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Bloody sea comes off like a more approachable, less violent version of the four disk Turmeric set from early this year. using elements of guitar feedback and electronic pluses and some very crude rhythmic elements.
Andy Stott’s debut album offers up ten slices of sleek and atmospheric beat work, that Ripple with beautifully edgy piano. Stott has managed to artful mix electronica, bassy dance fluctuations, crisp beats patterns and memorable melodies.
Within the first few minutes it’s clear from the quality and depth of the sound here, why Cold spring wanted to re-releases this deep dark ambient masterpiece, it was original releshed as a Cdr pressing of just 85. It drifts into chilling banks of flimatic synthesizer work, low and deep bouncing off the abyss drones , and sounds that suddenly fire out of the darkness at you, to keep you on edgy.
Soundpooling is the first proper Nurse with wound live album, recorded in Vienna, May of last year. Steve Stapleton and Colin Potter are helped by Andrew Liles, Diana Rogerson and Matt Waldor of Irr.App.(Ext) to create a captivating and surreal ambient soundscape.
This is a great speaker shaking reissue of a classic sludgy black doom 'n 'roll 3rd album ,by these uk doomsters. It’s all been remastered sounding more hevey than every, With the added bonus of a extra 14 minute track to boot.
On the preceding tour-only EP Digitalis the duo from Pittsburgh included a song called Sapphire which seemed a tribute to Jan Hammer's work for the infamous Miami Vice series. The other unreleased tune was Siberia, which resembled the Ennio Morricone soundtrack to The Thing, which on its turn seemed a tribute to director John Carpenter's own soundtrackwork. Yet, neither of these directions are taken on the second full-length Surface To Air.
The La noise scene seems to growing day by day, with varied and inventive takes on the noise genre. This excellent compilation brings together 36 tracks, from 36 artists. Making an ideal primer for the scene or as a tool to investigate further into this varied sound landscape.
Wraith Of The Ropes come off like a freakish cross breed of G.G.F.H. Stumbling doom, horror piano, sinister intent and proggy structures, high with synthesizer horror. Making for a debut album those mangers to offer something a bit chilling and different, with a great focus on atmosphere and creepiness.
Dull Lights manages to balance between sounding heartbrokenly beautiful and haunting, with awkward, shambolic and wrong sounding musical edges. Instruments seem to wondered off at their own accord, seemingly unaware of song structure, the songs feel brittle, as if you were to the slightest pressure on them they'd fall apart, like a broken biscuit on a farmhouse kitchen floor.
Mudlarking is Australian instrumental duos Tooth third release, offering up a double disk collection of progy tripped tunes that mix, various genre's and musical colours, all toped off with beats and a hippy type air. Making a varied and often inviting collection of tunes.
This is harsh, seriously harsh, I’d advise having the volume low on what ever equipment you decide to inflict this on, due to the equipment life and of course your own poor ears. Imagine been inside a huge washing machine drum, that’s seething with clouds of oceanic deep static and your been sent round and round the drum, that’s what Limbs of the fawn feels like.
Isle of Dark Magick has a chilling sense of dread about it, your always wondering what going to jump out of the strange improvised folksy come ritualistic creepy air. Over it’s 70 minutes, impressive audio textures are built up from droning Jews harp, harmonica, organ dread, voices, guitar and effects, perfectly primed for reading horror novel or late night wonderings.
This is pretty breathtaking brutal stuff, raging with aggressive god hating anger, and some surprisingly tuneful and atmospheric guitar work. For a band that have been going near on twenty years, and most had written off along time ago, this seems such an invigorated take on their sound and death metal genre as a whole.
I think one of the most interesting things about Merzbow's fast growing discography, is you don’t know what your going to get next release and it always interesting, and surprising which avenue he disappear down. This collaboration find us in some unexpected places, indeed.
With Goatvarg self titled released early this year, Uk dark ambient, noise, etc label Cold spring, dipped their toe in black metal waters. With the launch of a new sublable Satanas Rex they getting fully into black metal waters, formed purely as a black metal label, Gleipnirs Smeder is its first withered black fruit.
You could argue endlessly about the necessity of the seemingly everflowing stream of performances from John Zorn’s Masada Book but this one captures a band that’s on fire. The title for this double disc couldn’t be more wellchosen, because indeed: madness it is.
The Necks having been together for near on 20 years now and offer a very unequal mix and take on jazz, drone, ambient and experimental music. Chemist is slightly different from there usual one long track album, here we are presented with three diffrent hypnotic audio snapshots, lasting 20 mins each.
Recorder out of tune is a collection of shudder inducing nightmarish audio hiccups, gruelling stretches of bile inducing sound and sour tones. Which will have you teetering on the edge of sanity and sickness; this is prime noise for unhinging minds.
I guess I never really got into Kid A or Amnesiac. The electronic elements always seemed a bit half hearted to me, a brief flirtation filtered through a band with different ideas and preferences. Because after all Radiohead are a group of highly accomplished musicians each with their own ideas on the bands sound. The electronic elements were to me always being pushed by Thom Yorke. So I guess that it’s no surprise to me that The Eraser is a brilliant album that crystallises Yorkes love for electronic textures with his trademark lyrical style.
Dj klock's third album comes across like as a wonderfully playful, audio colouring book. Rich with head nodding beat work, jazzy work outs, mellow instrumental twist and child like melodies, that taste so sweet. Along with ome clever sound manipulation. Each track feels like its own little adventure, that covers different ground from the last. High with a cute air, that you’ll either love or hate, for my part I find it an enjoyable little muilt colour trip over the rainbow and back again.
Black Boned Angels second full length is a thing of dark wonder, that slips into your mind subtle, then grows into it’s own bizarre and crushing landscape of; chanting evil monks, black whispering ambience bubbling up from the abyss, sinister skeletal keyboard ,tinkling over dieing doomy riff sidings. Simply put one of the great doom/ drone releases of this year- you just need this along with Slomo’s – the creep, then your fixed for all things atmospheric droney, and doomy.
It's been a while since I've heard any Wolfmanger or Dead Raven Choir, which of course both manly consistence of the mysterious D. Smolken (along with a few other darkened souls), who seems to appear from time to time, from the undergrowth of a dark, sickly wood. Presenting the listener and record label with flesh dark musical meat, then becoming once more one with woodland.
Flaming tongues seems the perfect title for this album, as it seems to surround you on all sides, with flaming percussion layers, that in the longer tracks seem to suck you in deeper and deeper, often as the flames die away, your left with ambient like looped smoke trails, like be pulled down endless corridors of flaming and smoking doorways.
Here we have unique release of electronic artist Akta Ebtekar, an Iranian musician that lived in San Francisco and released some stuff on the infamous Warp label. This would be a good start to get an idea of the music of Sote as it's situated in the outer fringes of what you can find in the catalogue of that label, where they would start bordering on abstract electronic music. But that's just a start.