Track Of The Day

A look at one of my fave tracks from the album The Absence Of A Canary (1981) by Canadian electronic duo Ceramic Hello and how I came to find it.

World Of Rubber by UK post-punk duo Second Layer was lucky find from many years ago, and its closing track “Black Flowers” a moody fave.

Now for an artist I don’t know much about: Ziggurath and his most recently released album of fantasy-tinges ambiences, True North (2024).

The sole LP by the short-lived Beautiful Skin, an American electronic duo working with sounds preceding the minimal wave revival, from hardcore roots.

Released in 1981, the track “Dark Rooms” by the short-lived Chicago post-punk group DA! goes for slow moving dramatics with accompanying promo video.

“Wheel Of Earth” is a track from one of several early cassette releases that came out in the early 80s from American sound composer Robert Rich.

The first song written by Pailhead, an unlikely collaboration between Fugazi‘s Ian Mackaye and Ministry‘s Al Jourgensen from their sole compiled 1988 release Trait.

The holiday season is here and for various reasons I sort of singled out Mick Karn‘s 1982 album Titles as one to soundtrack the festive period.

An oddball, hidden expletive hides under the layers of vocals on this track from the 1971 psycheledic space classic Space Hymns album by Ramases.

One that re-entered my head after quite some time by accident, that being the opening track “Heads Down” from the sole 1998 LP by The Farewell Bend.

November Group were a Boston-based, Europe-leaning post-punk group brought to my attention by a friend I met on tour many years ago.

Of the many one-off italo disco tracks pumped out by Italian studios in the 70s and 80s, it would seem the synths weren’t calibrated for this one!

A magical, icy instrumental number called “Dark River” from Coil‘s third album, Love’s Secret Domain, that has had some lasting power for me.

A space-y yet ominous electro synth number from the only LP of American/German collaboration Jyl, released in 1984 and re-released in 2020.

With darker post-punk music being spoken more and more in many different languages, the band Eirin Peryglus is one of the few I know of sung in Welsh.

The challenging major label debut album Pony Express Record by Washington DC’s Shudder To Think and to me one of the most beautiful oddball signings of the 90s alternative boom.

With the atmosphere of winter kicking in, a re-listen of the work of American composer and sound artist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe seemed in order.

After connecting with the Finnish synth punk/EBM duo Aus Tears in my travels, I gave their latest release Structure and Collapse a listen.

Currently listening to many things that aren’t electronic music, here I give a little overview on U.S. Maple and their track “Obey Your Concert”.

In discovering a number of soundtrack pieces for giallo films, this uneasy short piece by Italian composer Riz Ortolani came to my attention.

With the recent passing of Sparkmarker guitarist/vocalist Kim Kinakin, this is a look at their 1994 release Products And Accessories and the track “Levi’s Deklein”.