The Shape of Water

I took the day off from work to go see this today.  I think i made the right choice.

Majeure

Here's some new music from Majeure, the side project of Zombi member A.E. Paterra.  "Phantasie" finds the artist courting a more ambient sound than usual, but it totally works.  Listen to "Macuma" below and grab the cassette release here via VCO Recordings.

Jeff Rosenstock

And it looks like we might just have our first essential release of 2018 with the surprise New Year's Day release of "POST-," the latest album from New York's Jeff Rosenstock.  A political record, but not overly nagging or annoyingly so, the album feels like a summation of all the frustration we've been feeling for the last year in this new post-satire, post-democracy, post-post-modernism world, using punk and pop and experimentation to get its point across and stick with you.  I'm pretty sure i'll be revisiting this one all year long.  Listen to "USA" below and then download or pre-order the vinyl here via Polyvinyl.

Oneohtrix Point Never and Iggy Pop

Where the hell was i last August?  Somehow i missed that Oneohtrix Point Never scored a film, and that he had Iggy Pop provide vocals on a track.  Seriously, where the hell was i last August?  Anyway, better late than never to the "Good Time" OST party.  Watch the video for "The Pure and The Damned" below and get the record from Warp.

Profligate

Experimental electronic artist Profligate is back with today's new album, "Somewhere Else."  An oozing and haunting mix of noise, drone, and darkwave synth, the record sounds akin to summoning neon demons in a smoky crypt somewhere in a dilapidated and crumbling city.  Listen to the title track below and grab the album here via Wharf Cat.

Friday Horror Trailer - One Dark Night

Sonny Smith feat. Angel Olsen

Sonny and The Sunsets main man Sonny Smith has a solo record on the way in March on Easy Eye Sound, a stripped collection of old, rock n' roll Americana.  Watch the video for "Burnin' Up" below, a wonderful duet with Angel Olsen, and pre-order the "Rod for Your Love" LP here.

Thor & Friends

If the last couple of weeks of the year are spent catching up on all of the things i missed out on at the beginning of the year, then the first couple weeks of the next year are spent catching up on all of the things i missed out on a the end.  Back in November, multi-instrumentalist and carpenter Thor Harris released "The Subversive Nature of Kindness" with his group/collective Thor & Friends.  The album is kind of an experimental new age record, but filtered through notions of folk rock, chamber pop, and ambient sound.  Listen to album opener "90 Metres" below and pick up the record from Living Music Duplication.

Krallice

I am a newcomer in regards to New York metal band Krallice, a fact that should earn me a degree of chastising from my more metal head inclined friends, but with the band's latest album, "Go Be Forgotten," one of two records released in the second half of 2017, i find myself quite smitten with the band's mix of crushing guitar riffs, dramatic synthesizers, brain-rattling drumming, cacophonous eternity.  It's basically all the best parts of heavy metal, black or otherwise.  Listen to the title track below, download the album here, and pre-order the vinyl from Eroding Winds.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everybody!  We're ready for whatever 2018 has in store...i hope.