important, or personally appealing releases that—apart from any more concrete rating or thoughts—hold some special position of admiration, merit, or something vaguely in-between that i'd like to highlight.
Mezzanine
Massive Attack
like few other albums, this scrapes and digs into a pit so completely ruinous, while being strikingly unfettered, without ever becoming performative; there's doubtless a lot of heart, but it's buried under an imposing amount of dust, debris, and shells of protective, standoffish charm.
'25 apr 14
PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
one of the best metal excursions this decade; its little intricacies and evolving branches, the ways in which it sparks and cycles and provokes its messages in a fluid arc, are viciously electrifying.
'25 apr 9
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