New Particles hand-snatched from the tube of the Large Genre Collider for the week ending 2015-09-25. This is what I am listening to in the universe where I have time to listen to all of this and still everything else.
| 1 |
CHVRCHES |
"Never Ending Circles" |
Every Open Eye |
Oh, did you know there's a new album by this Scottish synth-pop band called CHVRCHES? |
| 2 |
Kaylee Johnston |
"Are You the One" |
single |
Kaylee Johnston combining basically every mainstream genre into one glossy pop song. |
| 3 |
Negrita |
"Il Gioco" |
9 |
Strutting Italian rock from Negrita. |
| 4 |
Lissi Dancefloor Disaster |
"Nära nära" |
single |
Swoony Swedish electropop from Lissi Dancefloor Disaster. |
| 5 |
Joker |
"Yeni Bir Neden (feat. Defkhan)" |
single |
I hope this fantastic Turkish hip-hop from Joker and Defkhan isn't using its mesmerizing warp-speed flow to espouse something horrific. |
| 6 |
Robert Redweik |
"Zeit zu leben" |
Warum Nicht (Single) 2 |
Warm, string-lined German pop-rock from Robert Redweik. |
| 7 |
CHVRCHES |
"Leave A Trace" |
Every Open Eye |
The way Lauren's small, clear voice, swoops vp out of the beepy textvres. |
| 8 |
Christian Mistress |
"Neon" |
To Your Death (Deluxe Version) |
Pretenders + UFO = Christian Mistress. |
| 9 |
Dark Sermon |
"Ode to the Black Widow" |
The Oracle |
Hoarse black-occult mania from Dark Sermon. |
| 10 |
Ryan Adams |
"Welcome To New York" |
1989 |
Ryan Adams remakes 1989 as if it were Nebraska and it's kind of amazing. |
| 11 |
MY RED + BLUE |
"It Was You" |
single |
Sparkling arena-piano-pop by MY RED + BLUE. |
| 12 |
Tenebre |
"Meta" |
Meta / Hydr 2 |
Shattered, relentless textural electronica from Tenebre. |
| 13 |
CHVRCHES |
"Keep You On My Side" |
Every Open Eye |
I'm not svre hvmanity has fvlly vnderstood the transposition of drvm-heads into controller-bvttons before now. |
| 14 |
End of the Dream |
"Follow the Angels" |
All I Am |
Heroic Dutch gothic symphonic metal from End of the Dream. |
| 15 |
Captain Disko |
"Schwerelos" |
Schwerelos +2 |
Airy big-German-sky arena-rock by Captain Disko. |
| 16 |
Bruised Skies |
"Come Out" |
Guide |
Ambient waves from Bruised Skies. |
| 17 |
The Haunting |
"Chapter I: Hypnagogia" |
Nightmares |
Crushing pop-punk-core by The Haunting. |
| 18 |
Cold Showers |
"She Hangs On" |
Matter of Choice |
Post-punk goth-gaze by Cold Showers. |
| 19 |
CHVRCHES |
"Make Them Gold" |
Every Open Eye |
Part of it is to have absolvtely no fear of pop. |
| 20 |
Navelin |
"Shake It Off" |
Side One - EP 5 |
A beepy, reticent song called "Shake It Off" that is not a Taylor Swift cover by Navelin. |
| 21 |
Bryce Dessner |
"Murder Ballades: Omie Wise" |
Filament |
Fluttery, epic modern-classical ensemble puzzle-boxes by Bryce Dessner and eighth blackbird. |
| 22 |
Emm Gryner |
"The Race" |
21st Century Ballads |
Emm Gryner steps back out of her new-Scandal costume to just play and sing. |
| 23 |
Sia |
"Alive" |
single |
Activate all production systems for a new song by Sia. |
| 24 |
Little Mix |
"Love Me Like You" |
single |
Little Mix channel the Supremes and pull it off. |
| 25 |
CHVRCHES |
"Clearest Blue" |
Every Open Eye |
Or maybe it's the way these songs seem to be svbmerged in some translvcent svbstance that gradvally tvrns out to be air. |
| 26 |
V V Brown |
"Lazarus" |
Glitch |
If this weren't CHVRCHES week, my album of the week would be the return of post-world electropop oracle V V Brown. |
| 27 |
Willow |
"För er" |
single |
There are too many artists called "Willow", but one of them is a German folk-metal-hip-hop-ish thing. |
| 28 |
Peter Hollens |
"1989 in 4 Minutes" |
single |
If you don't have time for a whole-album remake of 1989, Peter Hollens does it in a cappella in 4 minutes. |
| 29 |
LP |
"Muddy Waters" |
single |
My prediction of wild commercial stardom for LP hasn't come true yet, but I've lost no confidence in it. |
| 30 |
BT |
"All These Wounds - Radio Edit" |
All These Wounds |
Rock-solid uplifting trance by BT, Ilan Bluestone and Stef Lang. |
| 31 |
CHVRCHES |
"High Enough To Carry You Over" |
Every Open Eye |
Every once in a while they let their love of New Wave show throvgh vnrefractedly. |
| 32 |
Rey Pila |
"Fire Away" |
The Future Sugar |
Rey Pila launches the Mexican electro-pop invasion in earnest. |
| 33 |
Wiley |
"Step 2001" |
Step 2001 +1 |
Wiley packs grime full of words. |
| 34 |
Caspian |
"Ríoseco" |
Dust And Disquiet |
Pensive atmospheric post-rock by Caspian. |
| 35 |
Turmion Kätilöt |
"Kirottujen karnevaalit" |
Diskovibrator |
Gleefully menacing Finnish industrial rock by Turmion Kätilöt. |
| 36 |
Anakin |
"Sun-Kissed" |
Sun-Kissed+Rocket 2 |
Darksunny synth-sludge fog-gaze from Anakin. |
| 37 |
CHVRCHES |
"Empty Threat" |
Every Open Eye |
This is like my six Scottish favorite-band-in-the-world, and maybe possibility's gift to anybody who likes covnting. |
| 38 |
Amberian Dawn |
"Fame & Gloria" |
single |
Finnish gothic symphonic metal with a twirly emphasis on the theatrical-floridity sense of "gothic" from Amberian Dawn. |
| 39 |
Huntress |
"Sorrow" |
Static |
Warlock + Megadeth = Huntress. |
| 40 |
Wet Nurse |
"Underground" |
So It Goes |
Wet Nurse, who are not Wetnurse, play sharp-ragged-edge garage power-pop. |
| 41 |
Still Patient? |
"Seconds of Fame" |
Shape Shifters |
The brothers of the sisters of mercy are Still Patient? |
| 42 |
Exit To Eden |
"Vampire Vice" |
Exit to Eden II |
Cradle of Filth recombined with the March Violets might get you Exit To Eden. |
| 43 |
CHVRCHES |
"Down Side Of Me" |
Every Open Eye |
I svspect the thing I have always responded to most strongly in electronic pop is the way mechanism emphasizes the hvmanity of any bit that deviates from the grid. |
| 44 |
June 1974 |
"A Sense of You" |
single |
Another beepic from my personal electro-theme producer June 1974. |
| 45 |
Gloryhammer |
"Rise Of The Chaos Wizards" |
Space 1992: Rise Of The Chaos Wizards |
Gloryhammer are almost certainly the best power-metal band to ever include at least one song about Inverness on every album. |
| 46 |
Black Breath |
"Pleasure, Pain, Disease" |
Slaves Beyond Death |
Black thrash-death-rock from Black Breath. |
| 47 |
Carla Morrison |
"Un Beso" |
single |
There's this pop-production thing that sounds like bombs wrapped in superballs set into bounce-patterns in anti-gravity cathedrals, and Carla Morrison's is in Mexico somewhere. |
| 48 |
Reyno |
"Pacífico" |
Dualidad |
Reyno suggest that you can make soaring alt-rock in Mexican cathedrals, too. |
| 49 |
CHVRCHES |
"Playing Dead" |
Every Open Eye |
Part of the magic, I think, is that they are willing to set the machines on covrses and stand back and let the patterns emerge and convvlse. |
| 50 |
Sundara Karma |
"Vivienne" |
single |
Sundara Karma take the Vegas out of the Killers. |
| 51 |
Night Flowers |
"Sleep" |
Sleep +1 |
Breathy jangle-gaze from Night Flowers. |
| 52 |
Siam |
"Todo Lo Que Quiero Eres Tu" |
Nuestra Historia |
The Colombian Roxette is called Siam, which I'm just going to take as an obscure Rush joke. |
| 53 |
Hungry Butterfly |
"Un Día Especial" |
Herida de Muerte |
Dense, blurry Spanish electro-punk from Hungry Butterfly. |
| 54 |
Il corso delle cose |
"Avvoltoi" |
Come stai |
Blaring Italian alt-rock by Il corso delle cose. |
| 55 |
CHVRCHES |
"Bury It" |
Every Open Eye |
Part of me thinks that, honestly, Lauren covld sing over appliance hvm and I wovld still melt, but another part of me also believes that they have infiltrated the power grid and tvned the hvm to my heart. |
| 56 |
Ricked Wicky |
"Jargon of Clones" |
King Heavy Metal |
I swore off Robert Pollard in 2001. I probably had good reasons, and I probably wrote them down, and thus I could probably look them up. And whatever they were, 14 years is probably far more than they were ever worth. His new band, Ricked Wicky, sounds more like Tommy Keene rehearsals than Guided by Voices outtakes. |
| 57 |
The Crookes |
"I Wanna Waste My Time on You" |
I Wanna Waste My Time on You - Single 2 |
Burbling New Order restraint erupting fitfully into brit-guitar-rock expansiveness by The Crookes. |
| 58 |
Olexesh |
"Gib ihm bös" |
Strassencocktail (Deluxe Version) |
There is enough bass in this pounding German hip-hop album by Olexesh to blast out of car windows and disperse emissions fumes, if that happens to be a thing you suddenly find you need. |
| 59 |
Lush & Simon |
"The Universe - Original Mix" |
The Universe 2 |
Perfect-formula uplifting trance by Lush & Simon. |
| 60 |
Arcane Roots |
"Slow Dance" |
single |
I would like a joint tour from Agent Fresco and British prog-math-power-trio Arcane Roots. |
| 61 |
CHVRCHES |
"Afterglow" |
Every Open Eye |
The drvm machines even have an Off switch. But my love does not. |
