Daily Drops · Vol.099每日唱片 · Vol.099
A band gone fifteen years returns with a suite built to keep falling and never land. 幾個做死亡金屬的人，私下把 Steely Dan 的和絃彈成了數學搖滾。
MAQUINA. — BODY TRANSMISSION
- Released發行
- 2026-07-10（Bandcamp：releases 10 July 2026）
MAQUINA. are a Lisbon trio fronted by a singer who grew up in a small town in Paraná, Brazil, and onstage they are known for stretching a single motif well past the ten-minute mark. The record does the reverse. It takes that live sprawl and crushes it into three-minute slugs, the density intact but forced into a smaller box, forever about to burst the seams. The mix is saturated to the edge of clipping; the drums seem struck against your ear. "dança," the opener, brings in Dame Area, whose voice and the machine pulse knot into the least forgiving three minutes here. It is a record that mistrusts comfort and says so out loud. My pick of the day.
Xiu Xiu — Eraserhead Xiu Xiu
- Released發行
- 2026-07-10（Bandcamp：releases 10 July 2026）
Jamie Stewart has rescored the whole of David Lynch's Eraserhead — a live score, a performance, a concert film — and the sound sources are exactly as unruly as you'd hope: homemade instruments, an organ, modular synths, flashlights, the hiss of electrical interference. "Tetra" and "Sleep Synth" climb from near-silent scrapings to something close to grotesque, and then the closer, a cover of Peter Ivers's "In Heaven," arrives improbably tender. You won't find this on Spotify: the band pulled their entire catalog in protest of the former CEO's investment in AI war drones, which is its own kind of statement about where a record wants to live.
Holy Wave — i'm DADA
- Released發行
- 2026-07-10（Bandcamp：releases 10 July 2026）
The Austin psych outfit decamped to Ensenada, Mexico to cut this one alongside Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, and the border air suits them. "dewey's dirge" unfolds without hurry, hazy guitars blooming over a softened motorik pulse that keeps everything drifting forward. Where earlier Holy Wave records could feel like pastiche, this one settles into its own weather — warmer, looser, content to circle a groove until it means something. It is the sound of a band on holiday from its influences, and the better for it.
Parts & Labor — Set of All Sets
- Released發行
- 2026-07-10（Bandcamp：releases 10 July 2026）
Fifteen years since their last album, and the Brooklyn noise-rockers return with their fixation on structure fully intact. Snares and roto-toms ping-pong across the stereo field, junk percussion clatters, and a melody always survives the din. The centerpiece is the three-part "Descending," which exploits the Shepard-tone illusion — chords that seem forever to be falling and never once resolve, an Escher staircase rendered in feedback. It is a formal trick that could have been a gimmick; here it becomes the emotional argument, a record about momentum that refuses to arrive.
Ebbb — Shallow Hits
- Released發行
- 2026-07-10（Bandcamp：releases 10 July 2026）
Ebbb are a London trio, and Shallow Hits is their debut for Ninja Tune. Their method is density: shimmering synth lines and multi-tracked harmonies stacked into what should read as cold, technoid pop and instead opens out into something sweeping. The title track begins as a small loop and grows until it nearly overflows the frame. For a first record it arrives with unusual poise — the Quietus reached for "game-changing," which is the kind of thing critics say and later regret, though on this evidence they may be safe.
Daydream Plus — Second Last Day of Summer
- Released發行
- 2026-07-10（Bandcamp：releases 10 July 2026）
The premise is the joke and the joke is good: a Toronto trio that includes members of the death-metal band Tomb Mold, playing entirely instrumental music that borrows Don Caballero's math-rock skeleton and lacquers it in smooth jazz. The chords come straight out of the Steely Dan songbook; the sweetness comes from video-game soundtracks and anime scores. It should be insufferable. It is, instead, disarming — clever without smirking, the sound of serious players letting themselves enjoy something.
Dewa Alit & Gamelan Salukat — Baur Bentur
- Released發行
- 2026-06-19（Bandcamp：released 19 June 2026）— 補記（唯一非今日碟，在場未報）
Midway through, the jazz pianist Sri Hanuraga walks into a Balinese gamelan and the collision — Western harmony against a scale no piano could be tuned to — becomes the whole event. Dewa Alit built this gamelan to his own microtonal specifications, and elsewhere sets its tunings ringing against each other, deliberately out of true, the shimmer of beating tones there by design rather than error. Some of the denser percussion would sit comfortably on a Príncipe release from across the water in Lisbon. It is the closest thing to classical I have this week, and it earns the corner.
Will Sheff — Extra Mile
- Released發行
- 2026-07-10（Bandcamp：releases 10 July 2026；託管在 Okkervil River Bandcamp）
Okkervil River's Will Sheff steps out under his own name for a patient, breathing folk record, and fills the room with friends — Peter Silberman of the Antlers, Jenn Wasner, A.C. Newman, Christian Lee Hutson — without ever letting it crowd. The writing carries both the glow of poetry and the gravity of a hymn. A record for late, when the house is quiet.
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