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Its been over three years since Do make Say Thinks last album. Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn was a pastoral, reflective work that seems to suggest a move away from the space jam sessions of previous albums. You, You’re A History in Rust continues in that direction and will ask new questions of the bands fan base.
Sharp Teeth stands as David Karsten Daniels first widely avaible album & his first for Fat cat records. Coming in a rather nicely macabre cartoon cover- It gives us twelve tracks of singer songwriter folk come indie tracks, that are sprinkled with a collection of other musically flakes, raising pop chorus, rocked out moments & some quirky instrumental touches
The Third hand finds RJD2 all but reinventing himself dropping most of his hip–hop origins and creating almost a Frankenstein monster of musically eras and genres, that’s not quite sure whether it wants to be a pop album or an experimental pick and mix sound pallet.
The black Lodge tries to create its own environment with which to tell a darkly surreal tale. With a mix of; shadowy ambience, soundtrack elements, along with all manner of found and environmental sound. Sadly for most of it’s playing time, it seems too unfocused, interesting and darkly charming structures appear, but are too quickly are wiped away by audio flotsam and jetsam.
Arrogance may not be the most deepest or most intelligent noise on the block, but it sure does pack a weight of power, with it’s muscular unfolding static tones. Akin to been slowly cooked from the inside of your head out, as the banks of noise throb and grow.
Chants from isolated ghost represents Roberto Opalio(one half of My cat is an Alien) first debut album from 2004, here reissued in a full pressing for the first time by Important. Though you can clearly hear the connection with his brothers work, this comes off a more ghostly and haunted feel than much of MCIAA work.
Mamono is a see-sewing caustic & kaleidoscopic journey into grinding electronics, twist and pull of wonky guitar bass muffle and fret noise, and precussive hiccup's. All toped with alarming vocal shouts, screams and oriental mayhem. KK Null and Keiji Haino have managed here to create a new form of noisy and bizarre chaos away from each others respective sound worlds.
Daydreaming feels like eclectronica/come Idm reimagined on to the piano, with folishers of cinematic atmospherics. Coming from the Miasmah label whose aim is to be at the forefront of the blurring classical and electronic music genres.
This ep of recordings from 2002 one and only John Peel session with Múm is issued for the first time here and is an important stepping stone between the cute electroinca of their first album, Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Ok and their emotional touched folktroncai/ indietrocia of the follow up Finally we are no One.
Maher Shalal Hash Baz makes glorious wrong sound music, and with L'Autre Cap he presents 27 tracks of barely holding together music- that dips into ill sound pop music, wonky jazz and big band on a sinking ship music, rock & blues that nearly rocks it self off the page.
Pope Joanna is the solo noise/voice/ sound sculpture project of one Clarisse Ducasse. And what a demented and harsh often chaotically beautifully second release Divinity corrupter is.
Evenomist finds David Reed (Luasa Raelon,etc) in a more deep droneing evil state of dark ambience, the creepy synth tones swelling and swirling together in Satisfying growing dread.
Hymyilevien laivojen satama appears on Circles Ektro label so you know you not in for an easy or simply one genre musically ride. I guess it’s a cross between prog, jazz rock, strange stage musically, 70’s theatrical rock, soundtrack elements. With side steps into coral music, avant classical, and strange theatrical monitions .It’s all toped with very distinctive vocals in Finnish mother tongue which again gives their sound an interesting & different feel.
Cho Oyu 8201m sees Geir Jensse, of electroinc ambient/ project Biosphere, Collecting together, manipulation and editing of sound recordings from his trip up Cho Oyu in Tibet- the sixth highest mountain in the world.
Deerhunters mix of psychedelia, ambient, lo–fi indie and new wave edges returns for its second album. The band have gathered a large amount praise in places low and high, but for myself I find it all passable enough, but really for most of it’s playing time it just seems to drift by with out much excitement.
Japanese psychedelic dada prog weirdo’s offer up their sixth release You take me to the world, which gives us tow tracks of odd jabbering dialogue, spacey shrills, building atmospheric & some rocked-out moments.
Drykkjuvĩsur óhljódanna is the second collaboration between Swedish sound artist BJNilsen and Icelandic sound sculpture collective Stilluppsteypa. It offers up six tracks of grim and macabre scarped clean copse, industrial electronics mixed with psycho ambient traces, to an very unsettling effect.
The thing about this and other Aural Hypnox releases (and I guess all forms of dense ambient) is you’ve got to relisten over and over again to sink deeper into the atmosphere, to understand what is trying to be created here. For that a patient, imaginative and free mind is needed.
Night Science 3 is the third issue in noise fanzine from Austrsilia based Cipher productions, coming with a cd of tracks from each of the six artist interviewed with in. Weigh in at a hefty perfect bond 100 pages, looking more like a booklet that a mag, this surely is one of the most impressive fanzine I ‘ve seen in many a year.
Environmental Meditations is collaboration between long time Italian Noise/ ambient artist Maurizio Bianchi & Israeli electronic experimental artist Maor Appelbaum, to make an album that is a halfway house between ambience and noise. Feeling very much like the title suggests literal meditations on the environment, due to the type and texture of sounds used to conjurer up the feeling of composed natural forces such as wind, water or fire, etc.
A strange phenomenon happened with Palace Of Mirrors, the fourth album by Estradasphere. While being the 'coming-off-age' album of the band and objectively speaking the most accomplished album to date I didn't get into it immediately while in theory this should've been the case.
Leave me in the Black No-thing finds the brothers Opalio in a much colder, lightless and bleak mood than there normal intergalactic trips into sound. This feels like a trip inside a black void deep in spaces changing seas, or a trip into inner space, trawling and drifting though the darken shore of ones self.
6 Comm managed to conjuring up an intriguing a dense cross of coil like dark electronics, ethnic percussion dense rhythmic matter, melodic touches,clever sound source manipulation and splattering of avant-garde twists and turns. With occultic & pagan based wordy vocals that fall somewhere between Jonh Balance, Scott Walker and Marc Almond,
Over the last year or so I've heard lots of positive things said about the Starving Weirdos work, but always seemed too late to get hold of their until now ltd cdr releasers. Father Guru represents their first un-ltd non CDR album, and what an album it is. Their wholly unequal take on improvised/ ambient/ drone music is cut up into three very different slices of sound cake.