New Particles hand-snatched from the tube of the Large Genre Collider for the week ending 2015-12-18. 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 |
Tau Cross |
"Lazarus" |
Tau Cross |
In which Rob Miller demonstrates that he's ready to carry on Lemmy's metal-vocal legacy. |
2 |
June 1974 |
"Viva" |
single |
Robot euphoria. |
3 |
MOTHXR |
"Touch" |
single |
Drifty, synthpoppy astral soul. |
4 |
Kelsea Ballerini |
"Peter Pan" |
The First Time |
Taylor? Doesn't ring any bells in this town, no. |
5 |
TeraBrite |
"Hello" |
single |
Hello from the pop-punk side. |
6 |
Rosie Yang |
"塗鴉世界 - OT: Motel Room" |
一直微笑 |
Big Pop is thriving in Taiwan. |
7 |
Secrets Of The Moon |
"Hole" |
single |
Throaty, non-shrieky black doom. |
8 |
Martriden |
"Pendulum" |
Cold and the Silence |
Gruff, soaring progressive death metal. |
9 |
Cloak of Altering |
"-3.003486962 (6) X10-66" |
Manifestation |
Experimental scary metal noises and choking sounds. |
10 |
Stielas Storhett |
"Gasp for Change" |
Drownwards |
Russian experimental atmospheric black metal. |
11 |
Sanzu |
"Old Orchard Floor" |
Sanzu: Heavy Over the Home |
Perth Australian blast-grind. |
12 |
DIIV |
"Under the Sun" |
single |
Chiming Brooklyn indie post-punk. |
13 |
Primal Fear |
"Bullets & Tears" |
single |
Remember when metal sounded like Quiet Riot? |
14 |
Serenity |
"Follow Me" |
single |
Galloping prog-metal. |
15 |
Cryonic Temple |
"Mighty Eagle" |
single |
Anthemic, mildly-cyber power-metal. |
16 |
Ihsahn |
"Mass Darkness" |
single |
Sprawling progressive-atmospheric-black-death-thrash-everything metal. |
17 |
Miu Chu |
"When The Wind Rises - TVBS、台視戲劇《唯一繼承者》片頭曲" |
My Way 5 |
Taiwanese idol-pop with extra guitars? OK. |
18 |
Modeselektor |
"Trees" |
Trees / 50 Trees 2 |
Menacing atmospheric dance-proof post-step. |
19 |
Laura Bono |
"Sto pensando a te" |
Segreto |
Grand Italian arena-pop-rock. |
20 |
Finley |
"Unleash the power" |
Legends of Chima 3 |
Italian pop-rock Lego theme-music. |
21 |
Elliphant |
"Step Down" |
single |
Hesitant, muttery indietronica. |
22 |
Bucovina |
"Da-Mi Mana, Toamna" |
Nestramutat |
Surging non-twiddly Romanian folk-metal. |
23 |
Grimner |
"Eldhjärta" |
single |
Surging non-non-twiddly Sweden viking folk-metal. |
24 |
Carina Dahl |
"Burning" |
Burning |
Mesmerizing Norwegian techno-dance-pop. |
25 |
Baroness |
"Morningstar" |
Purple |
This is the new state of the art in Hard Rock. |
26 |
Rick Springfield |
"Down" |
single |
Still, in my opinion, one of the best pure pop songwriters alive. |
27 |
Obscura |
"Sermon of the Seven Suns" |
single |
Technical death metal. |
28 |
Exmortus |
"Appassionata" |
single |
Shreddy-not-"technical" power/death metal. |
29 |
Dan Bull |
"Secular Song in Celebration of the 25th of December" |
single |
Languid non-Christmas Christmas grime. |
30 |
NateWantsToBattle |
"Merry Christmas, Kiss My Ass" |
single |
Bouncy antiviral-pop-punk sort-of-Christmas anti-Christmas anthem. |
31 |
CHVRCHES |
"Leave A Trace - Goldroom Remix" |
single |
Twitchy, plausible Goldroom remix of a song that didn't exactly have to be remixed. |
32 |
East India Youth |
"MANNER OF WORDS (Blanck Mass Remix)" |
REMIX EP 3 |
Can Blanck Mass please handle all mixing of East India Youth songs from now on? |
33 |
Dark The Suns |
"The Sleeping Beauty" |
Life Eternal |
Propulsive, raspy gothic metal. |
34 |
Leah Turner |
"Cowboy's Love" |
single |
Pealing country-pop power-balladry. |
35 |
The Starting Line |
"Anyways" |
single |
Sturdy modern uplift. |
36 |
Bocuma |
"Breathing Method (Akasha Remix)" |
Orphans of the Sky Remixed |
20-track "remix" album so mood-coherent that I suspect the remixers are imaginary. |
37 |
Middlepicker |
"Split the Uprights" |
Middlepicker Minus Bill |
One of their several yearning old Minneapolis indie-punk records happily brought into the streaming era. |
38 |
YOHIO |
"Prophet in Disguise" |
Together We Stand Alone |
Sweden's best j-rock singer's 2014 album finally available elsewhere. |
39 |
Opera Magna |
"Rojo Escarlata" |
Del Amor y Otros Demonios: Acto 2 |
Spanish symphonic hyper-power-metal. |
40 |
The Dunwells |
"Strange Feeling" |
single |
Quiet, emotive Leeds indie-folk-pop. |
41 |
Varg |
"Dunkelheit" |
single |
Epic pagan blast-metal. |
42 |
vad fruttik |
"Utolsó Adás" |
Tudom Milyen |
Dark, dense Hungarian rock. |
43 |
Natasa Bekvalac |
"Pseto" |
single |
Portentous Servian turbo pop. |
44 |
Modernistit |
"Et nuorene enää" |
single |
Jumpy Finnish indie rock. |
45 |
Aikapommi |
"Kuningas" |
single |
Ragged Finnish pop punk. |
46 |
Rautalintu |
"Vittu mitkä tilat" |
Lääkkeet 4 |
Shouty Finnish punk rock. |
47 |
Nelver |
"Soul Intention - Original Mix" |
single |
Russian ambient epicstep. |
48 |
ROOKiEZ is PUNK'D |
"Breathing" |
Breathing +2 |
Terribly-named but fairly-great anthemic j-rock. |
49 |
Fesway |
"Blanco" |
Eleven |
Elegant, intricate, arrestingly self-posessed Mexican atmospheric experimental indie-pop. |