Media Diary: Mid 2023

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May

	╒　woob ┊ 1194　╛ Classic 90s ambient dub, with hints of darkness and strangeness (a couple of low drones and disturbing samples, e.g. chilling screams from a horror film on one track). The long first track is a great opener and has a surprising structure too, you might think it’s ending when the beats fade and field recordings come in the foreground but you’re not even halfway through yet. You’re in for a long exploration. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　w00b ┊ 7007　╛ So I jumped from 1994 to 2022 in the artists’ discography and this is nice too! In a completely different style soundwise, it actually mirrors the cover pretty well — also chill out music with a couple of darker parts, but in a futuristic setting (possibly cyberpunk), and the vocals are now intimate rather than distant samples. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Sharda ┊ Low Tide (Sharda Dubs 2021)　╛ I’m not familiar with these specific subgenres, but if you’re looking for a fun, sunny, super catchy UK garage mix, I highly recommend this! 45-minute mix featuring the entirety of his High Tide EP (“South” is a banger), ending with a Charli XCX remix. Can be a little excessive / obnoxious at times with the loud cut-up vocals, but it’s so addictive. ▷ Bandcamp (name-your-price download) ▷ RYM
	╒　DJ巫女 ┊ 「ひきこもり☆スタイル」　╛ (= Hikikomori Style by DJ Miko) Only trance feels this fusional. Hard, dark and liquid and bright with pulsating electronic lights. ▷ RYM
	╒　a0n0 ┊ Underground Sea　╛ Beautifully clean, spatial, dynamic noise, at times overwhelming, at times calm and distant. (Similar to their previous City Lights, but better) ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Nyokabi Kariũki ┊ Feeling Body　╛ A personal, tender but disquieting record — voices, recordings of mundane sounds, at times it sounds only half-there (a bit similar to claire rousay in that way) — about living/dealing with prolonged sickness (long covid in the artist’s case). Also with the underlying theme of water. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Nozomu Matsumoto ┊ Immunotherapy　╛ And this one is all about care + mostly about healing: very short but very beautiful, lush waves of acoustic sounds in a strange but meaningful contrast with the robotic vocals. (Medical/technological care. The pills I take are featureless, white, coming in an anonymous foil wrapper. They do me so much good.) Only “Vertigo” changes the subject at the end and can be anxiety-inducing, but it is still about caring in a sense. ▷ Boomkat ▷ RYM
	╒　Boredoms ┊ Super Roots 7　╛ Revisiting Boredoms’ discography as they were featured last week on Experimental Music Land; this features a long rhythmic track with lots of dizzying, colourful psychedelic sounds and effects swirling around the beat. My second favourite record in their discography after Super æ! (Or that untypable a+ʀ+e symbol) ▷ RYM
	╒　Sevdaliza ┊ Shabrang　╛ (Rare occurence but sometimes I give an album a couple of tries and it doesn’t click, then I come back to it years later and suddenly it’s like I hadn’t even heard the music before? Maybe it was just a matter of mood, but I’m also more open to my emotions now and my musical taste has shifted a bit — anyway, this happened) Subtly emotional pop songs with some R&B, occasional touches of oriental (Persian?) music and a dark, sometimes brutal edge. In the lyrics and some details too, like the abrupt, slightly raw and robotic vocal sample that punctuates the very first song “Joanna”. Another highlight is the distorted, metallic, evil-sounding trip hop on “Rhode”, like a sibling of Lamb from hell. The cover art kind of worried me but now I find that it fits perfectly. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　KEST ┊ FUNKS SELECIONADOS　╛ No-fucks-given intensity, like a concentrate of a dozen Brazilian hip hop and pop records fused together and accelerated with hardcore beats — though there’s more to it than that, like “French putaria” (my favourite track) which may not be extreme but still sounds super exciting, grimy and brightly neon-coloured. (Also I get to namedrop Lamb a second time because “Avistei” samples “God Bless” from their self-titled) Thanks to rtdx for the recommendation! ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Gossiwor ┊ Lighthouse　╛ POV: You’re a wounded underwater creature and you’re quietly recovering in your dark cave, trying to relax, listening to sad piano and electronic music and not entirely sure whether you want to chase your dark thoughts away or dwell on them because you still hurt ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Klein ┊ Lifetime　╛ Exploring anxiously the dark world that’s half outside half in one’s own thoughts, the distinction doesn’t matter anymore. Chaos with a theme, in dark colours. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Cavalerie ┊ Hate Remains　╛ Very far from my usual styles but this goes as hard as the cover. Extremely short, brutal, dirty without being formless, also pretty good bass (which I didn’t expect). ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Boris with Merzbow ┊ 2R0I2P0　╛ Feeling melancholic in the middle of an apocalyptic cyclone. Overwhelming + cathartic. Rock Dream is also good but not really more than the sum of its parts, it’s “just” a good live Boris performance with noise in the background — this one is more interesting as there’s more noise and more interplay between noise and metal. Feels like a live recording even though it apparently wasn’t (then again it was 2020). ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Les discrets ┊ Septembre et ses dernières pensées　╛ And this one is really just a nice, pastoral, melancholic album at its heart, only wrapped in post-black metal guitars. Shouldn’t be fit for this time of year, but the first days weren’t very warm and my mood changed completely from day to day so this was nice to have in the gloomier moments when I needed darkness and comfort. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM

June

	╒　Brigitte Fontaine ┊ Genre humain　╛ Brigitte having fun with her poetic and weird chanson, this time over upbeat downtempo, I can dig that! This other version of “Comme à la radio” does not compete with the classic 1970 one, it’s a completely different aesthetic (different meaning too?) but the highlight here is probably “Conne”, in which she exaggerates her vocals to the point of absurdity. When I grow old I want to be as quirky and as arty as her (Yes I know I already am old to young people) ▷ RYM
	╒　Little Simz ┊ Sometimes I Might Be Introvert　╛ Took a different direction than what I expected after GREY Area, which I already liked a lot but this is spectacular (I’ll let others speak about this one and just listen, you already know about it don’t you) (Though there’s probably a lot to say about the way this album defies stereotypes of what introversion can be like) ▷ RYM
	╒　12 Rounds ┊ My Big Hero　╛ Found it a very long time ago by browsing the Nothing Records label catalogue like the unbearable Nine Inch Nails fangirl I was, shelved it for so many years for no good reason — it was a good idea to revisit it now with a different mind and better headphones! Trip hop × dark cabaret × industrial rock hybrid, with great production courtesy of Atticus Ross (most of the instrumentals wouldn’t sound out of place on a Nine Inch Nails record really) + nice retro goth-domme vocals. One thing I hadn’t noticed at the time is the playful aspect of it, the aesthetic is mostly dark but each track goes in a different direction, sometimes bitter, sometimes joyful and exuberant. ▷ RYM
	╒　Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart ┊ Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds　╛ Should I even recommend this one? It’s just sine waves and slight crotales (= antique cymbals), extremely clinical, will make your ears ring afterwards (I only listen to it on speakers at a low volume). But on some occasions it’s the kind of thing I’m into. Like if I want to feel like a moth staring at a lightbulb in a dark laboratory room. Definitely don’t start here with Pisaro, who has a very good discography with varied approaches, usually more accessible (and, to my ears, better) than most artists in this scene — 　Nature Denatured and Found Again is one of his best if not his best, but if the duration is too daunting, consider 　July Mountain (Three Versions), a good one with nature sounds, following a minimal score, 　2 Seconds / B Minor / Wave for something minimal that’s not excessively daunting, or maybe 　Tombstones if you somehow got interested in him via Julia Holter and would like something with vocals to bridge the gap, but it’s still a big leap to make. I love that these two are collaborating though. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　AceMo ┊ Wanna Play House?　╛ A healthy dose of acid bangers! AceMo is super forward thinking but he’s also great at keeping the roots of house music alive ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Bernardine Evaristo ┊ Girl, Woman, Other　╛ Twelve portraits, mostly (but not exclusively) of black women living in England — as many completely different lives This book is not really linear, it’s a rhizome; connections appear, others are missed, life changes, your understanding grows The writing uses line breaks instead of punctuation, which seemed experimental to me when I opened the book but then I realized it’s exactly how we write online now, it flows completely naturally — and it brings the prose a little closer to poetry as it forces concision, each word matters, the rhythm too
	╒　Emma DJ ┊ Fact Mix 843　╛ Intense deconstructed club mix/collage with a dozen different genres — like it’s on the verge of exploding into chaotic noise even though it’s always contained into cohesive structures, and has a couple of great pop hooks towards the end. Super satisfying, whether you’re in the mood for energy or need catharsis. I love today’s music — nothing in the past had this kind of vibe. ▷ Fact (free stream + download on Soundcloud) ▷ RYM
	╒　International Moods ┊ Frequent Traveller　╛ Electro-industrial × downtempo, with FM Einheit (ex-Einstürzende Neubauten) and featuring Foetus on two tracks. Cool stuff! “What Kind of Problem” is a banger with these horns, female vocals, dirty beats and groovy bassline. ▷ RYM
	╒　Dafne Vicente-Sandoval ┊ Minos Circuit　╛ Minimal, contemplative bassoon drone. Very nice. Thanks to Streams for the discovery! ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Lars Petter Hagen ┊ Transfiguration 4　╛ The other side of the vinyl edition of Minos Circuit above, this one is a short and sweet piece based on Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen (which I haven’t heard in its original form yet), it makes a nice contrast. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Jaap Vink ┊ Jaap Vink　╛ Archival collection of drone / electroacoustic works, pretty deep stuff. Some like “En dehors” are beautiful and moving, others like “Residuals” are pure exploration of harsher but interesting sounds, many combine the two. The last two tracks are not quite as good as the first five, but that leaves 65 minutes of great material — definitely worth your attention. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Tygapaw ┊ love has never been a popular movement.　╛ Queer techno ♥ ⚧ Start with GET FREE if you haven’t heard anything by them yet, but this one fucks too, short and powerful — beats for + about people in their bodies and souls, not abstract nor mechanical ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Tirzah ┊ Colourgrade　╛ Sketchy or even unfinished (cf. Inge’s review), not as a flaw but as an aesthetic; stripped down pop/minimal wave, pensive introspective anything could happen and it’s all strange enough to be defamiliarized. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Kinoteki & Kelbin ┊ Silence Kills　╛ Anxious, dreamy, dreamy, hypnotic electronic songs with breakbeats. (“Hurt You in 4k” is ethereal and emotional, “Cease and Desist” is a club banger, “Everything Infinite” is so nicely upbeat) ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　鈴木凹 ┊ Good at Nothing　╛ Nice summery Vocaloid pop album! Hazy, dreamy, with piano and a dub haze suffusing everything. Thanks to Inge for the discovery! ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　David Lynch ┊ Eraserhead　╛ Another one I’d heard about for a long time but hadn’t watched yet, though I had listened to Pixies’s cover of “In Heaven” (whatever 128 kbps bootleg live version I had at the time) Definitely didn’t disappoint, sort of reminded me of Twin Peaks season 3 episode 8, which is saying something I didn’t expect the title to be so literal lol And this makes me glad to be sterile and forever childfree
	╒　The Young Gods ┊ Play Terry Riley In C　╛ A nice surprise! One of my favourite bands, The Young Gods have had a consistently good and interesting discography from 1987 to 2007 (starting with gritty and raw industrial rock sung in French (s/t), then adding dark cabaret elements (L’eau rouge, Play Kurt Weill), turning into booming industrial rock sung in English (T.V. Sky), then adding some dreamy electronic and ambient to the mix and singing in both languages (Only Heaven, Second Nature), which led to a full ambient album (Music for Artificial Clouds) until they went back (Super Ready/Fragmenté)) but let’s be honest, their last two albums were mostly sitting in their comfort zone. This though is exciting! It’s a loose innovative take on the minimalist classic, in which each movement brings in different waves of instruments — various percussions, glockenspiel, sampled electric guitars, electronics etc. Very different from the popular 1968 version, which I also like but I prefer this one! ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM

July

	╒　Towering Inferno ┊ Kaddish　╛ Incredible work in which the twenty-two tracks feel like as many chapters of a sprawling film, with rich characters, beautiful environments — facing absolute horror. The main subject here is the holocaust, and it is accordingly horrifying — but there’s also so much life in there, so many lives and voices and instruments, which makes it all the more affecting. The narration is complex and poetic too. This was a long time in the making, as documented by the very complete Wikipedia page about the project (there was also a film element involved); it’s a shame the second member died before they could complete a second album. Out of print but you can read scans of the booklet here. ▷ RYM
	╒　Grand River ┊ Fact Mix 903　╛ Nearly transparent but always interesting, in ghostly iridescent colours, eclectic yet cohesive ambient mix. ▷ Fact ▷ RYM
	╒　SukeraSono ┊ イルミラージュ・ソーダ〜終わる世界と夏の夢〜　╛ … Yes this is audio yuri, which I somehow found on an experimental music Discord server (where people weren’t sure what it was at first)! Lesbian romance ASMR with sparse ambient and water sounds — and 40 minutes of noise music towards the end. As far as I can understand it (= not much), the setting/story seems to be that a girl and her teacher (that’s you, the listener) are in love and the world is about to end, possibly submerged?; there might be strange occurences before that too, I’m not sure. The production is very nice and delicate, with field recordings, ambient, even some glitch, lots of very quiet moments and a couple of loud ones; it’s all a backdrop for the voice acting but worth a listen if you’re into that kind of music. I can’t say much about the narration as I only know a couple of words of Japanese, I’m aro ace (though possibly with a tertiary sapphic orientation) and ASMR often rubs me the wrong way (uncomfortably intrusive, too close for comfort), so I’m not the audience for that? But I did enjoy it, it seemed mostly gentle and focussed on emotions (nothing explicit), the audio landscapes were pretty and evocative and the feeling of being included in a first-person audio narrative was effective even if I wasn’t meant for the part and couldn’t understand most of the lines. (How’s that for missing the point? How much did I miss the point?) As for the noise — solid 8/10, not really harsh but overwhelming, colourful, retaining the spatial qualities that the audio story had. Honestly could have been released as a standalone album. ▷ SukeraSono ▷ RYM
	╒　gum.mp3 ┊ Nigga U 24 It’s Time 4 Jazz　╛ Contemporary downtempo that sounds sleek as fuck with good grooves and a vocalist that sounds languid (or high (or sleepy)) ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Tim Hecker ┊ Konoyo　╛ Ambient from a heart heavy with grief — the compositions are calm on the thinnest, most transparent surface, burning with chaos underneath. Music for when you can’t take the world around and need alone time. Could be my favourite work by Hecker so far, it goes further than Virgins and No Highs. (Anoyo, the companion album, is kinda forgettable though) ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Lamb ┊ What Sound　╛ Hadn’t listened to that one yet because I don’t like the cover art (it’s just too busy / too messy), but it is pretty great — with strong electronic elements (like “Scratch Bass”, which is all instrumental and has a pretty damn good groove) but also very warm and moving, Lamb are very good at that. “Heaven” and “Gabriel” are just heart-melting. ▷ RYM
	╒　Floor Adams ┊ Mind My Mind　╛ A 30-minute short film about an autistic man who has a special interest in plane models and how he finds his way among neurotypicals, as illustrated by a neuron character who deals with everything in a methodical way and finds every social situation to be a challenge; I found this relatable, funny, and the drawings are good! (Am I on the autistic spectrum myself — maybe? Probably? I’ve been suspecting that I am for a long time and a bunch of people I know seem to confirm this — one person told me it was obvious, which weirdly reassured me. I don’t really feel the need to confirm this though, all I know is that my mind works in a certain way that’s slightly different from the norm without being too different. I’m not sure many people really 100% fit the norm anyway.) ▷ Arte (available for free until August 22)
	╒　Christos Chondropoulos ┊ Athenian Primitivism　╛ “Coming from an avant-garde percussion background, Christos calls upon themes of ancient Greek folklore and musical tradition through a futurist lens depicting robotic societies in post-human harmony.” Borrowing as much from traditional Greek music as it does from house music, even nu-disco (blending them a bit like Muslimgauze but with different influences) — a quirky, refreshing, pretty exciting take; “Smile Again” is so good! (And then the last six tracks are vocal-based and a complete change of style, e.g. “The Most Peculiar Acquisition of the Insects” sounds like a nightmare involving swarms of different species of insects, screeching and buzzing and screaming.) ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Puce Mary ┊ You Must Have Been Dreaming　╛ Her previous album The Drought was a contemporary industrial classic; here she goes ambient while remaining in a similar aesthetic. It’s a shame the cover looks so drab and anonymous, because this album does have oniric qualities that make it especially good on repeated listens — elusive but deep, like a soft nightmare. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Mike Ladd ┊ Negrophilia (The Album)　╛ Based on Petrine Archer-Straw’s book of the same name (Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s), which I haven’t read but the subject sounds interesting (I’ve only heard about Picasso’s involvement in this) — check out Ladd’s liner notes; Sonically this is out-there jazz with hip hop and nu-jazz elements, very quirky in good ways — each track brings in surprises and new elements, and the whole album sounds focussed despite being so eclectic. I’m sure missing a lot of connexions here, but — highly recommended. ▷ RYM
	╒　Hawthonn ┊ Red Goddess (Of This Men Shall Know Nothing)　╛ Ever want to become a witch and just get away from it all and brood alone in nature? Dwell in your dark misanthropic thoughts and release them in a black river and chill and breathe The cover art is perfect here, including the grey skies and wind, there is something about grey skies and wind ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Material ┊ Seven Souls　╛ Tribal ambient + rather punchy dub with Bill Laswell featuring William S. Burroughs speaking about Egyptian mythology — a bit dated but in a way I like, it’s catchy and danceable and does convey a bit of mystery! ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Julia Serano ┊ Whipping Girl　╛ Deserves its reputation as a trans feminist classic. It’s exhaustive, thorough and convincing, one of the main subjects being what trans perspectives bring to feminism and how too many feminist movements have unfairly dismissed femininity — but Serano also deconstructs so many myths and gender stereotypes and tells about her own experiences as a (Gen X, white, American) trans woman. While some chapters (and the vocabulary Serano uses) are now dated, the vast majority of it still stands strong, it’s an easy read too (some short, personal chapters were originally slam performances, they’re among my favourites). I think everybody could learn something from this book. (While I’m on the subject of older queer books, if you’re interested here’s an archive of old queer fanzines) ▷ Official website
	╒　Throbbing Gristle ┊ Adrenalin / Distant Dreams　╛ Two of their best songs. “Adrenalin” is almost acid techno, “Distant Dreams” is surprisingly beautiful and rhythmic. ▷ RYM

August

	╒　杉井ギサブロー ┊ 銀河鉄道の夜 Night on the Galactic Railroad　╛ I have mixed feelings about this one. It’s also is one of the most wonderful films I’ve ever seen. Slow, introspective, contemplative, surreal, with beautiful drawings and a very good soundtrack by Haruomi Hosono — also sadder and a lot more religious than I expected. The first half-hour or so was perfect. Then some chapters broke the immersion a bit for me because they really assume that the viewer is a devout Christian (the tutor’s story especially came across as creepy); and yet the fact that it’s all a dream makes it more meaningful and believable. It’s the dream of a Christian cat after all. We are strange in different ways. We dream different dreams.
	╒　Seeming ┊ SOL: A Self-Banishment Ritual　╛ An ambitious and exuberant “post-gothic” album about leaving humanity and turning feral — goes all out with catchy hooks, lush orchestral instrumentation, occasional industrial beats, funky guitars and synths, over-the-top vocal theatricals, Merzbow at the end of a nine-minute track and Sammus (a female nerdcore MC) on a duet! (Remember Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, that Current 93 album which featured Andrew W.K. and James Blackshaw? Yes it is that kind of album.) Does it go too far? Is it corny? Honestly I wouldn’t be surprised you found it ridiculous, but I find it so exciting and fun that I wouldn’t change anything, I’m just hooked. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Xinlisupreme ┊ I Am Not Shinzo Abe　╛ — noi̵s҉y noise ́roćk nois̸e po̴p̨ noise͠ piano ͜no͜i͠s͜e noi͢s̷e͢ — Extremely abrasive, the title track is the catchiest — screaming I AM NOT SHINZO ABE over and over on a simple melody, close to noise punk maybe — but the other tracks are so good too, it’s like a collection of experiments (all noisy) with some piano, weird disco/funk dragged through gravel, etc (I love this lipstick colour, especially with the teal background — I don’t know if she’s in the band though? Discogs says no but there is a female vocalist at some point here) ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Olallie ┊ Living in a Sandbox, Breathing in a Sandbox　╛ Messy and fun and noisy and catchy, found it while looking for more trip-hop + industrial and this absolutely isn’t what I was looking for but I’m glad I found it! There are beats and bass alright, and this probably is a big reason of why I like it, but the album is mostly chaotic noise pop Deleted and impossible to find except on Soulseek apparently ▷ RYM
	╒　Tim Blechmann ┊ M　╛ Perhaps my most listened to artist this month — half-hour drone/noise studies in textures and minimal structures (except for 虛舞 XuWu, which was very different and a lot more disturbing). Neat, clear, satisfying — almost architectural. ▷ Tim Blechmann / Moka Bar (all free downloads) ▷ RYM
	╒　KOTO ┊ Platonic Planet　╛ The best kind of cute and catchy dance pop with lots of synths (I like this cover art better than the main one because it gives off a cool synthetic style but I know other listeners who prefer to see her in the cute photograph, I wonder whether this means we’re focussing on different aspects of the music) ▷ RYM
	╒　OnlyOneOf ┊ Instinct Part 1　╛ Lush gay r’n’b K-pop, why not? “libidO” is an incredible earworm and the other songs are really good too. (Get the version with the bonus interludes, they’re good!) Surprisingly enough Instinct Part. 2 is in a completely different style, with surprisingly dark and distorted beats contrasting with the (still sensual and all) r’n’b vocals — the songwriting doesn’t hit as good though (The number of composers in the credits is even more ridiculous than the number of vocalists in the band) ▷ RYM
	╒　Sébastien Forrester ┊ Orpheus’ Pipes (Object-Oriented Studies)　╛ Drone tracks “crafted out of manipulations of 78 rpm records of traditional cabrette from Occitania and Highland bagpipes” — a great choice for the genre, but what’s surprising here is the way Forrester also repurposes the vinyl surface noise, transformed into almost-clean (!) glitchy textures within this new electronic context. The release contains eight separate tracks and a mixed version of all eight. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Lasse Marhaug ┊ How to Avoid Ants　╛ Further exploring the Portraits GRM series, I think I could blindly get all of them, all the ones I’ve listened are good so far! This one is a dance between delicate / monstrous antsy noise and large, beautiful drones, both evolving, nicely composed. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　WayForward ┊ Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse　╛ Fun old-school 2D platformer! With some solid funky tunes in the soundtrack (better than the classics I remember from 16-bit consoles, though I might have missed the best ones), fun unlockable moves (invulnerable hyper dash! quadruple jump!), the difficulty was just right for me too (on the easy side but never too easy). Just one minor gripe (two if you count Propeller Town, that level was a bit annoying): holy shit is this game malegazey and playing into all the old stereotypes lol. I would have expected as much in the 90s, but were games still there in 2014? Anyway, /rant, it’s not a huge deal and I can get past it as the characters are likeable and it’s almost a comedy point. Dunno if they changed that a bit in the sequels, would be cool if they did.
	╒　Taylor McCue ┊ He Fucked the Girl Out of Me.　╛ Woo cute little pink gh — — oh. Mind the content warnings at the beginning, this is hard (sex work-related trauma, as experienced by a trans girl who had to resort to this to afford her transition). The author tells it in such a way — never too explicit, always open about her feelings — I felt like I had to get through it or I would have felt awful to leave her. It’s scary (I couldn’t help but think, what if I were in that situation?). It’s an important story. ▷ Itch.io (it’s free, you can run it in your browser) ▷ RYM
	╒　Asher Tuil ┊ Landscapes Elsewhere　╛ A soft, tender, low energy, overcast-sky cocoon of drones. Sounds either very comforting or like depression, depending on your mood. ▷ Bandcamp ▷ RYM
	╒　Crash N’ Burn / Cogs, Beans and the Machines [Stay Up Forever] ┊ SUF 100 Part 2　╛ Extreme beats are perfect for heat waves. I went with Gridbug, Liza N’Eliaz, Xanopticon and this — a perfect hardcore acid techno two-tracker, part two of a series of five. ▷ Discogs ▷ RYM
	╒　3 Chairs ┊ 3 Chairs　╛ Funny how long this took me to get into and how, when it finally clicked at the fourth or fifth listen or so, it became an instant classic to my ears Deep house works like that, following its own patterns at its own pace, going against expectations you might have, then giving you just the best vibes and grooves — and this is deeper than most, including Moodymann, which is part of the project and who I was already a fan of The highest-voted review on RYM might be up to something, I never got any effects from marijuana so who knows ▷ RYM

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