The second instalment of sonic explorations. Fusing the line between past and present styles. Ice cold arpeggios, muddy bass lines, and stripped back vocals. 

All tracks recorded live to a Yamaha MT4X cassette mixer using a Korg KR-55b, ARP 2600, Roland SH-101, and Korg MS-20.

Sinking City

a mix of jungle drum n bass and eastern european vocals

byzantine jungle

κι όταν όλα αλλάξουν 
κι όταν τα κορμιά μας κουραστούν 
κι αν τα τραγούδια σωπάσουν 
κι αν τα γράμματά μας χαθούν 

κι όταν όλα αλλάξουν 
κι όταν αλλάξουμε και εμείς 
κι αν ο χρόνος μας νικήσει 
κι αν ο χρόνος δε μας αρκεί 

μη φοβηθείς και εμείς 
δε θα λυγίσουμε ακόμα 
και αν βαθύνουν οι πληγές 
και αν μας βαρύνουν τα χρόνια 
βαθιές ανάσες 
στο τέλος ίσως σωθούμε 
όλα θα πάνε καλά 
κάποτε η μπόρα περνά 
κι ύστερα θα φιληθούμε 

ο,τι κι αν χρειαστεί 
ο,τι κι αν χρειαστεί
ο,τι κι αν χρειαστεί 
ο,τι κι αν χρειαστεί 

ΚΙ ΥΣΤΕΡΑ ΘΑ ΦΙΛΗΘΟΥΜΕ

Tune in your radios. Welcome to Mimika’s lofi special. From rusty tapes to daydreams, from noise to lullabies. Listen to the living and the dead bedroom punk wizards we love so much.

MiMiKA 18 • Dima Pantyushin & Dasha Stish • Lofi special

https://soundcloud.com/maksim-katyshev

“Very personal one.
mold on the damp walls of the entrance
radiance
cathedral reverb
*
Geiger counter
dark green and pale
power lines break
military aesthetics hyped out
*
2007 to 2024
*
protometal revival”

Tracklist:
fdrko - водила, ну куда же ты съебал
abbrumer - genese 11 + минько читает берроуза
прозрачный агитатор - 25.11.2002_3
mystah mystical - речи павшего
strife - outtro
biosphere - mestigoth
babangida - emo + d.z. lctric - le sermon
old tower - draugr armada + падваротня - каннибал
mike parker - voiceprint - voice three
vatican shadow - camp viking afghanistan
clock dva - nyc overload
florian kupfer - nabemba
vampire money - n.b.a. + Ънавь (navia) - Осень 1998 (cut)
airKosh - SNdarkenough
lado oniani w sbk - saburtalo jam - raw C4 Iphone rec
good hash production - петли + Ънавь (navia) - Осень 1998 (cut)
babangida - emo

vol.5_KÆMEERA

αταξία

I HEARD YOU SHOUTING THROUGH THE HALLWAY
I WASNT SURE IF I HAD SOMETHING TO SAY
TODAY WE TALK MUCH BUT DONT SAY MUCH
I GOT STUCK IN THE METRO LINES JUST TO SEE YOUR FACE
NOW ALL THAT I SEE IS A BLANK SCREEN OF END CREDITS
I SAW A BORING FILM LAST NIGHT , MADE ME COMFORTABLE
BUT ALL THAT I GET FROM THAT IS THAT IM FEELING COMFORTABLE BEING BORED
I HAD TO GET UP GET SOME JOBS DONE JUST TO FEEL LIKE IVE DONE SOMETHING GOOD
STILL NO FEELING OF BEING WORTHY
STILL NO ENERGY AFTER A COFFEE
HE SAID , ONE DAY BOY YOU WILL OPEN YOUR EYES 
AND IF YOU DONT RUN FAST YOU WILL NOT GET WHATS YOU LUST
I CANT EVEN RUN FAST , I CANT EVEN RUN FOR LONG
IS IT ALL JUST A JOKE?

NOW I RUN 
THROUGH TEARS OF NIGHT
IN RAINING HIGHWAYS
IVE BEEN LOST SINCE THE DAY I WAS FOUND 
BUT SOMETHING'S COMFORTABLE IN THERE

YOU SEE , THESE ARE FINALLY THE TURNING POINTS
A HOUSE FULL OF FURNITURE WITH NOTHING TO DO WITH IT
A PLACE YOU CALL HOME BUT NEVER LIVE THERE
A PLACE YOU RENT TO SLEEP , LIKE A HOTEL ROOM
I HATE TO SAY IT BUT THIS HOUSE WAS NEVER A HOME
I HATE TO SAY IT BUT IVE BEEN THERE FOR LONG 
I NEVER HAD A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP
YOU CAN TELL FROM THE BLACK AROUND MY EYES
YOU CAN TELL BY THE PAIN IN MY RESTLESS FEET
BURNING FROM RUNNING 
STILL DONT KNOW WHO IM RUNNING FROM
WHO IM RUNNING FOR
I HAD TO RECORD MYSELF IN CASE ILL LOSE PROGRESS

COMFORT

Soft Blade, the project of Moscow-born musician and artist Violetta Shabash, is an influential figure in the underground Russian music scene. Since her appearance on 2023's RIFT compilation, she has remained busy cultivating her ever-evolving sound garden.

Her latest album, Softic 2, will be self-released on November 7th, 2025. 

Deeply committed to supporting and uplifting fellow artists from her region and further afield, her mix for YEAR0001 is a scattering of sounds collected from friends and collaborators, arranged with a sentimental touch.

Constructed mainly from unreleased material and her own audio sketches, the mix looks back to her motherland, its textures and contradictions, resulting in a tight nest of lo-fi electronica plucked from post-Soviet space.

mix: @soft_blade
title: bardachok mix
length: 28:00
photography: @2075ceramics

YEAR0001 SOUNDS : Soft Blade — bardachok mix

kaymeera

Stream / Download → https://found.ee/Ivy_Lab_Peninsula_EP

Weighty sub-low halftime bass-line business incoming! The Ivy Lab trio return to Critical for their first full solo EP release since ‘20 Questions’ back in 2015. Since then the Lab sound has been breaking down even more doors across the globe. They prove why with a new EP full of cuts of proper half-time groove. Preview the second track off the EP, 'Magikess'.

More previews coming soon!

Pre-orders commence soon!

Ivy Lab online:
FB: www.facebook.com/IvyLab
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/IvyLab_ 
SOUNDCLOUD: www.soundcloud.com/IvyLab 
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/ivylab


www.criticalmusic.com

Peninsula EP

Magikess

Stream / Buy

Ivy Lab - Magikess

sorry hav not been uploading im very depress
this mix is like a bunch of music that defined my life during the tumblr years (2010-2014)
also im not being ironic i literally love jesus so fcking much
praise god!

tracklist:
heavy air - pure x (subliminal prayer that repels dark entities read by me)
i was all over her - salvia plath
fake out - r.l. kelly
sweet toof - mickey brown (pastor cartman remix)
wet hair - japandroids
false start song - cute boy kissing booth
imported colas - injokes 
better off alone - mathew lee cothran & delaney mills
raising pheonix - assassins88
memory pools - foxes in fiction (ytiet 28 remix)
world/insured - alex g
vox celeste - deerhunter
- - -all nightcored by me :]

COMFORT

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