2017 pt. 15+16

Damien Dubrovnik - Great Many Arrows
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I still cling to the idea that straight-up drone-noise-yell such as theirs is better experienced live; the severity exhilaratingly in your face rather than eventually becoming a bore-chore while just, like, sitting somewhere. But like many-a great arrow, this soars and stabs with precision. True to form, it'll overwhelm and dawdle and force ya into being down in the dumps; but dread-n-intensity are to the nines -- and with Rahbek's jarring talk-scream being particularly indecipherable and patchy here, throw upped mystery in there too. Really providing the soar+foil tho is the startlingly gentle coalescence of epic emotivity: forlorn flute+violin, pensive ambiance, eerie lost-at-sea vibes. A pivotal balance that some may call beautiful. On a more personal level, my first go with this thang was the morning after the Las Vegas shooting. All too apt and scary as hell. 7/10


Ex Eye - Ex Eye
*******HIGHEST RECS*******
This metal-meets-sax instrumental quad squad is triumphant and terrifying, patient and pulverizing. They're post-y without too much draggage, fuck with the structures but still gorgonize ya groove-wise, atmospherically affecting whether on a slow+spacy stretch or blisteringly BM-squallin' the night away or an intermingling of those things. Starts off safely-n-studiously enough; but the following two 12-minute epics allow em to rave up and develop and wondrously wander into all-encompassing oblivions. Which brings me to saxman Colin Stetson's application of trademark squawks throughout: able to add a symphonic flutter, convince you Godzilla is not only present but looking in your window, and become a vital and haunting voice all on its own. 8.5/10

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2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music 7/10
Boris - Dear 5/10
Broken English Club - The English Beach 6/10
Alex Cameron - Forced Witness 7.5/10 *******HIGHEST RECS*******
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On the Echoing Green 6.5/10
Com Truise - Iteration ~*~meh~*~
Denzel Curry - 13 [EP] 7/10
Richard Dawson - Peasant 8/10 *******HIGHEST RECS******* ///B-F-O\\\
Elder - Reflections of a Floating World 7/10
Ennanga Vision - Ennanga Vision 6/10
Haim - Something to Tell You 5.5/10
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe 8/10 **HIGHEST RECS**
MIKE - May God Bless Your Hustle 6.5/10 ///B-F-O\\\
Paradise Lost - Medusa 6/10
Sheer Mag - Need to Feel Your Love 7/10
Showtime Goma - Smiley Face 7.5/10 *******HIGHEST RECS*******
Toro y Moi - Boo Boo 5.5/10
Billy Woods - Known Unknowns 8/10 *******HIGHEST RECS*******