New Music Friday: Norwegian Primitive Metal, Cybernetic Salad
It's the Viking's Choice Guide to New Music Friday, featuring Darkthrone, Unwed Sailor, Amy Grant and Fire-Toolz.
There's something of a loose thread in today's new releases: reflections and reconsideration of memory, of past lives or histories imagined. Here are some sticky note-length reviews and links to listen!
Darkthrone, Pre-Historic Metal
Once you’ve conquered every underground metal subgenre, what next? You call upon the ancients. This is Norwegian Primitive Metal. Mystic caveman grunts and wooly mammoth riffs.
Unwed Sailor, High Remembrance
Jangly and dreamy post-rock instrumentals that you can map your own emotions and experiences onto. Nostalgic, but not manipulative. Dusky and desert-inspired sounds are a welcome new texture.
Amy Grant, The Me That Remains
Her best album since House of Love. Amy has always had a tender way of seeing the world and others, but here, she urges us to consider what that means without losing sight of her convictions. Year-end contender for me.
Fire-Toolz, Lavender Networks
In some moments, Cynic meets Steve Reich; in others, Boards of Canada goes skramz, Postal Service riffs on ignorant brutal slamz. Angel Marcloid's cybernetic salad comes together.
Lavender Networks | Fire-Toolz
10 track album
Panopticon, Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet
I'm frequently moved by Panopticon's searching and searing black metal, but the tasteful addition of classical string arrangements here create a stirring desperation for something lost.
The Sleeves, The Sleeves
Something quiet and considered from one half of the unclassifiable Modern Nature. Songs rooted in the spaces between. Ida-style harmonies that drift apart, single-string counterpoint.
Otay:Onii, Love is in the Shit
An unexpected, exhilarating turn at every minute. Folks will make Björk or Kate Bush comparisons, but these harrowing and heavy electronic pop songs feel more like a noisy exorcism in the blues tradition.
letterstoyou, a promise
Skramz to disrespect your surroundings. Abrasive, raw, almost brutal-proggish pg. 99 worship from the guy with too many bands (Sadness, Trhä, Life, Barbelith, etc.).
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