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Smell & Quim are sort of like a more northern English often gonzo & sick humour lined take Whitehouse’s brand of power electronics; with bizarre touches of working mans club varity act on acid edger’s thrown in to really mess you up. Powerfuck is the bands first album since 2004 Cosmic Bondage & for most of its run time rewardingly searing, perversely humorous ride.
Bully Hiss finds Canadian noise-technician Ryan Bloomer (Piss Horn, Stegm & Flatline Construct) offer up a c30 cassette worth of detailed, shifting & often quite complex noise matter that mixes elements of: Harsh Noise Wall, static crunch & texturing, juddering faulty engine textures, and even at times dramatic almost harmonic drone edgers.
Shark Knifing is the small, but perfectly formed new release from HNW master & the genres part inventor The Rita( aka Sam Mckinlay). This release offers up a 7 inch inside a wonderful 12 page picture booklet of shark been attacked with knifes, divers & shark related pictures/ drawings; plus a vinyl sticker and two-sided postcard making this one of the more classy looking HNW releases you`ll have come across.
Hunter Muskett were an English folk pop outfit who`s debut album “Every Time You Move” has become highly respected, sort after & valued since it`s release in 1970. This is its first reissue on CD format of the album that has being boot-legged many times over the years, here the album recording is taken from the original master tapes.
Goatriech 666 are speedy, blacked, damned & crude black metal three piece from Gussola, Lombardy in Italy; this five track ep brings together a selection of their clamouring, brutal & often speedy blacked craft from their demo, various splits & compilations. This is the second release on the new black metal label set-up by two respected underground noise-heads uk’s George Proctor(Mutant Ape, Karst & Murder Book) & Nicola Vinciguerra (Fecalove & Splinter vs. Stalin)
1897 is the second full length album by Australian electro/ acoustic mood setters Seaworthy on the great ambient/ electronic meets acoustic label 12k. It finds the three piece weaving a darker, starker and more melancholy work than their first album for the label the excellent Map in Hand.
Mrs Rice is the sonic clunking and noisy improv meeting of Australian Glass eater, manic ranter and noise maker Lucas Abela with Chinese Pianist Li Zenghui(who normally plays Sax) and percussionist Yang Yang.
After the enjoyable if slightly lacklustre first volume of the Japanese Bird project, Fukuro finds Merzbow back on inspired, caustic and very rewarding form. Offering up four barnstorming live drum based tracks that are full of sonic invention & caustic atmospherics.
The Project_ Pale sound is a dense, heady, atmospheric and often memorable mixture of: Synth Rock, Post- rock, doomed metallic’s and electronica with hints of shoe gazing and industrial edger’s. Our Inventions and How They Fail Us is this three New York pieces debut album.
The First Basket is a rewarding and genre varied soundtrack for a documentary about the history and trails and tribulations of Jewish American basketball players that goes from them playing with trash cans placed on the stoops of brownstones to the bright lights of Madison Square Garden.
The Gospels of the Gash is the final release from the apocalyptic and sleazy meeting of power electronics, sick brooding ambience and grim industrial clunking ‘n’ bleak drift that is Navicon Torture Technologies.
Luminamenti is a wonderful collusion & brain melting sonic stew of musical elements, noise matter and jagged electro-acoustic elements. Through-out the album switchers rather nicely from searing yet playful noise battering down to damaged harmonic wonderings, and everywhere else in-between.
Black Sea finds Fennesz in a contemplative, somewhat more experimental mood than his last two studio albums. His last album, Venice, took the melodic approach of his ground-breaking 2001 album Endless Summer down a notch, while evoking the mystery revolving around the city for which it was named. Despite the fact that many may consider Black Sea a departure for Christian Fennesz because of his choice to employ a less song oriented approach, it still bears his unmistakable hand print. If you listen carefully, and peer into the murky drones, there's actually a great degree of structure and musicianship hidden within much of the album. As always, his penchant for artful detail and masterful pacing is evident, even more so with repeated exposure.
The FREEhoudini deluxe is the first Themselves full length album since their 02’s The No Music & its surrealistic and dense reinventing of rap & Hip- Hop genre. But instead of pushing the envelope further FREEhoudini sees the collective returning to theirs & Anticon's roots to make a more straight-up Rap & Hip-hop record; though it still has more than a few creative and classic Anticon twists.
This disk brings together a two part 1956 radio play of Aldous Huxley’s classic sci-fi tale of future totalitarian and social engineered state, with narration by the author and musically cues by Bernard Herrmann.
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer started making their murderous and sleazy mix of blacked noise, grim power electronics & sicken clanking ambience back in 2005 & have racking up so far an impressive 30 plus release taking in cdr’s, tapes, split's and ltd vinyl pressing- the wonderfully titled Crows Eat The Eyes From The Leviathans Carcass is their first proper cd releases.
The Norwegian jazz scene since very long has proven to be one to be reckoned with as well as being a typical addition to the worldwide jazz canon. Conic Folded by saxophoneplayer Torben Snekkestad is yet another record to confirm this.
Likely to be named after Eric Dolphy's album of the name Outward Bound this Greek duo Outward Bound takes a different, more ambient approach. A bit different from what we're used to from Triple Bath as well, more traditional and less experimental.
This is a reissue of Jim O’Rourke's classic ‘laptop’ album which offers up the original masterpiece of felt and creative laptop manipulations along with an second equal marvellous disk of unreleased laptop material.
Regression is the new solo album from Wolf eyes founding member Nate Young and it finds him offering up seven tracks of grim and analogue bound Sonics that for the most part stay away from noisy territory and focus more on horrify and bleak mood setting vibe.
This is TUSKS first release. It's either a brief album or a long EP, as it is under thirty minutes long. The band refers to themselves in all caps, and in "singular". Sound a touch pompous? Well if you read the remainder of their press release, which also describes them as "mature" and "collegiate" since they all met post pubescence, than, yeah, ok, it kind of is. Press releases often misrepresent bands somewhat, so take that into the equation; they're usually not written by, and in many cases even run by the band prior to dispersal to the media. But the reason for bringing it up in relation to TUSKS is because the music this band makes matches up with the expectations one might derive from the previously mentioned characterization.
A Deeper Silence sees seasoned ambient explorer Steve Roach stripping his sound down to its darkest,most haunted and hypnotic form for a near on 75 minute journey into revolving gloomy yet soothing ambient expanse.
Basement Echo is the often searing & at times atmospheric sonic meeting of two Japanese underground most respected guitarists: Kawabata Makoto, leader of The Acid Mothers Temple, and Michishita Shinsuke, leader of LSD March.
French black metal band Diamatregon make speedy and grim blacked metal with dips into blacked post-rock and punk edger’s along its way. The bands sound is both tied to the tradition of true black metal yet it’s progressive, it’s memorable yet never safe & experimental but never too much so. Crossroad is the bands third album and it’s a highly consistent, grimly memorable slice of blacked metal craft.