Inferno it's an impressive return from the legendary duo, delivering an immersive 70-minute experience filled with eerie analog textures and unorthodox rhythms influenced by synthwave and neo-psychedelia that enhances a feeling of a lost civilization buried in nostalgia. The albums goes back and forth between warmth and unsettling landscapes, at the core of the production there's a lot to decipher from it, with distorted recordings and encrypted vocal messages that you can barely ... read more
Diary by Sunny Day Real Estate is one of the most important and emotionally gripping alternative rock records I've heard from the Midwest Emo scene, a debut that practically reshaped the direction of emo and post-hardcore music. Released during the peak of grunge, this band blends a hard-hitting intensity with the eerie instrumentals that switch up to emotionally melodic moments. Jeremy Enigk’s passionate and unstable vocal delivery gives every song an almost spiritual intensity, ... read more
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New is one of the most emotionally devastating and rewarding alternative rock records I've heard on the mid 2000's, the band sounds darker, atmospheric and completely tense as you go along. It has an amazing layered production with eerie guitars and drums that sound distant and washed out one moment, then violently loud the next, I've got jumpscared a few times, this gives the album an unstable emotional weight that perfectly ... read more
Laughing Stock it's an incredibly haunted last chapter in Talk Talk's repertoire, pushing themselves even further into an experimental direction. In comparison to it's predecessor, the production at the hands of Tim Friese-Greene is cleared up and immensely abstract with some elements of jazz and ambient music colliding on this slow paced instrumentals. The album's eerie and mysterious atmosphere deepens across the record, it rewards you for staying rooted to this quiet ... read more
Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk is one of the most daring and emotionally entrancing records of the late 80s, who would've thought that a previously synth-pop act could morph into the predecessor for post-rock as an emerging genre. I find myself zoning out with how incredibly peaceful the sound can get with slow-paced layers of instrumentation influenced by folk, ambient and chamber jazz. The late Mark Hollis delivers some of the most haunting and heartfelt vocals in this particular scenario ... read more