Thou - The Archer & The Owle

An EP or something from my favouritest sludge band in the whole wide world (probably). The last Pygmy Lush cover is absolutely brilliant and the Nirvana cover is cool too. I have nothing more to say.

The Archer & The Owle

Plaid - Double Figure

Some tasty IDM, drawing influence most notably from Warp label-mates Aphex Twin, and to a lesser extent Autechre. If mentioning Warp, Aphex Twin and Autechre together doesn't encourage you then I don't even know man. It's good alright.


Double Figure

Thou - Tyrant

This is one evil, crushing, unrelenting punch in the dick.

Tyrant

'nuvva bwog

it's Meatplow's blog and, be you one who suffers in their unfamiliarity with such an individual FUCKING RECTIFY IT

http://ohwhatisyoursillysong.blogspot.com/

Shipwreck A.D. - Abyss

I do think it's been awhile since I've heard some catchy as fuck hardcore that doesn't also annoy the shit out of me.

The riffs are restrained in a good way, conservative. It's good because it works with their style, which I want to call metallic hardcore but don't because i really really hate that term so what metalcore isnt good enough for you pedantic shits

oh dude you got it all wrong metalcore and metallic hardcore are completely different. i mean have you compared judge with botch

idk man fuck it's just a great hardore album listen to "squall" if you dont believe me.

Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - Mecca and the Soul Brother

You know what? It doesn't even matter if the beats outshine the MC because when you're Pete Rock your name comes first bitch.


Mecca and the Soul Brother

I Have Dreams - Three Days 'Til Christmas

This would've been totally hilarious if I posted this three days before Christmas but I'm not, it's nowhere near Christmas. In fact, it's probably as far from Christmas as you can get and I don't give a shit because this album has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. Fuck Christmas, I don't care for it. Hell, it's not even an album, it's an EP. Extended play. As opposed to a long play? Extended sounds like it ought to be longer than long. Shit, I don't care. This is the soundtrack to your girlfriend breaking up with you and getting together with some piece of shit junkie trash and making dumb twitter statuses about how she loves her boy dumb amounts and couldn't be happier while you continue to be a worthless loser going nowhere in life fast, but fuck it you get to play Oblivion all day and Skyrim's coming out in November and you don't need a girlfriend because video games are way better anyway and they won't break your fragile little emo heart.

Three Days 'Til Christmas

Zomby - Where Were U In '92?

Garage step dubstep 2 step eskibeat wtfever this rules has womp show it to your friends and out womp them youll be cool then


no but seriously this shit is so good

Bwog

Check out this fucking blog cunts

http://noddingout.blogspot.com/

T.S.O.L. - Dance With Me

Punk rock classic, get this if you're not afraid to embrace your inner necrophiliac and chant along to I wanna fuck, I wanna fuck the dead! Because, you know, that would totally give you limitless amounts of punx cred. Don't be afraid this'll be like any other punk record you've heard because there's something different about this I can't quite label. It's got quite a deathrock-esque sound to it. Worth your time.

Dance With Me

Penfold - Amateurs & Professionals

Whiny emo songs for whiny emo kids. More than just 'songs about girls and being sad and stuff'. Get this if you're a fan of Mineral and the ilk because it sounds like them but arguably better. Arguably. You're welcome to argue that. I'm just here to hyperbole after all. If you were here then I would take you eeeveryyywheeere. Listen to that song if you only listen to one (why the fuck would you ever do that?) because it's certainly among the better emo songs in the history of emo songs. Emo is a really dumb word.

Amateurs & Professionals

Balam Acab - 4 Songs

This is a titchy compilation of two Balam Acab releases, a self-titled one and Conscious

chill downtempo dubsteppy goodness

Where the fuck is everyone?

Pictured above: me, looking for everyone.

The Men - Leave Home

Holy shoegazing punx hardcore just got interesting. I really hope more hardcore bands take a leaf out of The Men's book in the future because it really is a breath of fresh air to see them try something a little different. This is rad. That's the word that comes to mind. Rad. People should use that word more often without trying to be ironic. Leave Home seems like a logical progression from their noisier previous release Immaculada, seeing the band focusing more on the less conventional parts of their sound and with great success. I think it's way more punx to play whatever the fuck you want as opposed to the same rehashed hardcore everybody else has been playing for years. The Men are more punx than you. All of you. Deal with it.

Leave Home

Grouper - A I A

Another wonderful release courtesy of Liz Harris this year. While I'm not feeling this quite as much as her previous output, Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill, it's still a very solid two LPs worth of dreamy, ambient bliss. I can only see this growing on me in the future so perhaps it'll come to rival her previous release in my eyes, who knows? Well worth a listen if you're a fan of all things chill. However if all you listen to is tough guy hardcore to make up for your raging insecurities concerning your potentially questionable masculinity this may not be for you. It's okay to let your sensitive side take over sometimes though. It's not gay. Unless it is gay, but that's cool too. I mean you could totally get married in NYC now. What a wonderful world we live in.

Dream Loss
Alien Observer

Giles Corey - Giles Corey

I've been listening to very little other than this album recently and I can't quite pinpoint what about this I find so enthralling. There's just something here that keeps me coming back for more of this gloomy, lo-fi, folky, ambient, inane genre tag, so and so forth piece of awesome. It's the solo project of one Dan Barrett of Have A Nice Life fame, who are without a doubt one of my favourite bands, so this was always going to be brilliant. It comes highly recommended regardless, provided you're not averse to a rather melancholic, depressing 56 minutes ahead of you.

Giles Corey

Portishead - Roseland NYC Live

Portishead absolutely kill it live on this release. It's arguably more moving than any of their studio recordings and is definitely aided by the inclusion of an orchestra, though it's Beth that really takes the metaphorical cake, she's incredible on here. If you call yourself a Portishead fan and don't have this already, get it asap.

Roseland NYC Live

P.S. I'm back, did you miss me? Nope? Yeah, fuck you too. I have nothing to do until October now so expect more posts from me. Joy!

Autechre - Confield

By becoming even more detached, mechanical, cold, and uninviting, Autechre somehow became even more interesting.

One of their best.


Confield

[Post-foetus] - The Fabric

Ardent (hah, yeah right) followers of this blog will have seen the Baths album I posted up quite awhile ago. Had you downloaded it, you would have heard one of the better albums released last year. His songwriting is so inspired, and the textures he achieves require successive listenings, which is definitely a good thing considering how addictive his blend of glitch, ambient and hip hop is. So here's [Post-foetus], his first project. Yes it's good. No it's not as good as Baths. Yes you should get it.

Iniquity - Serenadium

A wise man once said, 'don't judge a book by its horribly cheesy CGI cover'.

Danish band Iniquity released this back in '96, a time when all that quality old school dm was drying out a little bit, and new trends were starting up. This album is a perfect representation of that time, as it's still got a little of that old school vibe, but is leaning towards the more modern brutal and technical dm camps.

Something for every dm fan here, no excuses for not checking it out.


Serenadium