musings

• Crush by Astrobrite

• Call Signs by Black Cab

• Stars Out by broaddaylight

• Disorientation by Deep Cut

• Purple Bloom by Purple Bloom

• Colour Trip by Ringo Deathstarr

• Hover by The Sleepover Disaster

• Creatures of an Hour by Still Corners

• Northern Sky by 93 Million Miles From the Sun

• Dédale by Aiboforcen

• APOK by iVardensphere

• Gravity the Seducer by Ladytron

• Somnific Flux by M.J. Harris and Bill Laswell

• Sheath by LFO

• Like A Slow River by Lull

• 3-D by SPC-ECO

• Big Fat World EP by SPC-ECO

• Psychic Life by Jah Wobble & Julie Campbell

• Years in the Darkness by Arkaea

• Bodycode by Diffuzion

• E.P. by drowner

• Treny by Jacaszek

• Common Burn by Mazzy Star

• Lay Myself Down by Mazzy Star

• Do With Me What You Want by Mona Mur / En Esch

• Chao Organica in A Minor by Soriah

• Ofrendas de Luz a Los Muertos by Soriah

• Eztica by Soriah with Ashkelon Sain

• Automatic by VNV Nation

• Back From The Dead by Zombie Girl

• Only in Dreams by Dum Dum Girls

• beyond within and so on by iszoloscope

• Les Gorges Des Limbes by iszoloscope

• How to Enslist in a Robot Uprising by memmaker

• A Perfect Solution (Deluxe) by Mesh

• Erection Body Mutilated by Obszön Geschöpf

• Atlan by Soriah with Ashkelon Sain

• Conatus by Zola Jesus

There are more than 90 tracks this month, because EMusic did a giveaway on twitter, and I found a free album too.

• Mother Ignorance by Army of the Universe

• Animal by Autokratz

• Shades of Grey by Autumn’s Grey Solace

• A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction by Earth

• The Complicated Futility of Ignorance by Fudge Tunnel

• Live at Floristree, 1.26.08 by Growing

• Akasha by Isobella

• A.M. by Magnetic Morning

• Death Threat by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

• Faults by Seefeel

• Seven Tales of the North Wind by Rhian Sheehan

• Fourteen Summers and Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad

• Tertia by Caspian

• Feindflug (Vierte Version) by Feindflug

• Occult Radiance by Fleeting Joys

• Ascension by Jesu

• Blackest Beat by IS/IS

• Dreamweb by mind.in.a.box

• Neurosis & Jarboe by Neurosis & Jarboe

• Turning Point by Prospero

• Shapeshifting by Young Galaxy

• Beating Dead Horses by 16volt

• N-Plants by Biosphere

• Fission by Film School

• Despondent Transponder by Fleeting Joys

• Disappear Here (Widescreen Edition) by Hybrid

• WTF?! by KMFDM

• Ephemeral by Pelican

• Culture of Fear by Thievery Corporation

• Raven in the Grave by The Raveonettes

• Is This Hyperreal? by Atari Teenage Riot

• Attention Please by Boris
  We’ve never known quite what to expect from a Boris album, as they’ve always been musical chameleons, effortlessly shifting style and sound. Attention Please is one of two simultaneously released albums (the other being Heavy Rocks), and the two couldn’t possibly be more different. Unlike previous albums, this one is sung entirely by Wata. With sounds ranging from Attention Please’s deliciously slinky and sexy electropop to Spoon, which might be the most perfect My Bloody Valentine song that Kevin Shields never wrote, this album is liquid gold.

• Heavy Rocks by Boris

• Street Halo by Burial

• The Black Opal by Lisa Gerrard

• A I A : Dream Loss by Grouper

• Crossroads by mind.in.a.box

• Ninth by Peter Murphy
  I’m a total sucker for all things Peter Murphy. Bauhaus, Dali’s Car, solo material, I think I have all of it, but even I can admit that the post Holy Smoke output has been somewhat uneven. (Okay, I didn’t really care for Dali’s Car either.) Ninth is probably my favourite of Peter Murphy’s albums since Deep, though. It’s a bit more rock-y than any of its predecessors, and really, it just sounds like Murphy had fun making it. There’s joy in these songs, and there’s joy in listening to them.

• Undeveloped by OhGr
  OhGr has always polarized Skinny Puppy fans – the ones that just wish Nivek Ogre would keep making Last Rights over and over again all hate it, and the rest of us (ahem) Dig It. This is the best OhGr album yet and, perhaps not coincidentally, the least poppy. There’s lots of old-school Nivek-Ogre-chant-style vocal gymnastics, and a much sharper edge to the music. It’s not Skinny Puppy redux, but that’s fine – Skinny Puppy is still making their own music. I’m happy to get OhGr’s own brand of industrial too.
  (I still hope that the album stalled by SPV’s insolvency gets released, but it looks like a newer album, “HanDover” will be out some time in 2011.)

• bone music by ad-ver-sary

• Take Care, Take Care, Take Care by Explosions In The Sky

• A I A : Alien Observer by Grouper

• the edge of certainty by iszoloscope

• The Magic Place by Juliana Barwick

• As They Drown In Their Lies by Manufactura

• Everyone Is A Ghost by Monster Movie

• Soft Moon by The Soft Moon

• Advance Into Unknown by Solitary Experiments

I see I’ve managed to get to April without talking about my March downloads. I just haven’t had time to sit down and listen to the albums the way they deserve, but I’ll get to it, I promise. Anyway, April’s downloads!

• He Gets Me High by Dum Dum Girls

• High Expectations/Low Results by Faunts

• Kadavergehorsam by Heimataerde

• Avalanche by Photek

• Sucksess by Slick Idiot

• My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky by Swans

• Have A Nice Trip by The Tear Garden

• The Art of Breaking Apart by Velvet Acid Christ

• From the New Nation of Long Shadows by Voyager One