Split for the Coast The eleventh release on the Spectrum Spools label is Soft Coast by No UFO’s, which is
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Don’t even go to the Fat Stars
Another item from the Attenuation Circuit envelope of January 2012 is by the Finnish musician Esa Ruoho. As Lackluster, he’s
Continue readingSevenstars: Fennesz in an 18-minute nutshell
Fennesz, Sevenstars, Touch, CD EP Tone44 (2011) Not much of an album here, being only 18 minutes long, but at
Continue readingThe Colonial Script (III): blackened doom drone metal meets dark ambient industrial / electronic dance music
Necro Deathmort, The Colonial Script (III), Distraction Records, CD DIST25 (2012) Opening track “Imperial” is a real shock to the system:
Continue readingThe Cold Wind’s Grasp
Photo-Mechanical Transfer The English trio of PMT play bass drums and guitar in a decidedly odd manner on Frosty Lee
Continue readingDeteriorated Broadcast: another dimension where strange drones and textures glide by in dark liquid ambience
Vertonen, Deteriorated Broadcast, CIP, CDR16 (2011) A short series of muffled voices, as though from an expectant audience gathering to watch
Continue readingWater Dragons
We received a bundle of five items from the & Records label of Montreal which arrived here 20 January 2012.
Continue readingThe Iron Soul of Nothing: beautifully hypnotic ambient drone music mystery
SunnO))) meets Nurse With Wound, The Iron Soul of Nothing, Ideologic Organ, CD soma005 (2011) My copy of “The Iron
Continue readingDrowning Witches: restrained noise recording of oppression, foreboding and fear
Blue Sabbath Black Cheer & The Rita, Drowning Witches, Debacle Records, CD DBL043 (2010) With a name like Blue Sabbath
Continue readingMoving Slowly but in Different Ways
From two American cities come two releases that deal in slow-moving, expansive music that might loosely be filed under “drone.”
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