The Big Gloom

How can someone so young be this talented? Kjartan Magnússon is a fellow from Iceland. The land of ice apparently. I’ve been listening to this album in multiple estates of not sober. This album took me very far, into space really. But now that I am sober, even while listening to it, I can appreciate this album as a masterpiece and I hope to hear more from this soon. Metaphysics is a journey, and one to admire from such a skilled person. 

Kjartan transports the listener to another galaxy, very far away. Tracks like Metaphysics and Tectonic Relay just prepare you for the journey. The album truly shines in Refraction, which I can describe as “Zerg hunting music” if you played Starcraft. Omikron just starts out and it’s just really weird. I loved it. It’s the soundtrack for space travel. 

But the true beauty of this album lies in it’s spectacular closer The Distant Figure. It’s an ascent into reality, primal, gorgeous and purely blissful. You’ve landed at your destination and it’s nice and everything is exactly like you want it. Just a big smile on your face, Metaphysics is really amazing. It’s spacey, weird, and great. If you’re into Progressive Rock and weird awesome stuff. Check out this great album. Click through for the bandcamp, it’s free!

This is really fucking sweet ya feel me?

An assault on the senses, Death Grips is the unstoppable project of Zach Hill, Stefan Burnett, and Andy Morin. These men popped the music scene less than a year ago with their mixtape Exmilitary. It was raw, powerful, angry, and perfect. As the months went by “What is happening next?” The build up anticipated, some said “oh hype man just hype. No one can top Exmilitary.” Fuck. That. The Money Store is more of an experience than anything, the production soars and punches you in the mouth completely. Still catchy, still angry, the type of album that you will never forget for years to come. It surpasses Exmilitary by a long shot, light years ahead. Considering Exmilitary was already ahead of it’s time. The shout/rap skills of Stefan are amazing, it’s a disgusting type of teasing. Hill’s drumming is still superb, with Morin providing the craziest keyboard/production work I’ve heard in years. 

Every track is unique, they are all crazy, catchy and angry. The opener Lost Boys is unforgiving, just as Hustle Bones is. This is the statement you can get from those two tracks from Death Grips “WE ARE HERE TO STAY AND TO DESTROY.” The brilliance of this group comes out on two favorite tracks: System Blower and Hacker for the best songs composed this year. Pure sonic orgasms on the ears. The entire album is a classic, from beginning to end The Money Store does not disappoint.  A year ago people said “This is the future of hip hop.” But I want to disagree, this is not only hip hop, this is piece of art. This is the future of music man. This is something we will never forget, because nothing like this has ever been done. This is The Money Store by Death Grips and it will blow you away with 13 tracks of pure greatness.

Enjoy, and remember, this is the first album Death Grips drops this year. The Money Store will make you want more of this. Enjoy. Click through for DL. 

- The Big Gloom

Sun Devoured Earth is the solo project by Vadim Vasilyev. I first heard about him from a friend who told me about this dream pop/shoegaze/depressive black metal mix. Honestly, the black metal part peaked my interest, but I was really in for a surprise. I Wish I Would Never Wake Up is a terribly melancholic album. Like there is no happy here at all, the world becomes a dark place and you can’t see anything, you are blind. Transitions happen out of nowhere, from floating in the skies to crashing down and hitting the ground hard. It’s really well done and honestly if you want to lay down in bed and never get up this is the album for it. SDE really stirs an emotion, one that we are all familiar with. Self Loathing and regret pour out of this, like reaching out to the heavens we will never touch. If you like ambient, depressive black metal, and just hating yourself. Here it is. Click through for a download.