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90. Lingua Ignota – Holy Is The Name (Of My Ruthless Axe) Kristin Hayter first made an impression through her work with the body. The at once beautiful and violently commanding strenght of her voice gave rise to many of the finest moments of the newest output of No One Deserves Happiness and I Have Fought Against It . Her solo work as Lingua Ignota is as pressuring to be comprehended and positions toward in the same way. Self-released in 2017, Profound Lore gave All Bitches Die a major release this year and thus it is only right to highlight the intensity of “Holy is The Name (Of My Ruthless Axe”. Closing an album of industrial electronics mixed with metal and operatic vocal styles, “Holy Is The Name” is a nocturnal and transcendental conclusion. Hayters performance opens towards the operatic and ecclesial music while still grappling with rape and sexual violence in the framework of vengeance. It brilliantly captures the exhaustion of laying down between cold bodies of your aggre...

This introduction starts with my yearly apology for not writing more on this piece of shit of a blog. Every part of life takes its pound of flesh and I spent a lot of time on useless projects, which could have been used to write a great many reviews for great albums and tracks that didn´t even get the attention or recognition on other outlets. Maybe someday, I´ll get around and do this full time. But I´ve beend writing a lot, will finish a degree soon and might get down to bringing out more content in 2017. For all things, check out my articles over here and my visit on a German student radio, talking about some of my favorite tracks and my own biography through music. Enjoy this list, I sure do.    101. Nagamatzu – Melancholy Oxide ( Above This Noise ) Nagamatzu was a duo shortly active in the  1980´s and this years Above This Noise compiled some of their scattered material on a great compilation. "Melancholy Oxide", much like the other songs, captures ...

This is the continuation of Top 100 tracklist. If you haven´t already , check out the first fifty tracks here. 49. Pharrell - "Happy" (from Despicable Me 2 OST) Hearing a original song with Pharrell and only Pharrell is something very rare nowadays. And it always is a great pleasure to see that he isn´t just the producer and backing vocals man of everyone in the industry. "Happy" might also be a good prospect of what to expect from his second solo album eschewing rap completely. 2014 just gets more and more exciting. Also this song features a 24-Hour video: http://24hoursofhappy.com/ 48. Moderat - "Bad Kingdom" (from II) II by Moderat was one of the best electronica albums of this year. Being a collab of Appart and Modeselector, they can be considered a dream pairing of two genre defying artist in German electronic music. "Bad Kingdom" is a great example of indie like vocals working on a very straightforward dance track. Intercha...