Aesthetical Reflecting on symbolic imagery and how it is connected to physical objects, Franck Vigroux‘s Totem LP bristles with sampladelic energy and visceral bass perturbations. Over the course of ten tracks, he grasps hold of the listener’s attention and shakes their auditory perceptions until they start to buckle under the strain.
Daily archives: 22/06/2019
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Thrill Jockey Once again, Thrill Jockey play host to the Appalachian folk-influenced duo House and Land, and here they take seven songs of various origins and imbue them with a sense of their own characters. The songs, being the age that they are, are far from feminist tracts and it feels as though Sarah Louise and Sally Anne Morgan wish to reclaim them, to try to infuse them […]
Play Loud! Crack opens with the kind of psychedelic rock that has seemingly existed since the dawn of time (or somewhere around 1972) in all corners of the known universe. Or perhaps Berlin in the case of Glen, a quartet who like to slather their effects on the guitar, bend and fluffle its strings and set the controls for the heart of whatever planet they are tripping to […]
Thrill Jockey The classic idea of the sort of band that one might expect to find on Thrill Jockey seems to be blown apart with every new release. Iowa City’s Aseethe are a great case in point with their second album for the label upping the heavy ante to monolithic proportions.
Play Loud! Filled with a plethora of recursing rhythmic elements, the mournful voice of a soul in non-specific agony (perhaps), scraping on an atonal violin while the rattle of snares and toms lurches across woodblock clacks, cuckoo-clock chimes
Rock Action As far as I am concerned, Luke Sutherland has been away from producing his own music for too long now. After helping to create the blood-rush post-rock of Long Fin Killie to the dreamy trip-hop of Bows and the pan-European Music AM, he wrote some delightful novels and then disappeared into the welcoming bosom of Mogwai. Until now…