here's what i listened to today:
=> dreamcastmoe - Molly's Son [synth funk]
=> Makeup and Vanity Set - GONE/AWAY [ambient]
=> Lifeless Dark - Forces of Nature's Transformation [stenchcore]
=> Hässlig - Apex Predator (死) [black metal]
dreamcastmoe may be out of my wheelhouse but Molly's Son was full of earnest vocals, warm synth & catchy grooves. Hand Down Man Down is my favourite, i liked On the Beach a lot too.
GONE/AWAY is a different MAVS than i am used to, making use of field recordings out in nature to give a transportive effect, with beats only coming in briefly halfway thru the album. like a lot of ambient music i don't think i would ever be compelled to listen to it again, but it was a pleasant walk thru the forest & along the beach.
much as i could grumble about spoken-word jankiness, once the Lifeless Dark LP got going with music there was super kinetic & rifftacular thrashing stenchcore to be had. the vocal production seems a little thin & clean to me sometimes but that's a nitpick on a solid debut that made me yearn for the pit. i bet these folks crush live.
technically i've heard Apex Predator before (and loved it) but Hässlig have decided to offer an alternate version with raw production, and i thank them for it because it is glorious. both versions are excellent but i do prefer this nasty, dirty sound!
so goes a somewhat brief but beautiful morning.
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