Another year is in the books. They are just speeding by these days, which I suspect is a combination of me getting older and some kind of temporal distortion caused by COVID that seemed to change how time is experienced. Regardless, it was a good year in the Life In The Vinyl Lane household with […]
Month: December 2024
Les Rallizes Dénudés – “Azabu Studio Demo 1985 Vol. 1 & Vol. 2” (2023)
Since I broke the ice in discussing “bands I’m fascinated with but am not sure I actually like” with yesterday’s post about Nurse With Wound, I figured I’d continue the theme today and write a bit about the Japanese psych collective known as Les Rallizes Dénudés. Conveniently enough on the same trip on which I […]
Nurse With Wound – “Second Pirate Session” (1998)
There are a number of quasi-obscure artists who fascinate me. These are musicians and bands who the average music fan (whatever that is) hasn’t ever heard of, and would probably hate, but which have a certain canonical place in the fringes where they dwell. Sometimes this makes me worry I’m being unconsciously pretentious, or perhaps […]
Depressive Silence – “Vinyl Discography Boxset” (2023)
One of the interesting things about dungeon synth is music that comfortably fits into the genre was being made well before it had in fact been genre-fied. Back in the 90s you might have seen these releases lumped into the broader dark ambient categorization, and that’s certainly not wrong. But it does lack the specificity […]