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The unifying factor is the mood that these 4 multi-instrumentalists create, one of longing and lonesome twinges you get when looking through old photos.

At times, the music almost reaches a religious frenzy, while at other times, it becomes a stately procession, full of dignity and grace.

Love Spirals Downwards have released an album that’s incredibly listenable and quite beautiful.

Caul is similar in tone, but far more, dare I say, melodic and musical than anything I’ve heard by Lustmord.

Evokes scenes of long-abandoned cathedrals in the wasteland, Christian ceremonies carried out in the catacombs, black-robed monks carrying out their sacred duties.

There’s a great sense of intimacy and warmth here, which sounds odd compared with the often bleak and frightening sounds Caul uses.

This was Slowdive’s swan song, and a gorgeous one at that.

Souvlaki is Slowdive’s best collective effort, funneling the atmospherics of their previous efforts into a more cohesive package.

My first introduction to Slowdive, and an album that left such an impact on me that I still compare new albums to it today.

I’d like to take this album on a long drive through the country with the top down, and just soaking up the spring.

Definitely an album every rock fan should own.

Suffice it to say, Gold was one of the best Christian releases of 1995.

I don’t know where these people get their inspiration or opus, but I just hope they keep creating works of art like this one.

What Lucid is able to do in the 75 minutes of this CD is create some of most interesting experimental ambience I’ve ever heard.

I say that I’m frustrated by this album because it’s very easy for me to dismiss it, when a part of me knows I should be enraptured by it.

Few records made in the ’90s can get this or more emotional.

This is real hip-hop, black science fiction in the tradition of Parliament/Funkadelic and Sun Ra.

Punk rock would still be interesting if it sounded more like these guys.

This falls into the “goth” and “industrial” categories but does so while circumventing many of those genres’ pitfalls.

The 21-year-old Kid turns in some pretty fine Autechre/Aphex Twin-style glitch techno.