ANARCHIST MOUNTAINS TRIO “La terre et la force” (Amek Collective)
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When you think “anarchist mountains,” you’re thinking huge , am I right? Massive geographical formation, towering in the sky, and not beho...
SQRTSIGIL “New Technologies Require Sacrifices” (Tone Burst)
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Polish artist Maciek Jaciuk stirs a soup of minimal electronic burbles as Sqrtsigil, periodically lifting his ladle from the mix and tasti...
GRIMÉNY “Die Große Aufgabe” (Already Dead)
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It is “a big task” to rumble into first place on the all-time great math-rock band list, but Grimény is up to the challenge! Well, I don’t...
PATH OF THE SUN “Path of the Sun” C40 (Inner Islands)
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It’s sort of not fair, is it? Daniel Guillén (Lunaria) and Steve Targo (Inner Travels) uniting under one moniker for forty minutes of cosm...
ASHAN “Sacred Springs” (Inner Islands)
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Not that long ago I was feeling down, so I did what any sane person feeling down is apt to do: pull out every Inner Islands release on the...
KRITZKOM “Fuzziness” (Jollies)
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“That synth crawled outta that hole and had a little peek around before it ran off toward yonder hills.” So says my ancient interlocutor at ...
DERE MOANS “A Dereliction” (Already Dead)
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“This isn’t long enough, Tony!” I scream at absolutely friggin’ nobody, and it’s just as well – nobody would understand what I’m talking a...
UNCANNY DANDELIONS “Gravel Scavenger” (Orb Tapes)
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I am a victim of mesmerism. Uncanny Dandelions (naturally) invade my senses; sometimes I inhale their seed pods by accident when I’m geari...
SERRATER / BUTOH SONICS “Split” C80 (Orb Tapes)
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Hearing Michael Potter do the next obvious thing in his repertoire – a noise/no wave sludge-coction under his “Serrater” guise – is music ...
GOOD WILLSMITH “HausLive 2: Good Willsmith at Sleeping Village 4/25/2019” (Hausu Mountain)
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First things first: 4/25/2019, the date that this live show was recorded, was before the pandemic, so we don’t have to freak out about hav...
AAVD TRIO “Anti Glow” (Orb Tapes)
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We exist in the deadening smog. AAVD Trio – Alexander Adams (drums & cymbals), Danny Andrade (tenor saxophone), and Daniel Van Duerm (...
RUSH FALKNOR / MOTH BUCKET “Split” (Orb Tapes)
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Rush Falknor manhandles a sax (I think) on his side of this devilish split on Orb Tapes. Stretching out the drone of the instrument, disto...
SPOOKY TAVI “Tetragrammaton” (Doom Trip Records)
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HOTT MT’s Spooky Tavi has a new tape coming out in 2021 on Doom Trip Records, but before that happens, DTR has somehow managed to wrangle ...
SKELETON BEACH “The Inevitable Death of Language” (Orb Tapes)
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I was heretofore unfamiliar with Skeleton Beach, and I am remedying that hosscrap as I type this. The Knoxville-based producer, who goes b...
THE UNKNOWN SOUND COLLECTIVE “The Light within Hauntings” (Orb Tapes)
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It gets under your skin right away. Elena Botts’s, erm, haunting voice drifts over sound sources like chimes or gongs, hit every four bars...
DEUCE AVENUE “Perennial Fire and Life” (Unifactor)
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I am ripped to the ass with anxiety. I was good for a while, but now it’s all getting to me – I’m not normally an anxious person, but holy...
MACHINE LISTENER “Headfooter” (Unifactor)
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Hey, I get it – you coat your circuits in breadcrumbs, plug them in, and drop them in a deep fryer, and this is what you get. Headfooter ,...
SPEDNAR “Coniunctio” (Unifactor)
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Someone touched the wrong node, and I bet it was Kevin Bednar. Bednar is Spednar, experimental weirdo, and yes , that MUST be on your CV w...
SAMUEL GOFF & MARIAM REZAEI “The End of the World … Finally” C35 (Cacophonous Revival)
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I think it’s appropriate that I sit here on New Year’s Eve 2020 (yeah, you’re reading this later) and listen to a tape called The End of t...
MID-AIR! “Smoothies and Jacuzzis” C19 (100% Bootleg)
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Mid-Air!’s latest, Smoothies and Jacuzzis , finds Christopher Alan Harbach in exactly the place you might expect to find him in this time ...
DURO DOUBLE LIFE “Psyched for the Yin-Yang” C32 (Haord Records)
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First, let’s get it out of the way: Haord Records acts sound as warped as the picture on the j-card of Duro Double Life’s Psyched for the ...
RHUCLE “Royal Blue” (Oxtail Recordings)
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I had to check out the Bandcamp page because I know I’ve written about Rhucle, the project of Japan’s Yuta Kudo, before, and I wanted to r...
MACIE STEWART & LIA KOHL “Recipe for a Boiled Egg” (Astral Spirits)
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MACIE STEWART & LIA KOHL “Recipe for a Boiled Egg” (Astral Spirits) One glance at this thing before I pop it in reveals Lisa Kohl on...
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