Under the watchful eye of time the project is eerily subtle, led by warm, intimate vocals that shift on a dime from angelic to intense.

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The visceral feeling of dialectic breakdown is explored on the new experimental record "I wish I was special" by Guests. By layering cut-up samples, delicate electronica, and repetitive lyrics, Guests constructs disjointed semantics that echo with aching familiarity.

It’s finally back: the Hip Hop Roundup! We have a fantastic variety of underground material to share with you today, so let’s get started!

From black metal to progressive metal to sludge metal, this week brought us a fantastic variety of metal albums to choose from. Let’s see some of the best that this week had to offer!

Though many of the sounds and aesthetics repeat across the album, chaotic and traumatic events in the world and community get spoken about on the album in increasingly hushed tones, losing their shock value as entropy spreads like a plague, serving as the only constant force pushing time forward.

Disturbed by the blood and flesh of the world and uncomforted by God, the speaker leaves us with a bleak acknowledgement of the continuing of this repetitive hell, leaving us no recourse but to join in their screams of agony.

Much like James Joyce’s Ulysses follows Leopold Bloom through the city of Dublin as he interacts with the eccentric townspeople of Dublin, the avant garde record Harbour Century by Eunuchs is a multifaceted stream-of-consciousness exposition of the various ne'er-do-wells, criminals, and addicts of Sydney Harbour.

The new album Southside Bottoms by Dawuna unpacks the emotional life of these communities with an extremely delicate hand, using a lens of minimalist, experimental r&b to bring this extinct ecosystem to life.

However, their new record Турукка киирии (Acoustic) peels back the metal furnishings on this band’s songwriting, revealing that the underlying forces moving their music actually derive directly from the traditions of their unique Siberian Turkic culture.

This concept of religious existential dread is expounded on the hauntological release Organum Psychosis by UgUrGkuliktavikt, with a sound rooted in dark ambient music and pulling samples of church orchestras, old hymns, and field recordings, inducing a feeling of spiritual terror in the face of incomprehensible eternity.

Singer-songwriter experimentalist The Disposable Lighters conduct a character study about this process on their new record Meet Mary Magdalen, a lo-if stream of consciousness that picks up steam just as it continuously derails.

All at once, a stampede of harsh realizations trample us, awakening dark memories from the good old days that remind us of the deception caused by nostalgic rose-tinted glasses, of the dark, unfamiliar forces that bring uncomfortably random misfortune to the world.

Rather than frantically searching, Jain explores the beauty and detail found in each present moment, allowing delight to flow forth from the beauty found in every passing second.

Deeply nihilistic lyrics tell the story of a speaker whose disillusionment with the inhumanity of the world extends inward and vice versa, creating a viscous cycle in which misanthropy and self-loathing reinforce each other.

Identifying the sun and other stars as the givers of life, Daisy Rickman fantasizes about uniting with these life sources, using their music as a stepladder to get them ever closer to the force that animates themselves and all of their ancestors.

Quaint, repeated melodies help lead intense bouts of noise through the passage, causing an upwelling of emotion that combats a stubborn thought loop.

Further personifying the insidiousness of these luxury apartments, experimental electronic group Lolina’s new album Unrecognizable tells an absurd narrative set in a world where buildings are used as weapons.

Channeling this pure positive energy, You Are Peace! You Are Love! by Lua Trilogy! and Mayfly Priestess laughs in the face of traditional dogmas to deliver a message of unencumbered humanism.

Musically complex and ideologically inspirational, the avant garde jazz record New Monuments pulses with the heartbeat of protest music, not only demanding change but actively participating in the construction of a better world.