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Ideally they could have both systems implemented, just like with Deadfire at this point. The question is how much that would take from a resource perspective and so on.

Speaking of new albums, did I link the new album by Lingua Ignota before? Caligula's quite extraordinary, blending the harshness of death industrial and power electronics production with dense orchestral arrangements to create a pretty harrowing, mastodonic experience, with her undeniably powerful declamatory voice at the forefront of it all. Truly one of the finest vocalists around. Again, you can listen to the full thing here.

Yeah, both his albums and those with F--- Buttons tend to have this very expansive, maximalist "wall of noise" approach to them, but it does feel like he's taking this particular record farther with the noise and death industrial influences than his previous work. It feels harsher and more aggressive, and in a way it reminds me of Ben Frost's A U R O R A as well. But whereas I feel A U R O R A suffers a bit from all the noise and compression somehow drowning out the lower frequencies and making the record feel a little tinny, Animated Violence Mild does have that weight to it and I think it makes its very crunchy "cosmic bulldozer" sound quite appealing. I quite like it.

The new Blanck Mass album, Animated Violence Mild, is out today! I'll give it a proper listen, but very much looking forward to it. For those interested, you can listen to it here.

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Looks very good!

A couple of tracks off Sarah Kirkland Snider's Unremembered, a pretty interesting and lush chamber pop album with strong Benjamin Britten overtones: Also rather reminiscent of John Greaves' Songs:

Here's a really good and in-depth interview to the founder of H2K regarding the business side of esports. Though a lot of the conversation stems from League since it's a League talkshow, a lot of what is discussed is applicable to all esports and they do discuss cases like CS:GO, DotA 2 and Overwatch.

For what it's worth, I do think the dearth of R-rated "A movies" was a greater problem a few years back than it is today, in great part thanks to Deadpool's success and the subsequent string of mid-budget R-rated successes and so on, what with Logan, John Wick, It, the Jordan Peele films et al. A24 is also progressively pushing its way into wider releases whilst always offering some interesting alternative to the all-too-familiar mainstream landscape. Whilst I wouldn't suggest the mainstream has sufficient diversity in the films they offer, I do hope the upwards trend of these continues.

Joeeeeel! Nice to see you around!

Looking forward to this. Really like Malick in general, even what I've seen of the latter half of his output. This seems more reminiscent of The New World than any of his post-Tree of Life work.

A pretty lovely track off of Meg Baird's Don't Wight Down the Light. Her voice is

So did Avatar, to be fair. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)#Extended_theatrical_re-release

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7yk7/walmart-removes-violent-video-game-signage-still-sells-guns Great going, Walmart, this'll surely change things.

Here's a fantastic industrial mix from Rabit and Chino Amobi, full of political declamation, crunchy walls of noise, wonderful John Carpenter-esque synth harmonies, etc:

This sounds pretty cool! A bit more reminiscent of the usual Amon Tobin sound than Fear in a Handful of Dust (though I don't speak with the greatest authority in the matter either). I'll have a listen to it! Also Martes is indeed superb, to me what Murcof's done there is essentially the electronic equivalent to the sacred minimalism of John Tavener, Arvo Pärt and the likes. Really transcendent work. This is probably my favorite track off the album:

Platform by Holly Herndon is quite wonderful, blending the dizzying sonic collages and polyrhythms of IDM with the spiritual glitch of Murcof's Martes to create an art pop record that recalls Björk at her best at times, in feel if not necessarily in sound, filled with that same kind of creative drive and resonant core.

Some usual Blanck Mass excellence right here. Crunchy industrial beats, chopped up vocal harmonies, wonderful synth lines and textures, it's basically the quintessential sound right here.

Please let it be Pillars 3.

And here's some pretty cool retro synthpop from 2015:

Been listening to a fair bit of 2015 music as part of a little project of mine to get up to date with a lot of this decade's music. At some point during 2013-2014 I grew saturated and fed up with the music of the time, feeling we'd been hitting a dry spell since about 2008 and seeing no end to it. And whilst I still hold that 2008-2013 were something of a slump and we are a far ways off from the heights of the late 60s and early 70s, I am thankfully starting to find a lot of interesting acts emerging from this point onwards, and I'm glad to be taking the time to acquaint myself with them. As with previous years I've been attempting to listen to enough records so as to come up with a yearly top 20 list for each that I can feel comfortable with sharing. So far, here's the top 20s for 2013 and 2014, for anyone interested, and if anyone is interested in discussing/commenting: 2013: Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels Bear Bones, Lay Low - Occultciti Jon Hopkins - Immunity Tim Hecker - Virgins Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle - Perils from the Sea Melt-Banana - Fetch bvdub & Loscil - Erebus Autechre - Exai Fire! Orchestra - Exit! Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away Julia Holter - Loud City Song Roly Porter - Life Cycle of a Massive Star The Haxan Cloak - Excavation Matt Elliott - Only Myocardial Infarction Can Break Your Heart Mélanie de Biasio - No Deal Goldfrapp - Tales of Us Alameda 3 - Późne królestwo Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Pharmakon - Abandon Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven 2014: Swans - To Be Kind The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Zim Zam Zim Africa Express - Africa Express Presents... Terry Riley's In C Mali Flying Lotus - You're Dead! Sun Kil Moon - Benji Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2 Honduras Libregrupo - Cinco Kasai Allstars - Beware the Fetish Richard Dawson - Nothing Important Angles 9 - Injuries Talea Ensemble / JACK Quartet / Huck Hodge - Life Is Endless Like Our Field of Vision Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata Widdly 2 Diddly - LISA Soundtrack X.Y.R. - Arktika Ian William Craig - A Turn of Breath Fire! Orchestra - Enter United Bible Studies - Doineann Daniela Casa - Sovrapposizione Di Immagini DJ Rozwell - None of This Is Real The Body - I Shall Die Here

Or Can's Tago Mago for that matter. I was actually trying to find "The Above Ground Sound" to share but there seems to be no YouTube link for that unfortunately. The album, which you can find here, is highly recommended on my side. Worth checking out if you enjoyed the sound of that!