Summer Film - Falling With The Snow

End-of-year surprise from Language Instinct label! "Falling With The Snow" is the new record from Summer Film, following the excellent "Please Don't Look Away" which I blogged about a few weeks ago. Like its predecessor, the new album keeps up the trend of having some of the coolest and most random song titles I’ve seen lately (I guess only Lou Johnstone can challenge that). As for the music, it's a wholesome continuation of "Please Don't Look Away", where noise-infected ambient effortlessly blends with textured drones and distorted new-age soundscapes. "Rainbow" really caught my attention with its glimmering arpeggios broadcasted alongside washed out tones. This album makes me want to dim all the lights, lie down in the middle of the room and listen to those sounds with my eyes closed. Superb.

Buy "Falling With The Snow" for $1 here, and stream it all down below.

Morgve - Symphony For Those In Pain

"Symphony For Those In Pain" is Morgve's first record of 2024. Released in September, the album landed in my mailbox not long after it came out, but after my first stream, for some reason, I couldn't get into the right headspace to review it. While listening to it, I can’t shake the feeling that this project, in particular, sounds more like a compilation of singles rather than an album meant to tell a story, with a clear beginning, middle, and end. Instead, we get a collection of some of the duo’s strongest tracks, both in terms of vocal diversity and eclectic production. There’s melancholic witch house, rave-y breakbeats, post-trance bass, deconstructed club and gabber, spacious layered ambient soundscapes, and more! If you approach this record with the mindset that it’s a "best of" compilation, I believe the appreciation for its craft will be greater. "Black Tiger" is just... wow! Please support those two as much as you can!

Get this album here, and stream all the tracks in order down below.

Beauty & STRFLL - White Wall (Drag)

Sick collaboration / drag between Beauty and STRFLL, I have no idea who's the remixed singer here, "White Wall" doesn't really tell me much, but the instrumental is quite incredible, love the drum work in particular here! Stream it here.

Mutant Zones interview: Suffer Ring

Stoked to present this interview with Corey Davenport from Suffer Ring, where we discuss the band's history, inspirations, past and future collaborations, live performances and upcoming plans. If you haven't checked out their 2024 album "Book of Miracles" yet, you can do so below (you can also read my review here). Make sure to buy their merch and follow them on socials - links are listed at the end of this interview. Enjoy the read!

Imminent Death - Radiant Ignition

Imminent Death (aka Allison Tantakarn) is a drone/noise artist from Queens, NY. I came across this tape by chance on Tumblr a week or so ago, and it's been on my mind since. "Radiant Ignition" is 30 minutes long and consists of two constantly morphing drone suites that occupy a blurry space between dark ambient and noise music. The whole experience is very eerie, almost ominous and otherworldly. I often found myself thinking of the Alien franchise when listening to this album. A Xenomorph survival soundtrack. Pretty sick.

"Radiant Ignition" was released on tapes by a new label called Vial, you can order them here. Stream both sides down below.

Gemengung / Morgan Hall - Earthen Remains Bloated With Decay

Released by the noise label Abhorrent A.D., "Earthen Remains Bloated With Decay" is a split tape by Greek experimentalist Morgan Hall and Texan (?) noise-maker Gemengung. It's an odd one, because my initial reason for checking out this project was the involvement of Morgan Hall. However, the opening walls of harsh destruction created by Gemengung caught me off guard, and any attempt to approach Morgan Hall's side also proved to be tough. To my surprise, over the last few months I found myself revisiting this split, and somehow I've grown to appreciate it. Gemengung's seven tracks evoke the image of a chemical spill consuming everything in its path. The way he skips between harsh noise on one track and more obscure, lo-fi noise sounds on another works for me, and gives a breather before the assault continues. Morgan Hall's part on the other hand feels more industrial, mechanical, buried under layers of signal drones that seem to blow up any time soon. This tape is definitely not for everyone, but as my noise music tolerance expands, I kinda dig it.

Order tapes here, stream below.

The Implicit Order - Unbeknownst To Me

Anthony is back with a new album from The Implicit Order, and it is something else! Wide ripples of hauntology and sound collage spread across the dark ambient lake that stretches through the ten tracks of "Unbeknownst to Me". Its tense and evocative soundscapes blend seamlessly with sparse and elusive vocal samples drawn from diverse sources, ranging from ghostly choral chants to eerie, intelligible fragments of dialogue. An hour ago, I finished (re)watching Alex Garland's Civil War, and hearing this record straight after made me realise how perfectly it could serve as an alternative soundtrack. Hauntingly addictive LP.

Get this album here. You can also stream it in full below.