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Ryan Gregory Tallman, Haunted Tapes
Genre: Ambient/Drone
Standout track: Aching Dusk
Two desperately gorgeous nerve-haunting electro-acoustic pieces by an experimental musician hailing from California. I imagine it being the perfect soundtrack to a beautifully shot horror movies where literally nothing happens, yet you're left feeling somehow profoundly afraid all the same.
Am Not, The Developing World
Genre: Power Electronics
Standout track: Beleaguered and Native II
"Yes my child, you have lost your way,
Your gaze is averted, your heart is a million miles away,
Spoilt rotten and indulged, and still mesmerised by their ambitions,
They've speculated your soul, and returned you tainted.
Oh my child,
What have you become?
Could you really have forsaken all that you are?
Dressed in their snakeskins, and Stockholm loyalties,
You made their prison a safehouse, and begged to be locked-in."
The album I credit with reigniting my interest in power electronics. Highly reminiscent of Swedish death industrial band IRM at their most belligerent, or The Grey Wolves at their most rhythmic. It's a fascinating and unflinching portrait of the nationalist rhetoric that addles so many English minds (the man behind the project is a British-Asian man), the failures of neo-liberalism to address ordinary people's needs, and a first world haunted by the leering spectacle of all-too-recent history.
Mousse, Bungalow Classics
Genre: Neo-Disco/Dance
Standout track: Big Fat Party Popper
I love it when musicians take pre-set electronic sounds, cliché audio cues, lyrical platitudes and genre tropes, and do something strange and magical with them. Reminds me of a more tightly produced Jock Club, sans the sad air of post-rave culture that DJ's output exudes. This is more like that meme of the Ukrainian gypsy kid in the club who can't be bothered. Mousse is evidently a mad-lad :3
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