Cool Albums for April 28, 2025

Hello hello! I'd meant to post this on Easter, but that day ended up being far busier than I'd anticipated! I have quite a few albums to share that I hope you enjoy as much as I do. Each link opens up in a new window, as always. Also, please pardon the unusual formatting, somehow it got so fucked up in Vivaldi (which uses Chromium, which has been apparently having Blogger-related issues since the summer of last year?) that I chose to briefly reinstall Firefox and see what happens here. It kinda worked? Kinda? Hopefully this somehow fixes itself before my next post because jfc.

Cool Albums

溶けた壁 - collected signalwave improvisations 1968-2092 - Have you ever listened to a radio station that starts changing as you get closer to another city or town? There's a local radio station here that, as I get closer to the border of my neighboring town, the station begins to get scrambled and I'm hearing half college rock, half religious sermons. It's like they're fighting each other to see what will successfully take over. This victory over death side project reminds me of that experience, but instead of radio stations, it's miscellaneous commercials (including Right Now by Van Halen, a Crystal Pepsi CLASSIC) and it's all compiled together in a way that could be classified as noise, but to me, I found the release to be amusing and very soothing.
Kratzwerk - Ｖｉｄｅｏｔｅｘｔ ｆüｒ ａｎｄｅｒｅ - I walked around the park to this album on Easter Sunday and got to witness a group of kiddos in peak church Easter dress attire run around looking for eggs, which I found to be absolutely adorable. This album has been seen and described as melancholic, but there's something about the music used that reminds me of the 70s syndicated television I gravitated to as a child, and so I find it to be happy and cozy!
Claude Lavender - After Lunch - This sounds like the type of music one would hear in a TV sign-off, and for that alone, I love it. I can't remember for the life of me how I found this one, but godDAMN is it good.
CAPE CORAL - BLU NOTTE - An album that straight up reminds me of Video 2000's Midnight Ride in the best way. CAPE CORAL chooses to go into a mixtape-type of vibe instead of his usual bordering-on-future-funk, kinda instrumental kinda not thing, and it's really fun and the samples used against the acapella hip hop and rap tracks are hella creative. I was pleasantly surprised!
love affair - mood intense - Not trying to sound like an egotistical asshole here, but this sounds like a Lux album that was also inspired by 蜃気楼MIRAGE, 死夢VANITY, and a bit of waterfront dining. I just think it sounds really cool and done in a way that reminds me of Rose Quartz-era me and I liked it a lot. Late night lo-fi awaits you if you click this link. 
desert sand feels warm at night & days of blue skies - Perli tal-Passat - MY GOODNESS. THIS ALBUM IS STUNNING. Beautifully curated, great samples, absolutely perfect. Frammenti alone is a chef's kiss moment. I love love love this album.
INTERNET CLUB - DREAMS 3D - I remember a time where WWW CRUISE autoplayed after every vaporwave track for a while. I'd say that lasted for nearly a year. Admittedly, I've had this on my external harddrive for so long, but I never listened to the album in full. I know, I am shocked at myself for it. Though my favorite is and will forever be UNDERWATER MIRAGE, DREAMS 3D is a gem in Robin's discography.
HYDROPLANED INTO A FALSE REALITY! - boardwalk - This album is a hell of a chaotic banger. Elements of breakcore, elements of Jersey club, an insane moment where I realize at the end of the track that I'm hearing an insanely sped up Thriller sample, it's a very fun album to listen to.
national network - night-time television service - This signalwave album by TV2 made me emotional listening to it; it's so lovely and cozy and there's just something about it that just brings a lump to my throat. I can't quite pinpoint it.
International Telecom - ＩｎｔｅｌｓａｔＫ - I'm unsure why it's no longer on IT's page, I fear it may have been due to copyright, but I've linked to the Archive page. If I need to take it down, IT, let me know. This one is another International Telecom release filled with cozy signal-y gems that goes by way too fast. I really loved this one! 

I tried to make my descriptions not too long to ensure that this post of 83242499 links wouldn't look too overwhelming to search through. I think I've given up on trying to keep up with new releases to post, but know that I download as much as I can!