Next Year’s Snow is a music label branded as an art collective founded in 2017 which houses some of the most experimental and esoteric artists working in music today. Their sound, which covers a huge range of genres but largely focuses on different forms of electronic, sound collage, and ambient, is largely inaccessible but almost always ambitious and hugely conceptual. Asleep Country’s 100, for example, is a 7-hour epic of post-industrial sound collage, and SimCard StyleGAN is a group which releases one album per month for one year (2021) before breaking up forever.
Even without hearing any of Next Year’s Snow’s music, one look at their Bandcamp page reveals them to be an experimental label, as all their album covers feature some kind of abstract art, and many of the visual collages featured in them parallel the sound collage aspect of the music. While limited in quantity, some of their music videos are even reminiscent of Dadaist abstraction. While I admittedly can’t get too into a lot of the music released on the label, I can at least appreciate the concepts and branding that NYS has brought about.
