NCID is nasty in the best possible way, the kind of track that makes you check your volume was not up too high and then turn it up anyway. NOISECREAM works a grimy, bass-forward corner of electronic music where the sound design matters more than any melody, and the design here is genuinely mean. The lead growls and warps like it is being dragged through a broken amp, and every time you think it has shown you its ugliest face it finds a worse one. MrSuicideSheep has turned into one of the few big channels still willing to platform this heavier, weirder material instead of chasing another playlist-safe single. There is almost no let-up anywhere in it: the track front-loads the pressure and then just keeps leaning on it until the last bar. I have no idea what the title stands for and I do not need to. It is short and it is vicious and it would clear a floor of anyone who wandered in by accident. The right people will not move an inch.
January
Chrome Daydream
Chrome stars, jelly hearts and holographic colour. A nod to the glossy, optimistic graphics of the early web.