Listening Diary 20250228

  • orrionn - martyr - https://orrionn.bandcamp.com/album/martyr: Single from Paris-based experimental, err, noise/hip-hop(?) artist seems to fit it best. Dismantled hyperpop with distorted vocals that sound like Robert Smith lost in fog. Intense and brooding, in the same sort of place as Cindytalk.
  • SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL - The GUNCONTROLLA - https://icslibraryrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-guncontrolla-ics009: an intriguing collage of field recordings of firearms being dismantled, cut up and mangled and juxtaposed with dub effects, spoken word snippets, booming 808 bass drums, basslines and synth washes. Arguably on the far reaches of dub but more about the