesn’t try to find the path of least resistance, instead, it takes the scenic route with decomposed drum work and broken rhythms galore.
C Mantle :: The Trials of Herta Kosinsky EP (Gabber Noir)
A blisteringly wild ride through turbulent electronic mayhem that is saturated with deformed electro strands.
C Mantle :: Anatomically Correct (Acre)
C Mantle’s unique ability to truncate strangely captivating angular exp-electro soundscapes—and swiftly obliterate them often at the same time—assures us that every scratch, screech, crunch, […]
V/A :: Earthlings 2 (Pyramid Transmissions)
An ear-shattering assemblage with heavy emphasis on rolling rhythms, raw machinery, and modular finesse. One of the top compilations of 2018, and a benefit release (for World […]
C. Mantle :: Con-fusion EP (Acre)
Con-fusion is built on its title, torn down to its core and rebuilt as a towering abstract mega-structure. There’s no escaping the sounds of full […]
Flint Kids :: Sancerre EP (Abstrakt Reflections)
Expanding from bass-heavy turbulence to a gritty electrical traverse and spacious sonic revisions, Sancerre is an engaged backdrop to spinning Neutron stars. Offering slabs of […]