A curiously depressing and moribund piece of abstract noise from Jason Crumer. Let There Be Crumer (SECOND LAYER RECORDS SLR016)
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Four Vinyl Vamaritans
The Bunwinkies LP Maps Of Our New Constellations (FEEDING TUBE RECORDS FTR062) is a collection of acoustic songs from these
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Heavy dark drone of the day comes from Ural Umbo, the fourth release from this very productive Swiss-American team who
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The Wake of the Flood An astonishing production is Outside, The Great Drought (SMERALDINA-RIMA S-R-018CD), an excessive pop opera with
Continue readingAdvaitic Songs: too restricted and earth-bound for meditative music to fly
Om, Advaitic Songs, Drag City, CD DC438 (2012) On Album No 5, Om move deeper into meditative, devotional religious territory
Continue readingDomini Ascensionem: solid and brutal black metal fusion work flying off at unusual angles
Dodkvlt, III: Domini Ascensionem, South Korea, Misanthropic Art Productions, MACD 034 (2012) Album No 3 from one-man black metal Finnish
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Big Numbers It’s been a while since we heard from the excellent John Wall, a UK composer who has been
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Roxy Music Mark Vernon has created entertaining and witty radiophonic records as one half of Vernon & Burns, and has
Continue readingAstromancy: outsider avant-rock / pop with hiphop and funk rhythms and film-noir ambience
Fastest, Astromancy, Galaxy Records, CD (2012) Misfit one-man band Fastest returns with his seventh original full-length album to deliver yet
Continue readingZond: free-form noise rock / punk that defies easy pigeon-holing categorisation
Zond, self-titled, R.I.P. Society Records, CD RIP012 (2010) Not quite a noise band nor a rock band, not quite free-form
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