Archive for October, 2013
Review: Yannick Dauby – 蛙界蒙薰
A fascinating collaboration between modular synthesiser improvisation and field recordings of frogs.
Review: The Doomed Bird Of Providence – Blind Mouths Eat
A venture into the bleaker side of Australian colonial history, trudging through pastoral folk terrain.
Review: Ryoji Ikeda – Supercodex
Ikeda completes his Raster Noton trilogy with another exploration of the potentials between “sound and data” and “data and sound”.
Review: Revglow – Sound Post Tension
An album of ethereal trip-hop mantras that beckon the infinite into being.
Review: Melt Banana – Fetch
Their first proper studio effort since 2007, and an immaculate arranged explosion of colour and power.
Review: Abandon – S/T
The three-piece stride out of the murk with renewed clarity of thought.
Review: Antlered Man – This Devil Is Them
Eight rickety jams from a band that always look set to break.
Review: Sly & The Family Drone – Unnecessary Woe
A Hampshire-founded surge of momentum, rhythm and tape manipulation.
Review: Matana Roberts – Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
A free jazz-informed flow of frailty and constantly rekindled momentum.