Also vibin with Bill Orcutt's How to Rescue Things. While not explicitly a Christmas album, the bitterness of Orcutt's sharp and soulful guitar is deliciously contrasted with orchestral easy listening samples, evoking the passionate flames of a fireplace on a dark winter's night.

Vibin with Heinali and Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko's "Hildegard", a reinterpretation of liturgical hymns by way of Ukranian folk singing and modular synth drones. Quite good with headphones, but really shines when it's allowed to fill a physical space via speakers. Powerful.

christmas

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Let the people you love know that you love them, even if they already know. In this age of atomization, it's more important than ever to cherish the human connections we do have, and share the compassion we can. Merry Christmas, take care of yourself, and happy holidays.

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Finally here, my top 25 albums of 2025, picked from 430+ of this year's releases that I listened to.

flood #art

Unfortunately, we have to delay Layer 8: FRAUD to early next year. We underestimated the workload of our very ambitious plans, so we had to either compromise on the vision or delay it, and we want to make sure the last stretch is the best it can be. Thank you for your patience.

Happy 25th birthday to Flood by Boris, arguably my favorite album of all time! A slow-burn journey through a serene sunlit surface, the crashing waves that shatter it and the sunken depths below it. Immaculate immersive atmosphere, still powerful after over a decade of listening.

It's so wild that The Protomen Act III just... exists now. I waited for this album for 14 years... It does feel tonally mismatched with the story due to the much "funner" sound, but it's a collection are very intricately constructed, satisfying bangers. youtu.be/KZuOZkg0D20

I just approved the test pressings for @hakita.bsky.social 's drill & bass opus "Tennis, Everyone" and you should probably get on the vinyl if you like music! 4 copies left~ shatterfoilindustries.bandcamp.com/album/tennis...

Vibin with Wrekmeister Harmonies' Flowers in the Spring. Each track focuses on a single idea repeated for double-digit minutes, which makes it niche, but also my favorite drone metal album in a while. Its repetition is comforting, its atmosphere cathartic, its mood bottomless.

After a comedy of errors leading to 7 months of transit and delays, I finally got my hands on the vinyl of Swans' latest album, Birthing, and even after multiple attempts I can't help but to be underwhelmed, especially right after Live Rope, one of the best live albums ever.

What are greens and how do they work? youtu.be/SW4dkI6ANJA

Despite being constantly busy with you-know-what, I still found enough free time for 10 more Piranesi. pieces. A lo-fi trilogy, a Mario 64 soundfont black metal epic, some of the darkest soundscapes so far and a noisey krautrock jam. www.youtube.com/@piranesi.pr... piranesiproject.bandcamp.com

I'm surprised After Hours doesn't come up more often in conversations about Scorsese's films, that movie's a blast. Made me laugh out loud many times despite watching it alone, which is even once is already pretty rare.

Don't know all what happened with the break up of Black Dresses but Ada Rook's solo album from earlier this year is a ton of fun. A couple misses but the hits that are there hit extremely hard. youtu.be/2gHF4Hozk-s

Really enjoyed Flummox's Southern Progress. Cheesy, quirky, high energy progressive metal. Throwback-y to the golden age of alt metal without feeling dated. Eclectic, sometimes surprisingly affecting, always very queer. youtu.be/T7mK3vB0wDY

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai, the greatest Japanese actor of all time. I always get excited when I see his name in opening credits. He was incredible in Harakiri and The Human Condition trilogy, but my favorite performance of his still has to be The Beast Shall Die (1959). Wild eyes.

Also vibin today with Boris’ Dronevil. Glad this finally got a normal vinyl version, it’s often overlooked in favor of Flood and Feedbacker, but deserves to stand right up there with the best. Monolithic, melancholic, atmospheric slow burn post-rock with devastating power.

Celebrating the good Death Grips news with one of the best mixtapes of all time, Exmilitary. It took me until 2013 before I hopped on board through Takyon, but I remember seeing the cover everywhere when it first dropped. Those initial 7 years were an absolutely wild Ride.

Looks like Death Grips are finally working on new material! Thought it'd never happen at this point. For reference, it has been 2693 days since their last album, and the entire span of their original run (first EP to last album) was 2663 days.

One of my favorite things about black metal is that when the song's about to kick in, you never know if you're gonna get hit with hyperspeed blastbeats that sound like they were recorded in or with a tin can, or the most beautiful lament you've ever heard in your life.

deer in my yard

trick or treat bro come to the door bro we promise we won't jump you

I'm really, really happy to see how Chat Pile have been evolving. Their extremely unexpected collaboration with Hayden Pedigo of all people is the best record I've heard from either artist, and the (+-) experiments were really fresh as well.

RIP to a king. It says a lot that Ninja Gaiden 2004 and its sequel were two of the few games that actually rivaled DMC. They're very uneven games (and Itagaki had very uneven output) but the soul they had burned bright, and continues to do so even after his has left us.

One thing I've noticed is that it seems like the best visual designers around seem to work specifically on band tour/concert posters. I wonder if it's a case of something like there being less oversight and more artistic freedom? Or just a matter of art quantity?

Happy 25th anniversary to Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! One of the trailblazers of modern post-rock and one that very few have ever outdone. youtu.be/5eF6hNLp8IQ

Managed to find enough time between everything to make another 10 Piranesi. pieces. This batch is quite an extreme one, featuring the darkest, silliest, most intense and even sentimental pieces in the entire catalogue so far. www.youtube.com/@piranesi.pr... piranesiproject.bandcamp.com

Preorders for ”Tennis, Everyone?” vinyl and cassette are now up. As always, both are fairly small batches, so if you want one, you should grab one sooner than later! shatterfoilindustries.bandcamp.com/album/tennis...

Really enjoyed Caput Mortum. Short, punchy Amnesia/Penumbra style horror puzzler. Neat alchemy-based plot and novel mechanics that don't overstay their welcome. The "pre-standardization" style control scheme took a bit of getting used to, meaning it works as intended.

This felt appropriate

I haven't yet listened to Geese, but considering they just dropped one of the greatest album covers of all time, I feel I ought to.

Fish in my pond

My standalone breakcore/drill and bass album, "Tennis, Everyone?" — A Tribute to the Late, Great James O. Incandenza, is coming out on both vinyl and cassette! Pre-orders start next friday. This will be the only pressing of the vinyl, so if you want one, make sure to grab one.

Can't stop thinking about this fucked up groove

Had a lot of fun with Ramon & Jessica's Roses Are Blue. Group a capella in the style of minimalist classical but with such a saccharine sense of childlike glee that it's hard to not get swept up in it (if you don't find it really annoying). youtu.be/b_9SYJpKHz8

Personal ranking of movies that are just people in a room talking: 1. 12 Angry Men (1957) 2. The Man From Earth (2007) 3. The Sunset Limited (2011) 4. My Dinner With Andre (1981) 5. Conspiracy (2001) 6. The Exterminating Angel (1962) 7. Yannick (2023) (I liked all of them)

Absolutely buckwild that the Coen brothers just Had It from the start. While watching their debut, Blood Simple, I was kept on the edge of my seat thinking ”damn, they picked an amazing screenplay” only to get to credits and find out they also wrote it. Incredible thriller!

Watched Tragedy of Man (2011), absolute monolith of an animated film. Adam, Eve and Lucifer wax philosophical about the nature of man with each time period animated in an appropriate style, produced over the course of 23 years. Exhausting, sometimes sublime, always impressive.

Played through Returnal on a whim and had a very good time. I don't really like rogueli(k/t)es, but this kept me engaged thanks to a very intriguing story and good combat (also since I played KB&M, I only died twice at the very start, so the permadeath didn't really affect me)

With the exceptions of Rats Nest, San Francisco '16, & Chunky Shrapnel, the ENTIRE King Gizzard discography is currently available for free/name your price on Bandcamp. Unsure if this is an intentional move, but I'm sure we'll hear from the band soon. kinggizzard.bandcamp.com #KingGizzard #kglw

After a short "Tennis, Everyone?" break, Piranesi. has returned and is now halfway up to a hundred. www.youtube.com/@piranesi.pr... piranesiproject.bandcamp.com

Sometimes all you want is some pummeling drums and thick riffs with 0 subtlety or nuance, and Hexekration Rites' debut album delivers exactly that youtu.be/SO151iR5j6o

As heard on the previous teaser, here is the WIP preview version of the 8-2 song, "No Devil Lived On". Compositionally complete, but not yet recorded. #screenshotsaturday youtu.be/ep2dV_UmMP4