GENRE ARCHIVE
Experimental
Every experimental record we scored. Newest first.
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OCT 9 2026EXPERIMENTALMarina Herlop — “Dja Dja”Her strongest writing, on the first record that is entirely hers.4
OCT 1 2026EXPERIMENTALQuadeca — “Life 1”Swings hard, lands most of it, stumbles on the dance single.3.5
SEP 30 2026EXPERIMENTALEXAUDI — “Pocket Universe”Four worlds, one ensemble, and the ensemble wins.4
SEP 27 2026EXPERIMENTALBaBa ZuLa — “XXX”Thirty years in, BaBa ZuLa still refuse the easy record.4
SEP 6 2026EXPERIMENTALMelissa Auf der Maur — “BASS WOMB ROOM: My '90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings”The tapes were worth the fifteen-year wait.3.5
AUG 24 2026EXPERIMENTALStephen O’Malley — “Avaeken”Monumental, patient, and too reverent to fully land.3.5
AUG 14 2026EXPERIMENTALL’Rain — “Fata Morgana”Her sharpest of the four, held back by its fragments.4.5
JUL 31 2026EXPERIMENTALThe Body — “Master, We Perish”A hard EP whose titles are the argument.3.5
JUL 31 2026EXPERIMENTALHIGHSIGH — “Once Bend”A structural success, maybe not yet a full emotional hit.3.5
JUL 31 2026EXPERIMENTALPatrick Belaga — “Solar Calf”A map with no final boss, and no reason to leave.4
JUL 24 2026EXPERIMENTALKishi Bashi — “Kishi Bashi / Tall Tall Trees & The Sound Sanctuary”Small, strange, and better than the gimmick it could have been.3.5
JUL 10 2026EXPERIMENTALXiu Xiu — “Eraserhead Xiu Xiu”Hard going, and the closing track justifies all of it.3.5
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