For whatever reason I've only been doing one album for an artist, but I think Voivod might have to have two with this and Killing Technology.

I wouldn't rank Nothingface as my number one favorite of theirs, but oddly enough I think it's the one I listened to most. It's also the first I heard, and it was so delightfully zany that it instantly stamped itself right onto my brain. Complicated as well as catchy, jazzy and thrashy in all the right places. This album here definitely gave me a hankering for more technical music like this, then Coroner, Artillery, Mekong Delta, Heathen, Sadus, etc

It sounds so fresh and original every time

bored again



Even if Boards of Canada were the first electronic musicians I started listening to regularly, it was this album that made ne think "Jesus **** what all can even be done within electronica?"

And the answer would be: a lot

This is pretty big album packing some pretty big music. Amazingly glitchy and original, super technical and inventive stuff. IDM is a pretty interesting style when you consider this and all the other main stuff like Autechre and Squarepusher. It's very very complicated, intricate, and I'd wager total spastic nonsense for some people hearing it for the first time. I never exactly knew what to make of the tag "intelligent dance music", but whatever. Calling this dance music is kind of a stretch IMO, the dancers must have some interesting moves. Some of it, like this here, is often a barrage of angular electronic and atonal melodies, highly complex drum patterns that are probably incredibly tedious to produce, and a variety of outside/experimental elements, classical music seems to be prevalent.

The arrangements on this album come straight from the deepest and most inaccessible caverns of human imagination. No ideas are ever repeated, just total bleepy jackhammering, combined with classical like string/piano/whatever arrangements.

Very interesting music, but it always had me wanting more, wanting to hear everything you can possibly do with it. With these impossible blasts of eccentricity, pretty much never sounding like the last, the possibilities do stretch far

Couldn't imagine life without this album, probably wouldn't even wanna try. It makes me feel great in so many ways.

A relative obscurity in the world of music, this is a perfect little expression of various waves if the 80s. You know, synthwave, cold wave, minimal wave, new wave. It carries a cold and oddly isolated feeling, probably from the whole space theme. It's quite a unique record honestly, there's odd folk elements here and there, and overall it's just very esoteric and meaningful. Every song is a classic in my mind and I couldn't rightfully name any standouts. It's short and oh so sweet, I wish I could thank Solid Space personally for their sole album, because I know it's had a big impact on my life.

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Canvas - Lost in Rock

Can't say I've known this album for all that long, but it's been a staple since my very first listen, and is possibly my all time favorite hardcore type album. Just calling it hardcore is downright criminal though. It's an arttastic bag if mathcore/weird avant-gardecore, noise, electronics, and anything else weird they want. As time passed and I listened more, it kept getting more and more solid and appreciated. At first you'd probably think it takes way too many left turns to nowhere, and just waddles around in bizarre puddles in the street, but I started to appreciate it all. The longer I listened the more everything synergized. It's most likely a grower, no matter how much like it at first already. It takes a lot to sink in.

This guy's full throttle screams are absurd.

I'm a huge Deep Purple fan and this is my favorite of theirs. It seems so overlooked in comparison to Machine Head and In Rock and stuff, but I think this is top notch material and some of my favorite old school hard rock/metal ever put to tape. It's also the first full album I heard from them, and I've wrecked the CD since.

From raging rockers like the title track, to longer and more progressive suites like "Fools" (my absolute fav) and "The Mule", to a fun little ditty like "Anyone's Daughter", everything is a winner. It might be that compared to an album like Machine Head which is played and worshiped like hell, this just sounds a lot fresher, but I dunno. I think it'd be my favorite either way. So many inventive ideas put into here.

Though not a love at first listen, I can say with truth that it is now one of my most beloved albums, and easily one of the best of its time.

It is a difficult album in a bunch of different ways. Difficult to categorize, being a shoegaze/post punk blueprint dripping with noise/drone, post rock, and even black metal guitar. Difficult to digest, being a majorly long double album. Difficult to digest... again, but musically this time, a very demanding work. And emotionally, it's a heart wrencher.

But once I felt it all, this album definitely showed itself as an awe inspiring work. You can hear just how much soul was poured into this.

The piano motif right before that extreme dynamic blast some halfway or whatever into "Earthmover" is hands down one of music's crowning achievements

I wrote something nice and gay on Gridlink's Facebook page a while back and was just gonna paste, but I couldn't find it. Basically it was just a thank you for existing and doing what they did in the short time they were around.

It might seem odd to be so moved by a grindcore album, but this one did it, and it's been real important to me. Long ago while the innate grindcore maniac within me was just beginning to show itself, I happened upon Gridlink and tore it wide open. The album cover was so intriguing, I thought "Amber Gray by Gridlink... What could this be?"

What I heard was definitely a surprise, but it was also a total revelation. In just 10 minutes this album shredded any preconceived notions of extreme music to bits, and then again like 4 times over. And it was fresh. I knew about Gridlink before Discordance Axis, and though both are amazing, Gridlink holds the top spot in my heart. They've since released basically my three favorite grind albums of all time, and I hold them in very high regard.

This is responsible for at least three of the greatest pop songs ever, and is absolutely infectious all the way through.

I <3 <3 <3 "Boys", "26580", and obviously "Kids in America". Just one of my top new wave albums with astronomical replay value

I love this album but whatever

gridlink are legitimately the best grind band I've ever heard. idc what anyone says they're the ****.

yes

Here's to a graceful return. Now, this isn't really much of a review, I'm just talking about this album. I still need to work on my reviewing. I can promise this won't be my only RP post, I plan on doing a Spotlight On!!!! Nick Blinko.

Rudimentary Peni – Cacaphony (1987)

This is as much an experimental album as it is punk, the Gothic, black and white musings of a troubled artist. RP have veered away slightly from their punk rock politics to a deranged testament to H.P. Lovecraft, the macabre, and the downright crazy, but all the while just as radical. This is a challenging album. It takes you through many different tunnels and chasms that frankly never end. It's riddled throughout with crazed ramblings and groaning, Lovecraft quotation, and otherwise peculiar commentary, yet an underlying theme or message proves to be a difficult thing to locate.

Their previous full length, Death Church, was a classic punk effort, one of my personal favorites. Political and spectacular punk rock, yet, it strayed from the punk formula constantly. Cacaphony leaves it almost entirely, sure you can tell this is a punk band/album at it's very core, but you can't overlook the experimentation and oddities scattered throughout it.

Lovecraft baby....
Lovecraftian themes and characters are a focal point, with Cthulu even taking form here. “Crazed Couplet” features the lyrics “That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die” delivered through distortion. “Imps of the Perverse” is a criticism to Lovecraft from the point of view of another. While these themes are incredibly prevalent, this a musical equivalent of madness. Looping conversational delusions layered over one another, to such a point where the listener can only observe gibberish (and much of it in fact is). Incredibly bizarre interludes of hissing and teeth chattering and the like. At it's simplest, I'd call this a conglomeration of punk/post-punk and experimental rock, with a hefty old English influence, even sing along pub song stylings. Their guitar tone is much lighter than previous efforts, and the bass is incredible as usual. Grant Matthews is one of punk's best bassists, and RP recordings always show it off.

3 highlights for me, "Dream City" "Gentlemen Prefer Blood" and "Musick in Diabola" among others of course.

one of my favorite albums ever.

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I always gotta give it to my man Stock-to-the-hausen. Easily one of my favorite, if not favorite period, composers of classical music contemporary or otherwise. Also a big boy pioneer of electronically produced music and all the goods. Electronic stuff from that time and influence is all pretty whacky and surreal.

I didn't know what to do for a Stockhausen "album" but this a good and important one. He has works that I prefer to this though. Even before getting deeper into various noise corners of music, I developed a love for early 20th century classical and proto-electro nonsense.

I'll have to give credit to my mom for being like the biggest Nick Cave fan.

Whether or not this is my favorite Cave release, I can still say for sure that I love it unconditionally number one, and number two, it's been with me in my life for as long as I can remember. While beginning to explore the music on my own accord, I came to this album and was shocked to know just how much of it was with me already. All these little organ melodies found throughout the tracks are all so nostalgic, and I guess I'd grown up hearing them all the time.

Sometimes before going to listen to this album I'll forget about all that, and then take another trip down memory lane.

It's one of my favs probably, from the band. A really solid and effective offering of folky post-punk/blues stuff, not as experimental as previous outputs and entirely memorable, musically and lyrically, for fans of all kinds of music

I mentioned it earlier and remembered how the **** nice the album is. I love SPK for their abrasive industrial noise terror and I love them for their more dancey electro-industrial, but more than both of those, I love SPK fir this album. It's a softer album, but so graceful and magic and esoteric and all kinds of adjective salad. A blend of neoclassical ambient style orchestrations and ritual-ish darkwave coolness from some of industrial music's most important players.

A while ago when hearing it the first time, it awakened some kinda neoclassical beast within. And it's just all so wonderful. It still stands as one of my favorite ambient releases of all time, and one if the most important for me

I think there's like four Biosphere albums that have helped shape my life but I'm putting this one because "it's the first I heard" seems to be the usual argument.

This one is very minimal and very sparse ambient music, with just a slight neoclassical infusion. There's not much going on dynamically, instead very distant and sometimes haunting string melodies and yhe like are passed over to your brain. It's a super quiet album, but it's real deep, like ultra contemplative.

It could also be my favorite from Biosphere, though that's a really hard decision when all the other contenders sound so different from eachother. But along with this, Cirque, Microgravity, and Substrata can all hold an equally impactful spot in the journal

I ain't gonna stop, losers. You can never break my SPIRIT



Never understood why they call this one art punk. Even post punk is a little stretch. But whatever. I love listening to it. It's perfect for all occasions and all company. Can never go wrong with Pink Flag. I've listened to it countless times and it's always fresh. It'll be with me til the end

I've never really been sure about that either.

Absolutely love the bones off that album. It and The Good Son were the first two Cave albums I ever purchased, followed quickly by Let Love In. Special. :thumb:

I heard Let Love In and the Firstborn is Dead early too. I prefer the latter.

We also had Kicking Against the Pricks which I imagine recieved a lot of play time in my youth but it wasn't as memorable ad the others

I think that's my favorite psych rock album. It's a gem of the 60s to behold from a band that could possibly be underrated, I dunno. But with this full length they brought in avant-garde electronic stylings. The sound and quality are really amazing and do a justice for these tracks and ideas.

It is one I'll forever love, I could say I've listened to it more than any other album of that ilk. Been a fan for a long time and just gave me the willies with their abstract texture

I forgot there doesn't seem to be a solid amount of Kinks videos that I'd like to post so we can all feast our eyes on the album cover for Muswell Hillbillies

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This is probably one of the most major nostalgia trips in here. It's one that I thoroughly enjoyed hearing all the time growing up even then, and it was played like a lot of times. And obviously I still love it and it remains a favorite, but compared to everything else it's something I'll always remember for making me a happy child.

It is still an album that I can put on at any time and enjoy all the way through, and a good one for any occasion and any company. I think I said that exact sentence about Pink Flag too.

Alcohol is definitely one of my favorite and most memorable songs ever, that's been a musical mainstay my whole life. But all of it is great, and it's a real easy and enjoyable listen forever

I regret the thread title every time I see it

Get outta my closet

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Megadeth mother****in Hangar 18 cassingle, how do you like that cock asses

I mean I would've put Peace Sells, but we've had this tape for hella more years and I wouldn't feel right. Even with just two tracks, radio and non radio version of the title, and "The Conjuring" live. It was jammed almost unnecessarily so. They're two of my favorites too.

Although I guess I can include Peace Sells into this post too. We had the cd for a while, but not as long as that tape. Though the full album is totally killer and pretty much single handedly ignited an internal thrash attack with every badass track.

This isn't my favorite Godflesh album and thankfully they've expanded their sound much more afterward but it's the generic iconic "shaped my life" album selection.

It's heavy no doubt. And it was heavy in every way I wanted music to be heavy but hadn't yet realized. So it smashes the riffs. Hella phat. Mid paced to slow sludge metal delivered through the mechanical and industrial filter. So yeah it's brutal. I really wanted to be all about music like it after hearing it. And (while it's still really good) I've since acquainted myself with other music that just keeps building and building on this foundation.

Got all wanting to talk about this now. And it's one that makes it into here while also being my fav from the artist.

Dirt and Jar of Flies were important too but this one takes it for it's ambition. By far the most musically expansive album of theirs, it wanders deep into swampy and bleak sludge metal territory, as well as everything else you might have heard before, like blues and psych rock... But here it's all much more prevalent. Some of their most amazing tracks are littered throughout, "Sludge Factory", "Frogs", "Shame in You", "God Am" and whatever.

It's a bit long and you might fond some filler but it's nothing that bad. I think "Heaven Beside You" is great for one of their sappy and lame tracks. Otherwise it's an album from that scene that wasn't afraid to add more variety to this grunge stuff.

Crisis was Douglas Pearce's band pre-Death in June, and Holocaust Hymns is a phat comp of their stuff.

And it is a totally perfect execution of this kinda more punky post punk music kinda like... Flux of Pink Indians or The Mob or something. Really consistent and infectious. I think it's one of the best post punk releases out there, and it started another music rampage within me when I heard it. Everything about it is great.

I gotta say that there's people calling this one of the weirdest sounding albums ever, and that's just far from being true. Sure it's unusual, but hardly in the same league as some avant garde music out there.

It is though, a highly progressive and complicated presentation of folk music, which I can't imagine being a genre you go to for off the wall complexity and arrangements. (disclaimer: I'm sure there's tons of that and I am by no means a folk expert)

This definitely would be my favorite folk album though. Very extensive compositions made up of a plethora of acoustic instruments. Multiple guitars, flutes, all kinds of drums, violiny strings and whatever. The musicianship is virtuosic from all angles, really an astounding display here. And it's quite often very "listenable". Sure, the structure of the songs are unusual, experimental, and highly diverse, but it's not some atonal romp of nonsense instrument noise. Musically it's not as out there as you'd expect from some reviews. It does dip into bits of bizarre experimentation with screechy strings and vocals, yeah, but that just adds to the party. There's an underlying uniqueness within the music but all in all it's more "prog" than "avant" folk, with advanced musicality and very contrasting lyrics about all kinds of odd mystical things. It also has an organic sense of psychedelia to it. That is to say, not brought about by electronic effects and modulations, but it just exists within the acoustic instrumentation. That's another pretty unique (and awesome) bit to it.

So yeah I think this is an incredible album, and highly recommended. I think it's a must hear for people exploring folk, psychedelic, experimental, progressive, or all of the above music... if you're reading and care or whatever

First Utterance was a massive album for me in college, along with stuff along the lines of Camel, Caravan and a boatload of zeuhl.

Also, gotta love the bonus cuts that came with the remaster a few years ago. :)

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I never had much luck finding videos for this, and come to think of it I don't really remember how I listened to it all and where cuz these days I can't find a good link either, but like **** the cops

I can call this entry one of the more recent additions to my mental encyclopedia, in fact very recent, Frownland recommended it at some point as a highlight of the extensive Haino catalogue. And thankfully so, it immediately became a major favorite drone album of all time. It's just textural overkill, and how it's pulled off on a crank organ is beyond me, but basically I wanna have sex with it.

It expanded my lust for timbre greatly.

So good that he had to release three different versions of it.

It's been surprisingly long since I even listened to this but it's always so sappy and filled with <3 hooks and all kindsa fruity love

read or not bitch I'm bored



Steel Pole Bathtub - The Miracle of Sound in Motion, 1993

A personal standout of the vast noise rock inheritance of my father, this one has been ingrained into my mind quite adhesively. Whenever I listen to it the hooks, melodies, riffs, all of that floods the vessel that is myself, and I'm reminded just how much it really means to me.

SPBT are very noisy even within their particular noise rock pool, but are also great at writing and delivering an ear worm hook. The first two tracks are among my favorites of all time, going from completely degraded surf riffing to sample infused uncompromising destruction to almost blues inspired, almost melancholic clank alongs.

How exactly did Timeghoul become my first death metal band? Such an odd entry point, but I've been about them for who knows how long. Their style is incredibly distinct and forward thinking, especially for their time. The structure/content of their music is intensely progressive and experimental but undeniably it's still old school raw death metal that is incredibly virtuosic and original in the grand scheme of things.

I suppose I took a shortcut to avant-garde metal by starting here.

World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland, 2007

I thought this might've already been in here but I guess not. Anyway it's far and away one of the most transcendent, ineffable, beautiful, dynamic, emotional, etc albums I've ever had the pleasure to hear. Even after the 80 minutes is up I still want more. I need more.

A magnum opus if there ever was any. Post rock but by way of glitchy electronica/breakbeat and modern classical, so not like any other post rock you know. There's not even much rock at all.

100 Years of Choke is simply one of the most sublime pieces of music to ever grace this universe with its sonic presence. Building throughout the whole track, it explodes into a massive flurry of emotions not yet named.

One I'll always recommend for everyone.

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Barkmarket - Gimmick, 1993

I probably wouldn't rate Barkmarket as highly as some of the noise rock compatriots in my repertoire like SPBT but this album was still always there for me nonetheless. On CD.

It can get stale after a while but is a great and fun record all the same. Noise rock/grunge smoothie with post hardcore elements from their earlier days.