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Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Review: Current 93 - Baalstorm, Sing Omega

Despite only one year lying between Baalstorm, Sing Omega and its predecessor Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, there’s a drastic difference in the sound of both albums. Aleph… was an angry record, centred on harsh guitar stabs and razorblade leads – a very deliberate texture overload accompanied by an appropriately aggressive

Review: Christopher Hipgrave - Slow, with Pages of Fluttering Interference

Slow, with Pages of Fluttering Interference is a release based around subtlety – everything from the casual drift of the music to the vagueness of the track-titles (with the tracks themselves slipping into one another with a soft fluidity). This latest release from Christopher Hipgrave doesn’t exist as a

Review: Ufomammut - Eve

Ufomammut are at their best when they’re really rocking out – when riffs, spoken word passages and grinding noise all erupt at once, guided by the effortless manner of a band now with ten years behind them. There’s a hefty amount of build-up on this record (with eight-

Review: Yellow Swans - Going Places

The announcement came in 2008 that Yellow Swans were to break up after their next release. Despite the fact that both members are to continue to produce new material under different projects, it must have been strange for the Portland-based noise act to compose Going Places in the knowledge

Review: Skullflower/White Medal - Split

The Skullflower contribution to this split won’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with Matthew Bower’s recent output. “Great Hunter” is streams upon streams of noise, shouting down a crackling melody that just barely scrapes the surface of audibility – kind of like someone taking a dirty, bludgeoning

Review: Baby Dee - A Book Of Songs For Anne Marie

A Book of Songs for Anne Marie isn’t technically a new album – the more avid of Dee fans may have even owned a copy of this from as early as 2004 when it was first issued on David Tibet’s Durtro label. However, this initial release was limited to

Review: Gultskra Artikler - Galaktika

I think the fact that I knew so little about Gultskra Artikler prior to hearing this release contributed heavily to my enjoyment of it. Galaktika seems to work best when free from any prior knowledge of its conception or its creator, turning the whole experience into an intrepid exploration without