Mikel's Record Bin

sharing bits of my passion for music

Posts tagged with: experimental rock

experimental rock

Embryonic – The Flaming Lips

I'm such a fan of this album. It's raw and threadbare. The production is so very analog. It's as though they sent everything through as much analog...

Leave Kanye out of this – Black Country, New Road

It's experimental and post-rock and Slint with klezmer and pushes back at the rock-band format.  The band gained notoriety from their first two singles, "Athens, France" and "Sunglasses."  For their...

Kikagaku Moyo – Kumoyo Island

I was chilling one evening surfing chaotically through the youtubes as one does when the track "Decending Blue" popped up.  Its intro starts with an odd cello line that's quickly...

California Deserves Whatever It Gets – Milk Cult

Elements of rock, jazz, hip-hop, metal, surf rock, and 90s industrial keep you guessing where this quite palatable mix will go next.  The one thing it does stick to is...

Night Verses

The album starts out with a somewhat chaotic-sounding drum fill with background noise and a vocal sample. Then it's straight into this blistering prog-metal riff designed to give you a...

The Book of Knots

The album is grand in size at times and introspective without being overbearing or brutal. Dark and brooding, peculiar atmosphere and artistry....