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Continuing with the last TRR update's overarching theme, allow me to present you yet more musical projects from the fine folks in my friend's list :D Make sure to give these records a listen, and their Spacehey profiles a friend request, should it please you.
dolphinbrain, BL∞M BOX
Genre: Down Tempo/Breakbeat/Hip-Hop
Standout track: Break in the Clouds
Tagged with the marvellous appellation "space-shiphop", this is a great collection of at turns heavy, mellow and off-kilter beats. Glow-fi chameleonic hip-hop to make your synapses slow danmce.
Sugarplum Suicide, Sugarplum Suicide
Genre: Goth/Synthrock
Standout track: Somniphobia
Properly DIY feeling goth band from Ireland, who've been releasing a whole host of singles since (as far as I can tell) 2014. This self-titled release seems to be the only album the band have released thus far, which just so happens to feature a track of their called Burn Me Alive that featured in a 2019 compilation for the goth culture web-publication Intravenous Magazine. The skewed-fairytale quality of their music reminds me of the band Jack Off Jill at their most playfully morose - very "pale white skin with strawberry gashes all over and over". I really do hope they manage to release a full album at some point, with some studio mastering and sound balancing these songs have real anthemic potential!
Sulfuric Cautery, Chainsaws Clogged With The Underdeveloped Brain Matter Of Xenophobes
Genre: Grindcore
Standout track: Excessive Punishment as the Norm
Truth be told, I'm not sure if the the Spacehey user Terrible Mutilation is involved with this group, but it was released on their label of the same name. Absolutely pulverising and gloriously bonkers goregrind with drum work reminiscent of Total Fucking Destruction circa 2000-2005, though this stuff is heavier and gnarlier. I'm sure we can all at least agree that this record wins the "album title of the week" award.
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dolphinbrain
Heavy Mello I'm going to have to use that. Great review thanks again
sugarplum suicide
Thank you so much!!
We couldn't be happier with that review!!
I'm glad you liked it :D I was a teeny bit nervous about suggesting that studio mastering/sound balancing might take the album from stellar DIY effort to a potential modern electrogoth classic. It's that old argument of lo-fi VS. hi-fi, and typically I lean towards the former quality.
I do hope folks check it out :3
by Freakish Uproar; ; Report
We've done both. We found that when we went hi-fi that it became a different sound, and really lost the essence of what made us unique, so we went backwards. If you listen to the singles from "Somniphobia" (2017 version) onwards, you'll understand.
by sugarplum suicide; ; Report
Maybe I'll have to listen and compare the alternative versions to these ones. I still really like Somniphobia btw, the chorus was doing the rounds in my head at work today :D
by Freakish Uproar; ; Report
Haha
Sorry about that. It's a bit of an earworm, likely due to it's simplistic waltz approach...
by sugarplum suicide; ; Report