Headphone Commute’s Best of 2009 : Music For Withered Leaves And Lonely Fishtanks

Something warm and crispy is tickling the inside of my ear canal. It travels through my cochlear labyrinth, where the sensory hair cells sway with the vibrations and generate electric signals, which in turn fire the synapse towards my primary auditory cortex. Somewhere within the Wernicke’s area of my cerebral cortex it all makes sense, and my hand moves, and my heart palpitates, and the trees sway, and the leaves fall. When asked if I would rather lose my hearing or my sight, I always choose the latter. In complete and total silence of the world, the void would make my soul implode. Because even the fishtanks need music.

(entries are listed in alphabetical order by artist. links point to album reviews on headphone commute)
The Archivist – The Keeper Of The Library (Lacies) [ REVIEW ]
Infinite Scale – Ad Infinitum (Rednetic)
Kettel – Myam James 2 (Sending Orbs)
Ochre – Like Dust Of The Balance (Benbecula)
Phylum Sinter – From Unity to Segmentation (En:peg Digital) [ REVIEW ]
Plastik Joy – 3:03 (n5Md) [ REVIEW ] [ INTERVIEW ]
Port-Royal – Dying In Time (n5MD) [ LABEL PROFILE ]
Rena Jones – Indra’s Web (Cartesian Binary) [ REVIEW ]
Sankt Otten – Morgen Wieder Lustig (Hidden Shoal)
Ultre – The Nest and the Skull (Audiobulb) [ LABEL PROFILE ]

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