https://lawrenceenglish.bandcamp.com...ry-photographs

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https://memorynumber36.bandcamp.com/...ywood-medieval

I think a lot of MB folks would go in for this one if you gave it a listen. This received love from alternative press music critics. Hauntological slightly vapor LA infused ambient. It’s a smooth hip listen.

https://mjguider.bandcamp.com/album/precious-systems

This debut that was met with some critical love but very little popular support was actually one of the best shoegaze records of 2016.

I’ve mentioned before that the Deutsche Grammophon label carries tremendous weight with me and this unassailable record is fantastic example of why. It’s one of the best modern classical releases of the 21st century thus far. Icelander, Jóhannsson, borrows from great traditions but doesn’t bind himself restrictively to anything. This music is way beyond those 20th C parameters. This is the work of a composer striking out independently to appeal to our comfortable but wistful ways. There’s plenty to read about the inspiration and why the title and so on but to me this is the soundtrack of beautiful glacial waterfalls that only exist because it’s our time to die.

https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/al...stes-tropiques

Tristes Tropiques is an exotic beat centered fourth world recording by Soviet era Uzbekistan born recording artist Andrew Parker.

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His family managed to successfully flee Soviet oppression and emigrated with political asylum to sunny California the land of Ronalds Reagan & McDonald’s

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where he became intensely obsessed with Slayer. His frightened parents relocated the family again, this time to Germany

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where he fell into the alternative rave/dance music seen that eventually matured into the experimental dance if you wanna record that brought us here. A sonically dense entertaining record that uses the beat to good effect.

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Sirens (Nicolas Jaar album)

2016

Front Row Seat to Earth has attracted a lot of genre tags but one I haven’t seen is soft rock and really think that’s what this is. The kind of soft rock that can be rebranded as yacht rock. Let me be clear that means quality. The critics have high praise for this record and rightfully so. It’s not lost in a nostalgic bubble. It’s rightfully 2016. But it sits comfortably with the melodic sensibilities and gorgeous productions that made driving in the seventies with the radio on so delicious.

AS is a beat oriented electronic album that would probably clear the club but for good reasons. It’s not my genre expertise but I get there’s something uneasy and high quality going on here like the molly being a bit more than you bargained for and you can’t find your ride.

awesome!

Yeah. It’s a really intricate jam.
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Savage Mode is a triumph built on the legacy of Future, who makes an appearance, and proof that in 2016, Atlanta, Georgia was the cultural epicenter of the universe. The obsession with tongue twisting intricacies is gone but the complete embrace of bleak hopelessness and brutal nihilism is in full effect. Why has the vanguard of black culture gone from the hope and spirituality of 1960’s free jazz to complete and utter despair? Because after fifty years of struggle the chances of a real ghetto success story are worse than ever, even among the most talented in the hip hop community. Prison and murder is always lurking. The sheeted ghosts and white devils still make the rules.