Lars Gotrich Black/death metal samples stretched and disintegrated beyond recognition. Exquisitely obsidian sound design and atmosphere. newsletter.vikingschoice.org/archive/new-music-friday-symphonic-synth-funk-lysergic/ Favorite track: Unholy Apparitions.

ghosttropics A slow descent into a hungry pit, dark washes of sub bass and skittering insectile textures slowly pulling the listener towards a dripping, toothy maw.

Harrison Phinney putting the spectral voice in spectral voices….. this work is very much of a spirit with Jake’s Ilian record. We return to a land of miasma and malevolent spirits. This time, the human presence is more deeply palpable, due to the source material. Pareidolia is less ‘designed’ than Mana, less abstracted—not so much the decaying sounds of imagined landscapes as the echoes of human presences long gone Favorite track: Anima.