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04/09/2021 nausika

Winter: a rich and immersive set of noise drone soundscapes on a theme of decay and collapse

Kleistwahr, Winter, United States, The Helen Scarsdale Agency, HMS 050 B, vinyl LP (2021) In my little corner of the

02/09/2021 nausika

Fuyu: a journey of Sisyphean effort through a dark and depressive fusion of doom, drone, sludge metal, shoegaze and stoner rock

Low Flying Hawks, Fuyu, United States, Magnetic Eye Records, MER074, CD digisleeve / double vinyl LP (2021) The third album

28/08/2021 nausika

Music for Acoustic Instruments and Feedback: a graceful and enchanting album of heavenly ambience

Vanessa Amara, Music for Acoustic Instruments and Feedback, Denmark, Posh Isolation, PI 249 vinyl LP (2021) In case we need

26/08/2021 nausika

Get On: PITA’s last major work feels incomplete and open-ended … just the way it should be

PITA, Get On, Austria, Editions Mego, EMEGO 269, vinyl LP (2019) The news of Peter Rehberg’s sudden death on 22

20/08/2021 Ed Pinsent

Private Message / Reality Repro / Vacant Room / Moving Strata

Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen is mostly known in these pages for his Framework series – rather abstract and severe

18/08/2021 nausika

Mntu: a raw and powerful atmospheric black metal debut of personal struggle and reconnection with First Nations heritage

Ushangvagush, Mntu, United States, Vigor Deconstruct, cassette / vinyl LP (2021) For a raw atmospheric black metal release, the cover

15/08/2021 nausika

Lastenkerääjä: leading listeners down a rabbit hole of dark and grim folk

Akkajee, Lastenkerääjä, Finland, self-released, AKKACD-002 (2021) In Finnish, “lastenkerääjä,” means “child collector”, referring to a child’s mind in which the

10/08/2021 Ed Pinsent

Four Spark Gap Transmitters

Got the new batch of releases from dsic and his label LF Records, of which I am glad since we

04/08/2021 nausika

Stoic: a powerful blackened death doom sludge fusion message on staying true to our values and directions in the midst of uncertainty

Crust, Stoic, Russia, [Addicted Label / No Name], catalogue no 752 CD (2021) / Russia, Slowsnow Records, cassette (2021) Just

21/07/2021 nausika

First Man in the Moon: a wondrous work of guitar drone, double cello rumble and space ambient electronics

Norman Westberg & Jacek Mazurkiewicz, First Man in the Moon, Switzerland, Hallow Ground, vinyl LP (2021) I really wasn’t sure