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Metal(??)

  • Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike and Blasphemy (both also works of Toby Driver) - indescribable. Standout tracks: all, but if I HAD to pick one, I'd say "Ocean Cumulonimbus" from Blasphemy.
  • Colored Sands and Pleiades' Dust - its just good ass shit man
  • all that shit by Town Portal - per last bcf, "Intimate and clever instrumental post-rock." Standout tracks: "K." from The Occident, "Rosini" from Vacuum Horror", "Mad With Power" from Chronopoly, and hell let's throw in Roko's Basilisk" from Of Violence as well.
  • Outer Isolation and Terminal Redux - modern and well-considered prog thrash metal. Standout tracks: "LCD (Liquid Crystal Desease" and "Ultimate Artificer" from Terminal Redux.
  • Synchronized Seasoning - okay, I said kayo dot was indescribable, but this one is more indescribable. It's overall just so fucking nerdy in a wonderful way. Read up on his website for tons of detail on all the tracks. Standout tracks: "Slundge (The Collective)", "Singleton"

Not Metal (?? Maybe??)

  • They Are the Shield and Thymiatascension (both by toby driver, latter under a project name) - dreamy, mature ballads. Standout tracks: "470 Nanometers" and "Barriers Hymn", respectively
  • UNSIGHTED OST - hella jazzy game ost for a hella good game. Standout track: "Scorching Steelworks"
  • Spirit Beats EP - chill beats and loops but with an ridiculously good acoustic drummer. Standout track: "Icarus '88"
  • Prime - prog jazz rock. Standout tracks: "Catacaustic", "Blue Steel"
  • A North Facing Window - per my last bandcamp friday post, "starts listening to some 24 tone music without knowing itโ€™s microtonal Damn This Keyboard Has Diseases". Standout tracks: "Blissed Out Fiction", "Oodaaq"
  • Neon White OST - even without the game, its an album of lethal breakcore. it rules. Standout tracks: "House of Cards", "Thousand Pound Butterfly"
  • Incident on 3rd - per my last bcf post, "A dirty jam room full of colorful rock-jazz fusion." Standout tracks: "Drifter", "Big Six", "La Croix Electrique"
  • The Last Three Seconds - per last bcf, "Beautifully odd sci-fi- and rock-tinged trio jazz." Standout track: "Robots As Pathos / Robots As Menace"

edit to add one from my friend dominic

  • Gator Tunes by Later, Alligator! - just some good ol' local punk. "Yes, I am really cool / You can tell because I'm sitting in this dirty alley, plugging at my Juul"


"Transforming The Random Crushing Forces Of The Universe Into Manageable Patterns" by Zeitgeber

Steel pan drum-driven chillout music with a great command of rhythm and texture. A brain massage.

"Incident on 3rd" by The Physics House Band

A dirty jam room full of colorful rock-jazz fusion.

"The Call Within" by Tigran Hamasyan

Stealing from someone else's comment on bandcamp: "Anything you can say about Tigran Hamasyanโ€™s music will be an understatement". A truly special jazz/rock pianist and composer.

"A North Facing Window" by Trauma Triad

*starts listening to some 24 tone music without knowing itโ€™s microtonal* Damn This Keyboard Has Diseases

"Prime" by Arcing Wires

Jazz fusion baby let's go more jazz fusion yessssss

"Reductio ad Absurdum" by Instrumental (adj.)

Instrumental progressive metal that defies any attempt I can give to explain how good at it is. These guys have six songs and they are all all-time favorites. Listen to this.

"The Last Three Seconds" by Voronoi

Beautifully odd sci-fi- and rock-tinged trio jazz.

"w^w^^w^w" by Car Bomb

Car Bomb surgically cuts into the chest cavity of metal, then pulls out the heart with their fist and and plays hacky sack with it.

"Of Violence" by Town Portal

Intimate and clever instrumental post-rock. One of my favorite releases of 2019.

"They Are the Shield" by Toby Driver/Alora Crucible

Absolutely beautiful album of ballads from a consummate musician.

"Hubardo" by Kayo Dot

Also composed by Toby Driver, this album is completely overflowing with good shit and every track is different. Folk music-tinged rock, serene choral compositions, and searingly strong metal. Some albums are entrees; this is a feast.

"Interior City" by The Gabriel Construct

An impeccably composed, vocal-driven art rock album.

"Sun Square Dialect" by Upsilon Acrux

Constantly shifting, gestural, interpretative post-art-post-hyphenate-rock. Two drummers + two guitarists + one keyboard.

"Timelessness" by SERDCE

What if Dream Theater were actually good? like, really fucking good? Belarusian progressive metal with incredible bass and keyboard work, but really every musician here is working overtime. Theatric and virtuosic, but importantly, still fun.


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