Here are five songs from albums I like (and some bonus bedroom synth jams).

1. "shape of raw to come", the hatch

I saw "the hatch" live at Toronto's "Next Music from Tokyo", a really great event— every year they fly about five livehouse bands from Japan to Toronto to do two shows. The Hatch is incredible; mostly they alternate (and blend) dark jazz and death metal, in a way that seems like it shouldn't work but really really works. This track is more typical post-rock, but still has its surprises. An ominous wailing threat over chugging guitars.

2. "萃点", GEZAN featuring Million Wish Collective

This is from an absolutely wonderful album Christine found browsing The Hatch's label. The album's a weird, joyous mix of Taiko-style drumming, electric guitar, a room full of people yelling and chanting, oceans of echo, and (not in this song) bagpipes? It makes me think of Polyphonic Spree, or J. A. Seazer's songs for Shūji Terayama and Revolutionary Girl Utena.

The track name comes from the philosophy of Japanese conservationist Kumagusu Minakata and is a little difficult to translate; the video on the band's website translates it as "Intersection", the literal kanji are "Seed Point". After reading this explanation I think I would suggest translating it as "point of origin".

3. "生​ま​れ​る​前​の​セ​ク​シ​ー​キ​ン​グ", the hatch

I linked "the hatch" above— this is from their earlier album, and is a little closer to that "halfway between jazz and metal" thing I mentioned. Actually it kinda feels like if Last Days of Humanity tried to do a catchy ska kinda thing. All screaming and guitar-shredding noise. But it's catchy!

Google Translate claims this title means "The Sexy King Before Birth". Not sure how to interpret that. The characters "セ​ク​シ​ー​キ​ン​グ" literally spell the English words "Sexy King". J. M. Berntson on Mastodon suggested "The Yet Unborn Sexy King".

4. "Melting through Midtown", The Physics House Band

The Physics House Band is a very noisy jazz ensemble. This track is not noisy at all. It is gentle and smooth and autumn-breeze cool. Saxophone and electric piano and drums. Very satisfying.

I previously posted this album in my progressively-updated Bandcamp recommendations post I have here. I've been trying not to feature songs from that thread in this one, but maybe soon it won't matter anymore.

5. "Gateless", Darren Korb

It's been 9 years and I'm prepared to say that "Transistor", by Supergiant Games, has the best video game OST ever. Like, the best video game soundtrack to listen to as an album. I was in indie game circles in 2014 and just every time there was a party in that scene back then, this album played in full at some point.

My fav track on the OST by far is "Gateless", an intense, epic guitar jam with a slight return to "The Spine".

⬇️ Click below for two good tracks by synth YouTubers I've featured before ⬇️

Transcript:
“… Interesting uniform there.”
“Hey, it’s not my fault my mech is cat-themed! I need these to interface with its special ears and tail!”
“Right… what’s with the paws, then?”
“I— well you see—”
“I’m teasing~ They’re cute!”

Btw it totally is her fault, she specifically chose the cat-themed one :3

Starting to think she might be a furry or smthn