TRACKS AUGUST 2024
I’m late doing this, but then I had a lot of Dungeons & Dragons prep to do, you know how it is.
A Spotify playlist of these here.
Rue Oberkampf : Deine Augen : [Single] (2024) : A perfect wave classic, mournful yet twee in the best possible way. I’m sure this band have many other top tunes but sometimes it’s nice just to hold on and relish one like this that surely captures everything they might be capable of.
Brìghde Chaimbeul : Crònan (i) : Carry Them With Us (2023) : Funnily enough I’d been just listening to this album when a friend suggested ‘bagpipe music’ as something that no one would listen to. You might think so too until you put on this dirge that marries the cosmic with the rustic. Beautiful video for a different track below.
Amiture : Say It Back : The Beach (2021) : More ‘darkwave’. Very cool bass line, very cool vocals, very cool chords that say ‘rain at night’ in that way Boy Harsher do sometimes. I listened to the album this month too and while there are some odd tracks that veer from this style it’s mostly top, and the production is very solid, sonically.
Daniel L. K. Caldwell : Prospect : Prospect (2018) : The main theme from this fine small scale science fiction film, I wrote a bit about it On Letterboxd.
Causeway : We Were Never Lost : After Dark 3 (2020) : At the end of the summer I heard this song, which sounds like the end of the summer.
A-Ha : Living A Boy’s Adventure Tale : Hunting High And Low (1985) : It’s very easy to forget to investigate the discographies of guys like this. No matter how hard you steel yourself, you will not be prepared for the falsetto in this.
Manufacture : Passion For The Future : As The End Draws Near 12” (1988) : It’s just the b-side to the Manufacture track posted last month but it’s a solid instrumental EBM number that I hadn’t heard before, which is a rarity.
Farah : Boyz R Bad : After Dark 3 (2020) : From the same compilation as Causeway. Farah always does the same thing and it’s always great.
Zeroset : Elegy X : Act & Monument (2021) : I’m really bad at listening to friends’ music. This is by my friend Jonas and the entire album is solid, every track sounds like the sort of thing Visage would put on a b-side as an instrumental, and that is intended as a compliment.
Tribal Ghost : The Message : The Official Techno Club Compilation Volume 2 (1991) : Oh dear I’ve discovered a fresh batch of old techno/EBM compilations to mine.