Scene Point Blank's Favorites: Year End (2015)
Music / Year End 2015 • January 12, 2016
It's that fabled time of year – SPB's favorite albums of the last twelve months. In this list, assembled by combining all of out staff writers' individual lists (no editorialising!), we show you the best music of 2015 including old favorites, new artists and a couple of other twists. Read on to find out what albums you shouldn't have missed from the year just gone. Overall list 1 Prurient Frozen Niagara Falls Profound Lore There is not much one can say about Prurient, the project of Dominick Fernow. Throughout the years Prurient have produced an extensive discography that sees them creating a cartography of the dark ambient and noise genres with their own experimental mindset. The project has been going on for about twenty years now, but it seems that the focus that Fernow put on the latest, double record of Prurient was far more concentrated. Frozen Niagara Falls is one dark, dark album. Once you take the vocals under consideration and the way they fit together with the noise and ambient parts, there is simply no escape. They can appear clean and in a distance, extreme and in your face or distorted and combined with the noise. They always work within the music and add further dimensions with their disturbing presence and destructive lyrics. All that soon become too much to handle, and especially when you consider that this is a ninety-minute double album, it is quite difficult to stomach it in one go. Still that does not diminish … Read more
2015: A Year In Review
Music / Year End 2015 • January 12, 2016
As if we haven't told you enough about 2015—artist roundups, label roundups, our favorite records—we've got a couple more lists for you. Find out the best new music on Bandcamp … Read more
Pass The Mic: Artists on 2015
Music / Year End 2015 • December 27, 2015
It's the end of another year, and time for us to ask some of our favorite artists and bands for their reflections on the past twelve months in music. As … Read more
Pass The Mic: Record Labels on 2015
Music / Year End 2015 • December 21, 2015
Every year since 2006, Scene Point Blank has made it our mission to find out what our community thought of the previous twelve months in music. At the end of … Read more
