More like every 2025 release I bought. Slim year for me.
Albums
FACS – Wish Defense
Angular, noise rock, neo-post punk. Unsettling, laid-back, yet aggressive. And yes it was the last album Steve Albini recorded.
Dax Riggs – 7 Songs for Spiders
Blues metal? Shoegaze blues? I don’t know or care, I like it.
Civic – Chrome Dipped
Aussie punk in the vien of The Saints and Radio Birdman.
Årabrot – Rite of Dionysus
Former Black Metal, Noise Rock. Now weirdo noise pop? This is much quieter than their last release. Weird and haunting.
JG Thrilwell – Venture Brothers Vol 3
Spy movie jazz with some electronic bits?
Krokofant – 6
Hard jazz fusion. Maybe a bit prog. Harder Mahavishnu Orchestra.
Nine Inch Nails – Tron Ares
Love the instrumental songs, old school heavy synths. The songs with vocals are pretty typical NIN.
Anika – Abyss
Neo Post Punk with Nico type vocals.
Coroner – Dissonance Theory
The dreaded reunion album that turns out to be pretty good. Thrash metal with some proggish parts thrown in.
Carla Kihlstedt – 26 Little Deaths
Violinist, vocalist from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Book of Knots, Tin Hat Trio interprets Edward Gorey stories/illustrations.
Jim Jarmush & Anika – Father Mother Sister Brother (soundtrack)
More like Anika doing a couple covers and Jarmush doing some western-ish texture guitar instrumentals.
EPs
Swervedriver – Worlds Fair
Are they shoegaze? I guess much more guitar forward but they do have the dream like quality.
Reissues
Andy Summers and Robert Fripp box set
Frippatronics meets the Police world-ish music. Disc 1 and 3 are great. 2 a bit too world music. No links.
Watchtower – Energetic Disassembly Remix/Remaster
Yeah, an acquired taste. Extreme prog thrash. Extreme on the prog technical end. Love it. Links are only the remaster disc. apparently the remix disc is not available for streaming.
Sorrows – Such Sweet Sorrow
Power Pop.
Songs
- Crome Dipped – Civic
- Wish Defense – FACS
- Graveyard Soul – Dax Riggs
- Volume Control – Swervedriver
- The Satantango – Årobrot
- Abyss – Anika
- Scan Mode – JG Thirlwell
- In the Image of – Nine Inch Nails
- B Childhood Friends – Carla Kihlstedt
- Symmetry – Coroner