Lav's Music Corner

Lockstep Bloodwar  - Sightless Pit Sightless Pit is a musical project I first caught onto a few years ago as a meeting of the minds between frequent collaborators from experimental metal bands The Body and Full Of Hell alongside one of the most interesting artists in all of music in the past 5 years, Lingua Ignota. Now they've released a second album and even though Lingua Ignota is no longer involved, the record isn't lacking in interesting collaborations as a few artists I was already familiar with like Midwife, Gangsta Boo, and claire rousay appear in the tracklist. When this record is living in its comfort zone of crushing distorted textures, harrowing screamed vocals and the genuine sonic intensity of extreme metal things go pretty well. Opening track Resin On A Knife  is an early highlight and the pairing with Midwife makes perfect sense and the title track around the midpoint satisfies my desire for horrifying shrill sounds on any album associated with The Body. The rec...

Paraglow  - Parannoul & Asian Glow This is the new collaborative project from two artists whose EP wells I've already dipped into in 2022. Parannoul's breakout album To See The Next Part Of The Dream  was one of my favorite releases of 2021 and I was craving new music so badly I reviewed both the Parannoul ambient side project Mydreamfever's album Rough And Beautiful Place  and the B-Sides EP that followed it with leftover tracks from Dream . Asian Glow on the other hand is dipping back into the well of collaborative EPs with recent breakout internet core artists after dropping the very solid Weatherglow  collaboration with Weatherday earlier this year. Given that I enjoyed that project a lot and I love Parannoul this felt like a slam dunk. Unfortunately, no matter how much I listen to the opening track Hand  I'm just not crazy about it. Even compared to the B-sides dropped earlier this year it just sounds too much like a song that wouldn't have made the cu...