Saturday, 25 January 2020

Mo*Te ‘Anti Is Anti Is Anti’ C-30 (New Forces)

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Fumiyuki Nagura’s time as Mo*Te in the 1990s seems larger in retrospect; constituted by a handful of self-released cassettes and some cho...
Tuesday, 7 January 2020

GX Jupitter-Larsen 'Characterized'

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Psychiatrist Ewen Cameron ended up being a compensatory and reputational nightmare for the Canadian government, after the behaviourall...
Wednesday, 25 December 2019

Deathprod ‘Dark Transit’ 12” (Smalltown Supersound)

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The release this year of ‘Occulting Disk’ marked the end of a 15 year wait for a new Deathprod full-length, a near-silence punctuated ...
Thursday, 12 December 2019

Dead Boomers & Dustin Johnston & Shayne Bowden 'The Next Action' C-20 (Deterra)

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Shayne Bowden’s Deterra label has diminished its output of late, but a string of great cassettes were released earlier in the decade wh...
Thursday, 5 December 2019

Buck Young 'Buck II: Where Do You Want It?' 2x12" (Wonderland Media/No Rent)

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The exuberance of Buck I, ‘Proud Trash Sound’, was palpable, its ideas escaping almost faster than the tape could catch them. ‘Buck II’ n...

Spiteful Womb ‘Grey Chambers’ one-sided C-44 (Disclosures)

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Nora Egloff has been unassumingly building an evocative body of death industrial plight since about 2014, small editions and an in-the-kn...

Purgist ‘Secret Habit’ C-28 (No Rent)

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At the heart of ‘Secret Habit’ is the dramatism of punching loud and highly strung noise through plaintive ambience, a hot/cold switch wh...

Puce Mary & Rodger Stella ‘PM/RS’ C-20 (Mutter Wild)

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While there’s no denying Rodger Stella’s cosmic creativity, his techniques of manipulation and malpractice can, when spotlit in a solo se...

Masturbatory Dysfunction & Acid Enema ‘The Ultimate Beat Off’ C-21 (Ominous Recordings)

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Every reader has had the experience at which their (at least partial) dissociation with musical norms reaches the point of being beyond c...

Graustich ‘Diversity’ C-52 (Tordon Ljud)

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After its cringingly bad opening refrain I settle quickly into thinking I can enjoy ‘Diversity’, which is quickly at its best at power ...