Sunday, December 30, 2012

Mallory's Picks of 2012

Top 3... Rebirth, catharsis, and subterranean rivers.

Dead Can Dance - Anastasis. Intensely calm and ancient, like the sea of grass slowly rising and reaching out to the sun. They made the top of my list, as a sign of gratitude for the experience this music has given me.
Swans - The Seer. The darkest and weightiest of them all, as powerful as black earth, Swans destructure and restructure your soul. Yet the flipside of this darkness is catharsis. This is sheer slow-burning force cleverly disguised as music.
In Death It Ends - Forgotten Knowledge. Eminently bewitching and tension-fueled, this music makes me think of the strong, pitch-black current running underneath reality as we know it.

The rest:

Aimon - Flatliner
Morten Harket - Out of My Hands
School of Seven Bells - Ghostory
Trust - TRST
In Strict Confidence - Utopia
Tristesse Contemporaine - Tristesse Contemporaine
Julia Holter - Ekstasis 

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