In 2019 I made music but listened to hardly any. Chelsea Wolfe managed to find her way into my head with The Birth Of Violence as did Grift with Aftonklang Live at Emanuel Vigeland Mausoleum, but that (and Windir) was pretty much all I could tolerate.
However, today I felt ready to reclaim my love of discovering new sounds. So I took to Facebook and asked what I’d missed in 2019. I collected some gems in the comments, including Sing As The Crow Flies by Laura Cannell & Polly Wright, Sequestered Sympathy by Exulansis and Woodland Rites by Green Lung. (Click on the images to go straight to the albums.)
Celebrating the strange and the shadowy, the damned and unseen 