The first month of the summer contained probably the darkest music of the year so far, both conceptually and in terms of the melodies.
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Monthly playlist-Favourite albums June 2024
Posted: 22nd July 2024 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: ALLARME ALLARME, ALLARME debut album 2024, Alone In The Hollow Garden new album 2024, Alone In The Hollow Gardens Void Transmissions MMXXIV, alternative music, ambient music, anatoly grinberg & andreas davids inspired by a tragedy, anatoly grinberg & andreas davids new album 2024, anders manga leave my grave open, anders manga new single 2024, ant-zen album releases 2024, architrav new album 2024, architrav welk, Astari Nite new album 2024, Astari Nite Resolution of Happiness 2024, BAT-CAVE Productions album releases 2024, best ambient albums 2024, best coldwave albums 2024, best deathrock albums 2024, best downtempo albums 2024, best electronic albums 2024, best experimental albums 2024, best gothic music 2023, best idm albums, best neoclassical albums 2024, best noise albums 2024, best post-punk albums 2024, best rock albums 2024, best synthwave music 2024, Blackjack Illuminist Records album releases 2024, Bleib Modern, Bleib Modern new album 2024, Byronic Sex & Exile antony & cleopatra, Byronic Sex & Exile new single 2024, Camerata Mediolanense Atalanta Fugiens, Camerata Mediolanense new album 2024, CAVE CASTLE enw album 2024, CAVE CASTLE Midnight Melancholy, CAVE CASTLE new album 2024, Chrystabell and David Lynch Cellophane Memories, Chrystabell and David Lynch new single 2024, COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC album releases 2024, coldwave music, Daniel Davies Ghost of The Heart, Daniel Davies new album 2024, deathrock music, debut releases 2024, downtempo music, dreamy music, dubstep music, electronic music, ethereal music, experimental music, frank riggio new album 2024, frank riggio qu4, free jazz music, Glaring Hope, Glaring new album 2024, Goth City Records releases 2024, gothic rock, Hymen Records album releases 2024, IDM music, Kalte Nacht new album 2024, KALTE NACHT U R G E, Kscope releases 2024, Lucid Dreams Mesmerism, Lucid Dreams new album 2024, Mayflower Madame new single 2024, Mayflower Madame Paint It All Blue, Negative Gain Productions album releases 2024, new music 2024, Night In Athens new album 2024, Night In Athens Wasted Reflections, Nine x Nine Records releases 2024, noise music, Noromakina hung, Noromakina new single 2024, post-punk music, Prophecy Productions album releases 20242, Red Cavity Records album releases 2024, rock music, Sacred Bones Records album releases 2024, self released music, signalstoerung new album 2024, signaltoerung occurrence, synth-punk, synthwave, TBOG music releases 2024, The Beauty of Gemina new single 2024, The Beauty of Gemina Whispers, The Radicant debut single 2024, The Radicant Zero Blue, the Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus new album 2024, The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus The Dream We Carry 2024, tribal music, underground music, UVB-76 Music album releases 2024, Vincent Cavanagh new project, Wave Records album releases 2024, WHOLE Hydra, WHOLE new album 2024
The month after Wave Gotik Treffen is always one that perceives music under the prism of the festival. Our favourite albums and releases of June 2024 helped us make a trip into a mysterious landscape, still full of the darkness of the colder months. Our soundtrack of the month forms an IDM, post punk, dreamy, hazy and neoclassical path full with twists and turns and a lot of sonic texture.
We were delighted for the return of Camerata Mediolanense (which we had the pleasure of interviewing) with their album ‘Atalanta Fugiens‘ inspired by an enigmatic book written around 1617 by Michael Maier. The album fits well within the band’s discography and has subjects that place it in the heart of modern discourse around change and transformation at many levels. The return of The Revolutionary Army of The Infant Jesus with their new album ‘The Dream We Carry‘ after four years was both unexpected and truly exciting!
We were also pumped by the new album of Bleib Modern, a post-punk/darkwave band whose career we have followed since its beginning. Their self-titled album is the best of their career so far and you will probably find that you will enjoy it from start to finish without any interruptions. Talking about an album that one can listen on repeat from start to finish, I am sure that those out there who appreciate dystopian punk, deathrock and krautrock will agree with us for featuring Allarme‘s self-titled album in this soundtrack. The addition of a ‘dancing’ saxophone adds an air of dystopian cabaret atmosphere to the whole experience too.
WHOLE‘s ‘Hydra‘ and ‘Mesmerism‘ by Lucid Dreams, were two special releases for different reasons. The former because unlike most of Blackjack Illuminist Records releases, this one explores more prominent punk paths and creates a hybrid result where darkwave and post-punk give way to rather vindictive punk. Lucid Dreams on the other hand, combine a very evocative/dystopian cover with a free jazz/idm/experimental sonic environment, which manages to transfer the listener to an environment where excitement for decay and imminent danger prevails!
A special mention is due to the return of Anathema’s Vincent Cavanagh with a new project called The Radicant. We read that the name of the project relates to the word “radicant” which describes organisms that create their roots gradually as they advance, allowing species to mobilise, adapt and grow on any surface. The name also relates to the way Vincent perceives his journey into music and composition and his experiments with creating compositions for visual art/tech. The Radicant release their debut single in June and we expect the full length album in the following months.
Finally, we cannot express our happiness after the announcement of an upcoming release by Chrystabell and David Lynch – offering to us their captivating dreamy, ethereal wickedness that has enveloped David Lynch’s films in the past – a disquieting aura that is hard to ignore. The first single from this release is entitled ‘Sublime Eternal Love‘.
We hope you enjoy listening to our playlist as much as we enjoyed creating it!
Blaue Rosen 
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums May 2024
Posted: 3rd July 2024 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: A Sinister Light debut album 2024, A Sinister Light Discerning Spirits, alternative music, aluminum fully beat, aluminum new album 2024, Arab Strap I'm totally fine with it, Arab Strap new album 2024, ATARAXIA Centaurea 2024, ATARAXIA new album 2024, Barry Adamson CUT TO BLACK, BARRY Adamson new album 2024, BAT-CAVE Productions album releases 2024, best albums 2024, best black metal albums 2024, best coldwave albums 2024, best darkwave albums 2024, best ethereal albums 2024, best experimental albums 2024, best industrial albums 2024, best post-punk albums 2024, best psych rock music 2024, best punk albums 2024, best rock albums 2024, best soul records 2024, black metal music, cave wars great minds 2024, cave wars new album 2024, Chameleons new EP 2024, Chameleons Where Are You?, closed mouth BUT NO, closed mouth new single 2024, COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC album releases 2024, coldwave music, Columbarium Station Board Boy, Columbarium Station new single 2024, darkwave music, debut albums 2024, Edward Ka Spel Heksescapes 2024, Edward Ka Spel new album 2024, ethereal music, experimental music, Fabrica Records releases 2024, felte album releases 2024, FUZZ Club Records album releases 2024, GIRLS IN SYNTHESIS new album 2024, Girls In Synthesis Sublimation, HASSLIG Apex Predator, HASSLIG new album 2024, I don't give a fuck anymore, iamnoone in fear, iamnoone new EP 2024, independent music, indie rock music, industrial music, Julie's Haircut new single, Julie's Haircut Skull Flower, L'Enfant Terrible, L'Enfant Terrible debut album 2024, Last Rockers Records releases 2024, Laura Mars new album 2024, Laura Mars Whisperings 2024, LEDFOOT new album 2024, LEDFOOT Outsiders, Love Of Consolation Liquid Metal, Love Of Consolation new album 2024, MADURO LIPS LIKE VENOM 2024, MADURO new single 2024, Metropolis album releases 2024, MISSILES debut album MISSILES Weaponize Tomorrow, neon lies demons 2024, neon lies new album 2024, new music, OWN IT MUSIC album releases 2024, PIG new album 2024, PIG Red Room, post-punk music, psych rock albums, punk music, QUAL new EP 2024, QUAL Techsick, Re:Mission Entertainment releases 2024, Rock Action Records album releases 2024, rock music, Rocket Recordings releases 2024, Rotting Christ new album 2024, ROtting Christ PRO XRISTOU, Season of Mist album releases 2024, self-release music 2024, Sentient Ruin Laboratories album releases 2024, soul music, Svart Records album releases 2024, TBC Records album releases 2024, The Circle Music album releases 2024, THE CULT OF ONE CHANGE EVERYTHING INTO SOMETHING ELSE, THE CULT OF ONE new album 2024, The Janitors An Error Has Occurred, The Janitors new album 2024, underground music 2024, VICE SQUAD new EP 2024, Vice Squad Spitfire, Wake Tension Records album releases 2024, YOBS debut album, YOBS debut album 2024, Your inner prison album releases 2024
Here we are at the end of the Spring that never came with a monthly soundtrack that probably has the most debut album entries for a long time. There are two entries that need a special mention and they are the new releases by Chameleons and Barry Adamson. Both have been keeping us wondering about a next release and here they are. Chameleons with the EP ‘Where Are You?’ -teaser of an upcoming full-length album and Barry Adamson, faithful to his soul/rock existential blues offered us ‘CUT TO BLACK’ an album that fits very well within the rest of his discography.
Another special mention is due to one of our all-time favourite bands from Italy, no other than Ataraxia who kept us very good company with a nature-inspired, ceremonial, ethereal album entitle ‘Centaurea’. We particularly liked the psych rock releases of this month, both the new single by Julie’s Haircut and the new album by The Janitors which, at times, is reminiscent of the hazy and grunge atmosphere of the music of The Stooges.
As always, we were delighted to listen to the new album by PIG, as his addictive sensual take on industrial music is always managing to make us realise that we really don’t have enough of this type of rejuvenating energy. Six years after ‘The Heretics’ Rotting Christ have come back with ‘PRO XRISTOU’, another album with big sound and big ideas, faithful to the band’s black metal character and favourite themes.
The debut albums of this month’s soundtrack prove that we are now living at a time when the quality of releases that come to us from new bands, is incredibly high. ‘YOBS’ by YOBS, ‘L’Enfant Terrible’ by L’Enfant Terrible, ‘Weaponize Tomorrow’ by MISSILES, ‘Discerning Spirits’ by A Sinister Light, all add a powerful note and reveal a fresh take on punk, coldwave and post-punk respectively.
We would like to end with a mention of the album ‘Heksescapes’ by Edward Ka Spel, an all-time favourite musician whose sonic spells accompany us like a protective spirit and the release of LEDFOOT, that hits our rock note and made us put ‘Thunder And Rain’ on our portable device so that we could listen to it on repeat.
Until next month, we hope you enjoy this as much as we did while preparing it.
Blaue Rosen
Monthly playlist-Favourite Albums September 2023
Posted: 17th October 2023 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Alcopop!Records album releases 2023, ant-zen album releases 2023, Artoffact Records album releases 2023, best noise albums 2023, best punk albums 2023, blac kolor new album 2023, blac kolor weltenbrand, bloody bath new EP 2023, bloody/bath All Love Unfelt, BLVCK CEILING Flying Cars, BLVCK CEILING new single 2023, Chelsea Wolfe DUSK, Chelsea Wolfe new single 2023, dark folk albums 2023, David Eugene Edwards Hyacinth, David Eugene Edwards new album 2023, DEEPER CAREFUL, DEEPER new album 2023, desolation colony new EP 2023, desolation colony prisoner cinema, Detriti Records album releases 2023, doom metal music, downtempo music, ESP Institute album releases 2023, FEARING Destroyer, FEARING new album 2023, felte album releases 2023, folk music, garage rock albums 2023, Gym Tonic new album 2023, Gym Tonic Sanitary Situations, HEXVESSEL new album 2023, Hexvessel Polar Veil, HEY COLOSSUS IN BLOOD, HEY COLOSSUS new album 2023, IDM albums 2023, IDM music 2023, Ines e Morta ilha, Ines e Morta new album 2023, KEN mode new album 2023, KEN mode VOID, La Vida Es Un Mus album releases 2023, LOMA VISTA releases 2023, Low End Activist Gossip Is The Devil's Radio 2023, Low End Activist new EP 2023, metal albums 2023, Midnight Mannequin Records album releases 2023, new psych rock albums, noise music, Phantom Records album releases 2023, Profound Lore album releases 2023, psych rock music, Public Memory Elegiac Beat, Public Memory new album 2023, punk music 2023, rock albums 2023, rock music, Sargent House album releases 2023, self released albums, Sub Pop album releases 2023, Svart Records album releases 2023, The Woodland Hunters new album 2023, The Woodland Hunters Small Mercies, The Wytches new album 2023, The Wytches Our Guest Can't Be Named, This Cold Night Manifestation, This Cold Night new single 2023, TUBE ALLOYS MAGNETIC POINT, TUBE ALLOYS new album 2023, WORDS AND ACTIONS new album 2023, WORDS AND ACTIONS SOME GODS JUST WANT TO WATCH THE WORLD BURN, Wrong Speed Records album releases 2023
It must have been something crooked that shall remain unnamed that brought back David Eugene Edwards, Hexvessel and Chelsea Wolfe in the same month, or maybe it was the Harvest Moon! The music that we enjoyed in September had more prominent rock elements than anything else but at the same time, the releases of last month moved away from rock rhythms by slowing them down, and infusing them with heaviness, distortion, ceremonial rhythms and some IDM elements too.