Damghar - Exordiri

File this under "Things I Missed in 2020" I suppose.

I have a real soft spot for goth rock, especially the just shy of dance-able, head nodding tracks that made Feeling Gloomy the nicest place to be sad in London in 2005.

This is exactly that. Straight ahead 1980's-worship goth music. Not a hint of dungeon synth or neo- anything here. This is old school gloom, and clove cigarettes, and fishnet stocking gloves.

You miserable bastards know exactly what I mean, or you're likely reading the wrong music blog. Bauhaus still holds pride of place as the band I've driven the furthest to see, and 4AD is still the only record label I still blind buy literally everything from.

So put on your best androgynous frock coat, straighten your cravat, brush your velvet trousers, and enjoy this very dramatic trip down sonic memory lane.

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Agriculture - Agriculture

a While calling themselves ''ecstatic" black metal, Agriculture traipses along the line between atmo-black and blackgaze pretty adroitly. I am not as head over heels as some of the metal press I have been reading about them (like Rolling Stone for instance), but I think they have a good thing going here. They remind me of Vattnet Viskar sort of, and I am going to withhold judgement until I can see them live to really decide. That said, this is an album that has been in heavy rotation at my house since its release. Agriculture by Agriculture

2022 Year In Review

Yeah, I have been MIA for 18 months. So what? You don't pay for this blog, I do. And I've been really busy starting my permaculture farm / goat cult in the abandoned mountains of northern Spain. Now that things are appropriately sustainable and grim, I am back to vomit my opinions on music all over the internet some more. Let's dive back into things with a wrap up of 2022. Here are my favorite-ish albums of the year, along with why they are superlative. Best Aural Approximation of a Mental Health Crisis Chat Pile - God's Country Would you like to know what it sounds like to be stuck in a trailer in the middle of nowhere USA with none of the drugs you need to forget exactly how terribly and awfully fucked your life is? Are you interested in turning the collective despair of a small town poisoned by unregulated mining and refining into a howl of impotent protest? Would you like to peel back the facade of "faith, family, farm" to gaze at the raw and bloody dis...

Portal - Avow / Hagbulbia

P O R T A L R E L E A S E D T W O R E C O R D S T O D A Y That's how my day began. Several versions of that message. And friends, the hype is real. Unhinged ambient black metal sludge gloomcloud is back on the menu boys. Avow by itself is a massive adventure into murky disquiet, but played (As intended) sync'd up with companion piece Hagbulbia, it becomes infintely more sinister. Press play below and enjoy the madness Avow by PORTAL Hagbulbia by PORTAL

Trumpet of Amdusias

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