Liquid Stranger - Cryogenic Encounters (2012)

01 – Beacon
02 – Burst
03 – Zeal
04 – Cryo
05 – Frostbite
06 – Magenta
07 – Organism
08 – Minimum
09 – The Other Dreamers
10 – Far and Beyond
11 – Fragments
12 – Ectoplasm
13 – Velour

I´m an uninitiated on this kind of music, but when I saw this awesome cover art I had to listen this album, and I liked it a lot. Very atmospheric, quiet and relaxing. Electronic sounds to have a break of distortion and and metallic sonorities. Nice! 

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:Of The Wand And The Moon: - The Lone Descent (2011)

1. Sunspot
2. Absence
3. A Pyre Of Black Sunflowers
4. Tear It Apart
5. We Are Dust
6. A Tomb Of Seasoned Dye
7. Is It Out Of Our Hands?
8. Watch The Skyline Catch Fire
9. The Lone Descent
10. Immer Vorwarts
11. A Song For Deaf Ears In Empty Cathedrals

I´m not used to listening neofolk, but this album since the first listening it seemed to me fantastic. For sure, one of the surprises of this year. Taste it!

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Barn Owl - Lost In The Glare (2011)

1. Pale Star
2. Turiya
3. Devotion I
4. The Darkest Night Since 1683
5. Temple of the Winds
6. Midnight Tide
7. Light Echoes
8. Devotion II

Outstanding new album of these followers of Earth. From ambient, until drone, slow country or desert rock. It doesn´t disappoint at all!  

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36 - Reunion/Deluge (2011)

1.- Reunion 5:55

2.- Deluge 4:24

3.- Wraith 6:11

Ambient, evocative soundscapes, tranquillity... for a quiet times. Good work of ambient but too short.

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Barn Owl - Shadowland EP (2011)

01 - Void and Devotion
02 - Shadowland
03 - Infinite Reach

New Ep from Barn Owl. More atmospheric and ambient than their last album. Hipnotic music. 

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Terra Tenebrosa - The Tunnels (2011)

1. "The Teranbos Prayer" - 6:08
2. "Probing The Abyss" - 6:03
3. "The Mourning Stars" - 10:09
4. "The Arc Of Descent" - 7:54
5. "Guiding The Mist/Terraforming" -7:30
6. "Through The Eyes Of The Maninkari" - 5:20
7. "The Tunnels" - 3:53

Dense, deep, atmospheric and swampy work of these swedish guys. Here we have an odd album that combines a diferent kind of styles and sonorities, from atmospheric sludge to ambient and experimental soundscapes. It is not an easy digestion music, and needs more than 2 or 3 listenings to get into it. Despite of it, highly recommended.

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Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Beileid (2011)

1.- Zombies Never Die (Blues) 7:31

2.- Catch My Heart 13:16

3.- Beileid 14:21

New work os these doom-jazz masters. Only 3 songs, including the colaboration of Mike Patton singing in the Warlock cover "catch my heart". As always with this band, a must have album.

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Peter Broderick - How They Are (2010)

01 - Sideline
02 - Human Eyeballs On Toast
03 - Guilt's Tune
04 - When I'm Gone
05 - With A Key
06 - Pulling The Rain
07 - Hello To Nils 

 Quiet and smooth new work by this multi-instrumentalist, mixing the contemporary piano pieces, with an acoustic and folky tunes. Pleasant voice and evocative soundscapes. Music for relaxing in the shelter of home.

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Barn Owl-Ancestral Star (2010)

1. Sundown
2. Visions in Dust
3. Night’s Shroud
4. Ancestral Star
5. Cavern Hymn
6. Flatlands
7. Twilight
8. Awakening
9. Incantation
10. Light from the Mesa

Drone-ambient soundscapes, with Earth´s spirit prowling around. Close the lights and open your minds...

Barn Owl - Light from the Mesa from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

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Soulsavers-Broken (2009)

1. The Seventh Proof (instrumental)
2. Death Bells (Mark Lanegan & Gibby Haynes)
3. Unbalanced Pieces (Mark lanegan & Mike Patton)
4. You Will Miss Me When I Burn (Mark Lanegan & Red Ghost)
5. Some Misunderstanding  (Mark lanegan)
6. All the Way Down (Mark Lanegan)
7. Shadows Fall (Mark Lanegan & Ritchie Hawley)
8. Can’t Catch the Train (Mark Lanegan)
9. Pharaoh’s Chariot (Mark Lanegan & Jason Pierce)
10. Praying Ground (Red Ghost)
11. Rolling Sky (Mark Lanegan & Red Ghost)
12. Wise Blood (instrumental)
13. By My Side (Red Ghost)

Do you know when you listen an album, and doesn´t mean much at first time, then it get lost and keep forgotten for a while? Then a while after you recover and listen again the album and everything changes. And what a change! This is pure magic. Robert Machin and Ian Glover, the brains of the creature, are surrounded by an impressive collection of collaborators: Mike Patton (Faith No More), Will Oldham (Palace Brothers), Jason Pierce (Spiritualized), Righard Hawley and Gibby haynes (Butthole Surfers), Rosa Agostino (a.k.a Red Ghost), and of course Mark Lanegan, the voice who makes that album becomes as brilliant. The whole record is sublime, but it´s worth to point some of the highlights: All the way down, You will miss me when I burn, Some misunderstanding, Shadows fall... Once again, music for the soul.

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Yoga-Megafauna (2009)

1. Seventh Mind
2. Flying Witch
3. Encante
4. Wagion
5. The Hidden People
6. Dreamcast
7. Fourth Eye
8. Black Obelisk
9. Treeman
10. Warrior
11. Haunted Brain
12. Chupacabra's Rotting Flesh 

Becareful. This record it´s insane, as disturbing as its cover and just for sick minds. Noisy, dark and pschychedelic sounds, sinister voices... Certainly not an easy-listening music, nevertheless highly recommended.

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