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5 years after their debut full-length Calculating Infinity, The Dillinger Escape Plan are back with a new album, Miss Machine. Be warned: things have changed. And how could they have not changed?
After two full-lengths, 27 are back with an ep, Let the light in. The Boston 4-piece is now signed to HydraHead, which might surprise many since they don’t play heavy and slow music, but their own take on dark-pop.
Another band playing experimental guitar music coming from Austin, Texas: Fires were shot. However, they do not sound like their neighbours Stars of the Lid: they play their own game, with their own set of rules, and we like it.
Every action is the third full-length by Chris Coode’s Motion. It’s also the second for 12k, the American label of minimal electronic music. Motion’s spiritual home…
When they released their debut full-length two years ago, Black Dice emerged as one of the most talented bands around. Their subsequent tours made for mesmerizing performances, and they somehow found the time to record a few ep’s or 12”. Now, they are back with a new album, Creature Comforts.
One year after the first volume in the White serie, Sunn are back with episode 2. Building from where they left off, this is probably their most accomplished work so far.
The second album by Meridiem, led by singer/composer Percy Howard, sees a different approach than its predecessor which had a 'fixed' line-up of Bill Laswell, Fred Frith and Charles Hayward. I haven't heard that but since that is basically the free improv outfit Massacre I can imagine that sounded a bit different from this current release.
One of the best bands in heavy music is back six months after having stunned fans and critics alike with their collaboration with Jarboe. Although it always seems that it will prove impossible to top the previous album, once again they managed to do it.
Lullatone'sLittle songs about raindrops is Shawn James Seymour’s third album as Lullatone. A finely crafted work, full of enthusing melodies. To be heard…
Anticon and the 80's have always been connected. Odd Nosdam (cLOUDDEAD producer/other projects) uses numerous 80's sounding synths and feel which is present on many Anticon releases.
Third album for the Japanese quartet, Walking Cloud and deep red sky, flag fulttered and the sun shined comes a mere year after the European release of the stunning One step more and you die although they haven’t stopped touring since then.
How endless exactly is Christian Fennesz’s summer? On Venice it is in its last stage; the days are hot and humid, but the leaves are already assuming a golden tinge. This is a music for an Italian palazzo or a shadowy church in September, a bottle of red wine in hand, and the far-off bustle of city life outside. There is a heaviness in the air that was absent on Endless summer... I wonder what Fennesz’s winter will sound like?
The band WatchTower has a longrunning reputation of being one of the most technical metalbands around from way before the whole math-grind/metal/core came into existence. Their second and last CD Control And Resistance from 1989 introduced guitarist Ron Jarzombek who, in the prolonged 'downtime' of that band worked with Sean Malone's Gordian Knot and his own projects like Spastic Ink with his brother Bobby Jarzombek.
Haunted Weather is a double CD compiled by David Toop. It is meant to be a sort of panorama on “the way people work with and experience sound in the 21st century”. Featuring such fine artists as Fennesz, Autechre, Oval, Derek Bailey, Pan Sonic or Evan Parker.
A couple of months after Joshua Treble’s Five points Fincastle, here comes another cool album on Intr_version, Mitchell Akiyama’s label. A hundred dry trees is a fine work mixing guitar and electronics.
The debut album of the American band Burnt By the Sun, tentatively called Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution, was a typical example of an album that could not bear the weight of it's own inherent mass of disjoined impulses and ideas. From a purely technical perspective the music was sound (pun intended), yet the band had not succeeded at adding continuity and genuine emotion to the musical cacophony.
A couple of weeks back I went to see band Kultur Shock perform in my hometown. I only heard a few samples at their site that didn't convince me, but tickled me enough to make me go out and see them, because I figured it might work live. Well, it did! As soon as the first Bulgarian theme on two guitars and saxophone hit off I was sold.
Margareth Kammerer is a 38 years old Italian singer, guitarist and actress. She has been playing for the last fifteen years, but To be an animal of real flesh is her first solo release. Willing to make an impression, she asked the help of good friends such as Tatsuya Yoshida, Philip Jeck or Fred Firth. Did she manage to rise to the challenge?
Glenn Branca is one of the most important guitarists of the no wave period. Less known than Rhys Chatham, he is probably as important. Lesson n° 1 is a CD reissue of a 1980 release, and it features a bonus track.
It has been in the works for quite some time but here it is: the first Estradasphere DVD. It got even better because it’s a double-disc with a live-CD too. Where the vhs Days Of Our Lives marked Esphere Phaze 1 were Dave Murray was still in the band, Passion For Life marks Phaze 2 where John Whooley is still in and Dave makes some returns as a sessiondrummer along with Theo Mordey.
Joshua Treble is Tony Boggs, a man who makes some very nice music that should appeal to fans of Fennesz and Oval.
The first rumours about Mayhem’s third full-length studioalbum were that they went into the woods to return to their roots. Afraid of an attempt at rehashing the legendary De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas-album I put Chimera in my cd-player...
No, Nickelback is not the only Canadian contribution to rock music. We knew that already. But rejoice: among the people who will listen to Winnipeg’s Ken Mode, it’s quite safe to say that even the MTV-loving kinda listener won’t consider Nickelback as heavy anymore.
They’ve had as many drummers as Spinal Tap, Dale Crover likes them, Alex Newport produced them, they played in Cuba, they groove like hell, and by the sound of their music, they can only drive motorbikes. Yeah, that’s right. Totimoshi is the name. Mysterioso, the album.