Calliope Music Weekly Roundup
August 29 - September 13, 2024
Reviewed Albums
State Faults - Children Of The Moon
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7.5/10 |
Best Tracks: Leviathan -- No Gospel -- Palm Reader -- Bodega Head
Heroic guitar work, sweeping melodies, and expansive progressions deliver an epic saga of pagan yearning. Heavy in force and atmosphere, State Faults soar amidst the canopy of contemporary Screamo.
Liniker - Caju
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5.5/10 |
Best Tracks: VELUDO MARROM -- ME AJUDE A SALVAR OS DOMINGOS -- PAPO DE EDREDOM -- POPSTAR
Sultry basslines, vocal excellence, and crisp production convey smooth RnB cuts. Caju excels mightily amidst swelling cinematic movements and delectable bass grooves, sodden with the soul of desire. While the record can be quite striking, it too often opts for a safe contemporary formula, wasting time on exposition and repeated verse.
Blind Girls - An Exit Exists
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7/10 |
Best Tracks: Loveless -- Less Than Three -- Closer to Hell -- Lilac
Ferocious doesn't even begin to describe the violence of this record. Demented riffs, brain-rattling percussion, contorting ambiance, and crazed screams unhinge the door of anguish. Just 20 minutes of runtime seem to display years of affliction as Sharni Brouwer howls to a higher power, refusing to be drowned by shattering cymbals and shrieking guitar. Only limited by a couple of underdeveloped cuts, the band provides an effective dynamism, powerful and elemental in construction.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Wild God
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7/10 |
Best Tracks: Wild God -- Frogs -- Conversion
Gorgeous Gospel and Gothic deliberations paint an ascending faith, stronger amidst reflections of the mundane and mystical alike. Semidarkness appears in atmospheric soundscapes before Cave enlightens the listener in sweeping shared choruses and metaphysical imagery. Besides a rather compressed mix and leisurely chronology, Wild God stuns as an apparition of merited faith.
Sadness - your perfect hands and my repeated words
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7/10 |
Best Tracks: bury your kiss in me -- lowsun bridge -- please don't let go
The always-hazy Sadness finds clarity in an undeniable love. your perfect hands is a heart unrestrained in indulging this overwhelming attachment.
Thick brushes of distorted guitar and sunny keys wash over condensed cymbals and melodic samples. Sadness, along with guest vocalists abriction and Lydia Brambila chant their feverish romances in the wake of fractured instrumentals, entirely submerged in flashing Shoegaze.
Aside from a rather muddled mix, the record glimmers as a relentless wave of warm embrace, painstakingly delivering its dense ardor.
Nails - Every Bridge Burning
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7/10 |
Best Tracks: Imposing Will -- Give Me The Painkiller -- No More Rivers to Cross
Disgustingly brutal, Nails wipe their blood across the mic, smearing oiled fingertips on sliding guitar, pummeling kick drums, and unhinged bass. All 17 minutes are packed with infectious hate, as lead singer Todd Jones spews his guts over hideous refrains. Not a well-rounded or variable effort by the longtime Grindcore band, but a sharp display in burning bright the cinders that come from the repulsive.
Other Notable Releases
ShrapKnel & Controller 7 - Nobody Planning To Leave
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6.5/10 |
Best Track: Uru Metal
Destroy Lonely - LOVE LASTS FOREVER
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3/10 |
Best Track: Love Hurts
Melt-Banana - 3+5
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7/10 |
長谷川白紙 [Hakushi Hasegawa] - 魔法学校 (Mahōgakkō)
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6/10 |
Best Track: ボーイズ・テクスチャー (Boy's Texture)
Wunderhorse - Midas
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6/10 |
Duster - In Dreams
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6/10 |
Best Track: Cosmotransporter
Astrophysics - The Unending Need for Perpetual Motion
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5/10 |
Best Track: A Hex on Fallen Angels
AKRIILA - epistolares
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6/10 |
Best Track: teoria del tiempo
Rex Orange County - The Alexander Technique
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4/10 |
Best Track: The Table
Ka - The Thief Next to Jesus
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7/10 |
Best Track: True Holy Water
Молчат Дома [Molchat Doma] - Belaya polosa
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6/10 |
Best Track: Я так устал / Ya tak ustal
Fat Dog - WOOF.
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6.5/10 |
Best Track: King of the Slugs
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