Time is a flat circle: A year in retrospect (II)
Looking back into the introduction to the EOY list I wrote around the same date in 2013, I realize how little things have changed…
post-punk
Hateful Abandon – Liars/Bastards
Bristol’s genre-scorning visionaries offer up a horrific portrait of past, present and future on their finest album by far.
From the dark past: And Also the Trees
One lurker takes a dive into strange, dark waters with English heroes And Also the Trees.
Industrial Chaos: Combing through the ruins of a lost scene
An obscure American industrial compilation yields a few pearls in the muck, and serves as a foggy window into a (justly) forgotten moment in the evolution of extreme music.
Bootblacks : Narrowed
Gorgeous industrialized post-punk from the nightside of Brooklyn.
Vorde – Demo I
Deftly under-produced mysteries from some grotspot in Brooklyn.
Verdunkeln – Weder Licht noch Schatten
Deeply original black metal for sleepwalkers, specters, and swordsmen. From the German scene that brought you Nagelfar, Lunar Aurora, and Ruins of Beverast.