Listening Diary 20250206

A bit of relaxed tag chasing through @mirlo today

• Melondruie - Into the Depths - @melondruie@sunny.garden https://mirlo.space/melondruie/release/into-the-depths: Minimalist sequencings that sounds like icebergs calving in the dark. A soundtrack for exploring Camp Century in Greenland.
• Time Rival - Music for Recovery - https://mirlo.space/timerival/release/music-for: Slow, blurry ambience that ebbs and flows into liquid gamelan, slow industrial percussive interludes, tamed static crackle that reflects The Black Dog's brutalist
• Liota - liotia:normal (Raasclart! dub) - @inpc@go.mxtthxw.art https://mirlo.space/liotia/release/n: A single from Whitstable's finest purveyors of trip-hobp, dubbed up by the initimatible Matt Smyth. A lovely mix of soulful vocal, spaced out beats and reggae bass.
• s28 - We Sail With the Tide - @s28@musicians.social https://mirlo.space/s28/release/we-sail-with-the-tide: A short thematic EP of oceanic downbeat that seems to document setting out on a voyage. Peaceful but with an air of anticipation.
• The Shining Tongues - This Body of Mine Will Disintegrate - https://mirlo.space/the-shining-tongues/release/this-body-of-mine-will-disintegrate: 80s style post-punk rock that would fit in amongst the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, The Sound and The Chameleons with some contemporary flourishes embellished with audio explorations. It wouldn't look out of place in my record collection, and it might even join it.
• Lorenzo's Music - If I was Alone - @lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social https://mirlo.space/lorenzosmusic/release/if-i-was-a: Wonky lo-fi mamba (or one of those beats on a vintage drum machine) that shuffles and slides with a ba-ba-ba hook and a simple but catchy refrain.
• Oak Sun Gift - Crocus - https://mirlo.space/oak-sun-gift/release/crocus: EP of shoegaze guitar ambience and dubbed out bass that immediately put me in mind of '69' by A.R. Kane, good company to be in.