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For the "avant-doom graveyard metal" band, there is no hierarchy between the noisier improvisations and the more conventional - albeit loose - doom songs.
Metal as an Eruption of Energy Within and Outside the Confines of a Song - csicskakoporsó: S/T
For the "avant-doom graveyard metal" band, there is no hierarchy between the noisier improvisations and the more conventional - albeit loose - doom songs.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
NZO's music is a joyous examination of fragmentation and continuity. Part of the joy and thrill of her album Come Alive is witnessing her to make continuous lines made up from differing, cut up sounds. She's teasingly asking you: how much fragmentation are you willing to tolerate?
Fragmentation and the desire for continuity - NZO: Come Alive
NZO's music is a joyous examination of fragmentation and continuity. She's teasingly asking you: how much fragmentation are you willing to tolerate?
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August 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The songs on Smerz's Big city life (on @eschoescho.bsky.social) all feel slightly unfinished, as if the diversions of the "big city life" made it impossible for the duo to concentrate enough to properly finish a song. This inability is embedded in the very structure of the music.
The inability to properly finish a song - Smerz: Big city life
The songs on this album all feel slightly unfinished, as if the diversions of the "big city life" made it impossible for the duo to concentrate enough to properly finish a song.
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July 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Rules are the problem. Either because they exist at all, stifling expression; or because they are hidden, not made explicit. caroline expands the song's expressive potential by working with these two approaches at the same time.

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Negotiating the rules of the song and of the community - caroline: caroline 2
Rules are the problem. Either because they exist at all; or because they are hidden. caroline expands the song's expressive potential by working with two approaches at the same time.
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July 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
La Baracande don't simply interpret songs from the 19th Century, they reconstruct the world that served as the home for these songs.

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The individual and its world, the song and its horizon - La Baracande
La Baracande don't simply interpret songs from the 19th Century, they reconstruct the world that served as the home for these songs.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Bridget Hayden's folk album proposes a concept of the song as the expression of individuality within the constraints of tradition, embodied as an unwavering, gentle, yet mournful drone.

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The drone and the song, the tradition and the individual - Bridget Hayden and the Apparitions: Cold Blows the Rain
Bridget Hayden's folk album proposes a concept of the song as the expression of individuality within the constraints of tradition, embodied as an unwavering, gentle, yet mournful drone.
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June 13, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Nazar's Demilitarize (Hyperdub) differs from the usual "deconstructed songs" approach. Instead of traditional forms erupting, we witness songs in the unfinished process of taking shape.

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Witnessing songs taking shape - Nazar: Demilitarize
Nazar's album differs from the usual "deconstructed songs" approach. Instead of traditional forms erupting, we witness songs in the unfinished process of taking shape.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Jules Reidy's Ghost Spirit on @thrilljockey.bsky.social is "poppier" than before, yet the music is swirling, pulsating, moving in many different directions. But the chaos has an emotional center: the album is an allegory of deep personal transformation.

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The song as the emotional core of disorienting transformation - Jules Reidy: Ghost/Spirit
While the singing on Jules Reidy's latest album is "poppier" than before, the music is seemingly swirling, pulsating, moving in many different directions. But the chaos has an emotional center.
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May 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Daniel Blumberg's striking GUT (2023) is a record that is not just about the body, it gives voice to Body. Not only through the bodily noises, but - more subtly and more radically - through the interplay of the song form and the strange drumming.
The song and the body, the noises and the drums - Daniel Blumberg: GUT
This striking album is not just about the body, it gives voice to Body
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May 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I started a Substack called Songs Not Songs. It's about music questioning, probing, expanding the boundaries of the song form, seeking something that cannot be expressed in the confines of a song, or trying to expand its expressive potential.

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Songs Not Songs | András Rónai | Substack
Music questioning, probing, expanding the boundaries of the song form. Click to read Songs Not Songs, by András Rónai, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.
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May 21, 2025 at 1:28 PM