avant-rock – Page 28 – The Sound Projector

11/02/2020 Ed Pinsent

Freestyle Stroke

English combo Rutger Hauser from SE London are a six-piece featuring Lisa Busby and John Harries; we’ve noted Busby before

18/01/2020 Ed Pinsent

Rebuild all your Ruins

Welcome return, I think, of the highly distinctive Polish occult-folk combo 23 Threads, led by driving force Marek Spazm Marchoff

31/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Protozoan Infections

Enjoyable instrumental rock music from Genoa in the form of band calling themselves Apeirophilia. On Interrelate: L.U.A. (NO LABEL) the

29/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Metal Mickey

Ken Matsutani deserves to be reckoned as a hero of Japanese underground rock. He formed Marble Sheep and the Run-Down

24/12/2019 nausika

Pyroclasts: companion album to “Life Metal” is a complete work in its own right

Sunn0))), Pyroclasts, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 333 vinyl (2019) Recorded in the same sessions as the earlier 2019 release

19/12/2019 nausika

Sand Enigma: an ambitious foray into a multi-universe of many possibilities but not plumbing very deeply

Land of Kush, Sand Enigma, Constellation Records, CST146 CD / vinyl double LP (2019) As long as I’ve been writing

18/12/2019 nausika

Acéphale and Arkhé Tenebre: in the midst of sheer horror, despair and catastrophe, beauty and mystery can be found

S.E.K.H., Acéphale & Arkhé Tenebre, United States, Sentient Ruin Laboratories, SRUIN103 limited edition cassette (2019) At the time of writing,

13/12/2019 nausika

Ytenic Blód: a varied set of noisy experimental raw ambient black metal from an obscure British collective

Albionic Hermeticism, Ytenic Blód, United Kingdom, self-released limited edition cassette (2019) Part of a British-based black metal collective known as

09/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Anatomy Of The Eye

Excellent avant-rock from Trinary System on Lights In The Center Of Your Head (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS FTR452). This is the

08/12/2019 Ed Pinsent

Former Reflections Enduring Doubt

I feel Jeffrey Alexander’s music has only tangentially graced our shores…we heard one compilation by The Iditarod, and have a