“A musical car journey taking in the sites with cinematic, downtempo and prog elements”
Cinematic worlds await: Dino DiMuro's ELMWOOD the unfinished album finally surfaces after 20 years — a head-trippy avant-rock concept album pulled from the archives and fully realized at last. Song for a Gorgeous Blonde's Annicka den trolösa delivers an arty-proggy collision of dense keyboards and inventive spiky guitar figures. Arcane Synthetic's Awaken The Androids is an industrial concept album — built from layered distortion and dark ambient tension — documenting the moment artificial consciousness begins to question its creators. Blizzard's far beyond the mist journeys from icy Scandinavian Nordic chants into warm Middle Eastern soundscapes.