Joshua Pickard

It’s absolutely remarkable. It is every bit the monolith that his last one was — and more possibly. Something primordial about those sounds.

Cassette Culture: December 2024 Music News, Reviews, Interviews, Videos and MP3s

In my latest Cassette Culture column for Beats Per Minute , I write about tapes from:

@indek.bsky.social
Snow Caps (@strangemono.bsky.social)
Crystal Voyager & UFOm (@moonglyph.bsky.social)
advrb
Spectral Snake
Stylianos Ou

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Honorable Mentions 2024 Our team’s best of the rest of the albums from 2024

Check out Beats Per Minute’s Honorable Mentions list for 2024.

I wrote about records from Alan Sparhawk, Angelo Harmsworth, Blood Incantation, The Bug, Colin Stetson, Henrik Appel, Laryssa Kim, Mitochondrion, Phosphorescent, SUMA, Tindersticks, and Vylet Pony.

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CIFIKA – Bonfire
Jeff Parker & ETA IVtet – The Way Out of Easy
Múr – Múr
@ilysm.bsky.social & @doinfine.bsky.social – MAKING MONEY IN WEIRD WAYS
Sweet Boy – Lucky
Viole Vecchio – Postales
SIGNALS – Poetry of Spite
Searows – Flush
Papa M – Ballads of Harry Houdini
Quiet Husband – Religious Equipment

Cayden. Null? – cloud cuckoo land
Aaron Brooks – Take the Long Ride Home
Simon Joyner – Coyote Butterfly
Kim Deal Music – Nobody Loves You More
Vmrrobotic – CORRUPTED_ROBOCALYPSE
Shirotsume – Reminder
Coloxho – The Sun’s Not Too Far
Defeated Sanity – Chronicles of Lunacy
Post Nebbia – Pista Nera

While you work through your pre-Thanksgiving warmups, check out these amazing new albums that came out this week:

Father John Misty – Mahashmashana
@kendricklamar.bsky.social – GNX
Mason Infinity - Lucky Lit Me On Fire
Fellsius – Blue
Es.cher – 01.3
Opeth – The Last Will and Testament

GNX | Kendrick Lamar

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Coming January 17, 2025: A 2xLP / 2xCD repress of ‘Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo.’ Back in print for the first time in over 20 years, the compilation assembles more than two hours of hard to find and unreleased YLT music from 1988 – 1995. Pre-order: ylt.mat-r.co/geniusloveylt

“ …such is the life of an adventurer”

I like:

Aardman Animation
Laika Studios
Andrei Tarkovsky
Bravestarr
P.T. Anderson
Big Ears Festival
Studio Ghibli
Nikki Giovanni
Physical Media (vinyl, cassette, cd)
Reading Lumberjanes with my daughter
Elephant 6 Recording Co

#promosky

Remnants, by Lara Sarkissian 9 track album

Lara Sarkissian - Remnants [btwn Earth+Sky]

Electroacoustic sounds woven into an ambient tapestry filled with curious musical divergences and mesmeric atmospheres that play out as a litany of cinematic nomenclature.

#digdeepereveryday

ЛЕЯ, by TOKEE 10 track album

TOKEE - ЛЕЯ (Mahorka)

Sounds like Depeche Mode going full electronica with some neo-classical touches. Restless and ecstatic and drenched in electro-goth rumbles. Danceable and mischievous, and welcome on a frustrating Monday.

#digdeepereveryday

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pink slut by ian vhs on Apple Music Album · 2024 · 10 Songs

ian vhs - pink slut

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Tomin – A Willed and Conscious Balance
Vylet Pony – Monarch of Monsters
Madison Willing - Composer – Birth LP
SACOYANS - SUN
Tonyo – A Cold Fall (Lo-Fi- Tapes)
Ruin. – Future Forecast
TYSON music - Chaos
Worm Shepherd – Hunger
Maja Osojnik - Doorways
Ross Goldstein - Blunders
Thatta – Out of Frame

Denzel Curry – King of the Mischievous South
Lara Sarkissian - Remnants
Mammoth Grinder – Undying Spectral Resonance
Cordae – The Crossroads
This is the Glasshouse – 867
Kaskezur - Deus
CCL – Plot Twist
Chloe Qisha – Chloe Qisha
Coffee Stain – wishing that you were someone else

As we settle into this prolonged sense of insanity, take some time to temper the absurdity by checking out some amazing records released this week:

Poem Rocket - Lend-Lease
Wallice – The Jester
Los Campesinos! – More Hell
Poppy – Negative Spaces
Yves - I Did
Sofie Royer - Young-Girl Forever