Tarja Turunen - Outlanders - VINYL LP

Tara Nome Doyle, a 24-year-old artist from Berlin -with Irish and Norwegian roots is a charismatic voice of her generation. »Værmin« is the name of her new full-length album -the second after her glorious debut »Alchemy«. The record tells the haunting tale of a toxic relationship and is rich with symbolism and emotional wisdom. Piano, violin, synthesisers and pulsating beats create a wide space in which Tara Nome Doyle's voice shifts between angelic heights and ominous, twisted lows. »Værmin« is an emotionally moving album that celebrates the -supposedly- ugly that lives in and around all of us. All the tracks are named after creatures that are considered to be undesirable pests »Leeches«, »Caterpillar«, »Snail«, »Mosquito«, »Crow«, »Moth«, »Spider«, »Worms«. Tara Nome Doyle brings these creatures out of the shadows, and in doing so also poses a political question in her art What would happen if we »welcomed« the vermin instead of rejecting them? Wouldn't we then arrive at a much richer, more balanced relationship to ourselves, a healthier relationship with the world around us and to other people? »Værmin« is a grand, wise, deeply moving album. Tara Nome Doyle's songs immediately grab a hold of you and get stuck in your head -existential music by an extraordinary artist.

Oksana Linde - Travesias [VINYL LP] date 04/11/2025

Neverland, the fourteenth studio album by ULVER is the sound of an escape. A journey into undiscovered lands. Following three albums - InchThe Assassination of Julius CaesarInch (2017), InchFlowers of EvilInch (2020), and InchLiminal AnimalsInch (2024) - rooted in more traditional song and production structures, InchNeverlandInch marks a new chapter in the revered Oslo band's history. InchWith 'Neverland' we embraced a more 'punk' spirit - more dreaming, less discipline - freer, quite simplyInch, the band comments on the creative process behind the album. Bursts of daybreak synths and whooshes of sound set the atmosphere, before the wolves start digging into the dynamics of ambient calm and anarchic mysticism. Dreamy and transportive textures develop into trippy percussive energies, and as the album unfolds, a rich and vibrant, and at times exotic space opens. Apart from a few recurring distant voices and vocal chops, InchNeverlandInch is a largely instrumental record, reminiscent of the mood and structure of that place where late '90s IDM sounds met the meandering structures of post-rock. The ghost of premillennial sample culture surely haunts InchNeverlandInch, and some might even hear echoes from earlier acclaimed works like InchPerdition CityInch (2000), or the InchSilenceInch EPs (2001), or more recently InchATGCLVLSSCAPInch (2016). Still, InchNeverlandInch sounds and feels like something else, something fresh in ULVER's continuous journey of perennial reinvention. Pop music from in-between worlds? A sonic hallucination? Or better a collage of dreams. It's up to you.