Listening Diary 20250129

Posted on Wed 29 January 2025 in Listening Diary

  • Ghostwriter - Tremulant - https://ghostwriter3.bandcamp.com/album/tremulant: Some might call it neofolk. A modern reimagining of turn of the 20th century sprituals from a loose group of hauntology associated artists. Acoustic, sparse and haunting.
  • Rassclart! inpc - The Kali Mera Show 290125 - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/8UA5hKFHAu9kMFwLDH6QJF: The breakfast show that knocks Today into a cocked hat, and tricks Nemone out of her dinner money every single day, today with a few tracks from the upcoming remaster of Stoned Immaculate by Dub Syndicate. Yes thank you.
  • Dub Syndicate - Stoned Immaculate - https://dubsyndicate.bandcamp.com/album/stoned-immaculate: so I thought I'd better give it a listen. This LP was originally released in 1991, when the world had caught up with dub again as the soundtrack for 'everybody back to mine'. This is dub taken beyond its roots as versions of existing tracks to something that exists for itself, for meditation, contemplation and altered states.
  • If Only the Trees - Drop The Air - @olsugarbread@mastodon.social https://ifonlythetrees.bandcamp.com/album/drop-the-air: wide screen post-rock that does that post-rock thing. The singer sounds like a cross between Peter Murphy and Matt Berninger from the National and the music has elements of (perhaps inevitiably) Mogwai, but also iLiKETRAiNS. It presses a lot of my buttons.
  • They Danced Like Programmed Angels - Stay This Way Forever @olsugarbread@mastodon.social https://theydancedlikeprogrammedangels.bandcamp.com/track/stay-this-way-forever: I think you can file this under mostly instrumental acoustic guitar lead black metal. Or post-metal? I dunno, but I'm listening to more now.

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