Sunn0))), Life Metal, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 300 CD / 2 x LP blue vinyl (2019) After three years
Continue readingTag: avant-rock
Full Upon Her Burning Lips: returning home with a stripped-down minimalist approach – and yet not quite the same
Earth, Full Upon Her Burning Lips, United States, Sargent House, SH208 CD / SH209 2 x 12″ vinyl (2019) After
Continue reading
Auto-Be-Recycled
Pretty remorseless avant-rock noise attack from Japanese punk devils Zeni Geva on Maximum Implosion (COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR260CD), a double-disc
Continue reading
Suffering on the Steppes
We received a package from Anton Kitaev in Moscow, where he runs the Nameless [Addicted Label] label. The idea is
Continue reading
Kings of Half-Speed
Varropas is Finnish duo Jusso Paaro and Samuli Kyto, playing guitar and synth to create amiable “cosmic” music. The Rakuuna
Continue reading
Made in Japan: occasional bursts of guitar and vocal fire not enough to warm up a tepid album
Flower Travellin’ Band, Made in Japan, Atlantic Records, vinyl P-8187A (1972) Pedantic TSP readers may say the album should really
Continue readingThe Leporine Report
Snack Family Bunny UK SLOWFOOT RECORDS SLOLP 037 LP (2018) Rabbits! … a salute to those burrowers of the field.
Continue reading
Freedom From Fear
An astonishing compilation is Notes From The Underground: Experimental Sounds Behind The Iron Curtain 1968-1989 (ICR 02), a double vinyl
Continue reading
Kirikyogen: early doom metal collaboration with a surprising amount of variety and flexibility
Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travellin’ Band, Kirikyogen, United Kingdom, London Records, vinyl LP SKK(L) 3003 (1970) For a band that
Continue reading
Eighth Magnitude
French heavy avant-guitar beasts La Morte Young have invaded our home turf before with their self-titled album for Dysmusie, a
Continue reading