2024!

Hello everyone and happy new year! No actual posts from me in 2024 but that's how it goes sometimes. I lost the will to write and I keep returning to the thought that this type of music sharing is...outdated? Redundant maybe - I don't know. It's not in the amount but in in accessibility of music that is making me think this. So many ways to listen and discover albums that this small corner kinda feels pointless now. But I've decided not to put a definitive end to the blog...yet. If the will comes back to write then I'll write. Maybe I find something interesting to talk about in the future.

In the meantime here are 2024 albums that I've heard and enjoyed!

Black Metal

Horna - Nyx - Hymnejä yölle

Nimbifer - Der böse Geist

Häxenzijrkell – Portal

Deathless Void - The Voluptuous Fire of Sin

Chotzä – Pächschwarz

Paysage d'Hiver - Die Berge

Ungfell - De Ghörnt

Erzfeynd – Fivrrist

Förgjord - Perkeleen weri

Panzerfaust - The Suns of Perdition - Chapter IV: To Shadow Zion

Death Metal

Unaussprechlichen Kulten - Häxan Sabaoth 

Black Curse - Burning in Celestial Poison

Pyrrhon – Exhaust

Mayhemic - Toba 

Siderean - Spilling the Astral Chalice

Ripped to Shreds – Sanshi

Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All

Hyperdontia - Harvest of Malevolence

Civerous - Maze Envy

Abhorration – Demonolatry

Not Metal

Shadow Knell - Shadow Knell [dungeon synth]

Etran de L'Aïr - 100% Sahara Guitar [desert blues]

Poison Ruïn – Confrere [post-punk]

Aluk Todolo – Lux [instrumental]

Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown [folk]

Jessica Pratt - Here in the Pitch [folk]

David Binney - In the Arms of Light [ambient]

dj poolboi - into blue light lp [lo-fi house]

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead" [post-rock]

Adam Wiltzie - Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal [ambient]

Jazz

McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson - Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' [previously unreleased]

Alice Coltrane - The Carnegie Hall Concert [previously unreleased]

Chris Potter - Eagle's Point

Walter Smith III - three of us are from Houston and Rueben is not 

Ben Wendel - Understory: Live at the Village Vanguard 

Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh & Tyshawn Sorey – Compassion

Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder

Marta Sánchez Trio - Perpetual Void

Wayne Shorter - Celebration, Volume 1

Jihye Lee Orchestra - Infinite Connections