Athena, Holding Your Hair, Whispering In Your Ear

For me a few are enough, one is enough, none is enough. This is not for the many, but for you. We are audience enough for each other.

Pretty, haunting, gorgeous, and bristling, all at once. Gives me shivers even after a few dozen listens.

Trad. darkwave, very well executed. It's value to you will be immediately apparent if it's a thing that you'd value.

Her work has been culminating to this. Wild, moody, and full of surprises. Give it a few spins.

Sharon Van Etten with a full band, making gauzy, faintly gothic rock? A delightful experiment, and there are still strong echoes of her folk here.

Difficult to describe; dark and mighty weird. It evokes a particular late 90's production aesthetic without being fully encompassed by it: Perfect Drug era NIN, Mechanical Animals era Manson, with occasional forays into Venetian Snares style madness. Basically "Canopy of Eden" could have been a track on the Lost Highway soundtrack without anyone batting an eye.

Speaking of charming fin de siecle throwbacks, this record would have been right at home with the cuter side of the late 90's trip hop explosion (think Moloko goofing off not Portishead smoldering). Shimmering and clever.

Saya Gray continues her delightful journey into weird pop music, gradually becoming more tuneful, but still pleasantly odd.

Modern dream pop with rock flourishes. Complex composition that never feels labored, and lots of hooks. An easy listen.

The only working IDM artist that keeps surprising me year after year. Lots going on, but also quite subtle, rewards headphone listening.

A career highlight, the songs are moving, lively, and have plenty of memorably peculiar turns of phrase. Maybe the best thing they've done since Feel it Break?