SoCal Gothic & The NEW American Dream: Hxxs – Valley Fever album review
With Valley Fever, Bakersfield, CA’s Hxxs dream of a new world, conjuring it into being with beat-ific communions and synthetic sanctified calls to arms. If America is the land where … Continue reading
Lifestyles For Apocalyptic Youth: Drvg Cvltvre – Nobody Cares Forever (New York Haunted) review
On his newest long-player for the dependable New York Haunted label, Vincent Koreman, the prolific madman behind Drvg Cvltvre subverts lifestyle branding with subversive snippets of soundbytes, with a battery … Continue reading
Mixtape Of The Week: Kindred Spirits – The Next Time You Have A Nightmare, Remember This Mixtape
embarking with the pale dead – coffins under sail – women with dead hair – pale white bakers – a dark purple river – the silence of death There are … Continue reading
Falling Under Dominowe’s Spell: Dominowe – SiyaKatha review (Gqom Oh)
You know the game ‘dominos’? How all the effects have when we are falling and we all are effected? That’s what I wanted to do with my music. Once i … Continue reading
Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Aodron review (Automation Records)
Imagine: You are watching The Wizard Of Oz synched up with the Dark Side Of The Moon alternate soundtrack. When the EMS Synthesizer’s cyclonic sequencer of “On The Run” syncs … Continue reading
Vinyl Of The Week: Logan Lynn – Adieu review
A synthy Indie Pop “jazz hands mental crisis” from Portland‘s Logan Lynn on Adieu, Lynn’s eighth LP . Both the record sleeve and the LP decals for Adieu feature a super … Continue reading
Harsh Noise Reviews: Homeless Princess – The Gardens And Groves Amidst The Immensity; The Transmission of Lunacy and its Aftermath
“IT SOUNDS LIKE PRISON IT SOUNDS LIKE HELL” When asked to describe what having PTSD was like for the website mindyourmind.ca, Daisies And Bruises’ author Erin Schulthies described it thus: … Continue reading
Happy Solstice! Hermione Harvestman – SOLIS : A Sonic Solstice Ritual for Winter Witches & Third Speaker in the Locus Tempus (1979)
Warm Synths For A Long, Cold, Dark Night When you think of midwinter rites and rituals, you likely think of yule logs, ancient hymns, spiced eggnog, holly, ivy, fairy lights. … Continue reading
Meditate & Destroy: 3 Moons – 3WordSword (Sonic Meditations)
Energy follow attention. This may be the simplest, most direct axiom in occult philosophy. We are masters of our own destinies, defining our paradigms and our reality tunnels with countless … Continue reading
Shoegaze Sunday: Landing – Complekt (These Are Not Records, 2016)
THIS IS DREAM PSYCH New Haven, CT’s Landing return with a beguiling mixture of shoegaze, psych rock, dream pop, slowcore, and kosmische for their 10th LP. It’s one of their … Continue reading
