New Music Friday!

The new album, Tooth and Nail, from the Polish blackened death metal group Dormant Ordeal dropped this past Friday, and I'm finally getting around to posting about it. If you're a fan of Ulcerate or have listened to Ulcerate, you will definitely hear the similarities. The drumming from Chason Westmoreland is INSANE on this album, and there are riffs for days. As a fan of their previous release, The Grand Scheme Of Things, I would say the group has upped it a notch with this new one. This is a standout extreme metal release for the month for sure.

 
📡 📝 Apr, 25

Beach Bunny - Tunnel Vision
Cloth - Pink Silence
Emma-Jean Thackray – Weirdo
Ghost - SKELETÁ
Willie Nelson – Oh What A Beautiful World
Pearl Charles - Desert Queen
Gigi Perez - At The Beach, In Every Life
Samia - Bloodless
Sunflowerbean - Mortal Primetime
Tennis - Face Down In The Garden
 
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Well, much to my delight (and surely @avecigrec's, too), BRUIT ≤ released their new album, The Age Of Ephemerality, 6 hours early at 6:00pm EST (which makes sense, as the group hails from Toulouse, France 🇫🇷 and it was 12:00am there Friday morning).

 TAOE is the band's 2nd LP. Their 2021 debut was a huge RBF for me and it placed fairly high on my AOTY list that year. So, going into this new album, I had high expectations. And after my first listen, the album is, in a word: stunning.

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Stylistically, this album is instrumental experimental ambient/post-rock/classical/electronic music with some spoken word mixed in here and there - and it's a thing of beauty! It features a plethora of instruments including: guitars, bass, drums, cello, viola, violin, banjo, synths, trumpet, trombone, french horn, organ, and piano. On top of that, there are some excellent choral arrangements (the section at the end of track 4 'Technoslavery/Vandalism' has some strong XBox Halo intro vibes). This album pushes the boundaries further and cuts the edges deeper. This scratched the experimental itch that is often difficult to scratch for me. Well done, BRUIT ≤, this is a standout for April for sure. Take 40 minutes and see for yourself. Surely, everyone can find something stunning and something to appreciate on this album. Especially on that closing track. Wow.

Edit: Closing track, track 5, 'The Intoxication Of Power', is one of the best tracks of the year.

 
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Well, much to my delight (and surely @avecigrec's, too), BRUIT ≤ released their new album, The Age Of Ephemerality, 6 hours early at 6:00pm EST (which makes sense, as the group hails from Toulouse, France 🇫🇷 and it was 12:00am there Friday morning).

 TAOE is the band's 2nd LP. Their 2021 debut was a huge RBF for me and it placed fairly high on my AOTY list that year. So, going into this new album, I had high expectations. And after my first listen, the album is, in a word: stunning.

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Stylistically, this album is instrumental experimental ambient/post-rock/classical/electronic music with some spoken word mixed in here and there - and it's a thing of beauty! It features a plethora of instruments including: guitars, bass, drums, cello, viola, violin, banjo, synths, trumpet, trombone, french horn, organ, and piano. On top of that, there are some excellent choral arrangements (the section at the end of track 4 'Technoslavery/Vandalism' has some strong XBox Halo intro vibes). This album pushes the boundaries further and cuts the edges deeper. This scratched the experimental itch that is often difficult to scratch for me. Well done, BRUIT ≤, this is a standout for April for sure. Take 40 minutes and see for yourself. Surely, everyone can find something stunning and something to appreciate on this album. Especially on that closing track. Wow.

Edit: Closing track, track 5, 'The Intoxication Of Power', is one of the best tracks of the year.

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God.DAMN! These guys really and truly are something special. They have an emotional impact on me that is different from anything or anyone else, and I'm here for it. This will be getting a LOT of play around here.
 
The new album, Weirdo, from Emma-Jean Thackray is definitely another standout among the slew of April 25th releases. Composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, E-JT is back with her 2nd LP: 57 minutes of mostly upbeat, funky, jazzy, and sometimes danceable tracks (19 of them to be exact). I enjoyed her her 2021 debut, Yellow, but I already feel like I enjoyed this one more. Lyrically, the album was blunt, honest, personal, and funny (and, at times, dark and bleak, too). Taken from her Bandcamp page:

“I think we need to talk about the dark shit in our heads, and finding the humour in it only makes that easier. The lyrics to this are very diary-esque, like confessional poetry, and the bare emotion of it is balanced out with lush jazz harmony, sweeping synths, and a pop punk silliness. When you centre in on the silliness it’s easier to speak on your pain, and easier for others to hear it.”
 
🆕 Samia is very good 👍 better than I expected. If I'm being perfectly honest it's much better than SASAMI's 🆕 album which was a major let down for me. Bloodless is a stylistic chameleon, effortlessly blending acoustic sounds with electronic textures and the punch of heavier rock, often seamlessly shifting between these styles within a single track. Highlights for me are Bovine Excision and Carousel 🎠
 
My musical discovery of the day is the 🆕 album Complicated Woman by UK Electro-pop artist, Self-Esteem. Self Esteem crafts a distinctive sound marked by drum rhythms, the signature presence of an-all female choir, and Rebecca Lucy Taylor's assertive and articulate lead vocals, which includes spoken-words on select tracks. These are often interwoven with the rich tones of organs 🎹, distorted guitars 🎸, and beautiful string 🎻 arrangements. 🤩
 
Hollywood said:
🆕 Samia is very good 👍 better than I expected. If I'm being perfectly honest it's much better than SASAMI's 🆕 album which was a major let down for me. Bloodless is a stylistic chameleon, effortlessly blending acoustic sounds with electronic textures and the punch of heavier rock, often seamlessly shifting between these styles within a single track. Highlights for me are Bovine Excision and Carousel 🎠
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The Sasami is my favorite album of the year so far but I'm a big fan. She doesn't miss for me.
 
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