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Funeralium are a French four piece who speclizers in rather heady, atmospheric and quite original sounding doom that mixers in elements of darkened rock, and even traces of dark blues and surf elements too.
Aughra is the solo dark electrionca/ sound tracking project of Brent Eyestone (Big China & Little Trouble, Magic bullet label owner & member of Forensics, Corn on Macabre). With sonic references points been Coil; at their more beat bound and vocal less, Ulver around Perdition city era, Darker Boards of Canada and dark ambient simmers.
Noise artist, Jason Crumer, hails from Oakland, CA and has created one of the best noise records of the year...
With their loose stringed, sludgy and noisy mix of industrial tone, zero rock, noise, slamming feedback fuzzed beats and muffled vocals the one man project of Fixture for Toxins literal straps you to a work bench and audibly attacks you again and again with this 20 minute ep.
Tacet is the type of album that avoids consideration as any type of genre exercise. Guitarist and "micronoise" technician Luca Formenti claims to be interested in the silence within music, which Tacet includes in its fair share. But it's not austere or mired in the concept. There's certainly enough sound here, so perhaps Formenti is referring to the use of silence within musical pieces. There is a great deal of stasis about much of the album, but listen carefully, because there is much more going on than you might initially realise.
Dolphin Sonar sees Merzbow returning with another animal rights protest album this time it's against the horrific and appalling annual slaughter of 2’500 dolphins in Taiji Japan. With Merzbow offering up three searing yet inventive tracks of pulsing electro and guitar noise mayhem, that flits with rhythmic elements and musically touches.
The excellent Zelphabet series returns for its forth volume in the proposed 26 volume series and once more it’s another enjoyable collection of experimental and noise matter with this time around only three tracks on offer with one each from Damion Romero, Daniel Menche & Dave Phillips.
Hot than Inferno captures AMT in their fired-up, mainly noisy and wonderfully chaotic live format were spacey keyboards whiz and buzz, guitar’s singeing with multiple soloing and the rest of the band kick up a hell of a dust storm.
With a name like Two Dead Sluts, One Good Fuck you certainly know your not in for something comfy, calming or nice and this is certainly is not any of those things. This self titled 12 inch album Literally pukes out in sleazy ‘n’ dense fashion a mixture of feedback shorts, brooding/ sinister synth discharge, pummelling noise textures and ranted ‘n’ muffled vocals into your mind.
Dead Letters Spell out dead words make very stripped and quiet ambient collage music, but here they seem to strip their sound down even further than any of their other work I’ve heard in the past. These are sonics for silent rooms or late at night which even at high volume make little impact.
The Capricorns second album River, Bear your bones is a very inventive yet approachable mix of no nonsense mettlic riffling , stoner rock, prog, 70’s rock, punk and traditional metal.
Dragonfrynd are a duo from Brooklyn consisting of Adam Kriney, also of La Otracina and Owl Xounds, on keyboards and effects and Clinton Wilkins on electric guitar. Though the band have a self described passion for "all things Kosmische", there's little evidence here of the level of quality associated with any of their Krautrock forebears. They may dig early Tangerine Dream and Ash Ra Tempel, but Dragonfrynd fall well short of the mark in emulating their heroes.
Elephant9 are a Norwegian 3 piece that who pump out a groovy, atmospheric and mainly upbeat mix of 70’s organ heavy psychedelic, prog jazz/rock fusion. Through having being live favourites over the last few years in their native Norway this is the projects debut album.
The Transitory State is a highly inventive, always surprising and rewarding double disk collection of experimental electroncia that touches down in creative house music, techno, electro ambince and heady/creative beat wares.
As this projects name suggests they make ritual and occlutic tinged Sonics that fall somewhere between expansive guitar scalping, haunted drone, prog-rock, ritual ambience with touches of weird folk, choral elements & world elements. This is the projects 3rd release from last year.
Seven that Spells are a Psychedelic & fired-up prog rock collective from Zagreb, Croatia fronted by designer and guitarist Niko Potocnjak. Black Om Rising is their second album on Beta-lactam and their 5th album in all.
White Fields and Open Devices is the first full length from this Leeds based 5 piece that takes in a dramatic Post- rock, meets indie rock sound with electronic elements and beat making, along with slight metallic and punk learning’s.
Unitxt finds the Raster-Noton sound at it’s most caustic, agitated & moving towards the noise genre yet with the second half of the album been made up of blistering electro tone attacks, which convert pure data files into sound form with little or no manipulation of rhythmic or harmonic type. Alva Noto is one of the mainstays of the label releasing 10 plus release thus far; it’s the sonic outlet for one of the labels founders & modern artist Carsten Nicolai.
Etudes in Violence brings together eight tracks of edgy, sometimes grim & melancholy, sometimes violent improv that utilizes mainly violin, sax & flute with supporting roles from guitar and percussive elements.
Songs From The Ivory Tower is a melancholy and rich collection of piano based neo-classical tracks with some neo-folk edgers. With most the spoken word/ semi-sung vocals mainly sang in German and based around the works of several Germanic poets.
Matthew Bower is as versatile as he is busy. He's been cranking out music with Sunroof!, Hototogisu, solo as Total, and of course, Skullflower, over the course of almost 25 years. More so than Sunroof!, Skullflower has been an on-again, off-again proposition, and the outfit is generally considered his most "rock" oriented, despite the fact that Sunroof! have recently amped-up a bit.
Tzool-Mah sees Antony Mangicapra and his Hoor-Paar- Kraat collective presenting another highly rewarding and strange slice of surreal and strange soundsaping that hovers between ambience, field recording, strange percussive elements, noise and general unsettling and bizarre audio dwell.
PCRV Quartet are a four piece that sit nicely between guitar drone craft, impov, atmopshic soundscape and mainly subtle noise matter- this is the projects first releash.
Early studio works is a bizarre and fevered mind collusion of sinister industrial textures and beats, creepy & disturbing early Residents air, 80’s easy listening & funk flecks, extreme metal & noise. With vocals that go from sinisterly theatrical, bizarre to guttural.