Merzbow Monday: Merzbow – Remblandt Assemblage (Merzbox Disc 3, 1981) album review
One of Merzbow’s earliest recordings nods to the theoretical underpinnings of the project as well as his earliest improv techniques. Speaking on the influence of pioneering German Dada artist Kurt … Continue reading
Abronia – Obsidian Visions/Shadowed Lands album review
Portland’s Abronia break the fourth wall on Fourth World music, delivering two sides of authentic, sax-seared sub-saharan Psych Rock! Trying to take the pulse of Portland’s music scene is difficult; … Continue reading
Grime Time: Wolf Eyes – Undertow album review
On Wolf Eyes’ first album of original material in 2 years, Undertow, the infamous Detroit noise trio return with a meditation on timelessness, filth, uncertainty, identity, leather jackets, flesh, and … 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
Lovecraftian Futurism: New Leaders Of The Eldritch Noise – The Art Of Eldritch Noise
“There in the narrow hall, outside the bolted door with the covered keyhole, I often heard sounds which filled me with an indefinable dread—the dread of vague wonder and brooding … Continue reading
Dark Ambient Classics: :zoviet*France: – Eostre (Red Rhino, 1984)
:zoviet*France’s 5th Lp is like a hymn to the rising sun, from some alien dimension. Atonal feedback, unintelligible chanting, scraping static and dismembered zithers form a strange ritual that is … Continue reading
Embodied Electronics: Body Shame – You Look So Under Fed (SdmPdx)
it’s okay to have a body. In the April 2016 edition of Nylon Magazine, in an article titled “Body Talk”, artist Molly Soda speaks of when she first became self-conscious of her … Continue reading
Soothing Words For Modern Living: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & Bitchin’ Bajas – Epic Jammers And Fortunate Little Ditties (Drag City)
Let Will Oldham ease yr worries & cares, w/ this new meditative jammer w/ Bitchin’ Bajas! Modern life can be hard and confusing at the best of times, what with … Continue reading
Magickal Gunslingers On The Edge Of Infinity: Teeth Of The Sea – Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
Highly Deadly Black Tarantula is a stripped down, monolithic behemoth of a technoid dystopian ritual psychedelia record, that sounds brave in this Brave New World. Teeth Of The Seas‘ breakthrough … Continue reading
