The Drift: the best in weird and experimental music
Cal Cashin rounds up the month's best avant-garde music from around the world
And so we have, quite possibly, arrived out the other end of the longest of winters. For weeks, nay months, it felt like the sun would never shine again. But, dear reader, the gloom is lifting, the dafs are growing, we are so back.
Having survived the Ides of March for another year, it is with great pleasure that I can share with you the second edition of The Drift, Loud and Quiet’s number one spot for everything weird, wonderful and avant-garde.
If you know where to look (here, here is where you should look) the first breaths of Spring have heralded in a wave of amazing, novel, noble musical endeavours. Worldwide, a spirit of adventure and daring unites the best under-the-radar releases, and it is with great pleasure I can show you a collection of albums from places as far-flung as Mexico, Colombia, Iceland and South Korea, which all, at least in me, elicited a reaction of ecstatic awe at the spectacle of human creativity.
Huremic – Seeking Darkness
South Korean artist Parranoul has become something of a cult hit in recent years – an adept, enigmatic, bowl-cut-bearing shoegazer who has only played a handful of shows and has never revealed his identity, he has amassed a devoted online fanbase. Whilst he’s yet to garner a ton of conventional, legacy media coverage, he’s the man on sites like RateYourMusic, Album of the Year and Reddit, the mysterious face of the 2020s’ shoegaze revival.
Last year’s Sky Hundred saw Parranoul develop the ideas laid down on 2021’s beloved To See the Next Part of the Dream, but his latest album is a complete left turn, in terms of genre, form, and content.
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