Artist: Nick Kuepfer Album: Rural Route No. 7 Label: Standard Form Year: February 2011 Format: Mini-CDr (Limited Edition of 150) Nick Kuepfer utilizes droning elements (some washes of guitar others hypnotizing, fast-moving samples) that bring to mind the vast, haunting wilderness in a cerebral way. Perhaps the desolation and sense of the outdoors apparent on [...]
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Review: Comparative Anatomy – Mammalia
Artist: Comparative Anatomy Album: Mammalia Label: Mind Flare Media Year: 2010 Format: CD This album contains rhythmic hardcore metal meeting breakcore meeting samplism. It’s like taking a walk through a nightmarish zoo. Every track presents samples of different mammals and rips them apart with brutal distorted guitar and thrashing drums. Other disturbing samples are thrown [...]
Review: FOSSILS – Fall In America
Artist: FOSSILS Album: Fall In America Label: Middle James Co. Year: 1 January 2011 Format: Digital This release presents a croaking and grinning cavalcade of sounds where the microphone sounds like it is used as much like an instrument as everything else in the room. The recording style is consistently lo-fi, recorded all to tape [...]
Review: Eric Chenaux & Bent Spoon Duo – Live In Calgary
Artist: Eric Chenaux & Bent Spoon Duo Album: Live In Calgary Label: Bug Incision Year: 2009 Format: CDr (limited run of 100) This album is quite unique from other works by Bent Spoon Duo. Eric Chenaux brings in a nylon string guitar, and with it an almost freak-latin-folk feeling, heavy on the freak. For the [...]
Review: Darren Williams + Bent Spoon Duo
Artist: Darren Williams + Bent Spoon Duo Label: Bug Incision Micro-Editions Year: 2010 Format: Mini-CDr (limited run of 30) A rowdy sax, percussion and bass piece in the free improv-jazz genre. Most of the album is driven by the saxophone, which Darren Williams plays, with accompaniment from the Bent Spoon Duo (Chris Dadge on drums, [...]
Review: Remnants – Decayed Tones
Artist: Remnants Album: Decayed Tones Label: Imminent Frequencies Year: 2010 Format: c26 From start to finish you’re immersed in pure drone. This drone takes time to build and tell a tale. Loud, pulsating frequencies ebb and flow on a stark horizon. The sweeping buzz of static that blows in and out like a stormy day [...]
Review: Faux Fur/Ghost Animal – Split
Artist: http://www.myspace.com/fauxfurfakefur & Ghost Animal Album: Split Label: Scotch tapes Year: 2010 Format: c-45 Seven tidbits of acoustic noise rock heavy in discordance and finished with a lo-fi aesthetic litter the Faux Fur side. Static is prevalent throughout the meandering tracks that are mostly quite reminiscent of pop music. If it weren’t for the off-kilter [...]
Review: Holzkopf – Sober Materials #3: Foreign Heroin
Artist: Holzkopf Album: Sober Materials #3: Forein Heroin Year: 2010 Format: CDr Sober Materials #3 starts as a slow droning piece accompanied by visual imagery arranged by Holzkopf. It’s dark and violent, very unpleasing to the eyes and ears with a message that only noise can pull off. The video uses al queada propaganda, outdoor [...]
Review: James Fella // Les Beyond – Split
Artist: James Fella // Les Beyond Album: James Fella // Les Beyond split Label: Planet of the Tapes Year: November 14, 2010 Format: c-20 James Fella’s side featuring the track “Labor” tells a story. It starts off sounding like an acoustic improvisational piece and ever so slowly relaxes and evolves into gentle drone. It swirls [...]
Review: Alex Durlak – Rural Route No. 4
Artist: Alex Durlak Album: Rural Route No. 4 Label: Standard Form Year: 20 July 2010 Format: Limited Edition 3″ CDr/Digital Really deep music so embedded with emotion that within minutes it’s mysteriously taken you to the brink in this guitar-drone epic. There’s a ton of movement and form that takes shape. Within the first minute [...]
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