Gloosh, Timewheel, Russia, Slowsnow Records, no catalogue number, cassette / Russia, Casus Belli Musica, CBM 77 vinyl LP / Germany,
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Tag: dark
The Faintest Hint: minimal folk pop songs are surprisingly strong, precise and intense
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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The Long Haul Approach
From Martin Archer’s Discus Music label, we have the trio The Geordie Approach and their album Shields. Stale Birkeland and
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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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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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The New Island Utopia
Angel are a duo we don’t seem to have heard from since 2006, when they made the In Transmediale record
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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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Dark Natured
Patrick Graham is a classically-trained percussionist in Canada with a wide range of interests – he’s formed and played with
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Tracers: a vast and serene panorama of electronic forest soundscapes
Vidna Obmana and David Lee Myers, Tracers, Zoharum, ZOHAR 204-2, CD digipak (reissued 2020) Vidna Obmana was a dark ambient
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