Decades - Decades (2013)

Bandcamp listening

Since I adore all of the possible shades of somber and sadness I find anywhere and especially in music, Decades have hit me right away. 

Their self-titled album is a perfect ratio of dreamy vocals, cold guitar riffs, melancholic affection and tearing-apart voices of deep emotion. 

You can be sure that if there is any heartbreak wound in yourself, this music will get there. And it will soothe your sorrow, at least for a moment.

My other impression is that if My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive were to have a coldwave descendant (or a close relative) in the 21st century, I would give this title to Decades. Too bad those guys released only one album and do not appear to show any activity thereafter.

While researching the info for this post, I bumped into synthpop Decades. They certainly got me inrigued.

Tracklist:

1. Tonight Again

2. Any Wonder

3. Celebrate

4. Old & Aging

5. Only After 

6. In Sequins

7. Move Me 

8. Can You Love Me Now 

9. For From Me 

10. Washed

Carpenter Brut - Leather Teeth (2018)

Bandcamp listening

Feelin' like going back to the 80's? 

I certainly am. I've already put on my spiked-shoulder leather jacket and applied hairspray to my hair. But I'm not planning on going to any disco. I'll just be playing Leather Teeth. 

If you crave some good quality and energetic synthwave, you can count on Carpenter Brut. This album is just another proof to it. 

Want me to hype it a little more for you? Just know that Kristoffer Rygg is singing there. Mat McNerney (Kvohst) is singing there. Yann Ligner took a share in writing the lyrics. 

Note: listening to this music can make you feel like dancing insanely wherever you are - on the street, in a tram, at work. So play it with caution...

And remember: Beware the Beast!

Tracklist:

1. Leather Teeth 

2. Cheerleader Effect

3. Sunday Lunch

4. Monday Hunt

5. Inferno Galore 

6. Beware The Beast 

7. Hairspray Hurricane

8. End Titles 

The Soft Moon - Criminal (2018)

Bandcamp listening

Have you ever suffered from a painful feeling that your soul just doesn't  fit in your body at all? 

If yes, then this album is perfect for you.

Have you ever loathed yourself for who you are?

If yes, then this album is perfect for you.

If you 1) are deepressed, 2) are incapable of maintaing heatlhy social relations due to your deep disgust in humanity and in particular in yourself, 3) have obsessive-compulsive personality disorders;

Then I definitely like you. And this this album is perfect for you. 

A piece of dark and aggresive experimental electronic music about screaming away all the torment and abuse you have been exposed to. The sound of pleasurable self-descruction but in the same time, a totally out-of-this-world, one-of-a-kind, eclectic katharsis. You stand face to face to the stone you always carry inside your chest. It doesn't necesarily feel lighter afterwards but your existence is different forever. 

Listen to this album on a full volume level.

PS: I discovered The Soft Moon thanks to the late night radio broadcast - Trzecia Strona Księżyca, in Polish  Radio. Shoutout to the authors: Marek Starzyk, Grzegorz Połatyński and DJ Luna. 

Tracklist: 

1. Burn 
2. Choke
3. Give Something
4. Like a Father 
5. The Pain
6. It Kills 
7. ILL 
8. Young
9. Born Into This
10. Criminal

Danheim - Herja (2018)

Listen on YouTube

I really dislike the medieval-village-market-stylized folk music. The crappy music you can find basically everywhere. A lively yet emotionless, and filled with girly vocals music which long haired teenagers make love to.

On the contrary, the mixture of cold dark ambient and authentic, scandinavian folk sounds has always been my weak point. For a long time I've been looking for something similiar to Wardruna at least in some way. Just to clarify - Wardruna are my personal absolute "top one" music project. 

And damn. Danheim came pretty close with the newest album. 

Herja hits you with a massive flood of atmospheric, dark, mystic and loaded with hostility viking war songs.

The most crucial part about this piece of music is the genuine perception of experiencing the evil and the wild. While listening I felt how my blood turns black in my veins and my eyes go fierce.

I highly recommend getting to know this album if you like the heathen violent energy flowing through yourself.

 A pagan ode, a human sacrifice, a battle hymn. This is what Herja is.

Tracklist:
1. Atgeir
2. Berserkir
3. Feigr
4. Fimbulvetr
5. Fjolsin
6. Forn Elding
7. Framganga
8. Gungnir
9. Hrungnir
10. Skjoldborg
11. Surt
12. Ulfhednar
13. Volfothr

SHXCXCHCXSH ‎– STRGTHS (2013)

Listening on Bandcamp

Where did all the vowels go? And why is the vowel-absent world so appealing?

Abolishing the usage of vowels sounds like a plan while listening to this album.  Humanity doesn't need words anymore anyway. (Oh, the irony - me using the words to describe it... Maybe we should just buzz to each other?).

Let's take some brain-stimulating sounds of numbness, apathy and add them to the emotional equilibrium of hip-moving experimental minimal dub music. This is how you get an album which not only takes you to the world composed of noise of flowing blankness, but also makes you not realize how fast 52 minues 38 seconds go.

Tracklist:

1. SLVRBBL
2. LTTLWLF
3. RSRRCTN
4. LDWGWTT
5. PCTSTSS
6. WHTLGHT
7. LLDTMPS