It is always the melancholic, the eerie and the mysterious elements in music that tell the most interesting stories. We embrace Autumn and the coming Winter with a soundtrack for a dance bizarre of ghosts – real or imaginary – and creatures of the night. This month, our favourite independent music releases covered the punk, IDM, ethereal, neoclassical, downtempo and rock dimensions of the sonic spectrum. We particularly salute the beautiful come back of The Cult with a release of their new album entitled ‘Under The Midnight Sun’ as well as the new offering by Nox Arcana – ‘Darkfall’, like clockwork in time for the celebration of Samhain.
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums October 2022
Posted: 22nd November 2022 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Artoffact Records album releases 2022, BAD WAITRESS new single 2022, BAD WAITRESS Racket Simulator, best coldwave releases 2022, best darkwave albums 2022, best downtempo albums 2022, best electronic albums 2022, best IDM albums 2022, best neoclassical albums 2022, best post-punk music 2022, best psych rock albums 2022, best punk albums 2022, Black Hill Records album releases 2022, Black Lips Apocalypse Love, Black Lips new album 2022, BLVCK CEILING LITE, Cold Spring album releases 2022, COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC album releases 2022, coldwave music, Cousin Silas & The Glove of Bones new album 2022, Cousin Silas&The Glove of Bones New Runes 2022, Crisis Man Asleep in America, Crisis Man debut album 2022, Crystalline Stricture new album 2022, Crystalline Stricture The Mountain, darkwave music, debut albums 2022, downtempo music, electronic music 2022, Erased Tapes album releases 2022, experimental music 2022, Fire Records album releases 2022, Fleurejak Dissonant Affair 2022, Fleurejak new single 2022, FOOLISH RECORDS album releases 2022, Girls in Synthesis new album 2022, Girls In Synthesis The Rest Is Distraction, Heavenly album releases 2022, IAMTHESHADOW new album 2022, IAMTHESHADOW The Wide Starlight, IDM music, IDM music 2022, INNOCENT BUT GUILTY AND FRIENDS 413, INNOCENT BUT GUILTY AND FRIENDS compilation 2022, Midnight Mannequin Records album releases 2022, Monolith Graphics album releases 2022, MZ412 Malfleitor, MZ412 new album 2022, neoclassical music, new albums 2022, new music 2022, Nox Arcana DARKFALL, Nox Arcana new album 2022, Other Voices new album 2022, Other Voices Under Control 2022, Own It Music album releases 2022, Panic Priest new album 2022, Panic Priest PSYCHOGORIA, post punk albums 2022, psych rock music, punk music 2022, Ritual Dictates new album 2022, Ritual Dictates No Great Loss, Rival Consoles new album 2022, Rival Consoles Now Is, Rocket Recordings album releases 2022, self-released albums 2022, Shit and SHine new album 2022, Shit and Shine New Confusion, Submarine Broadcasting Company album releases 2022, SUIR new album 2022, SUIR Not All Of Your Pain Is Self Chosen, SwissDarkNights album releases 2022, the beka new single 2022, the beka sonic pluck, The Cult new album 2022, The Cult Under The Midnight Sun, The Orielles new album 2022, The Orielles Tableau, This Charming Man Records album releases 2022, TONN Recordings album releases 2022
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums October 2020
Posted: 5th December 2020 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Accession Records album releases 2020, best albums 2020, best garage albums 2020, best metal albums 2020, best punk albums 2020, Black To Comm new album 2020, Black To Comm Oocyte Oil + Stolen Androgens, Black Verb Records releases 2020, coldwave albums 2020, coldwave music, Death Valley Girls new album 2020, Death Valley Girls Under the Spell of Joy, debut albums 2020, Diorama new album 2020, Diorama Tiny Missing Fragments, DISTRA new EP 2020, DISTRA Thousands of Army, dream pop albums, dream rock music, Enslaved new album 2020, Enslaved Utgard, experimental albums 2020, experimental music, Fabrika Records album releases 2020, garage music 2020, gothic rock albums 2020, gothic rock music, Heaven and Earth Association Material/Ethereal, Heaven and Earth Association new EP 2020, independent music 2020, Inner Ear album releases 2020, Last Rockers Records album releases 2020, Lebanon Hanover new album 2020, Lebanon Hanover Sci-Fi Sky, Maple Death Records album releases 2020, metal albums 2020, METZ Atlas Vending, METZ new album 2020, NOTHING new album 2020, NOTHING The Great Dismal, Nuclear Blast album releases 2020, Obisidian Vultures, Obsidian new album 2020, post punk albums 2020, psych rock albums 2020, psych rock music, punk albums 2020, punk music 2020, Relapse Records album releases 2020, Rocket Recordings album releases 2020, self releases album 2020, Selofan new album 2020, Selofan partners in hell, Shit &Shine new album 2020, Shit&Shine Malibu Liquor Store, Slow Danse With The Dead Devils Night, Slow Danse With The Dead new EP 2020, Strawberry Pills Murder To A Beat, Strawberry Pills new album 2020, Sub Pop album releases 2020, Suicide Squeeze album releases 2020, Tequesta Records album releases 2020, The Glass Beads debut album 2020, The Glass Beads Therapy, The Reds Pinks and Purples new album 2020, The Reds Pinks and Purples You Might Be Happy Someday, Thrill Jockey album releases 2020, Tough Love Records album releases 2020, underground music, Vice Squad Battle of Britain, Vice Squad new album 2020, Vivita and The Sufferings 7 Nails in the coffin, Vivita and The Sufferings new album 2020, Wisecrack debut album 2020
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums September 2020
Posted: 17th November 2020 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: 4GN3S album releases 2020, Alone in the Hollow Garden new album 2020, Alone in the Hollow Garden Stellar Dissolution, AmeK Collective album releases 2020, best albums 2020, best electronic music 2020, best post-punk albums 2020, blac kolor 24U Vol7, blac kolor new EP 2020, Black Phoebe, Black Phoebe debut album 2020, Captured Tracks album releases 2020, Choronzon new album 2020, Choronzon Serve Them Toxins, Clan Destine Records album releases 2020, coldwave albums 2020, coldwave music, Conjecture new album 2020, Conjecture ∫V, Dais Records album releases 2020, dark ambient albums 2020, dark ambient music 2020, Death Bells new album 2020, Death Bells New Signs of Life, debut albums 2020, Dreadful Activist new album 2020, Dreadful Activist Vreselijke Hardcore, Ecstatic Recordings album releases 2020, electronic albums 2020, experimental albums 2020, experimental music 2020, False Idols album releases 2020, Fuzz Club Records album releases 2020, Glaring Limbus, Glaring new album 2020, Hekate Meres Orgis, Hekate new album 2020, independent music 2020, indie rock albums 2020, indie rock music 2020, industrial albums 2020, Isolating new album 2020, Isolating Perennial, Jadu Heart Hyper Romance 2020, Jadu Heart new album 2020, La Vida Es Un Mus album releases 2020, P.Emerson Williams new album 2020, P.Emerson Williams Room of Imagination 2020, Panicmachine album releases 2020, post punk music 2020, psych rock albums 2020, Rhelm demo 2020, self released albums 2020, Singapore Sling Godd Sick Fun with Singapore Sling, Singapore Sling new album 2020, TRICKY Fall To Pieces, TRICKY new album 2020, trip hop albums 2020, trip hop music, underground music 2020, VLF Records album releases 2020, Wax Chattels Clot, Wax Chattels new album 2020
A list of our favourite independent and underground music releases of September 2020
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums July 2020
Posted: 2nd September 2020 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: All Saints album releases 2020, aufnahme + wiedergabe album releases 2020, best albums 2020, Blitzkrieg Baby Genocidal Sextasy, Blitzkrieg Baby new album 2020, Catastrophe Noise I Want To, Catastrophe Noise new album 2020, Claustraphobia new album 2020, Claustraphobia Shame, Cloister Recordings album releases 2020, coldwave albums, coldwave music, Cyclic Law album releases 2020, Dallas Acid new album 2020, Dallas Acid The Spiral Ambience, dark ambient albums 2020, dark ambient music, darkwave albums, darkwave music, debut albums, Echoes demo 2020, El Rancho Records releases 2020, electronic albums 2020, electronic music 2020, Epitaph releases 2020, experimental albums 2020, experimental music, Futuro de Hierro Costumes y medidas, Futuro de Hierro new EP 2020, Geometric Vision new EP 2020, Geometric Vision Slowemotion, Hammershoi debut album 2020, independent music 2020, industrial albums, industrial albums 2020, industrial music, industrial music 2020, Magia Roja releases 2020, Modern Sky UK album releases 2020, new music 2020, Phonotek new album 2020, Phonotek Styx, Plague Vendor new EP 2020, Plague Vendor Night Sweats, post punk albums 2020, Purgate Elemental, PURGATE new album 2020, rock 'n roll albums 2020, rock 'n roll music 2020, S!CK Lenitive Seizure 2020, S!CK new album 2020, Sadband Comet, Sadband new EP 2020, self released albums 2020, Slow Danse With The Dead, Slow Danse With The Dead new album 2020, SwissDarkNights album releases 2020, The Blinders Fantasies of A Stay At Home Psychopath, The Blinders new album 2020, The Roves new EP 2020, The Roves The Big Silver, Urticaria Records album releases 2020
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Monthly Playlist-Favourite albums June 2020
Posted: 22nd July 2020 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Acceptance Corp. Market Failure, Acceptance Corp. new EP 2020, Alone in the Hollow Garden new album 2020, Alone in the Hollow Garden The Black Hounds of The Netherworld, Alva Noto new album 2020, Alva Noto Xerrox Vol.4, Anatoly Grinberg Mark Spybey dust forbids the bird to sing, Anatoly Grinberg Mark Spybey new album 2020, Ant-Zen album releases 2020, Atavist III:Absolution, Atavist new album 2020, Bella Union album releases 2020, best albums 2020, best coldwave albums 2020, best post-punk albums 2020, black metal albums 2020, Candlelight Records album releases 2020, coldwave music, Columbarium station new album 2020, Columbarium station The Sound of Blood, Commando Vanessa album releases 2020, dark ambient albums 2020, dark ambient music, darkwave music 2020, debut releases 2020, Drab City Good songs for bad people, Drab City new album 2020, Dy Fuchs debut album 2020, Dy Fuchs From Future To Past 2020, DøDKSMASKIN new album 2020, DøDKSMASKIN VERDENSSMERTE, electronic albums 2020, electronic music, experimental albums 2020, experimental music, Geertruida album releases 2020, gothic rock albums 2020, independent music 2020, John Poubelle new album 2020, john Poubelle Pléistocène Supérieur, Laura Krieg/Basatzung split EP 2020, Laura Krieg/Besatzung tout va bien tout va mal, MDGL new EP 2020, MDGL Portrait, metal music 2020, Morgana demo 2020, new music, new music 2020, Noton album releases 2020, post punk albums, psych rock albums 2020, psych rock music, Red Cavity Records album releases 2020, Roly Porter Kistvaen, Roly Porter new album 2020, self released albums 2020, Sinnen debut album 2020, Sinnen Loc 2020, Sol Oscuro EP 2020, Sol Oscuro EP 4, Stealjoy debut EP 2020, Stealjoy EP, Subtext album releases 2020, Termination debut album 2020, TESCO album releases 2020, the cold field black river 2020, the cold field debut album 2020, TQN-aut album releases 2020, Wasted Tapes album releases 2020
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums March 2020
Posted: 6th April 2020 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: album releases 2020, Arising Empire albums 2020, Blind Delon new EP 2020, Blind Delon People of God, Bondage Freaks demo 2020, coldwave albums 2020, coldwave music, darkwave albums 2020, darkwave music, Death Loves Veronica Lucid Dreams, Death Loves Veronica new album 2020, deathrock albums 2020, deathrock music, doom metal albums 2020, doom metal music 2020, dream pop albums 2020, dream pop music, electro industrial music, Eye Flys debut album 2020, Eye Flys Tub of Lard, FAKTURA Danos, FAKTURA debut EP 2020, favourite albums 2020, FUZZ Club Records releases 2020, Independent music albums 2020, JASSS new EP 2020, JASSS Whities027, Kato Kachimotaki new album 2020, Katy&Nick debut album 2020, Katy&Nick What I Did For You, Mannequin Records album releases 2020, Masquerade Generation Habanita, Masquerade Generation new album 2020, Melinda Warren debut EP 2020, Melinda Warren Only Sorrow/Only Pain, metal albums 2020, metal music, My Dying Bride new album 2020, My Dying Bride The Ghost of Orion, Myrkur Folkesange, Myrkur new album 2020, new bands, new music 2020, noise industrial albums 2020, noise industrial music, Nuclear Blast album releases 2020, OTIH Demo 2020, pagan folk albums, pagan folk music, pagan metal music, Peter and The Test Tube Babies Fuctifano, Peter and the Test Tube Bbaies new album 2020, Police des Moeurs new album 2020, Police des Moeurs Péril, post punk albums, post punk albums 2020, post punk music 2020, post-punk music, pretty Lightning Jangle Bowls, Pretty Lightning new album 2020, psych rock album 2020, psych rock music, punk albums 2020, punk music, Relapse Records album releases 2020, Sara Stuttgart new EP 2020, Sara Stuttgart Vortex, self released album 2020, self released music, Soul Jazz Records album releases 2020, Spectres new album 2020, Spectres Nostalgia, SwissDarkNights album releases 2020, techno albums 2020, techno music, Trees Speak new album 2020, Trees Speak Ohms, Unguided Records album releases 2020, Viagra Boys Common Sense, Viagra Boys new EP 2020
“If you don’t learn to laugh at life it’ll surely kill you, that I know“-BROM
March was a dark month, especially in the UK as it was the month when the lockdown measures were put in place, creating a new situation even for the reclusive misfits of society. The sonic output of this month was rich but we did not find it as easy, to identify truly exceptional releases. There were many EPs and albums that confused us both with the plurality of their influences and with the fact that the bands seemed to be unable to make sonic sense out of all this. Once again it was the most experimental approaches to sound that fascinated us and a spirit of relentless energy that has been retained and enhanced from all-time favourite bands.
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums January 2020
Posted: 19th February 2020 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Algiers new album 2020, Algiers There Is No Year 2020, Altar of Eris debut album 2020, Altar of Eris The Table of Discord 2020, blues music, BMG album releases 2020, Byronic Sex and Exile Crime of Passion 2020, Byronic Sex& Exile new EP 2020, Chubby and The Gang debut album 2020, Chubby and the Gang Speed Kills, coldwave albums 2020, coldwave music, Crackedankles album releases 2020, debut album Deserta, debut albums 2020, favourite albums 2020, folk rock albums 2020, folk rock music, garage albums 2020, garage music, Glaring new album 2020, Glaring Nothingness, gospel music, gothic rock albums, gothic rock music, IDM albums 2020, IDM music, independent music 2020, Marc Almond Chaos and a dancing star 2020, Marc Almond new album 2020, Matador Records album releases 2020, Metalogue Anomaly, Metalogue new album 2020, Michael debut album 2020, Michael Tell your friends 2020, pop albums, pop music, post punk albums 2020, post-punk music, Red Entries Hot Piss, Red Entries new EP 2020, Sonsombre new album 2020, Sonsombre One thousand graves 2020, synthwave albums 2020, synthwave music, The Innocence Mission new album 2020, The Innocence Mission see you tomorrow, Un Hombre Solo Aferrado, Un Hombre Solo new EP 2020, Vestron Vulture new album 2020, Vestron Vulture The Great Northern Trendkill, Vulta new album 2020, Vulta Swarm
““As long as music is loud enough, we won’t hear the world falling apart”– (‘Jubilee’ Derek Jarman)
January is typically a ‘quiet’ month in terms of gigs but very rich in its sonic output in terms of album releases. As a new decade has started and the world has not ended (sic) our favourite releases from this month are tracing a sonic path that took us from lyrical gothic to blues and from heavy psychedelia and industrial syncopation to dreamy and eerie soundscapes.
Monthly Playlist-Favourite albums December 2019
Posted: 28th December 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Anum Preto debut album 2019, Anum Preto Inferno Interno, Boogie Box releases 2019, coldwave albums 2019, coldwave music, Conscious Expansion album releases 2019, Cyclic Law album releases 2019, dark ambient albums, dark ambient music, debut albums, debut releases 2019, DROWND, DROWND debut album 2019, Elicriso debut album 2019, Elicriso Illusioni Distorte, experimental albums, experimental music, Independent music albums 2019, Inês é Morta Abismo, Inês é Morta new EP 2019, Innervisions album releases 2019, Into Grey Never Enough, Into Grey new single 2019, Labyrinth of Thoughts album releases 2019, modern classical albums 2019, modern classical music, MUTE album releases 2019, noise industrial albums, noise industrial music, Nordvargr Daath, Nordvargr new album 2019, OTHON new album 2019, OTHON The God Within, OTIK Blasphemy, OTIK new EP 2019, Parking Dance new album 2019, Parking Dance What More?, Peel Dream Magazine new EP 2019, Peel Dream Magazine Up And Up, Phillip Münch new album 2019, Phillip Münch Science and Mankind, punk rock albums 2019, punk rock music, The Dark Rags new album 2019, The Dark Rags Suburbia, Tough Love Records album releases 2019, TRIKK Facas, TRIKK new EP 2019, Yann Tiersen new album 2019, Yann Tiersen Portrait
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Monthly Playlist-Favourite albums November 2019
Posted: 20th December 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Anne Müller debut album 2019, Anne Müller Heliopause, Armalyte Industries album releases 2019, At The Pain Grave After Grave, At The Pain new EP 2019, aufnahme + wiedergabe releases 2019, Avalanche Party 24 Carat Diamond Trephine, Avalanche Party debut album 2019, Avon Terror Corps album releases 2019, Bestial Mouths Inshroudds, Bestial Mouths new album 2019, Blackjack Illuminist Records album releases 2019, Chris Connelly new album 2019, Chris Connelly Sleeping Partner, coldwave albums 2019, coldwave music, Cumshot Records album releases 2019, dark ambient albums, dark ambient music, dark folk albums 2019, dark folk music, darkwave albums 2019, darkwave music, debut albums 2019, debut EPs 2019, electro albums 2019, electro music, experimental albums, experimental albums 2019, experimental music, experimental rock music, EYE Metamujer, EYE new album 2019, Federale new album 2019, Federale No Justice, folk albums 2019, folk music, Fornicata Cynic, Fornicata new album 2019, Fragile Self, fragile Self debut album 2019, garage albums 2019, garage music, Glaring Insomnie, Glaring new album 2019, gothic rock albums 2019, gothic rock music, hardcore punk albums 2019, hardcore punk music, Harsh Mentor new EP 2019, Harsh Mentor Salve, Hassle Records album releases 2019, Hertz Schrittmacher album releases 2019, Hoffen Blinded, Hoffen new album 2019, Homunculo Espíritu Revolucionario, Homunculo new album 2019, Image of Life Attended By Silence, Image of Life new album 2019, indie rock albums 2019, indie rock music, industrial albums 2019, industrial music, Jaz Coleman new album 2019, Jealous Butcher Records album releases 2019, Khemia Records album releases 2019, Knekelhuis album releases 2019, La Vida Es Un Mus album releases 2019, Lövely album releases 2019, modern classical albums 2019, modern classical music, Mood of A Sinner Last Temptation, Mood of A Sinner new album 2019, Negative Child demos 2019, noise industrial albums 2019, noise industrial music, Novopain debut EP 2019, Novopain S/T, NU metal albums 2019, NU metal music, Numbers. album releases 2019, OHYDA Koszmar, OHYDA new album 2019, post punk albums 2019, post-punk music, Rune& Ruin album releases 2019, Salac new album 2019, Salac Sacred Movement 2019, Sebastian Melmoth new album 2019, Sebastian Melmoth The Dynamics of Vanity, self released albums, Shadoworld Desertland, Shadoworld new album 2019, Shapednoise Aesthesis 2019, Shapednoise new album 2019, So Knee Records album releases 2019, Southern Lord Recordings album releases 2019, Spinefarm Records album releases 2019, STAKE Critical Method, STAKE new album 2019, Stereogram Recordings album releases 2019, Sugarcane Recordings album releases 2019, synthpop albums 2019, synthpop music, The Cathode Ray Heightened Senses, The Cathode Ray new album 2019, The Detox Twins Dead Horse Ghost, The Detox Twins debut album 2019, The Leaf Label album releases 2019, The White Room Netlabel album releases 2019, The Wraith debut album, The Wraith Gloom Ballet, True Moon II, True Moon new album 2019, VEYL album releases 2019, Vlimmer new album 2019, Vlimmer XIIIII, Vorderhaus album releases 2019, Warmduscher new album 2019, Warmduscher Tainted Lunch, Years of Denial new album 2019, Years of Denial Suicide Disco, • Distørshn Shape / Offizier Rinzer Coalitio, • Distørshn Shape / Offizier Rinzer split EP
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums July 2019
Posted: 12th August 2019 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: 3TEETH Metawar, 3TEETH new album 2019, alternative music 2019, Astari Nite Dearly Beloved 2019, Astari Nite new single 2019, Black To Comm Before After 2019, Black to Comm new album 2019, Body of Light new album 2019, Body of Light Time to Kill, Carlo Onda debut album 2019, Carlo Onda Geister, Century Media album releases 2019, Cocktail Party Effect new EP 2019, Cocktail Party Effect Shattered Retina, coldwave albums 2019, coldwave music, dark albums 2019, dark folk albums 2019, dark folk music, Dead Tape Demo, Dead Tape demo 2019, deathrock albums deathrock music 2019, debut albums 2019, Detritus new EP 2019, Detritus Ruin 2019, Drab Majesty Modern Mirror, Drab Majesty new album 2019, dream rock albums 2019, dream rock music 2019, electronic albums 2019, electronic music, experimental albums 2019, experimental music, garage rock albums 2019, garage rock music, Generationals new album 2019, Generationals Reader As Detective, Glaring Decay, Glaring new album 2019, Glasszone Garden of Glass, Glasszone new album 2019, heavy music albums 2019, IDM albums, IDM music 2019, independent music 2019, Lingua Ignota Caligula, Lingua Ignota new album 2019, Media Data Gracefulness, Media Data new album 2019, Medusa Stare, Medusa Stare debut album 2019, MINIMA 2019, MINIMA debut album 2019, Mortal Boy a la lone 2019, Mortal Boy new album 2019, Mueran Humanos Hospital Lullabies, Mueran Humanos new album 2019, new wave albums 2019, new wave music, Noche tras Noche Caer y Caer, Noche Tras Noche demo 2019, Normal Man City Livin', Normal Man new album 2019, Oceans of the Moon 2019, Oceans of the Moon debut album 2019, Panstarrs ?? ????? 2019, Panstarrs new album 2019, Perry Blake new album 2019, Perry Blake Songs of Praise 2019, Polyvinyl Record Company album releases 2019, Profound Lore album releases 2019, Profound Lore albums 2019, punk albums 2019, punk music, Rainbow Grave 2019, Rainbow Grave debut EP 2019, Rainbow Grave No You EP, Restive Plaggona new album 2019, Restive Plaggona Trouble Sociale, self released albums 2019, Silent EM new album 2019, Silent EM The Absence, synthpop albums 2019, synthpop music, The Golden Filter Autonomy, The Golden Filter new album 2019, The Great Park A Day 2019, The Great Park new album 2019, Thom Yorke Anima, Thom Yorke new album 2019, Virvon Varvon debut album 2019, Virvon Varvon Mind Cancer
“Punk rock will never die, until something more dangerous replaces it”-Jello Biafra
July (!) is not typically a very dynamic month in terms of both album releases and gigs. It is a month during which a lot of festivals are being carried out worldwide, 
offering the chance to enjoy the releases of the previous months. One could argue that the soundtrack of the month should always be just the sound of the cheers of the crowds who enjoy outdoor festivals. This month’s independent music releases create quite a melancholic and dark atmosphere that sometimes feels impenetrable and other times otherworldly and menacing. We have listened to 55 albums and we picked those ones that had the strongest impact on us. This time, they can take you to a coldwave, deathrock, experimental, industrial, synthpop, garage rock, IDM, dream pop sonic trip. Enjoy it here:
Thom Yorke, is the ultimate guide of this soundtrack, as he has unveiled the next chapter of his solo work, entitled ‘Anima‘. This album is the epitome of experimentation into sonic abstraction and minimalism and thus it creates the perfect artistic portal for us to enjoy all the other albums that have been included in this month’s soundtrack. Its title and perhaps its whole style has been inspired by Carl Jung’s concept of ‘Animus and Anima’ which is part of his theory about the collective unconscious. Anima, according to Carl Jung was the unconscious feminine side of a man who, like animus, transcends the personal psyche. The album’s title, as Thom Yorke has explained is also a critique of the way technology has allowed us to be distanced from the things we say and do by ‘hiding’ behind an avatar or a digital persona. This album follows the release of ‘Suspiria’ in 2018, an album that was used as a soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino’ s film of the same title, that was inspired by Dario Argento’s 1977 film of the same title. ‘Anima‘ is also the soundtrack of a musical film directed by Paul Anderson. Thom Yorke performs the songs and stars in the film, while the music is multidimensional with a deep, reverberating sound. Listening to this album feels as if reading a book with many chapters; each track has a different energy and a different performing style and Thom Yorke’s signature timbre, is making sure that we are kept in a dreamy, almost hallucinatory state where the sound of the voice is echoing and the meaning of the words is unclear. Thom Yorke has said that ‘…if you don’t dream enough, you don’t process enough…‘ and this cannot describe better, the effect his music and his performing style have been having throughout his career but especially through this new album. As far as ‘Anima’ is concerned, in a recent interview he has said that: ‘…on a musical and technical level i was deliberately trying to find something as ‘cold’ as possible to go with it…‘ while its sound, has been inspired by styles that challenge the traditional songwriting ways, such as noise and music concrete.