Fall has arrived, and the music is getting hauntingly chilly---just in time for our favorite holiday of the year.
Label: n5MD
Album: Delirium Portraits
Artist: Tobias Lilja
Genre: Electronic
Delirium
Portraits is Tobias Lilja’s third official release, and second offering on Oakland, CA’s electronic DIY label, n5MD. Tobias Lilja, whose hometown is Malmö, Sweden, started a livelihood
of music production during his teenage years, a fact that is represented
within the richly cultured orchestrations on Delirium Portraits. The album flows evenly between dreamy
magnetic techno numbers, and interludes of emotive experimental piano
balladry. Comparative to his
2007 release Time Is On My Side, Lilja has expanded his ambient musical
palette to incorporate more orchestrated beats and vocal textures; a twist that
gives the album more cinematic appeal.
The atmospheric treatment of the vocals adds a haunting serenity to the
mysterious electronic landscapes traversed on Delirium Portraits. For house and techno enthusiasts alike, infectious dance numbers
like “North,” “Our Noise,” and “No Death Star” will have your body bouncing to
the groovy consciousness of Delirium Portraits.
Label: Jackpot Records
Album: Grok
Artist: Crock
Genre: Rock
If you’ve ever wondered what the genre "spaced-out doom rock" embodies, look no further than the debut album collaboration between Quasi’s
Sam Coomes and Hella’s Spencer Seim, Grok. This duo settled on the moniker “Crock,” which aptly
represents the sonic cauldron in which they pummel listeners with their
mechanical and frenetic art rock.
The swaggering and manic doom rock infrastructure found on tracks like
“No More Dumb Fun,” “Eat Your Hat Out,” and “Kasneezerblatz” will appeal to
fans of Lightning Bolt, King Crimson, and Black Sabbath alike. Grok, in all its’ groove-sputtering
and funky-spasm glory, embody what the soundtrack is like inside a haunted
pinball machine.
