Ai Aso, The Faintest Hint, France, Ideologic Organ, SOMA034LP (2020) Tokyo-based Ai Aso has been active as a musician since
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Aralkum: a melancholy work of ambient electroacoustic immersion skirting around its theme of manmade ecological disaster
Galya Bisengalieva, Aralkum, United Kingdom, One Little Independent Records, TPLP1572 vinyl / CD (2020) A violinist and leader of the
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Kryptograf (self-titled): psychedelic doom metal debut plays safe with Sabbath-worshipping pop songs
Kryptograf, self-titled, Norway, Apollon Records, AP072 CD, LP (2020) Proof positive that anything anyone can do, the Norwegians can do
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Naiv: black metal eclecticism ends up in Eurovision disco cheese territory
Thy Catafalque, Naiv, France, Season of Mist, SOM552 vinyl LP (2020) As its title suggests, “Naiv” is intended as a
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A Mimesis of Nothingness: a series of dark soundscape pieces exploring an individual’s experiences of Tehran
Siavash Amini, A Mimesis of Nothingness, Switzerland, Hallow Ground, HG2006 vinyl LP (2020) Tehran-based composer / guitarist Siavash Amini has
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Ressources Humaines: depressive / suicidal black metal treated as near-experimental ambient music to portray depression in all its chaos and darkness
Déception, Ressources Humaines, France, self-released CD (2020) Its four members known only by three-digit numbers 501, 735, 739 and 813,
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Last Pagan Rites / From the Yotvingian Stone: contemporary minimalism mixed with neo-paganism and folk traditions
Bronius Kutavicius, Last Pagan Rites / From the Yotvingian Stone, Lithuania, Music Information Centre Lithuania, MICL LP 002 (2019) Originally
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Czary: dark ritualistic drone folk ambient and electro-acoustic music turns out New Age smooth
Krzywdy, Czary, Poland, Zoharum, ZOHAR 205-2 CD digipak limited edition (2020) A drone ambient project of Warsaw-based musician Mateusz Szymanski
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Viimeinen Juoksu: outsider black-gaze / post-punk rock finally in from the cold with a mix of defiance and despair
Circle of Ouroborus, Viimeinen Juoksu, Greece, His Wounds, NAIL006 gold vinyl LP (2020) In a fair universe that exists in
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AR (Untitled): hypnotic twangy and deranged guitar-hell pieces falling short of an all-enveloping universe
Artur Ruminski, AR (Untitled), Poland, Zoharum, ZOHAR 202-2 CD (2020) Involved in at least five bands (Arrm, Furia, Gruzja, Mentor,
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