RockMusic

Alternativní vlna / Alternative wave
(personally curated by @hopkirQue)

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

...Lala Lala’s music is like watching an open wound being stitched up — jarring and healing.

(Pitchfork)

Lala Lala - Destroyer (2018)

https://t.co/SZ9hQvJho7

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

“Dark Stains” is a dark, unsettling song in the veins of Factory Floor or, if you want to go further back in time, Liaisons Dangereuses.

(glamglare)

Exploded View - Dark Stains (2018)

https://t.co/ire6uliUZ4

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Hen Ogledd je starý velšský termín a znamená starý sever, čímž byl v raném středověku označovaný region na pomezí severní Anglie a jižního Skotska...

(Radio Wave)

Hen Ogledd - Sky Burial (2018)

https://t.co/UlMyIKnfmx

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Beated by Mr.Shn and his partner Pajama Sam this new collab single is as glitchy as Pan Am has been so far.

(Bandcamp)

Pan Amsterdam & Open Mike Eagle - No Snare (2018)

https://t.co/ZADwnOZgKC

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Much better in my day

No locked doors
No foreigners

Just look at these kids now

Gazelle Twin - Better In My Day (2018)

https://t.co/m10d1JJQkL

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Modular synthesizer meets Morocco’s Gnawa tradition as UK synth guru James Holden teams up with the Maalem Houssam Guinia...

(Piccadilly Records)

James Holden & Maalem Houssam - Youmal (2018)

https://t.co/K4cJFvvnbM

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Tristan Arp is an American multimedia artist, producer, and co-founder of the New York label Human Pitch.

(ResidentAdvisor)

Tristan Arp - Phylum (2018)

https://t.co/fKp75OmZg7

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Seattle Weekly writes, “Imagine Joanna Newsom as a ghost, benevolently haunting a cabin in the woods, and you’ll get an idea…”

(Bandcamp)

Whitney Ballen - F*cking (2018)

https://t.co/UCqmLSOAYb

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

From a secluded outpost on Nova Scotia's mystical South Shore, junked-analog duo JOYFULTALK conjure micro-climate trance music.

(Constellation)

JOYFULTALK - Peace Fight (2018)

https://t.co/LRkn8fjJ0N

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

In the music world, a “lost record” is the term for an LP that was passed over, unappreciated maybe not even released but is later discovered...

(Rough Trade)

ESCAP-ISM - The Lost Record (2018)

https://t.co/69fS4Sd2Jv

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Beijing duo Tom Ng and Joshua Frank make transnational blues with swarming psychedelic borders as Gong Gong Gong.

(Stereogum)

Gong Gong Gong - Siren (2018)

https://t.co/A6nqLzBrJ4

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

The classical piano leanings of Give Yourself Away turn into haunting Twin Peaks Black Lodge style atmospherics, paving the way for an album full of surprises.

(NARC.)

Haley - Give Yourself Away (2018)

https://t.co/SfMqVq5ekp

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Goatman is a member of the Swedish collective Goat and as a fan of the band I was expecting pretty much from this new release. And it delivered!

(Fuzzy Sun)

Goatman - Limelight (2018)

https://t.co/S1EaEvfTUW

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

I write you ceaselessly and abstracted
I hang out with old friends
And they unknowingly remind me
Of who I was before we met

Swearin' - Grow into a Ghost (2018)

https://t.co/9t4Wwnnd20

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

On My Skin is the second single taken from The KVB's forthcoming album 'Only Now Forever', release on Invada Records on all formats 12th October 2018.

(Bandcamp)

The KVB - On My Skin (2018)

https://t.co/fnIxdY2EkK

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Pronounced 'exec'. Now a six piece. Three albums coming out in the foreseeable future.

(Bandcamp)

EXEK - Withheld from the Cycle (2018)

https://t.co/RruB5WzYTd

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

I listen to children playing outside
Children playing outside

Screaming like monsters
Screaming like monsters

Children playing outside

B77 - Child (2018)

https://t.co/lMa6CrQuIF

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Compilation series Air Texture, which asks two artists to select two CDs worth of unreleased music, has enlisted Berghain/Panorama Bar residents Steffi and Martyn...

(https://t.co/fy4JgQe595)

Late Night Approach - The Naus Galaxy (2018)

https://t.co/0tCzh2Ophz

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

Cobbled together out of ethnographic recordings, distant shortwave signals, and idiosyncratic synths, Apologia (album) sets its sights on an elusive state of transcendence.

(Pitchfork)

Niagara - França (2018)

https://t.co/couSxDnrj6

[RockMusic @rockmusic]

One of the most acclaimed proponents of the "Witch House" movement, WHITE RING blend heavy, distorted electronics with eerie, unsettling vocals.

(Bandcamp)

White Ring - Angels (2018)

https://t.co/8y3zJTjINY