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10/10/2020 Ed Pinsent

Eco Lament

Here’s our old friend “Mr Happy” Dave Phillips, the very extreme sound artist who lives in Zurich, often abbreviates his

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07/10/2020 nausika

Innocence Écartelée (self-titled): raw blackened noise trance music of despair and existential torment

Innocence Écartelée, self-titled, France, self-released, limited edition cassette (2020) Released by the band itself in a limited edition of 50

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30/09/2020 nausika

In Purge There Is No Remission: a fun history tour of black metal in its fusions and sub-genres

Ordinance, In Purge There Is No Remission, Finland, The Sinister Flame, TSF013 CD / LP (2020) It starts off sounding

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30/09/2020 nausika

Timewheel: primeval forces of nature and time, once worshipped as gods, calling to listeners in atmospheric black metal debut

Gloosh, Timewheel, Russia, Slowsnow Records, no catalogue number, cassette / Russia, Casus Belli Musica, CBM 77 vinyl LP / Germany,

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25/09/2020 nausika

The Faintest Hint: minimal folk pop songs are surprisingly strong, precise and intense

Ai Aso, The Faintest Hint, France, Ideologic Organ, SOMA034LP (2020) Tokyo-based Ai Aso has been active as a musician since

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19/09/2020 Ed Pinsent

The Long Haul Approach

From Martin Archer’s Discus Music label, we have the trio The Geordie Approach and their album Shields. Stale Birkeland and

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15/09/2020 nausika

Ressources Humaines: depressive / suicidal black metal treated as near-experimental ambient music to portray depression in all its chaos and darkness

Déception, Ressources Humaines, France, self-released CD (2020) Its four members known only by three-digit numbers 501, 735, 739 and 813,

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10/09/2020 nausika

Czary: dark ritualistic drone folk ambient and electro-acoustic music turns out New Age smooth

Krzywdy, Czary, Poland, Zoharum, ZOHAR 205-2 CD digipak limited edition (2020) A drone ambient project of Warsaw-based musician Mateusz Szymanski

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08/09/2020 nausika

Viimeinen Juoksu: outsider black-gaze / post-punk rock finally in from the cold with a mix of defiance and despair

Circle of Ouroborus, Viimeinen Juoksu, Greece, His Wounds, NAIL006 gold vinyl LP (2020) In a fair universe that exists in

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06/09/2020 Ed Pinsent

The New Island Utopia

Angel are a duo we don’t seem to have heard from since 2006, when they made the In Transmediale record

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