Just discovered The Soft Moon with their fourth album released in February. I'm really enjoying this post-punk / darkwave thingie called Criminal

New Perfume's dropped, in case you're interested. I'm not too impressed, but I guessed as much from the singles.

Written by IronAngel on 17.08.2018 at 10:42

I'm not too impressed

Waat?

For me it's the best jpop album I have heard in a while

Written by Karlabos on 17.08.2018 at 22:45

For me it's the best jpop album I have heard in a while

I'll have to give it more time, but it sounds much more dated already than the previous stuff. I don't get the unappealing EDM beats (wtf is up with FUSION, or the chorus of If you wanna!?). The songwriting also feels uneven, with plenty of mid-paced, fairly vanilla songs that are far from the hyper ecstacy that made them stand out. I like Future Pop, and TOKYO GIRL is quite nice, but the rest of the first half I could do without. I'll grant that tracks 8-12 seem to pick up a bit, but they too suffer from inexplicably boring production and those dumb, heavy-handed beats (I don't know how to classify them since I don't listen to that kind of electronic, but they seem to stuff almost every song with them).

I dunno. For a producer specifically known for pure sonic bliss, this seems oddly dull.

Extremely moody and medieval dungeon synth. One of the best of these sort I've come across.

Hahdrim

(and then you guys complain about my jpop...)

A few years after the slav jokes were funny, but yeah

70' psychedelic rock with black metal vocals and really cheesy keyboards? You have my interest.

Written by Vombatus on 18.09.2018 at 00:10

70' psychedelic rock with black metal vocals and really cheesy keyboards? You have my interest.

Cmon this is too good

Written by Karlabos on 18.09.2018 at 00:41

Cmon this is too good

Potential AOTY material, I'd say.

Written by Vombatus on 19.09.2018 at 00:28

Written by Karlabos on 18.09.2018 at 00:41

Cmon this is too good

Potential AOTY material, I'd say.

I wouldn't disagree.
It reminds of the first Hail Spirit Noir album, when it was not too proggy and had a tongue-in-cheek vibe to it

Written by RaduP on 12.09.2018 at 20:44

*kanye feat. roblox*

Best song of the year

I am pleased with the new Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. Nothing we haven't heard before, but it's a nice sound:


I think Low's new electronic/glitchcore(tm) Double Negative is their most interesting album in a long time and one of the best. They've always been reinventing themselves subtly, but now they did something really out of the left-field.

Never really listened to mewithoutYou before, and generally I find American indie/post-hardcore a very hit-or-miss genre, but the new [untitled] is a hell of an album. There's music you like because the style is right up your alley, and then there's stuff where the songwriting just wins you over. (Sure, there's some of the laconic melancholy of 90s stuff like Codeine or Hum here, even if the sound isn't the same, so it's not totally out there for me.)

Alan Averill goes synthpop. (it actually isn't half bad)

Jozef van wissem is always a favourite

New Merzbow live album is one of the best I've heard from him.

What do you guys think of the new Laibach?