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Emilian Peters
Amoeba San Francisco
I just want someone to be fucking honest with me. Trust no one.
Heroes of the Night 2 (LP)
V/A
I want these comps to keep coming out forever! Great follow up to the first one, banger fter banger you've never heard. Reminder Records!!! Yay!!!
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BBC Radio Sessions (LP)
Dolly Mixture
Lovely versions of some of my favorite pop songs ever!
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Spooky (LP)
Lush
Lush is so dear to my heart. Spooky is my absolute favorite! I would rip off the art style of the cover pretty hard in college. No regrets!
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From Left to Right (LP)
Bill Evans
Really beautiful record where Bill Evans plays a Fender Rhodes & acoustic piano at the same time. OK Bill! Go off!
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Fairweather Friend (LP)
Umbrellas
These dudes are back in a big way! Doing Bay Area pop justice.
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George Blenda
Amoeba San Francisco
Beat art bandwagon conductor
Vibrations In Color (LP)
Nu Vintage
Mellow but not lo-fi, heavily jaz-inspired beats, coming out of the Bay Area. The harder you listen, the better it gets.
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L.I.S.A. (LP)
Odd Holiday
Maybe my favorite project of 2023, with Mattie on the mic throughout & Daylight Robbery with teh dusty, soulful, lovably weird production
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Lightweight Heavy (LP)
Fat Jon
2023 repress of the classic instrumental project from 2004. Not to sound like an amateur audiophile in the Discogs comments, but a phenomenal pressing.
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Uptown Rulers / Uptown Rulers (Professor Shorthair Remix)
Connie Price & The Keystones
Apani B Bly is back! Easily one of my very favorite MC's ever since the Polyrhythm Addicts EP, and she's definitely still got it. Now who's gonna finally press up her 2003 solo album on vinyl?
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Doc
Amoeba San Francisco
Nah, I'm chillin.
Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars (LP)
Disimperium
Man, this record is a bad time in the best way. No corny dungeon intro, no acoustic interludes, and not a shred of hope. The perfect soundtrack to a world in chaos on the brink of collapse.
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Vertumnus Caesar (LP)
Malokarpatan
The boys are back! This time with a concept album on the life and reign of Rudolph II, the notoriously reclusive emperor whose interest in the occult spawned rumors of heresy and devilry in his imperial court. Steeped as always in the tradition of heavy metal and first wave black metal, builds on the sound cultivated thus far by the band, but this time steps further into the world of 70's prog and vintage sythesisers, resulting in a seamless blend of Somewhere In Time-era Maiden and classic Master's Hammer.
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Transilvanian Glare (LP)
Arnaut Pavle
Absolutely killer black metal front to back. A vicious, uncompromising attitude overlaying haunting melodies that never veer into the saccharine, weepy territory occupied by lesser purveyors of the genre.
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Disharmonium - Nahab (LP)
Blut Aus Nord
Vindsval returns with another slab of oneiric black death. At once wonderous and terrifying, this record swims in the deepest waters of the collective unconscious and shows you just enough to give the impression that the horrors are not man-made, but are indeed beyond comprehension.
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Call of the Knife (LP)
Chain Whip
Easily my favorite contemporary hardcore band. Smart, straightforward, quick and righteously pissed. Canadians just do it better.
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Black Star Gnosis (LP)
Demoncy
Demoncy remerge from the shadows to do what they do best. Sinister, serpentine riffing drenched in murk and rot. Sounds the best on the darkest days.
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Servants of Sorcery (LP)
Fimbulwinter
One of black metal's best kept secrets. Before founding Dimmu Borgir, Shagrath and two cohorts recorded this sole full-length of blistering raw black mayhem. Though bootlegged a handful of times since its initial release in 1994, this is the first official reissue in nearly thirty years. Get yours while you can cuz you don't wanna wait another thirty!
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Hollow Psalms (LP)
Ludicra
One of comparatively few records in the world of extreme metal to be released in the early 00's and be worth anyone's time. But "Hollow Psalms" isn't just worth your time. It demands your time as it is some of the most compelling black metal of its time or any time.
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Skarpretterfossilet (LP)
Broder
Where the hell did this come from?! I never bothered checking this out cuz the internet describes them as "Drone/Doom/Noise" which is all fine and dandy, but I don't smoke *that* much weed anymore. I need riffs to hold my attention. This delivers in the vein of early Teitanblood with far more competent musicianship. Something is rotten in Denmark.
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Anno Domini (LP)
Tormentor
Before achieving notoriety as the vocalist on Mayhem's "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" Attila Csihar fronted Hungarian maniacs Tormentor. Though stylistically removed from the common perception of black metal, Tormentor are nonetheless pillars of its foundational roots. Anno Domini, their second full-length demo, exemplifies this perfectly, employing sinister riffing, morbid and blasphemous lyrical themes, and raw intensity, all steeped in eerie majesty. Presented on Attila's own imprint, Saturnus Productions.
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