Three Radikal Rekerds #42: Savagely Susurrating Staring Suina

Genre: Breakbeat/Down Tempo/Hip-Hop

Standout track: Boogie Serious

Seeing as this is a pseudonym of the electronic musician Luke Vibert, I was already fairly confident it'd be good stuff :3 The vocal and dialogue sampling on this is fantastic, highly imaginative, and weaved masterfully into the body-swaying beat arrangements. If you love the song Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches, I fail to envision a situation where'll you dislike this album :D  

Genre: Hardcore/Noisecore

Standout track: Multiphobic

I couldn't pass by an album with a title as awesome and unnerving as that. Glad I did, as it turns out this live session recording contains eight songs of snarling sweat-streaked extremity. Genuinely intimidating and malefic quality to this bands sound, but none of the macho posturing that blights so many traditional hardcore acts. A welcome reminder of the equally contempt-filled sound of bands like Drunkdriver and Pissed Jeans.

Genre: Folk

Standout track: Off to See the Hangman, Part II

Stuffs me to the gills with paradoxical impressions and wildly referential contrasts. My mind is making comparisons with myriad folk outfits (both in the Americana and Anglophile camps), indie bands, even some neofolk outfits! This Welsh instrumentalist somehow finds a magical stylistic space between a sound so near-incomparably skillful, yet utterly homespun and human. Habitual yet haunting, elevated yet earthbound. It's good finger-picking folksy stuff, basically ;p