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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.
Jackie-O Motherfucker are a noisy and dense improv collective who wildly force together tangents of noise rock, jazz, space rock, noise, folk- indie and what every else captures there sonic eye along the way.
This is a reissue of an classic slice of electroinca/ambience from 1986 which shows Roach in a more racing, upbeat and atmospheric form than his more expansive breathing ambience. It also comes with an excellent extra 70 minute disk of unreleased early material too.
How Shadows Chase The Balance is the third slice of distinctive, macabre and sombre folk from Southampton based Mathew Sweet’s Boduf songs project, which through still shows him focusing squarely in on the darkness adds in more layered instrumental textures and a tuneful almost pop edge to many of the songs.
The Corpse Vanishes/ eager meat sees uk based noise abuser and wonderfully named Filthy Turd boiling up one long and caustic 46 minute track of ear singeing drone and brain drilling tone volition.
Insects awake is a deranged and manic collusion of female screamed ‘n’ ranted hard core punk, sped up and lo-fi jazz runs, abused and amped up easy listening and general chaos- but it’s all made with out a guitar in sight with the three piece just using a mix of flute, saxophone, xylophone, clarinet, piano, trombone, bells/ gongs and effects.
The Haunted House is an intense, harrowing and at times grimly beautiful black metal album. Mainly sticking to mid-pace to slowed Burzum riff pace but mixing in mournful eastern elements along with poignant, bleak and pained ambience and smeared/ haunted semi- industrial cinematics. But it’s all lining with an real emotional and original resonance that’s difficult to put into words.
TV loves you back is the long awaited second full-length from Oakland based 3 piece who offer up a very distinctive musically mix of hip-hop, 80’s pop & post punk synth throb with vocalist Passage raping over the top with often consumer poking and surreal lyric craft.
Dalglish is a new moniker for Chris Douglas, who since 1992 worked under the name Basilar and later on as O.S.T.. That last has been abandoned to work under other names, like Dalglish
This is the second of two releasers from Scottish noise maker Kylie Minoise(aka Lea Cummings) which shows him offering a varied, consistent and inventive collection of tracks which puts him in the same draw as great noise makers like Merzbow, Lasse Marhaug & John Wiese.
Foreboding Silence is the second new album this year from highly prolific Tasmania one man experimental black metal project Striborg. And once again it shows him bending his blacked craft in inventive, atmospheric and grim ways, but it also follows the trend of this years other album Autumnal Melancholy with a more approachable and less bizarre sound than some of his early works
This is the first of two new releasers from Scottish noise maker Kylie Minoise(aka Lea Cummings) which shows him offering a varied, consistent and inventive collection of tracks that put him in the same draw as great noise makers like Merzbow, Lasse Marhaug & John Wiese.
This is a sort of deluxe directors-cut reissue of Taylor Deupree's now out of print electro-organic ambient master piece Northern from 2006. Through nothing major has been done to the tracks, it’s a great to have this back in print once more.
The Snowbringer Cult brings together two-eighty minute discs of material from Natural Snow Buildings and their two solo projects, TwinSisterMoon and Isengrind. Most people have never heard Natural Snow Buildings because they've released everything up to this point themselves, in miniscule editions, with beautiful handmade packages. The artwork on this release is by Solange Gularte, and it's every bit as stunning as the music contained within.