Listening Log Present - Volume 76

What's a Listening Log? Well, the idea is quite simple. It's a monthly segment that consolidates all the mini-reviews Dozens Of Donuts has given on RateYourMusic over the past month (excluding separate, full-length reviews), split between the Past and Present. A straightforward grading scale has been put in place, ranging from A+ to F-, with C acting as the baseline average. There is no set amount of reviews per month, just however many I get around to reviewing. Enjoy!

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Adrianne Lenker
songs
2020 | Singer/Songwriter | Listen

| Autumn Shivers Rattle A Pen On A Creaky Desk |

Choice Cut ... 'anything'

For Fans Of ... humble origins, simple beauty, dubious serenity

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Chester Watson
A Japanese Horror Film
2020 | Cloud Rap | Listen

| A Culture King Spellbound By The Yōkai's Ethereal Tethers |

Choice Cut ... 'Porcelain Geisha'

For Fans Of ... cultural transposing, narcotic verses, half-hearted concepts

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Tuluum Shimmering
Sister Ray Meets China Cat
2020 | Drone | Listen

| Hypnotized By The Pungent Aroma Of A Metaphysical Shop |

Choice Cut ... 'Sister Ray Meets China Cat'

For Fans Of ... hypnosis, the rising sun, communal pacifism

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Patricia Taxxon
Heaven's Sun
2020 | HexD | Listen

| Petulant Brawls Breaking Out At Heaven's Gate |

Choice Cut ... 'Misty!'

For Fans Of ... 8-bit strokes, unfathomable compression, a disorientating future

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Coral Club
Nowhere Island
2020 | Ambient Dub | Listen

| Past And Future Harmonize Under The Canopy |

Choice Cut ... 'Lifeforms'

For Fans Of ... Easter Island excursions, natural wonders, birdsongs

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Joensuu 1685
ÖB
2020 | Christian Rock | Listen

| Reveling In A Christmas Day Miracle |

Choice Cut ... 'All Around You'

For Fans Of ... holiday glow, desperate anthems, inviting walls of sound

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Floating Action
Outsider Art
2020 | Lo-Fi Indie | Listen

| Making Sense Of The Abstraction Of One's Own Will |

Choice Cut ... 'The Great Deceiver'

For Fans Of ... self-motivators, outsiders, soft-spoken philosophizers

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Róisín Murphy
Róisín Machine
2020 | Nu-Disco | Listen

| One Last Hooray Before Society's Collapse |

Choice Cut ... 'Jealousy'

For Fans Of ... daybreak parties, enterprising stardom, Disco and Big Beat

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Son Lux
Tomorrows II
2020 | Chamber Pop | Listen

| Tearing Out One's Heart With Piano Wire |

Choice Cut ... 'Live Another Life'

For Fans Of ... fragile remorse, disjointed harmonies, a dolorous optimist

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Ichiko Aoba
Adan No Kaze
2020 | Chamber Folk | Listen

| Mingling With Nymphs During Spring's Dawning Crest |

Choice Cut ... 'Pilgrimage'

For Fans Of ... fantastical folklore, enchanted realms, Nature Recordings

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Roly Porter
Kistvaen
2020 | Dark Ambient | Listen

| Committing Sacrilege On An Ancient Burial Ground |

Choice Cut ... 'Burial'

For Fans Of ... brooding ambience, world-ending release, irreversible death

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Four Tet
Parallel
2020 | Progressive Electronic | Listen

| Symphonizing Photosynthesis From The Garden's Terrace |

Choice Cut ... 'Parallel 4'

For Fans Of ... Eno's meditative pieces, garden's in bloom, tactual production

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Shinichi Atobe
Yes
2020 | Minimal Techno | Listen

| Elevator Party For One |

Choice Cut ... 'Yes'

For Fans Of ... basic Techno templates, forced hypnotism, bone-dry textures

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