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September 2022

SMTK Siren Propaganda

Hey, avant-prog hip hop is a super good idea! All of the creativity, none of the boring noodling (this is very concise — too short even). Cool rhythms too. Hope they’ll do more like this!

▷ RYM

Waveform Transmission V 1.0–1.9

Calm but mysterious, nocturnal, barely there at times. Ethereal dark ambient, faint radio broadcasts, interferences, loops.

▷ RYM

Waveform Transmission V 2.0–2.9

Very much unlike the first volume — the lights are back on and these are comforting, long, pleasant ambient tracks. Or ambient dub that’s so smooth the beats are imperceptible. Great for reading or just really chilling in a nice mood!

(And V3.0–3.9 is close to this one)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Soom T & Disrupt Ode 2 a Carrot

Female Scottish MC raps about marijuana, marijuana, marijuana and marijuana on a chiptune digital dancehall album? I didn’t really expect to be into this, but since I really like Time Cow’s Live Prog Dancehall From Home I thought I’d explore digital dancehall a bit and — honestly this is great! Everything is a bit unconventional in a good way, Soom T is a solid and versatile vocalist, the tracks may all stem from a similar idea but they’re also different enough to make the album work.

▷ RYM

Daniel Sprick

I usually don’t include pictures on my media diary lists (it’s just not the right medium — just check my liked Tumblr posts instead) but I’ve been really impressed by these! Contemporary still lifes with gorgeous colours and an almost surreal mood. I heard something on the radio a while ago about how the use of colours in painting had changed, how they used to be more symbolic and have become more aesthetic with time. Love how sometimes it’s only a colour that draws me in, and the realistic style only makes it better.

▷ Gallery 1261

Autechre AE_LIVE 2008-04-04 Echoplex [replication by ios & digit]

Autechre on hyper mode! Despite the cover, this doesn’t sound like Quaristice — nor anything else they’ve done. It’s fast, it grooves (!), it feels spontaneous rather than carefully thought out, it’s an hour-long banger. Somebody in the audience kept complaining that it “doesn’t sound like Autechre at all!”

And the “replication” part is interesting — what you’re getting here is actually a painstakingly reconstructed replica of the original live performance (which you can listen to in bootleg, lo-fi quality here), made by fans using the original sound patches released by Autechre. Insert six-paragraph dissertation on authorship here.

Thanks to rtdx for the recommendation!

▷ Mixcloud (stream)
▷ Mega (download)
▷ RYM

NewJeans NewJeans

Remember when I thought I hated K-pop? Yeah that was a while ago now. Did I change or did K-pop change? Probably both! “Attention” is a bright sparkly pink gem, the other tracks are pretty cool too.

♪ “Attention” (video, actual song starts at 1:09)
▷ Official website
▷ RYM

/f Jesus

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A glitch monolith that’s not as unapproachable as I feared. There’s a fast rhythm that feels like it’s running through the whole album (even when it’s not actually there), sustaining it even at its most dense and chaotic — and the two long tracks at the end feel like a slightly different take on that same idea, instead of making it work through multiple tracks in multiple ways they just fully commit to it in long form (which totally works).

(I think Steven Stapleton would enjoy this too, typing this made me realize it’s sort of similar to Thunder Perfect Mind in some ways. Very different in others though.)

Does Lyla have a calmer album, maybe close to ambient? I’d be interested in that!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Aphex Twin sleepy time/ambient mix [unofficial playlist/bootleg by PhexTwinnipicks]

A compilation of some of the ambient tracks Richard uploaded on his user9489745313189 Soundcloud account (or whatever number it was) — if you wanted a sequel to Selected Ambient Works Volume II, seriously, get this. It’s the closest thing I’ve heard to it, perhaps only a bit less evocative and more experimental, with some slow, calm bits and nice melodies too.

(Fiasko1’s Selected Ambient Works vol. 3 playlist is also good! But I like sleepy time/ambient mix better. It’s dronier and calmer and weirder and all.)

▷ Youtube
▷ Mega

Nintendo The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

A beautiful world to explore.

I feel like this could have been something else than a Zelda game? The bosses and main dungeons were hit and miss (some were solid, a few were a pain) and the story was almost nonexistent, but I loved wandering the shores, forests and mountains, taking pictures, solving the altars along the way and finding more of the cute hidden forestlings! My favourite part was finding the locations of the archived pictures. It really is a nature loving loner’s game.

I guess I’ve grown to be a bit more like this recently too? Or maybe I’m just projecting.

▷ Glitchwave

DJ Sprinkles Deeperama Party Module #9

Surprisingly perhaps, I wasn’t entirely into Where Dancefloors Stand Still — but the Deeperama series is amazing! This one is mostly based on Sprinkles’ own tracks and feels like it’s expanding from that point. And the finale being a remix of Nina Simone’s “See-Line Woman” is a wonderful idea. Hand claps and flute as the climax to a deep house journey.

▷ Comatonse
▷ Discogs
▷ RYM

DJ Sprinkles Deeperama Party Module #5

This one is different — also blending deep house and soul, but even more eclectic and with jazz, from nu jazz to more experimental contemporary music (Zeitkratzer)! Vibing with everything here (with the exception of Joe Jackson’s “A Slow Song”, which really overstays its welcome — even though it’s also one of the most memorable tracks).

▷ Comatonse
▷ Discogs
▷ RYM

c v 3 1 3 Altering Illusions: Part 1 of 3

Dub techno dub techno dub techno, dub techno; dub techno dub techno. Dub techno — dub techno dub techno (dub techno? dub techno). Dub techno dub techno dub techno! Dub techno, dub techno, dub techno. Dub: techno dub techno (dub techno). Dub techno.

How much you will enjoy this really depends on how into dub techno you are right now. It’s very long and pretty much always the same thing, but if you are in the right mood, that thing is perfect.

(I played this at night when it was still warm and it started raining heavily just before the ending, for a couple of seconds I wondered whether the rain was in the music or not.)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Alexandre Pierrepont and Mike Ladd Maison hantée

Experimental jazz + spoken word (and at times close to hip hop?), building a strange house with drums as the foundations and exploring it at the same time, in whatever illogical order feels inspiring at the moment.

▷ RYM

Bambounou Whities 021

Yes. I like it when I can so easily get into a groove yet be surprised by the drum patterns at every turn.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Lynyn Lexicon

Basically what I like about Autechre, but with a human aspect to it instead of mechanical coldness! The spatial sound design is great, it’s cinematic, melodic, catchy. It gets better as it progresses too (okay, it is a bit backloaded) — “Stumbling” with its drill’n’bass brutality and “Amund Vise” with its almost r&b feel and groove are amazing.

Thanks to Traz for the recommendation!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Hecq Mare Nostrum

Majestic glitchy drones. A cathedral built to the glory of Numbers and Calculations.

Thanks to rtdx for the recommendation!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM



October 2022

Elias Ericson Diana & Charlie

Two transgender teenagers in Stockholm one winter, BFFs in a state of perpetual crisis (Charlie has heavy psychiatrical issues, Diana’s dad won’t let her get hormone replacement therapy, both drown their sorrows in parties, alcohol and worse). It’s a slice of life comic, emotionally intense with very expressive drawings and good characters — definitely not for everyone (mind the content warnings! (lots of substance abuse, self-harm / self-destructive behaviour, dysphoria, transphobia)) but great if you can relate and would like some catharsis.

(For context: I am trans too, but when I was in high school I was still in the closet, sleepwalking through life. I only expressed myself online, otherwise lived for escapism; I would barely ever go out and felt out of place everywhere. So even though I can only relate to a little of what Diana and Charlie went through, it felt like I was vicariously living what could have happened if things had been different.)

▷ You can read a dozen pages here on the artist’s Tumblr! The original is in Swedish but it’s been translated into other languages.

S.O.N.S The Escape

A rhythmic trip to an imaginary planet via ambient techno / IDM / breaks / space ambient / whatever electronic genres this is! An aquatic or spatial feel sometimes, jungles of unfamiliar sounds, a certain fear of the unknown giving way to the excitement of travelling and discovering new places.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Dorian Wood Invasiva

Very soothing and almost hypnotic, yet with an underlying sense of toxicity. Of something malicious just below the surface. Something keeps me coming back to it.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Lanark Artefax No Bounds

A continuous, live 45-minute buildup leading the listener through unknown electronic territories in the dark — it always feels like something is coming, always exciting, beautiful when the pads come in, blissful when the beats come in too. Rather short but intense.

Thanks to rtdx for the recommendation!

▷ NTS (stream)
▷ RYM

Lucio Capece Epoché

Experimental drone — two long tracks changing phases, sometimes super minimal, clinical and hypnotic, sometimes textured and noisy, sometimes huge and very close.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Christopher Priest Inverted World

Classic sci-fi novel with a possible significant flaw. The entire read is about methodically discovering and understanding the world the protagonist lives in (a city on rails, which always has to be kept moving by laying down tracks and working engines — discovering why this incredibly cumbersome setup is justified is the main plot); the novel is short, minimal in its premise and has a slow rhythm, which I like! And there is a pretty good social/political aspect to it too.

The flaw then concerns the explanation at the end of the story, which isn’t as neat as what preceded it — in fact it doesn’t quite seem to fit? It doesn’t account for everything Helward reports, like the clothes that no longer fit, the food that makes one sick or — especially — the differences in aging. You can still find possible explanations for these phenomena, but… they seem a little far-fetched? In fact I had thought something like that was going on when I was reading it, but had dismissed the idea. Other readers feel differently about this though; some feel like the ending is brilliant, others like it’s a major disappointment that ruins the book. A good read anyway.

Olof Dreijer Echoes from Mamori

♪ beep beep beepboopbeep　boop boop ♪
♪ beep beep beepboopbeep　boop boop ♪
*birds and frogs chirping and dancing*

Wish Olof would release more Oni Ayhun or something but this is good too.

▷ Bandcamp but it’s a CD rip that skips (!) — better get a proper copy on Ben UFO Selects (paired with a Laurie Spiegel track from The Expanding Universe, which I also recommend)
▷ RYM

OFFONOFF boy.

Just super chill and lush R&B, with slow, warm grooves, sung in Korean and English (I usually prefer female singers in R&B but this is an exception). Just listen to “Cigarette” — so nonchalant, classy and seductive.

(Why do people smoke tobacco though, I don’t get it? I kinda like the smell but I’ve only heard bad things about it)

▷ RYM

Gaelle Transient

And this one goes deep. Emotional, lush voice and production but the songs are just minimal enough to have more impact, it’s always R&B but its roots run deep, you can hear elements from soul, house, trip hop in there too. Also definitely a nocturnal album. “Parkway” could be the most obvious highlight but I also love the darker vibe of “Shape Shifting”, and “Separate Rooms” which reminds me of Lamb in a good way.

Thanks to danilo and inge for reminding me of it!

▷ RYM

Reii Fixme

Ambient, inspired by Berlin school and trance on some tracks, from soft and comfy to gently trippy nocturnal urban sounds.

▷ RYM

Reii 3 in the Shade

… And this one has some sounds in common but is all trippy tech trance!

▷ RYM

Monokle & AL-90 Mindperfection

I like AL-90 and his hazy, melancholic and catchy lo-fi loops (actually I’ve been listening to a lot of it lately, especially APXB with the bonus tracks) — but I might like this even better, combined with hi-fi production and more complex beats.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Moe Shop Love Taste

I’m not into moe stuff (and some of the artist’s other works put me off for this reason) but this track is so addictive! I have a thing for these funk synths with vibrato too, should check out more future funk maybe.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

a0n0 City Lights

Finally getting into hyperprolific experimental music label Superpang (and I like their new cover art template a lot better, the previous one just looked cheap) — this release is short, has intense variations from field recordings to loud noise, and even at its harshest still sounds bright, dynamic and exciting.

Thanks to rtdx for the recommendation!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

julie pushing daisies

Speaking of short, intense and bright — this is what I like about shoegaze, plus Sonic Youth vibes! Super exciting, with both male and female singers and short weird interludes. Too short but I love it.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Scanner Trawl

The first “Enter Exit” mix is catchy, but the long, 16-minute “Wireless Rupture” becomes haunting with its distant dance beats, bassline appearing and disappearing city sounds, bleeps, fragments of telephone conversations — the music indistinguishable from the pulse of the city. (The third mix “Disappearance” is a bit redundant though.)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Scanner Accretions

Feels like waking up in the middle of the night after a strange, vivid dream, just before dawn as the room is bathed in a faint light that doesn’t let you see colours yet. Everybody else is asleep. The dream still feels more real than reality.

(It’s ambient with spoken word, a collaboration with Australian writer Hilaire reading what seems to be absurd dreams with several explicit/NSFW passages.)

▷ Bandcamp (remastered and expanded with alternative versions, but the original sounds better to my ears — clipping, bleh)
▷ RYM



November 2022

Shygirl Nymph

ALIAS was a disorientating, super exciting plunge inside the artist’s inner cybernetic world (and an instant absolute favourite for me), this feels more like a night out in the city with her — taking things more slowly, but still with a mesmerizing blend of strangeness and sensuality. The opener “Woe” sets the tone: catchy, crepuscular and intimate but occasionally switching into a darker and oblique state, like a personality change or duet between two identities again. Followups that take a different direction while retaining what made the previous record great are so good!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Cindytalk Wappinschaw

Dark and burning with despair and intimate intensity. The project’s post-punk sound is like a shattered vessel, its shape is still there, still the first thing you hear maybe, but it no longer quite holds what’s inside. I probably like this even better than In This World, which was bleaker, divided into two halves — this one sounds a bit warmer, with more a capella singing, piano, and a really cool ending with bagpipes (“Hush” — then there’s a good hidden track, “Muster”, and the Bandcamp edition adds more but “Hush” still sounds like the ending to my ears).

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

secat no more tears

Footwork beats, cut-up samples and glitches, hazy atmospheric pads. An aquatic/aerial feel? I like this style.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Tatsuhisa Yamamoto Mipyokopyoko / Mupyokopyoko

“Bells and frogs” says the description, and I probably would be interested in an album of just that — but this has more, many layers of electronic, acoustic and natural sounds: a saxophone, ambient pads, nature recordings, loud drums, synths of all kinds, strange and sometimes shrill tones, a rich soundscape that sounds calm and overwhelming at the same time.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Tatsuhisa Yamamoto Ashioto

And this one is more stripped down, with dark jazz elements. Jim O’Rourke only mastered it but it reminds me of his works too.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Dronny Darko & protoU Metta

Contemplative, peaceful droney ambient with natural textures and deep bass. Their other works seem to be darker? Will check more out — thanks to BNJP for the recommendation!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Sybil HNYPOT 299: Sybil’s Holographic Rave Mix

Ambient trance/techno mix that sounds very low-key and calm at first, then builds up so progressively that I don’t even notice I’ve been nodding, swaying and tapping to it for the last half hour or so while my head was in that dreamy psychedelic haze. Trance spirit, techno beats.

▷ Soundcloud (free download)
▷ RYM

DJ Close Your Eyes to Find Me Angel Trance Edits Volume One

And this too while we’re on the subject of dreamy trance — if you wanted more like Doss, check it out!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Ricardo Villalobos Vasco

So smooth and effortless, in a good way. The tracks don’t even feel long, I even forget the sense of time when I’m listening to this (at least until the erotic French spoken word on the last track, but that track is good too!)

▷ Discogs
▷ RYM

ll nøthing ll Now That I’m Gone

So abrasive. But peaceful too. And with beats! I love music that makes you feel as if you are in a comfortable cocoon surrounded by absolute chaos / engulfing flames, and that’s where this one starts, but it’s a healing process from there.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Sophiaaaahjkl;8901 Silicon Soul

Starts out in an unsettling and even hostile way, dissonant, unstable, a scream — and the following tracks develop without resolving anything. This isn’t an easy, everyday listen. But at first it intrigues me, then it takes shape — I begin to get it, and when the beats come in later on I’m totally into it. The liner notes state that this was written in a difficult time for several reasons (bad experiences with meds, bad relationship) and I can hear that! Complex and cathartic.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Cassius 1999

My kind of French house! Dunno why I hadn’t checked them out before since I’ve been into La Funk Mob for a while now, which is the same artists doing trip hop / downtempo — and this could precisely be why I’m into it: even though 1999 is all hi-fi, glamorous, high energy grooves and loops, there is something about the way they use samples and the sound that reminds me a little of instrumental hip hop. “Foxxy” is fantastic and “99 Remix” with the Donna Summer sample is incredible — pure concentrated happiness. (And the long version on the single is even better!)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Willie Colón Set Fire to Me

I still don’t know anything about Latin music, but Joe Cuba Sextet’s “Do You Feel It?” was an instant favourite for me and so is this, so I should probably check more out? Though they’re both atypical examples (Joe Cuba was soul with spoken word, this one is — surprisingly — deep house). Ahead of its time too.

This cover is by Wifredo Lam, right? I like his drawings.

Thanks ChickenHat for the recommendation!

▷ RYM

Tetsuo Furudate One Day an Old Phantom Passed Above My Head

Noise, field recordings, silence, sparse and diverse samples (voices from different sources, also a memorable loud WACK-THUMP at some point) — mysterious, overall peaceful despite the occasional loudness, and has an unexplainable sense of narrativeness.

▷ RYM



December 2022

Boreal Massif We All Have an Impact

An anxious, atmospheric electronic album about the ecology, reviving illbient in the process? You bet I jumped on this one.

And it delivers. The sound is sometimes closer to ambient techno than most 90s illbient artists were, but there are some hints of hip hop later on too — and it sounds serious, evoking natural beauty in half light / half darkness, transient, its future uncertain. Or: nature seen from an urban place that’s getting darker and more unstable by the day, contrasting with the lighter elements (occasional guitars and field recordings).

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Jake Muir Mana

And this one is surprisingly similar in idea, though different in sound — 90s illbient sampled and turned it into a detailed, intricate, mysterious ambient album. It also sounds so organic I thought many of the sounds were from field recordings at first!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Morgue Vanguard × Still Fateh

You might know Still as a member of dälek (industrial hip hop) — this is him producing an Indonesian hip hop album, and there’s a lot of what I like in dälek in here: super textured, nocturnal, abrasive and brutal, but some of the tracks have a more spiritual or melancholic side behind the beats too. I have no idea what the lyrics are about but the rapping sounds very good to me. You know what, I like this better than many dälek albums.

▷ RYM

Ase Manual Black Liquid Electronics

Steady, warm pulses, burning metal in the night, a smell of petrol in the air, people you care for and who care for you, all in the future or on another planet with some surreal things happening. This sort of feels close to Freaky Chakra’s Blacklight Fantasy, except it all happens outside the dystopic megacity, in a stranger place where you can breathe more easily.

Thanks to danilo for the discovery!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Josey Rebelle HNYPOT 235: Josey Rebelle’s Stone Through a Window Mix

Deep house mix that starts with a funk/soul bang, then drifts into outer space and comes back to Earth again. Real stuff if that makes sense. (No it doesn’t.)

▷ Soundcloud (free download)
▷ RYM

Daniel Avery Ultra Truth

I have a bad habit of not giving artists fair second chances — the clipping on Drone Logic really put me off, so I slept on his later records. Turns out I really like this one! Cinematic, emotional, wintry, nocturnal — more about people than environments, with unintrusive vocal samples (think Djrum or similar). And nothing wrong about the mastering this time.

Thanks to Zelda7 for the recommendation!

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Sudan Archives Natural Brown Prom Queen

(I am going to complain about the mastering on this album instead though — other than that, really good! 7.5 out of 10 I guess?)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Two Shell Icons

Gently glitchy sounds + dance beats + catchy pop vocal samples. I’m surprised by how fresh UK bass still sounds to my ears, it’s like that genre will never get old!

I guess this would be a fairy / electric dual-type EP? (I took a quiz a couple of days ago that told me I was a water / fairy type.)

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

DJ DEADHORSES angelwings

Angry (breaks + bass), soothing, heartfelt (melancholic melodies + vocals). Are all the vocals sampled? Probably, though I could only recognize one of the songs. For me this is ear candy.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

ZA/UM Disco Elysium

Probably needs no introduction, right? I’ll just say that this is the best-written video game I’ve played yet, and that the phasmid at the end ♥ was the most wonderful, heartwarming scene I’ve seen in any media in a long time.

(I played as a sorry communist art cop who enjoys hardcore anodic music and took speed once to raise his inland empire stat as that was clearly the best stat. If I do a second playthrough (probably worth it) I think I’ll try and be a delusional superstar who believes in the supernatural!)

▷ Official website (with links to GOG, Steam etc.)
▷ Glitchwave

Andaman Parallel Vision

Dub techno, but the opposite of lo-fi — this one is hi-res, cold, clean, sharp, all in a good way. Bass-heavy too.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Coppice Halifax Verdant Acre [Volume One]

And the opposite: ambient dub techno with an earthy, murky, mossy/overgrown sound. Dark, naturnal, lo-fi.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

cv313 Analogue Oceans

Yet another take on (ambient) dub techno — the whole thing is solid but that 61-minute super atmospheric mix… so, so good. Feels like slowly floating in a vapour cloud.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Alexis Ragougneau Opus 77

Psychological drama about a family of acclaimed musicians, as told by the pianist (daughter of a world-famous conductor, sister to a recluse violonist who hasn’t been seen in a long while). Recommended by one of my local bookstores, it was a good read! Interesting characters (especially the narrator), told in achronological order.

The composition the novel is named after is Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, and it plays a central role in the story; should I have listened to it while reading? That would have been the obvious choice. Could have made the experience better. But… I didn’t trust myself to feel the same things as the characters? People translate different emotions so differently, music is so personal. Also it wouldn’t have synced with the story. I preferred to imagine the music instead.

I probably should listen to the composition now that I’ve finished the book though. Maybe listen to it while re-reading the performance in the story? Maybe. I won’t do it today, but maybe.

Nattymari Gimmie Sum

How did this end up on my Soulseek downloads folder? I don’t remember.
What is up with that cover? I don’t know either!
But it’s pretty good, like, straightforward and fun juke/footwork, a couple of hip hop elements, some acid.

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Mark Vernon Ribbons of Rust

“This album focuses on a derelict and abandoned holiday resort at Laem Thian bay on the east coast of the island of Koh Tao in Thailand. The resort is situated in a small cove that is only accessible on foot via an overgrown path and a walk of several miles — a journey very few tourists bother to make. It is clear at first sight that the fading white building has been vacated for some time. The concrete structure opens out onto a small sandy beach that would have provided an idyllic holiday setting at one time. A number of palm-thatched holiday cottages with dilapidated roofs slide down the hillside. There are signs of vandalism; graffiti decorates the walls, the remains of camp fires, broken glass and other detritus litter the floors - but remnants of the previous occupants also remain. Children’s toys, kitchenware, hand written notes, menus, mattresses, a plastic telephone and four cassette tapes — rusty, caked in sand, weather damaged and corroded by the humid salty sea air.

There is a haunting quality to the location that left a deep impression on me. The sense of isolation and abandonment it engendered was in stark contrast to the rest of the island, and indeed the rest of Thailand as I experienced it. This feeling stayed with me and in some way it permeated the rest of my stay in the country. It is that feeling that I wanted to convey through this work.”

— Mark Vernon

▷ Bandcamp
▷ RYM

Nikita Kryukov Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk + Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

Visual short stories about mental illness — the first one is like a prelude to the second. You can finish them both in a single session, but the second one is worth replaying for the multiple endings.

I wasn’t comfortable with the role the game assigned to me, though it becomes better (and definitely more meaningful) if you consider that spoiler: click to read. The writing, visuals (especially in the sequel), music (dark ambient) and atmosphere are great, the concept too. See how reality changes when seen through somebody else’s eyes. Somewhere between reality and a nightmare. All in red and black and creepy, surreal visions that may or may not be hallucinations.

▷ Itch.io
▷ Steam
▷ Glitchwave



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