East of Oceans - 121 Years

Not my usual cup of tea, but this is a good, chill album for the post-midnight hours. The internet tells me this belongs to the genre of "drum and bass," whatever that means. It's pretty cool, I like it.

Owen Hart - Earth Control

Is it metallic hardcore? Or hardcorelic metal? Now known as Earth Control since the Owen Hart Foundation made them change their name.

Code Orange Kids - Love Is Love // Return To Dust

Promising hardcore/sludge band finally puts out their first full length.

Leftöver Crack - Mediocre Generica

Wish they would put out another damn record already.

Iskra - Bureval

Blackened crust.

Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - Paradise Blue

I love ska. This is ska/jazz excellence. Deal with it.

Saåad - Confluences

Last summer, the festival Toulouse d’Été commissioned Saåad to work on the St-Michel fountain, personification of the confluence of the river Ariège and Garonne. Romain Barbot & Greg Buffier took their recording material to this specific place and gave life to a 20 minutes trip divided in 4 movements. Confluences is lead by field recordings and chanting guitars, showing a new face of the french duo who found the balance point between immensity and intimacy.

Violent Action - Death

Grimy, crusty music for grimy, crusty dudes and dudettes.

Chest Pain - s/t 7"

Just some more killer powerviolence.

Jungbluth - s/t tape

Turns out the "hype," such as it is, is well founded on this one. Member(s?) of Alpinist I guess, kinda jangly, kinda epic, vaguely post but still heavy and aggressive punk and hardcore. Named after a German communist and antifascist.