Did we skip a month of playlisting? Maybe. Shush. We’re back again, with our second playlist on Tidal after moving away from Mr Ek’s AI Weaponry Superstore. Enjoy our tunes and words below.
Listen to the playlist on Tidal here: https://tidal.com/playlist/1355df88-fbdc-4bfe-b434-a0e55925cbf9
Nick – Guitar
Aging – Sentenced to Love
Delicious dark jazz to live vicariously as a grizzled old detective investigating a murder on a rainy evening in the late 40s, all whilst actually being a 30 year old NHS administrator in South Yorkshire. Bohren and Kilimanjaro fans take note.
Crippled Black Phoenix – Things Start Falling Apart
A stunning track from CBP’s new album, which is wholly great as well. There’s a simple but beautiful melody throughout this track which I can’t get enough of.
Poison Ruin – Pilgrimage
The stars have aligned in revealing an amazing band with a fairly lengthy and consistently great back-catalogue. Imagine a world where Killing Joke discovered black metal early on and loved it.
Chelsea Wolfe – House of Self-Undoing
The album that finally got me into Chelsea Wolfe. She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She stands as my clear favourite of her discography but it’s given me a newfound appreciation for her previous work.
Ossaert – De Nacht en De Verdwijning
A new discovery as part of my research ahead of Fortress Festival. This year’s lineup featured the most bands of any year that I wasn’t familiar with. Fortunately, my research proved fruitful and I gave myself a packed schedule of great bands to see.
Richard – Bass
Andy McKee – Rylynn
I went to see fingerstyle acoustic guitar legend Andy McKee in Nottingham recently and it was sublime. This has always been my favourite track of his, and it really shows off his skill in writing something that is objectively very complex to play but making it sound really gorgeous, smooth and full of emotion.
Mountainscape – Atoms Unfurling
Speaking of gigs… The day before the above, I went to see Belgian post metal band Juneau in Sheffield, who were great, but my main takeaway was a nice reminder of how great support mand Mountainscape are, having not seen them in a good while. This track has shades of both Devin Townsend’s positivity and Year of No Lights all-encompassing, cinematic vastness.
Tempel – Avaritia
Speaking of instrumental post metal… I somewhat randomly remembered about these guys recently and revisited their debut album of crushing but very varied, progressive, atmospheric riffery. If you like either Ba’al’s slow bits or our proggy bits, then there’s little chance you won’t like this.
ThunarWülf – Cailleach (not on Tidal – check it out here)
Speaking of Ba’al… TWO WHOLE MEMBERS of Ba’al are now in ThunarWülf, which is a bit silly really. ThunarWülf themselves are also sometimes a bit silly, but they’re also capable of crafting some genuinely epic, widescreen folk metal drama, such as this title track from their new EP which I think is great. Good work lads.
DJ John – hit u with the halberd
Speaking of things that are sometimes silly… Well okay, you can remove the ‘sometimes’ here, but DJ JOHN’S FIRST MIXTAPE has had an arguably embarrassing number of plays in my house the past few weeks, except I’m not embarrassed at all. DJ John takes the aesthetics of black metal and the tones of dungeon synth and twists them into lo-fi dance beats which are incredibly dumb and guaranteed to make you want to swing a flail with your mates at an illegal rave whilst wearing a bascinet.
Luke – Drums
Sungazer – Against the Fall of Night
I’ve been a Sungazer fan for a long time and revisiting some stuff I hadn’t listened to in a while I found myself obsessed with the groove of this song. I find it truly mesmerising and it was stuck in my head for a stupid amount of time. Very fun song!
Battle Beast – Twilight Cabaret
I had a long car journey where I put on a big ole power metal playlist. As you can imagine it is full of cheese and ridiculousness but this song stood out to me as especially fun, cheesey nonsense.
Amero – Raising Alpacas for Tax Benefits
Not gonna lie, it’s mainly here cause of the song name. But beyond that It’s a great groove metal + saxophone song with catchy melodies and interesting riffs to keep you hooked in.
Plini – The Time Will Pass Anyway
New Plini Album? Don’t mind if I do! This song stood out to me as a particularly heavy song for Plini and it fucking slaps. Much love for it.
Electric Callboy – Hypercharged
Electric Callboy released a new song. It is exactly the deathcore metal pop synth crossover that I’ve come to love and expect from them.
Will – Guitar
Royal Republic – Anna-Leigh
Funky disco rock with synthy 80s vibes. Very cool flavour of sounds. I don’t have a lot to say but it is awesome, I listen to it a lot, and I cannot stop singing the chorus… I almost come close to having a little dance. Many recommendations if you want something catchy AF.
Shawn James – Icarus
Shawn James has a new album out 12th June and I am very excited. Very raw soulful singing, incredible voice. This track was the first single from the album and didn’t disappoint. Melodic, catchy, and a very cool dark string part.
The Samuel Jackson Five – Song for Sarah
I think I first heard their album Easily Misunderstood when I was at uni. I seem to remember stumbling on this track and Skinflick Dress Rehearsal on YouTube. I added them to my watch later list and it stayed there ever since. Excellent instrumental post rock, beautiful textures, interesting structures, catchy little melodies.
King’s X – Shoes
Dogman by King’s X is a fantastic album I have been getting back into this month. Incredible vocals, super heavy grungy riffs. ‘Shoes’ always stood out to me – I really like the vocal harmonies and the very sexy verse riff. The singer’s voice is incredible.
Kyros – Rumour
Found these on a ‘fans also like’ list through Moron Police’s profile… in fact, I have found a lot of incredible bands that way…. Anyway, massive modern progressive rock, awesome hooks, synthpop elements, heavy riffs. Definitely carving out their own sound. Love ’em. One I hope to see live some day, on my list with Toehider and Moron Police.
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