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Défilé Des Ames take on folk is heavy with gothic grandeur and lush melancholy air as the acoustic guitars intricate and sombre melodics are often serenaded by cello, French horn and clarinet. Yet it also has it’s more up-beat/ fiery moments too with racing percussion and folk/ rock galloping pace-all making this a very distinct and original sounding album.
Heroinloops offers up a rewarding mix of head slamming concrete old school industrial music often lined with noise sharpness and greyed dronescapes /bleak abounded ambience. Primed perfectly for either creepy wonderings or neck snapping work outs.
With Stratification Wold return with their third slice of grim noise meets black metal cross breed and this time around been a bit more varied than past works as well as adding in a more droning/ dense sound with atmospheric underbelly to many of the tracks.
Netherworld is a project by Italian sound artist Allesandro Tedeschi. Kall: The Abyss Where Dreams Fall is a four part suite in the vein of what might be described as dark ambient in the classic sense. It retains a bit of Tedeschi's proclivity toward chilly arctic atmospheres for which he is known, giving it a little something to distinguish it from such influences as Lustmord and SPK, among others. It is a fairly dark album, and it has its moments. The use of light and shade is probably the best component to Kall. On occasion deep bass tones provide an underpinning for the sharp electronic tones. Also, cavernous reverb is used to add dramatic effect to the clanging, ghostly sounds.
The Progeny of Flies finds Liles and Menche presenting a heady, atmospheric and disturbed suite of songs built around darkly hued ambient tone, sustained organ dread, creepy and sinister looped subtle rhythmic elements and simple yet damn creepy piano notation.
This is an remixed and remaster reissue of Brighter Death Now 1995 classic album of unforgiving death industrial and sludge ambient tone with an second disk featuring an equally mournful, painful and vomited black live set from the same period .
Hey Colossus sound is a mixture of churning kraut rock groove, murky punk, doom and metal, All to make pounding and unrelenting, yet hypnotic sound. Happy birthday is their fourth album and first on Riot season.
Sharron Kraus is one of the most prolific, yet consistent and rewarding English folk artists working today with her solo work and various projects such as the excellent Rosalina & Tau Emerald. The Fox's Wedding is her 8th solo album since she started to releasing work in 2002.
Meso Meso debut album is knee deep in child like melodies, tinkinling tones, accordion playing and cute pop vibe.Think a more cute ‘n’ cuddly day-glow Mum with out electronics, with more folk learning’s and some quirky sampled elements.
Minamo, not to be confused with the Japanese band called Minamo, is a joint venture of Carla Kihlstedt (known from working in projects and bands like Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Cosa Brava, Tin Hat (Trio), Charming Hostess and 2 Foot Yard) and jazzpianist and composer Satoko Fujii, who worked with many musicians, like Misha Mengelberg, Jim Black, Tatsuya Yoshida and Paul Bley and regularly with Natsuki Tamura with whom she runs a label called Libra.
Perhaps I Arrive was original conceived in 1997 as a long form drone work to be played in Atatürk Airport in Istanbul- but the airport authorities rejected it so Carl Michael came up with 4 more tracks that were used instead- this double disk set brings together the original un-used but superb piece and the four sneering easy-listening tracks that were excepted.
There’s something very off-kilter, sonically other and odd about Mayhem in Mansion, Shivers in the Shack as it falls in a strange place between avant rock, folk, improv and ambience all topped off with weird often ritual tinged vocalising.
Son Lux debut album At war with walls and mazes is an harmonic and atmospheric mix of singer song writer piano music, post-rock, pop, hip-hop and electro beat heavy work-outs. Been one of the more creative, consisted and enjoyable none avant-rap releasers to appear on the Anticon thus far
Ambient music is often darkly hued or lushly soothing but ee[nd] is more often playful, brightly lined, dense and noisy yet it’s still wholly ambient. ee[nd] is more of a richly detailed painting than abstract artwork made from blocks of colour.
The title track of this reissue was a huge hit for The Peppers in 1974 and it’s prime, camp, cheesy, yet memorable moog pop hit. This reissue brings together The Peppers one and only album A taste of Honey, A taste of Peppers along with a few bonus tracks for it’s first ever cd release.
This superb and near faultless double disk set brings together the best moments from Us Black metal project Leviathan demos and self released work from between 1998 and 2002.
I’ve always rather enjoyed the tuba’s exuberate, often lumber and deep tones & with Namaga Polish tuba player Zdzislaw Piernik takes instrument from been deep and playful, to swirl and angered, to cinematic and lush.
After the recent heavy and often crushing jam based sound of Recurring Dream And Apocalypse Of Darkness, Journey into the Cosmic Inferno sees AMT returning with a more varied, trip-out and for the most part focused album- that’s a really joy to listening to and stands as one of my favourites in AMT's vast discography.
Eskimo King is the mainly solo guitar project of Brian Sullivan one half of the excellent Mouthus and it takes in quite different territory from Mouthus sludge/ psychedelic noise scapes.
Harvey Milk are a band who are often associated with "stoner" or "doom" metal, as a result of the lack of any reasonable facsimile for comparison. The band does create an incredibly heavy, at times sludgy racket, but they've been through too many permutations to pigeon-hole. They created a masterpiece in the form of one of the saddest, daresay sensitive hard rock albums of their era with 1995's Courtesy and Goodwill Toward Men. The album took drawn-out slack-stringed heaviness to an audacious extreme. Yet instead of being simply heavy, the music brimmed with beautiful background melodies applied in an almost subliminal manner. Add to that the mournful, muffled wail of the vocals. Of Course, the aforementioned album is only one facet of this band
Since these two E.P.'s are released by Steal My Oil Records, I thought I'd lump them together in one review. It also speaks to the fact that I hold very little significance for either of these recordings to grant them a very high profile. As a reviewer, I feel inclined to remain as objective as possible. I realise that the musicians work hard on their music (for the most part) and that despite differences in opinion, they should be saluted to some extent for going through the effort of recording their music, which requires, in most cases, a fair amount of time and patience. But as Mark E. Smith said "everybody's got a band", and sometimes you have to think that music is best left to the parlour room, rather than the recorded medium. A case in point would be these E.P.'s by Snippet and Sine Weaver (featuring Husky).
After the rather disappointing, pedestrian and ‘playing it safe’ Qulfus-Enos, the last release on the gigante sound label. Teens sounds sees the label/ collective returning to the weird, wonderfully, strange and often a little creepy sample based mayhem of the past.
I first became aware of the excellent Tokyo based project coffins and their mean ‘n’ nasty horror obsessed mix of death and doom metal sound last year with their split The Arm & Sword of a Bastard God. Buried Death sees them offer up eight highly effective & heavy as a cart of dead bodies slices of death/doom craft.
After spending much of his musical life as a professional trumpet player Chad Kettering debut album surprisingly shows little or no sign of his trumpet playing, but instead offers up 8 tracks of active and often natural sound and ethic chanted lined ambience.