Over in the vinyl sub at the Bad Place, u/Folk_nurse had been doing a Vinyl Tunes for June thing. When the blackout started, I kept adding to my own list each day, and I’d love to carry on with you all. Below is the calendar, I’ll start a thread each day.
The point is just to get us all looking at our physical collections and sharing music.
And seriously… ALL credit and thanks go to folk_nurse. I’m just not headed back there.
Öröm - 8
Dark Ambient/Gothic Doom from Hungary. Incredible album with quite a unique ambience. Simultaneously melancholic and stoic. The textures between the chorused guitars, the synths with their emulated strings, brass, and piano, and the narrated vocal stylings vacillating between baritone spoken word and whispered rasps weave together an aural image of a remembered sorrow or a persistent longing for something always outside one's grasp. Slow and entrancing in its approach, not shy of sparse arrangements and repetitive passages.
It may suffer slightly from underproduction and less than perfect performances, but if you are so inclined you may find this to add to the character of the album. This was never destined for expensive studio time nor broad commercial appeal. This is niche music to fit the drear of the dark nights of a soul. A real gem for those receptive to its aesthetic.