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Dead Beat Project is the an enjoyable if not particularly original beats, synth and atmosphere solo outing from Oliver Goyet keyboard player of UK doom band Esoteric.
Cavalier is the second album from USA folk singer Tom Brosseau & it’s an album that's lyrically rich and wordy deeply sunk in Americana, hopeless and wonder. Musically his memorable and warm song craft is played out by strong sounding acoustic strums embellished here and there with organ & piano work, slide guitar & subdued drum tracks. I guess it's best described as up-beat folk, blues and grown-up tunefulness.
Growing are a trio, known mostly for their heavy, doom laden, guitar drones. In concert they push volumes to the extreme, and extend the drones, creating an almost physical presence.
John Maus second album of weird & wonderful 80’s synth music, meets new-wave, meets soundtrack elements finds him edging more towards the approachable pop elements of his sound & sadly disposing of some of the more enjoyable bizarre edgers & dropping many of the strange and sinister lyrics that filled his debut album.
The rather wonderful & cool Gigante Sound label brings us another charming, whacky and memorable shot of junk shop record sampling, meets eclectronica meets what every they fancy with Music with a message.
Stratospheric passenger blasts the listener off on a fuzzed-out, epic, psychedelic & sometimes grim trip into strange star systems with it’s mix of prog rock, indie guitar noise, black metal & post-rock.
A guy from Denver by the name Todd Novosad is behind the project Novasak. He's been making noise with analog and digital means since 1997 as well as video. He uses all kinds of stuff, DIY electronics, mics and pedals, metal objects, power tools and vacuum cleaners.
Earlier albums by Time Of Orchids albums had more or less famous names attached to them, like Julee Cruise, Marilyn Crispell and Kate Pierson (B-52s). The previous album came out on John Zorn's Tzadik imprint. None of these names say much about what's in store for Namesake Caution.
Seventh Ruined Hex’s blurred and dreamy front cover photograph of an middle eastern carnival is very fitting for the five pieces of noise/ drone guitar on offer inside. There a captivating mix of the painful,exotic, tripped-out & disorientating. With a great feeling of spiritual wonder with-in chaos.
John White is a singer- songwriter original from New Zeland but seemly poping up all over the world these days, this collection of tracks offer up tuneful, sometimes quirky, somes sad song craft that dips down in a mix of folk, stripped indie & ramshackle pop with brief forays into more experimental waters.
The end of a System of things is an audio & musical tapestry celebrating of the end of days,armageddon, full stop and no more. Built from curious, camp and at times eerier dialogue films samples, film scores and apocalyptic elements from pop songs, that are all manipulated into encrossing and bizarre audio collage.
This collaboration between Robert Rich & Markus Reuter finds the pair stepping away from the ambient creations Rich is more know for into a collection of edgy, cinematic, haunting melodic, sometimes beat-bound and often relative short sound creations to make a fine collection of consistent, emotional charged pieces you’ll want to disappear off into again and again.
La Nuit Electrique offers up three rewarding & very different takes on gitar/electronic based drone craft and looped Sonic tracks, each deep with its own distinctive atmospherics and hypnotic air/ flavour.
"Welcome to the laboratory. Here, we delve deep into the inner workings of the physical mind. You will observe, as we have, that our findings are not always pleasant, and indeed ofttimes plunge into the realm of disorder and chaos."
It’s not the end of the world finds Lasse Marhaug slamming you with 10 relatively short, sharp and memorable noise shocks. Like an audio rollercoaster ride that twists and turns you through all kinds of noise textures and sound elements to give you one hell of an invigorating ride.
A remix album with a collection of artists remixing a band I don't know. I guess you have bear with me while I go through these eleven reinterpretations of a song I don't know.
As I'm typing this I actually do have a headache while angry power electronics come soaring out of the speakers. The bio of this project founded by Michael Page speaks of catharsis... well, indeed.
Stealth rather fits its name with its throbbing, buzzing & eerier dub bass lines under jack-knife sleek beat patterns, swirled by ambient and dark harmonics. It brings to mind a first person shoot game stalking through a boiling jungle gun primed and ready to obliterate anything that dare moves- it’s edgy, sleek and darkly cinematic.
The burning down of the crystal palace in Victoriana London was one of the great disasters and architecture loss of the age. Here Neo-Classical Project Herr try and recapture the wonder of this astonishing glass and steel structure and it’s ultimate destruction with this new ep.
To begin with The short nights mix of seashore dread filled field recordings, slow moving drone craft, ambient uneasy & sorrowful yet tuneful electronics/vibes paints a tangible feeling of sinister rain soaked winters days on people-less piers. Or shadowy figure dragging something along the autumnal shoreline, or general seashore uneasy and melancholy.
I don't know how Utech digs up these unknown experimentalists time and again, but they seem to have an ear for undiscovered talent. The last two Utech releases I've reviewed, by Knell and the Vulture Club, were some of the most interesting guitar based works I've heard all year. This debut album by New York's Joshua Convey continues that trend.
This wonderful intense, loud & brutal disk captures the first ever USA live shows by two legendary Japanese noise acts Pain Jerk & Incapacitants at this years No Fun Festival in New York city.
Looking into the other is a heady sometimes expansive, some ominous journey into tribal & ritual ambience utilizing Bells, Synths, flute, fiddle, various percussive elements, rattles and field recordings to create these involving sonic rituals and dramatic & evocative sound worlds.
Kama is a complex sometimes violent, sometimes beautiful long form piece that brings together haunted ambient textures, drone, noise, dramatic cinmatics and manipulated sound elements into an involving and muilt-layered piece.