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Imagine if you took a good cup full of Badly Drawn boy, a pinch of The beach boys,an handful of folk/country, an Handful of indie, a good squirt of quirky and sometimes retro electronica & throw into a tumble dryer together and after about 30 minutes fast spin cycle you’d get Napoleon IIIrd.
With all the Hues of The rainbow finds the Starving Weirdos offering up some of their most noisy and disorientating material yet, really dropping the listening into a very strange drone and harmonic mixed world that echo’s of tones and elements of our own world, but it most definitely in a world of it’s own.
Icons for a New Religion is this UK project's first non-cdr release that tries its damnest to conjure up effective, mainly beatbound, dark and creepy electronica. But sadly it comes off a little hit and miss going from good to mediocre electronica by numbers.
Zophorus finds Merzbow following on the trend of the more guitar based psychedelic fuzzscapes of this year Coma Berenices, but ironing most of the more melodic and soundtrack elements & replacing them with almost speed metal/come punk sheen and a few welcome nods back his past along the way too.
Il Portale is the audio equivalent of a rather stomach churning and surreal Snuff/ sex movie with bizarre ritual edges. With the odd stab at grimy atmospherics and touches of pitch black humour throw in.
Sangre Cavallum play a dense and often heady mix of neo classical, neo folk, prog/ post rock, world music,with soundtrack/ ambient touches.This is this Portuguese project 3rd Album if you include their Collaboration with Allerseelen from early this year.
It’s always rewarding to encounter a new genre or style of music and this compilation offers a looking glass into the world of fantasy/ Roll Playing music, which I know brings to mind either awful new ageneses or dated synthesizer music played by people in troll masks. Thankful this is neither of those, instead it’s an epic and varied collection of grand scores for films or adventures yet to be had.
George Thomas and the Owls' Concert for Two Bicycles starts off with a whispery tune called A Man on a Galloping Horse. It's more of a loping sound than a galloping one, and the remainder of the album follows suit, for the most part.
This project name is rather ltd in its scope and appeal which is a pity as there’s much more going on here than simply doom or jazz. There’s eqreal amount of modern classical, apocalyptic cinematics, dark deep space prog, murky dread filled and fearful improvising.
This is Swod’s secound album that brings together melodic and emotional piano playing with subtle electronic elements, bass and percussion- all into quite a unique, refreshing and beautiful manner.
Multiple Otomo brings together a treasure trove audio/visual noise and beautiful Chaos from this prolific turntablist, guitarist and what-ever-he-fancies Japanese noisemaker,improviser and sound sculptor.
Valet is Honey Owens, a member of Nudge, and a sometime member of Jackie-O-Motherfucker. Blood is Clean was originally released on the CD-R label Yarnlazer last year, and Kranky has seen fit to bring it to a wider audience. A wise move, I must say.
Crows of the world is a varied and often very effective double disk compilation of all manner of improvised, jammed out sound craft & drone matte. Going from droning banks of electronics, folky banjo pickings and twangs, shimmering organ throbs, discordant jazz unwinds with deep bassy leanings & chugging guitar hypnotics.
This is the latest audio puzzlement from The Legendary Pink Dots frontman that mixes together psychedelic electronics and beatscapes, weird pop elements, Spoken word and genral audio surrealism into audio stew very fitting of it’s dream Logkic title, as this often feels like fall or wondering lost in some else’s dreamscapes
The Great titled Black Magic Disco is a new collaboration between the Opalio brothers of My Cat Is An Alien, Tom Greenwood 0f Jackie-O Motherfucker & Ramona Ponzini of Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope- this finds the Opalio brothers swaping space bound world for more surreal earthbound improv freefall, with maybe the odd trip to a creaking retro space station.
Hanna Hartman is a wonderful skilled and creative sound artist and Alianthus finds her creating a wonderful bizarre, amusing and clever collection of dada sound craft & improvised noise tracks that bubble up every now and then with musically elements and odd beauty.
Racket finds Whitehouse adding more depth of musically texture along with more rhythmic detail and grim atmospherics to their sound.
Beneath the mighty Oak offers up an epic and atmospheric mix of black metal, heavy metal, rock and neo-folk, this projects first releasers though the main man behind the project Todd Paulson is part of UVALL Us Black metal doom band and owner of the excellent God is a Myth label.
Noctilucent Valleys submerges the listener in heady and psychedelic world made up of synth drone craft, lo-grade electro beatscapes, free form folk/ improvised rock traces , with the odd touches of dreamy & hazed of male & female vocals here and there.
This really revels in screwing with your perception of it, firstly the title suggest head-ripping noise or staged and cocky rock, This is neither. Secondly with the Jazkamer name attached to it one would expect a real noisy afair, though there are noise elements here that certainly is not the predominate sound strain .
Simon Magus is dramatic and atmosphere heavy synth, piano, acoustic guitar and string driven work, touching down in Neoclassical & soundtrack genres, with odd folk traces along the way.
His/Hers is a wonderful lost and haunted take on slowly unwinding /hazy guitar craft that mixes together touches of folk, the blues, & rock into it’s sludgy dream or drug soaked atmosphere.
This Goon Moon’s second album of genre bending song craft that mixes together retro and stoner rock, psychedelic pop with electronic elements and weird edges. It manages to be chaotic, discordant and rocking, yet also haunting, melodic and full of oddness through out its playing time.
This is Sleep Research Facility aka Kevin Doherty second deep ambient album for Cold Spring and his fourth in all. The albums concept is based around the uncharted and people-less polar landscapes, caverns and mountains, which really managers to suck you deep into its deeply chilling sonic world.