2024 jan (#35)

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Author: usefulalgorithm

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+title: 2024 January Listenings
+layout: post
+comments: true
+tags: music and stuff
+---
+
+## Bark Psychosis - SCUM
+
+  ![](https://i.discogs.com/fdXbIFvsJ3UZWfGuL0cSOfaDr0pQ7kR--rYHKJwQ4jQ/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:492/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg5NTM0/LTE0ODM1Mzk5Njgt/NTMxMy5qcGVn.jpeg)
+
+  Everything I love on `Hex`, condensed into a single track and then played in reverse.
+
+  Release date: 2017-08-11
+
+  [8.7/10]
+
+## Astrid Sonne - Great Doubt
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0636007346_16.jpg)
+
+  Left field experimental indietronica. This is even better than her last album, more quirky sounds and just more interesting.
+
+  Release date: 2024-01-26
+
+  [8.7/10]
+
+## Bondo - Print Selections
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0193677783_16.jpg)
+
+  Post-rock / post-hardcore. I really love stuff like this, slow paced guitar music with wonky dissonant melodies.
+
+  Release date: 2023-02-24
+
+  [8.5/10]
+
+## Bianca Scout - The Heart of the Anchoress
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2363739212_16.jpg)
+
+  Haunting hypnagogic pop.
+
+  Release date: 2023-01-20
+
+  [8.4/10]
+
+## Tujiko Noriko - Crépuscule I & II
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3661845306_16.jpg)
+
+  2 hours of ambient awesomeness.
+
+  Release date: 2023-01-13
+
+  [8.3/10]
+
+## Unsung - Hand Painted Model Trains
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2185546852_16.jpg)
+
+  Conscious hip-hop. The writing is straight up poetry.
+
+  Release date: 2023-07-31
+
+  [8.3/10]
+
+## Wata Igarashi - Agartha
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3271359899_16.jpg)
+
+  Psyched-out kraut-tronica / techno. FFO Gas and Caterina Barbieri.
+
+  Release date: 2023-05-26
+
+  [8.2/10]
+
+## Purelink - Signs
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2058555088_16.jpg)
+
+  Ambient / dub techno. Love stuff like this.
+
+  Release date: 2023-09-15
+
+  [8.2/10]
+
+## Voice Actor - Fake Sleep
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3987835288_16.jpg)
+
+  Hypnagogic pop. It's pretty good.
+
+  Release date: 2023-10-10
+
+  [8.0/10]
+
+## DJ Danifox - Ansiedade
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2017712773_16.jpg)
+
+  Afro-Portuguese club music, but more downtempo then the other artists. Pretty sure the Taipei techno audience would dig any Príncipe artist's stuff.
+
+  Release date: 2023-04-26
+
+  [7.8/10]
+
+## betcover!! - 馬
+
+  ![](https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b2739869cbb168612789b93444dc)
+
+  Noisy indie jazz-rock. Kind of like Tokyo Jihen with more hair?
+
+  Release date: 2023-10-17
+
+  [7.8/10]
+
+## Fabiano do Nascimento, Sam Gendel - The Room
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3455162830_16.jpg)
+
+  Folky jazz music. Not bad, I love Fabiano do Nascimento's tasteful guitar playing.
+
+  Release date: 2023-06-30
+
+  [7.5/10]
+
+## ML Buch - Suntub
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1117491203_16.jpg)
+
+  Glistening dream-pop.
+
+  Release date: 2023-10-27
+
+  [7.4/10]
+
+## Fatboi Sharif - Decay
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2828293936_16.jpg)
+
+  Trippy alternative hip-hop. The instrumentals don't really do it for me.
+
+  Release date: 2023-07-21
+
+  [7.4/10]
+
+## Natural Beauty Wonder Concept - Natural Beauty Wonder Concept
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0499254614_16.jpg)
+
+  Downtempo / ambient. I still think there's more things DJ Python could do than this.
+
+  Release date: 2023-07-14
+
+  [7.2/10]
+
+## Tara Clerkin Trio - On the Turning Ground
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0972796043_16.jpg)
+
+  It's like mellowed out Stereolab. Pretty good but not as great as their full length LP from two years ago.
+
+  Release date: 2023-11-03
+
+  [7.0/10]
+
+## LITE - Strata
+
+  ![](https://www.sputnikmusic.com/images/albums/484532.jpg)
+
+  This one’s more hip-hop influenced, but not in an interesting way. Their old stuff is vastly superior compared to this one. Still better than Toe's more recent stuff though...
+
+  Release date: 2024-01-31
+
+  [6.0/10]
+
+## Föllakzoid - V
+
+  ![](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a2975563703_16.jpg)
+
+  Lackluster trance techno. Is repeating an uninteresting pattern considered krautrock-ish nowadays?
+
+  Release date: 2023-10-21
+
+  [5.8/10]