James Green and Nick Dawson release their self-titled Silences EP on Courier Sound on 8 July. The short film of the EP being recorded at Bear Hug Studios is premiered here:
Mute / BMG It was Voltaire who perhaps put it best when he reviewed the first Suicide album on its original appearance in 1977: “If Suicide did not exist, it would be necessary to invent them”. A punk band before the term existed, a rock band without guitars, a duo who could cow an entire room of people, like the platypus, in nature. Yet exist they most certainly […]
Discus Martin Archer‘s Discus label continues its sonic adventures with the latest release from Belgian bassist Guy Segers’s improv project the Eclectic Maybe Band. An improbable bevy of some of the finest improv musicians, the project finds group-constructed freeform pieces sitting side by side with Guy’s speciality, which is taking improv recordings from different sessions and then stitching them together in the studio over a bass-line written especially […]
Judi Gee Attention revellers. What with summer finally here, Europe cooking in a heatwave, and you and yours sprawled out languidly on the grass, eating picnics, drinking wine (spo-dee-o-dee), or otherwise trying to stay cool in the pool, you’re going to need a soundtrack, right? Something fitting for that golden end-of-afternoon sunlight. Something to give the end of a perfect day that slightest hint of a bittersweet aftertaste. […]
Constellation For Siskiyou‘s fourth album for Constellation, they appear to have returned to their roots with that lo-fi home-recorded sound that echoes the kind of direction in which Mark Linkous originally headed. On Not Somewhere, Colin Huebert has taken on the majority of instruments and constructed frayed but hopeful vignettes
Disciples The wind-caught piano on the first track on His Name Is Alive’s All The Mirrors In The House daggers a smooth spectral draw that dissipates into “Lliadin”’s sustained shimmer. Its autumnal flow pin-heads multi-tracked murmurs, eating into the unaccompanied fret repeats
Taken from his forthcoming solo LP on House Of Mythology, “There’s A Light” is a taster of things to come from Ulver‘s Stian Westerhus:
Oleg Puzan (AKA Dronny Darko on Cryo Chamber) has a new album coming out on CD via Glacial Movements under the name Line Spectrum,
Rune Grammofon For Fire! Orchestra‘s fourth album for Rune Grammofon, the core group has once again reduced the numbers, this time to a far more manageable fourteen. The introduction of a string quartet (three violins and one cello) still has reed players outnumbering strings, but it doesn’t make for a top-heavy sound at all.
Motto Motto Incredibly, the band Now have been plying their charming trade for the last twenty years or so, and yet every release sounds so fresh and imbued with the joy of a band that have just started playing together.
Bristol 19 June 2019 Audience-surrounded, EP64 kicked an intense noise. Dali’s word-tangled molasses kicked around by tribal drums and hawking sax in one of the most energetic performances I have witnessed from them
Bronson Martin Bisi‘s famed BC Studios in Brooklyn is renowned for bringing the noise to New York, and in celebration of it reaching the grand old age of thirty-five, they decided to throw a party in January of 2016, invite a load of old friends and record the ensuing fun for release. A first volume was released back in 2018 and now the response has demanded a second […]
Drone For the seventh outing in Drone Records‘ long-running Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone series of vinyl compilations, Specimens, Skeldos, Mytrip and Opening Performance Orchestra get not only a track on the LP, but for the first time in the collection, the latter also have the chance to offer up the full seventy-minute version of their contribution on an accompanying CD.
Nonplace The slightly sardonic title nods at a playful notion of just what could be taken to be traditional music these days, in central Europe or elsewhere. Does the music have to be of a certain age or place, and is its essence somehow fixed?
Substantia Innominata “Are All Things Equivalent?” may be the question, but the answers that Matt Waldron offers up for his contribution to Drone Records‘ sequence of 10” vinyl releases are as difficult to pin down as one might imagine from someone who has been a significant contributor to the surrealistic behemoth that Nurse With Wound has become over the last forty-odd
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.
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 […]