She Spread Sorrow, Rumspringa, United Kingdom, Cold Spring Records, CSR212 CD (2015) Since 2014 at least, through her current solo
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Life Metal: a radiant and uplifting return to form for drone doom’s dynamic duo
Sunn0))), Life Metal, United States, Southern Lord, SUNN 300 CD / 2 x LP blue vinyl (2019) After three years
Continue readingFull 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
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Roy Grows Horns
Nick Pynn Buffalo Orbison UK OSCAR RECORDS OSC 003 CD (2018) Now that accompanying sleeve art is so evocative of
Continue readingThe Voiceless Fog
Cranioclast are these mysterious German droners who have been at it since 1985, issuing low-profile LPS and cassettes in a
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The View from The Shard
Always enjoyed the music of Polish player Robert Piotrowicz, what little we’ve been regaled with at any rate…indeed we don’t
Continue readingConcrete Desert: desert doom drone and techno dub conjure up a dystopian world of faded dreams and post-industrial collapse
Earth versus The Bug, Concrete Desert, United Kingdom, Ninja Tune, vinyl LP / CD / digital ZEN239 (2017) In their
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Illimité
Superb team-up by a couple of Japanese “grand masters” of free playing and sound art, if we can use such
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Tretiy Album: retro-1980s darkwave from a world of bleakness, depression and casual violence
Pyat’shest’tri, Tretiy Album, Germany, Detriti Records, cassette DR-034 / Squall Recordings, cassette (2018) Pyat’shest’tri (the name means “five-six-three” in Russian)
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Karl Marx’s 200th: a compilation of busy and fiddly electronic music for a noble cause
Various Artists, Karl Marx’s 200th, Germany, Karlrecords, KR-058 2 x CD (2018) Last year (2018) was the 200th anniversary of
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