Amulets - Blooming (2021)

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You know when you go out for sushi and you eat a fresh piece of ginger in-between your meal as the sort of palate cleanser to maximize the impact of flavours between bites? Blooming is the sonic equivalent to that practice. At least when it comes to the curation of this blog and what it is I choose to post in-between what. It can't just be a consistent deluge of black/death metal posts… you should take the palate cleanser.

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What Blooming is is a floating audio piece comprised of mixing ambient drone, shoegaze, experimental electronic, tape loops—Utilizing the imperfections of analog tape to traverse a soundscape that leaves the listener quite open to its own interpretation. Whenever something is presented minimally, we will often use the empty space to fill in whatever emotion or thought we experience in that thing. The same could be said of Blooming—It's an open black room, and you're free to move around in it in anyway you see fit. Enjoy.

Amulets - Blooming (bandcamp)

Couch Slut - Take a Chance on Rock n' Roll (2020)

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Couch Slut have been around for the last 6 years quietly making a lot of noise in the form of noise-rock mixed with a healthy amalgamation of influences and soundscapes running the gamut of punk, doom, sludge, hardcore and throwing in glimpses of anything else they can get their grubby mitts on – experimentation. Amidst the chaos, Couch Slut have managed to create a sound that is almost wholly unique in their delivery and I can't help but find myself reaching to hit the play button. If sonic aspects of Brainbombs, Indian, Jute Gyte, Converge and Iron Lung were distilled into a singular sound it might come out sounding like this.

Take a Chance on Rock n' Roll (bandcamp)