ANTONY AND THE JOHNSONS - 'The Crying Light' CD (Rough Trade)
"The Crying Light" is the third studio album by New York group Antony and The Johnsons. Fronted by Anthony Hegarty, this record draws upon the themes of landscape and future. An intimate and moving record, this sees Anthony reach new artistic heights which will please fans and newcomers alike. "The Crying Light is both grander and more intimate in tone than its predecessor, ten tracks arranged with the help of composer Nico Muhly that find Hegarty pondering themes of nature and humanity, death and rebirth. Grand, because here, Hegarty's florid piano pieces are fleshed out by musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Milan Symphony, but intimate, because songs like 'Another World' and the gorgeous 'Epilepsy Is Dancing' employ orchestral trimmings with such grace and restraint. Most surprising, though, is 'Aeon', a cut of forceful, passionate soul that finds Hegarty preaching empowerment over raw, circling electric guitar. A grand return, from one of music's true originals." (Louis Pattison)
UK 13£
Europe 14£
World 15£
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BEREFT - 'Tough Man' 7" (BloodLust!)
Eleventh release in the BloodLust! Private 7" series. Bereft is Rhode Island artist Peter Lee (Force Of Nature label boss). For this solo project, which has had very limited releases on Truculent Recordings and on Antihumanism Records, Lee crafts a mixture of old-school industrial and power-electronics, with intense vocals - tempered by dark, death-industrial-influenced, ambient soundscapes. White vinyl housed in a plain white sleeve with insert. Limited to 300 copies.
UK 6£
Europe 7£
World 8£
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BEREFT / FIRE IN THE HEAD - 'MA/PE/FU' LP (Existence Establishment)
Massachusetts Power Electronics heavyweights go head-to-head in the first volume of the MA/PE/FU series. Fire in the Head is Michael Page, the prolific artist also behind Sky Burial and Irukandji who hails from Cape Cod. On Side A FITH offers a fast paced whirlwind of unrelenting noise complemented by ambient interludes, frantic samples, and rhythmic mayhem. Side B features the forsaken death industrial tinged power electronics of Salem, MA based Bereft. The brothers in arms behind this 2 man operation being Peter Lee of the long-running Force of Nature label, and Andy Grant who solos as The Vomit Arsonist. Bereft present a screeching feedback assault layered over heavy industrial rhythms to form 2 solid tracks of razor-sharp dissent. The line has been drawn. Ltd x 300 individually numbered copies with poster and insert.
GRUNTSPLATTER - 'The Passions Of A Cripple' 12" (Force Of Nature)
Gruntsplatter (aka Scott E. Candey) delivers 6 tracks of unrelenting Death Industrial, adding snarling power electronic vocals - but there are also some lulls of repetition and consistency, with intricately layered and arranged rumbling dark ambient atmospheres. Candey continues on his path to explore the dark side of music. Ltd x 300 copies on beautiful blue marbled vinyl. Now a rare piece!
UK 12.00£
Europe 15.50£
World 19.00£
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HORNORKESTERET - 'Fjær Og Jern' CD (Panot)
"Fjær Og Jern" is a collection of some of Hornorkesteret's best tracks and a great introduction to the band. It features arctic mood music performed on reindeer antler instruments, field recordings, and guests including: Tore Honore Boe (Origami Boe), Alan Courtis & Roberto Conlazo (Reynols) and Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen. Epic music touching on subjects like polar exploration, ecology, the cyclic forces in nature, animal urges, and the Norwegian mental and physical climate. "SnowSpirits and WindWalkers squealing through mouth and bone and throat and horn - a Lovely Haunt Cartoon!" (David Tibet). Digipak with booklet.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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LCHM - 'Terra Australis Incognita' CD (La Esencia)
Debut album from LCHM, inspired by the short stories of Jorn Riel, a Danish writer who lived for 16 years in the most isolated and impervious areas of Greenland in the early 20th Century, at close quarters with the hunters who originally lived there. With this work, LCHM has tried to recreate, by means of sound, the lights and shadows of these great and unknown men who lived extraordinary experiences by relying on their own forces alone, on their adaptability and on their will to survive in an age when you didn't have much to begin with. LCHM was born out of a passion for audial research, the study of human psychology, and ispirations drawn from several esoteric practices. Deep and wide sounds, bright and obscure, unique and full of nuances. LCHM conceives and records all of its material using sounds captured in nature, in unusual places, or created using other instruments. Digipak.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
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T.O.M.B. - 'Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy II' CD (Fall Of Nature Records)
Recollecting selected fragments from the past of one of underground music's most mysterious and obscure forces, "Total Occultic Mechanical Blasphemy II" serves as an archival release of today's leading Black Noise artist T.O.M.B. Resonating with a pulsing necrotic ambience and saturated in graveyard ritual noise, this is only for the most extreme of tastes. This album collects T.O.M.B.'s "Sacrilegium", and "Black Crypt Worship" demos along with unreleased "Dungeon Sessions". 20 tracks.
UK 11£
Europe 12£
World 13£
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TELEPHERIQUE - 'Slowmotion' CD (Force Of Nature)
One of Germany's most recognisable names has returned with another ambient masterpiece. "This CD is dedicated to all the people who try to simplify their life in modern times, marked with materialism, business, stress and sickness". The eight tracks have no titles but they are divided into three 'steps', being "Out of balance", "Down shifting" and "Fountain of flow". The whole results in a ritualistic, flowing album with moments of rhythm, ambience and complex soundscapes."
Debut album from a band many of you will recognise from our award winning compilation "John Barleycorn Reborn". Tinkerscuss are an English folk duo comprised of sisters Bryony and Erin Holden. "Nine Trees" features an enchanting combination of rich vocals (sung in English, Gaelic and Cornish), acoustic guitar, mandola, harp, shruti box, accordion, violin and viola. Weaving a musical path to the twilight world of dreams. "There’s a growing force in folk that’s steadily developed in the South-West. That force is Tinkerscuss... Each song fits into the whole as the trees fit the forest and the grass the meadow. This is fey folk with fire... “Nine Trees” stays with you from the first hearing. It sheds a pale light on the far dark side of mystical while exploring the wild reaches of nature’s cyclic death and resurgence." (Folkwords).
