Best of 2026

underscores - U
underscores
U
81
Apr 30

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North West - N0rth4evr
North West
N0rth4evr
2026 • EP
64
May 24
black midi - Hellfire
black midi
Hellfire
2022 • LP
100
May 16
Ciśnienie - [angry noises]
Ciśnienie
[angry noises]
2025 • LP
75
May 14
black midi - Schlagenheim
black midi
Schlagenheim
2019 • LP
88
May 14
Sunn O))) - sunn O)))
Sunn O)))
sunn O)))
2026 • LP
61
May 13
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Mount Eerie, Julie Doiron & Frederick Squire
Lost Wisdom
2008 • LP
66
May 8

Recent Reviews

black midi - Hellfire
100

This is so weird I love it

Lingua Ignota - SINNER GET READY // FRAGMENTS
80

Five years after the final release of the legendary Lingua Ignota’s ‘Sinner Get Ready’, Hayter is feeding us with extra materials from that era of music. This compilation includes demos and extended versions of tracks on SGR and SAVED!, as well as various instrumental and field recordings which are possibly by-products during the making of SGR when Hayter was residing in rural Pennsylvania. Compared to SGR, this compilation’s tone and atmosphere are more stripped down ... read more

Buttress O'Kneel - There's Nobody Following You, You're Imagining It
78

Buttress O’Kneel’s 2004 project is essentially a sound collage of news reports and interviews about various conspiracy theories. Common ones that reoccur throughout the record are the assassination of JFK, Harry Potter promoting witchcraft and satanic cults, the Pentagon and Beverly Hills being controlled by the Illuminati, or the death of Michael Jackson. There are also extensive references to extra-dimensional entities and aliens, which, according to the samplings, was able to ... read more

KINACT - Kinshasa In Action
77

KINACT was a Kinshasa based street art collective that creates inspiring costumes out of urban wastes and scrapped materials (few shown on the album cover), eventually using them as percussive instruments in ritualistic performances. In 2026, Kinshasa In Action transforms this artistic practice into a music record. To do so, the group converted those costumes into ‘playable instruments’, literally incorporating objects like drills, motorcycle parts, saws, hammers, and nails, into ... read more

Joshua Chuquimia Crampton - Anata
90

Compared to his previously, critically acclaimed group project Los Thuthanaka, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton's newest project Anata is an improvement on all fronts. While continuing to celebrate Aymara culture and his Bolivian heritage, the execution this time is far more direct and refined. One main reason why Los Thuthanaka remains underdeveloped was its tendency to repeat certain experimental electronic sections (which was enlightening nevertheless) and looped it over and over again. This ... read more


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