AUBURN LULL - 'Behind All Curses Of Thought Lies The Ability To Focus On Vacant Spaces' 7" (Zeal Records)
This 7" nods towards more electronically-based space rock / ambient elements of Auburn Lull than heard on prior releases; elements that interweave amongst cascading guitars and droning samples. The band and many others simply refer to this release by the name of it's title track, 'North Territorial'. Nice piece.
UK 5£
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BAI SHUI - 'A Travel Book (Deluxe Edition)' CD (Midnight Productions)
An alternative to Bai Shui's usual work. Unlike the traditional Chinese folk he used to compose, this is instrumental World Music, dabbling in music, humanities and histories of multiple regions. Based on the western region's vast deserts, Bai Shui emphasises those atmospheres with more experimental arrangements. We can hear his deep understanding of World Music and the high quality creativity on the album. Ltd x 1000 copies in a deluxe hardback book cover with 20 page booklet.
UK 14.00£
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BLOOD AXIS - 'Ultimacy' CD (Storm)
"Ultimacy" collects the final versions of all the singles and compilation tracks released by Blood Axis during the two decades since the project was founded (1991-2011). Stunning versions of well known BA classics such as 'The Hangman And The Papist', 'Eternal Soul', 'The March Of Brian Boru', 'Wir Rufen Deine Wölfe'. These pieces appear in a reverse chronological order, beginning with more recent work and moving back through time to the distant past. Blood Axis explore European folklore; German occultism; Norse and Perso-Roman mythology; fatalism, militarism and Nietzschean romanticism through folk rock, ritual pieces and menacing electronica. Expertly re-mastered by Blood Axis member and renowned studio engineer Robert Ferbrache, "Ultimacy" presents these rare tracks in their ideal form, exactly as the band itself has always heard and envisioned them. Guests include: Stephen Flowers (Edred Thorsson), Boyd Rice (NON), Thomas Thorn (My Life with the Thrill Kill Kill Kult / Electric Hellfire Club), and Markus Wolff (Waldteufel). Presented in a spot-varnished gatefold digisleeve with printed inner sleeve.
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BRIGHTER DEATH NOW - 'Very Little Fun' 4 x LP (Cold Meat Industry)
A box without tricks! No fillout material! No extras! No instrumental versions! No remixes! This is BRIGHTER DEATH NOW, and it's Very Little Fun. This material was recorded between 1998-2005, and is not just left-overs, but also the raw sound and direct result of a collapsing mental health! Yet, we cannot escape the fact that these 27 tracks are both of a fascinating and intriguing nature, but also that these utterly dark industrial cadaverous sounds will push your mood down to a risky level even for the more sane listener. Well, You have been warned! It is a dark depressive world painted with a gruesome black mind and a bleeding heart. This is what makes the sound of Roger Karmanik / Brighter Death Now so special and one-of-a-kind! Depression guaranteed! Ltd x 500 copies in an embossed, spot-varnished gatefold sleeve with outer slipcase.
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CHARLES MANSON - 'The Summer Of Hate - The '67 Sessions' CD (Arte Lupo)
Charles Manson's name should be no stranger to lovers of the weird and wonderful, having been sentenced to life without parole for his leadership of the cult "The Family", who committed several murders in the late '60s. Before these events, Charlie had high-hopes of becoming a pop star, with his strange psychedelic folk music - bizarrely more fashionable today than ever. Here for the first time are the complete recordings that were made on 11th September 1967 in a rehearsal studio, which went onto be used as demos to try to secure a recording deal, which never happened. Spoken word elements throughout the 18 tracks (just under 45 minutes). Essential for collectors of ‘60s Folk and weird psych freakouts.
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DRAUGURINN - 'Myrkraverk' CD (Le Crepuscule Du Soir)
Shamanic and ritualistic music from Sweden featuring dark, sacral, nature, emotions, feelings. Whereas the gloomy dark ambient of the previous album "Daudada" left a lot to the listener's imagination "Myrkraverk" gives more hints. Nothing obvious, nothing overt, still murky, still questioning, still transcending, but this time slightly more tangible. Now the voices you hear are actually voices, namely whispers and wails, awakened from who knows when, but it was in a place audibly cold, dark, wet and barren. The basic percussion has now evolved into sparse ritualistic percussion made by using shamanic instruments. Once, this was sacred. today, it needs to be remembered and revered again. Ltd x 500 copies.
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ELIWAGAR - 'Fjellfolk Saga Fra Forntiden' CD (Morningside Records)
Eliwagar's second release "Fjellfolk Saga Fra Forntiden" ("the legend of the mountain-folk from the past time") tells about a legend written by Runahild herself years ago, but songs are also full of metaphors. The music is more rustic pagan folk, taking the listener away into a wooden cabin at the heart of nature, while a snow storm is raging outside, or while a sweet sun raises at the dawn of a spring. Eliwagar's music is meant to give a positive feeling, reminding of a good feast between family and folk or a calm moment near a fire on an enjoyable evening. "Darkness appeals darkness, and despair appeals despair". After every fight, there is a feast! After every storm, the sun rises again! Even the blaze of a candle can brighten all darkness. Ltd x 500 copies in a digipak.
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ETHEREAL WOODS - 'Kenilworth' CD (Supernal Music)
"This third album sees Ethereal continuing the evolutionary trajectory they initiated with "In the Forest of Arden", which led them here towards an even heavier sound. Yet, while we hear rumbling frequencies and a rhythmical approach that are commonly associated with Death Metal, this duo retain their characteristically Doomy and melancholic sound, offering plenty of sorrowful harmonic melody and keyboard-driven magic. I am reminded at times of Decomposed, although Ethereal Woods is musically richer and more classically-influenced. The nature, mysticism and sylvan fantasy themes present in their previous two albums take here an explicitly Elizabethan turn. �One is inevitably reminded of the sensibilities of a Sir Philip Sidney, although Blackmetalised and in much simplified form"�(AK-47).
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FRAKMUNDT - 'Heiwehland' CD (Steinklang)
Sixteen unique, expressive and headstrong songs grant the listener a passionate glimpse of the Alpine areas of inner Switzerland. On “Heiwehland”, accordion, guitars, hurdy-gurdy, bass, flutes, and the percussion contributed by Merlin (Eluveitie) blend together to form the unique and unconventional Swiss Ur-Folk. The varied songs in Swiss Alemannic dialect take you to a more than one hour long journey into the heart of the alps. They speak of historic events, tragic tales, frightening creatures, strange events, mysterious beings and the melancholic longing for a beautiful homeland that is disappearing in its original form but also about its outlasting beauty. As on the previous album “Urbärglieder”, traditional songs are reinterpreted and of course the comical and humorous elements have their place. The extensive digipak contains a 20-page booklet full of breathtaking Alpine photography and includes all the lyrics in Swiss Alemannic dialect as well as their description in English.
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HALF MAKESHIFT - 'L'Anse Amort' CD (20 Buck Spin)
Half Makeshift is the solo project of Pennsylvania's Nathan Michael. L'anse Amort contains four tracks that expand on the density of his debut "Aphotic Leech", creating more space and reflection, more peaks and valleys. The monumental 17 minute opener "Whale Heart" builds from a simple melody and crackling electro-static to eventually collapse under its own weight in a huge Nadja-esque wall of drone riffery , while other tracks are comparable to Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore. "L'anse Amort" is epic in a way most "post-rock" bands can only aspire to. Comes specially packaged in a outsize gatefold sleeve.
With every release from Adelaide's David Tonkin he seems that little bit more aggressive, that touch more buried in sound, and that step more progressed in his abilities. So it is again with "Nil By Mouth", released for Isomer's live action in Mannheim, Germany with Genocide Organ, May 2011. Not only does "Nil By Mouth" offer Tonkin's most confrontational take on layered, modern power electronics yet, he also adds another dimension of creep, distinct from the previous CDs, courtesy of some contributions from Mark Groves (Dead Boomers, Von Einem). 30mins of music. Ltd x 200 copies pro-pressed CD in a shrinkwrapped card sleeve.
Juhyo (Minneapolis artists Brian Kopish of Hear More! and Bill Henson of Housepig) teams up with Joshua Norton Cabal (Andrew Nolan of The Endless Blockade) for a two-pronged Noise investigation into the world of human trafficking and modern slavery. Features Eric King (The Endless Blockade) on guest drums and source material from Nekrasov. Ltd x 500 copies.
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KONGH - 'Counting Heartbeats - CLEAR' 2 x LP (Music Fear Satan)
Vinyl re-issue of the first Kongh record, originally released in 2007 (Trust No One Recordings). These five tracks sound like the most brutal and direct Doom Metal offerings among the band's discography. The stunning gatefold cover was designed by Seldon Hunt and the record is limited to 1000 copies (150 on clear, 150 on pink & white marbled and 700 on black).
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UK 16£
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KONGH - 'Counting Heartbeats - PINK & WHITE MARBLED' 2 x LP (Music Fear Satan)
Vinyl re-issue of the first Kongh record, originally released in 2007 (Trust No One Recordings). These five tracks sound like the most brutal and direct Doom Metal offerings among the band's discography. The stunning gatefold cover was designed by Seldon Hunt and the record is limited to 1000 copies (150 on clear, 150 on pink & white marbled and 700 on black).
ONE COPY PER CUSTOMER ONLY! If you attempt to purchase more than 1 copy, your order will be refunded.
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LAUDANUM - 'The Coronation' CD (20 Buck Spin)
Judd and Becky Hawk are joined by Greg Wilkinson (Brainoil, Pig Heart Transplant, Earhammer Studios) and Nathan Misterek (Graves At Sea). On "The Coronation", the two elements that make up the current Laudanum sound - punishing, bruised sludge doom and bleak industrial noise experiments - are fused ever more tightly together into a cohesive soundtrack for the slow collapse of modern life and culture. The intense low frequency pummel of Wilkinson’s bass rumble is itself an apparent cause for some of this collapse, such is its massive earth-shaking power. Becky’s crushing drum beats rival Dale Crover in sheer intensity and brute force. Judd’s repetitive stone slab riffs carrying the weight of the world, and Misterek’s vocals, colliding with Becky’s, coating the whole thing with the mournful, evil magick of life’s coming oppression. This is The Coronation of the end. Digifile.
MACHINIST NOISE ASSAULT - 'Self Help' CD (Silken Tofu)
'Self Help' is the first official album by Machinist Noise Assault, culminating after years of dabbling with different styles of drone, noise, and industrial since its inception in 1998. Lyrically, 'Self Help' is a scornful examination of various forms of self abuse / neglect, and severe internal struggle based around the concept of one being one's own worst enemy. Sonically, expect to hear densely layered Power Electronics, standing out from the usual 'Set it and forget it'-style of its peers with less focus being applied to outright abrasiveness, and more being put on texture, development, and atmospheric elements. Mastered by Thomas Garrison (Control). Ltd x 300 copies in a 7" gatefold black card folder with silver print.
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MANIA - 'Armed To The Teeth' CD (Troniks / PACrec)
Mania is Texan Keith Brewer (Taint, Sonic Sadist etc). Mania seems to be almost wholly focused on distilling violence, warfare, murder, and, more than anything else, the brutal power of firearms into blasts of twisted, ultraviolent Power Electronics. The sound isn't all that far removed from Taint, but on "Armed To The Teeth", Brewer lays a 35 minute track of scorching distortion, clanging metal percussion, harsh vocals that are treated with an overload of psychedelic effects and screeching, punishing waves of feedback that is then cut with interludes of recordings captured from weapons training presentations, shootings, and firing ranges. It's a weird mix of sounds, but if you've got a rotten tooth for this kind of grating speaker perversion, Mania brings it really harsh. File this next to TEF, The Rita, MSBR, Cherry Point, Macronympha, etc. Card sleeve.
MARTIN BLADH & BO I CAVEFORS - 'The Island Of Death ' CD (Freak Animal)
This new album of Martin Bladh is possibly his best and most challenging. Many of the known elements of his previous works are there. Amazing tones of bow / string instruments. wailing yelling voice recognisable from IRM, usage of samples / spoken word collages, rhythms, musical patterns and electronic noise. But everything goes further, leaving all expectations behind. Less noise, more disturbing experimental elements, often avoiding playing it safe. This work is most definitely recommended for anyone who wants to hear albums that stand out of line. Packaged in a DVD case with full color cover and full color 24 page booklet including Bladh's unique collages and Cavefors' texts. Limited edition of a mere 200 copies! ACT FAST!
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MUSIIKKIVYORY - 'Tulemme Sokeiksi' CD (Ektro Records)
"Tulemme sokeiksi" ("We're Becoming Blind") is a retrospective CD by Musiikkivyory ("music avalanche"). In addition to being a curious chapter in the endless saga of the post-punk era, this DIY document is also one of the finer, more elusive threads of the cassette-culture scene. Originally issued in 1981, Musiikkivyory's two tapes were the work of Mika Taanila, a 15-year-old who would grow up to become an internationally acclaimed filmmaker. This CD features the key tracks from those micro-edition recordings. Musiikkivyory's output is typical of the early 80s raw zeitgeist, but with a timeless, teen-anguish twist. Taanila heartily embraces punk's total do-it-yourself ideal, yet his style is light years away from the conventional guitar groups of the day: Atonal riffs, home electronics, randomly cut-up radio sounds, noise and primitive industrial weltschmertz blend into a rough, highly personalised whole.
NAVICON TORTURE TECHNOLOGIES - 'VTERVS' CD (NCC Records)
From within the darkest regions of the heart, insane exultations to soft skin are screamed out through barriers of clotted blood and white noise, as once more, the thin line between obsession and devotion is crossed. Originally conceived as a companion to "Pure Skin", this collection of 14 feverishly-deranged love songs heralding the coming end of an era. Where "Pure Skin" was in large part a collection of previously released rare tracks, "VTERVS" is the first all-new full-length album from Power Electronics / Industrial Noise act NTT in three years, and the first of the final four releases by the project. "VTERVS" features collaborative input from Cloama, SKM-ETR, STROM.ec and Silent_Command, as well as stalwart NTT personnel Mark Kammerbauer (Fragment King), Matt Slagle, and recent addition to the NTT war machine, Fallon Nieves (Covet). Ltd x 1000 copies in a stunning digipak with pictures of naked ladies.
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OSTARA - 'Immaculate Destruction' 2 x CD (Trisol)
Richard Leviathan founded Ostara in 1999 after having worked and toured with Death in June in the late 1990s. The band has been making a name for itself ever since the release of their first album, "Secret Homeland," in 2000. Now, in 2005, comes the most definitive release to date: "Immaculate Destruction". A profound and visionary work delivered with a perfect blend of passion, aggression and intimacy. Esoteric, poetic, apocalyptic but consistently inventive and contemporary, Ostara has achieved a unique fusion of lyrical complexity and musical accessibility with songs that appeal to the head and the heart. The album features new band members including Dave Renwick (ex-Bronski Beat & The Communards). A highly polished and professional production gives "Immaculate Destruction" a cutting edge sound that will win Ostara many more admirers. Released in a deluxe double CD limited edition with exclusive material.
UK 16£
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PYHA - 'Play Backfires' CD (Misanthropic Art Productions)
Atmospheric black metal / dark ambient from South Korean Pyha (Ruins). Consisting of more mature and clean sounds than his previous, critically acclaimed album "The Haunted House" (which he wrote when he was just 14!). Burzum meets Abruptum meets Xasthur but even more harsh and atmospheric. Anti war, anti military outsider individualistic blackness that destroys any other BM you've heard. Unbelievably grim and melancholic. Ltd x 500 copies.
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ROMA AMOR - 'Occhi Neri' CD (Old Europa Cafe)
Somewhere between the melodic folk-inflected charm of Italian 60’s songwriters and the cabaret swoon of French chansonniers, Roma Amor’s new album is instinctively romantic and sophisticated. This album will seduce you with its summer-evening mellowness before breaking your heart with its beautifully sensual croon. Wonderful ballads and torch songs about love inspired by the epic, fatalistic rugged grandeur of Aznavour, Brel, Piaf, and 60’s Italian songwriters, though in a much quieter and more delicate setting. The album is sung in Italian with some French touches and the songs are from Roma Amor’s own harvest. The result is an acoustic and intimate album for fans of well-crafted singer-songwriting. Digipak with lyrics booklet.
SILCHARDE - 'De Martyrs A Bourreaux' CD (Frozen Wing Records)
Macabre Ethereal Dark Ambient from France. The second album from Silcharde, with a style evolved towards new twilight horizons. "The album begins with crushing rhythms, over which can be heard weeping... a door slams and suddenly gives way to a transitional environment. The second title begins where the first stopped. When the door opens, enter the torturers, sounds of beasts, crying, a new hammer crushing is our victim. The door closes and is replaced by a new sweeping environment. The atmosphere here is really oppressive. Very different from my last work, which was more shamanic / ambient, this album revives a bit of the "sado noise" of my first demo, but with the benefits of time".
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SILENT LOVE OF DEATH - 'The Poet's Senses' CD (Palace Of Worms)
Deep and dramatic vocals, trumpet and violins, acoustic guitars, military drums, can make you think of a Neofolk band like any other, but Silent Love Of Death could touch the depth of your heart. A romantic feeling encroaches upon the seventeen songs of this album - a great nostalgic atmosphere with classical influences create impressive dark sounds. The texts are inspired by poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Bequer, William Blake, Espronceda and more.
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SIMON WHETHAM - 'Mall Muzak' CD (Unfathomless)
In 2009, as part of the ‘All Around You’ season of sonic events at The Cube, Simon Whetham was invited to produce a site-specific work for a half-derelict shopping centre called ‘The Mall’ in Bristol. He explored the space with various microphones and techniques to uncover sounds not normally heard by the shopping public. "Memories of childhood visits portrayed the shopping centre as a crammed and noisy place, every shop a brightly lit shrine, drawing in it’s worshippers… On returning to The Mall, it was apparent that the current recession had hit hard, with almost half the units with their shutters down, possibly never to open again. The seemingly empty drones of the various processes that keep a structure like this alive could be heard over the scattering of shoppers. Behind the scenes, the drones become more musical and tonal, singing a lament to the financial situation and to better times. The chattering of air conditioning and escalators echoing that of now absent consumers. Ltd x 200 hand-numbered copies in a PVC archive sleeve with insert.
Sonne Hagal’s second full-length album once more bestows the listener with a journey into the unknown realms of poetry, mysteries and enthralling melodies. Closely connected to Europa’s folk-music tradition and the Northern mysteries, the band develops song structures that reach from simple traditional arrangements to complex compositions. The songs, performed in German and English, reveal rediscovered poems as well as self-written lyrics. The atmosphere of the songs varies from intimate, quiet parts to fresher, light-hearted and lively sounds up to heavy distorted parts supported by real or electronic drums. Each song unfolds its own universe, interconnected by the central idea of “Jordansfrost”: the constant changing between light and darkness, the seasons or even life and death themselves. Guests: Of The Wand And The Moon, In Gowan Ring, Waldteufel, Ernte, Lux Interna, Darkwood and Black Sun Productions. Ltd x 500 copies with full colour inner sleeve.
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STRIBORG - 'Mysterious Semblance' CD (Displeased Records)
Cold dark isolated forest black ambient / black metal. "Sin Nanna’s songwriting abilities that are rather well represented on this CD... This CD is just so slow compared to his other projects, that it is worthy of attention for, one, being so different, and, two, for realizing more complex songwriting skills than Sin Nanna has exhibited in any record I have heard yet. I actually believe this is his best album yet" (Brutalism.com). Originally issued on cassette in 2004, this 2008 reissue includes 3 bonus tracks! First 1000 copies come packaged with a limited silver cover!
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THE ELEMENTAL CHRYSALIS - 'The Dark Path To Spiritual Expansion' 2 x CD (Glass Throat Recordings)
The Earth Tongues have been consumed and with this, the mighty path of an Elemental Chrysalis (James Woodhead) becomes more clear. Onward through the door of a wooded heart, the Chrysalis gift transcending, organic acoustic doom composition and rich analogue organ ritualism. With the guided energies of a Winter season, through the elder Pacific North Western woodlands, the mournful heart seeks comfort and cleansing in these times of blackened skies. This exploration & unique weaving of many audible threads, create the original sound that has become known today as The Elemental Chrysalis. From deeply depressing Classical movements, to lethargic rain soaked Blues Folk. Epic visual totems unfold with every breath! Seekers of today's true eclectic underground will find faith once again. A purely psychedelic headphone crafting! Outsized 6-panel digifile.
THE FAMILY ELAN - 'Bow Low Bright Glow' CD (Altvinyl)
“Bow Low Bright Glow” is a communal excavation and re-presentation of buried European folk and sufi-hearted music than any form of experiment. Family Elan are alone in their field. Here, Chris Hladowski has put together a collection of original numbers, visions created from lost / found tapes and traditional pieces that are a fitting companion to Family Elan’s “Stare of Dawn” debut. Alongside Hladowski’s voice, there’s the vocal input of Nalle’s Hanna Tuulikki – a voice as easily capable of gentle Qawwali as it is folk song. This is a record of heavy treble intricacy, Hladowski’s saz and bouzouki playing encompassing drones, folk, dervish progressive work and a woozy shimmer over and through the entwining melodies. Family Elan are more than just a project or a band, Hladowski has endowed the music here with a such a unique voice that shaky shorthand comparisons would be pointless and a short sell. Music that hints at the devotional rarely feels as inclusive, as communal and as enjoyable as this. Gatefold digisleeve.
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THE FAMILY ELAN - 'Bow Low Bright Glow' LP (Altvinyl)
“Bow Low Bright Glow” is a communal excavation and re-presentation of buried European folk and sufi-hearted music than any form of experiment. Family Elan are alone in their field. Here, Chris Hladowski has put together a collection of original numbers, visions created from lost / found tapes and traditional pieces that are a fitting companion to Family Elan’s “Stare of Dawn” debut. Alongside Hladowski’s voice, there’s the vocal input of Nalle’s Hanna Tuulikki – a voice as easily capable of gentle Qawwali as it is folk song. This is a record of heavy treble intricacy, Hladowski’s saz and bouzouki playing encompassing drones, folk, dervish progressive work and a woozy shimmer over and through the entwining melodies. Family Elan are more than just a project or a band, Hladowski has endowed the music here with a such a unique voice that shaky shorthand comparisons would be pointless and a short sell. Music that hints at the devotional rarely feels as inclusive, as communal and as enjoyable as this. Ltd x 500 copies on heavyweight vinyl in a stunning textured heavyweight sleeve.
UK 15.00£
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THE RITA - 'The Voyage Of The Decima Mas' CD (Troniks)
From the mind behind BT.HN, Vice Wears Black Hose and Black To Comm comes a sea of obsessed deliberation and suffocating harsh noise waves. Sourced from live snorkeling murk, overdriven detail defines the unfathomable abyss. "The Voyage Of The Decima MAS" proves there is NO MORE HOPE.
TINDERSTICKS - 'The Hungry Saw' CD (Beggars Banquet)
This seventh album from the cult Nottingham indie chamber pop act is their first since 2003's 'Waiting For The Moon' and sees them reduced to a trio after the departure of several founder members. Relocating to a long-dream-of studio space in rural France, the band recruited new backing players and quickly laid down these tunes, whose new and stripped-down version of their trademark sound has already been hailed by fans and critics alike. "...from the first haunting notes of "Introduction" to the last soulful moments of "The Turns We Took", The Hungry Saw is as good as it gets. The traditional Tindersticks sound - part smoky heartbreak, part sinister minor-key noir malevolence - is present and correct, and far more focussed, resulting in an early contender for the best album of 2008... the strength of the tracks, and the sheer thrill of hearing Stuart Staples' sleepy Cohen-esque croon tackle such gems as the title track, the gently mournful "All the Love", or the sinister "Mother Dear" prove that the band are as good as they ever were... as affecting and epic as anything they've done, and a good sign that Tindersticks still have a fruitful few albums in them yet." (Amazon)
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TORTURING NURSE - 'Il Comunismo Doveva Morire' CD (Mind Flare Media)
Absolutely devastating, this album is one single track running almost an hour and fourteen minutes long. The prolific Harsh Chinese Noise band suddenly breaks in from nowhere and immediately begins an assault on your ears, suddenly switching and transitioning to a variety of different power electronics landscapes. The artwork sums it up well, a symbolic representation of a dead political system. The back features similar art taken from famous propaganda and manipulated, ending with more political imagery inside and a CD that rests upon a pile of skulls. Without a doubt the harshest thing these guys have ever done. This stuff is powerful and not for the faint of hearing.
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TROUM - 'Nargis' 7" (Viva Hate Records)
A continuation of Maeror Tri, this is dark, moody, contemplative ambient / drone material. "The first half of this single still sounds like Troum, but is unlike anything we've heard from them, strange looped high end guitar, what sounds like backwards chords, almost choral vocals, dramatic and haunting and cinematic... over a distant grinding low end tone drifting way off in the background, washed over by epic sweeping swells.. The other side is a bit more raw and intense, a seriously corrosive guitarscape, distorted and crumbling chordal buzz, looped and layered into a strange glacial riff... it manages to be intense and fierce but also gloriously washed out and blissful." (Aquarius). Part 1 of the Landscape series. Ltd x 400 copies on black vinyl with full colour insert.
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VA - '23 Drifts To Guestling' CD (FOPI)
NICE PRICE! Originally released in 1983, this stands as the missing piece of the jigsaw between Coum Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. Scrapbook rehearsals, formative ideas, radio snippets, interviews and general nonsense. CD version of the original cassette release with contributions from the many people that made up Throbbing Gristle, Coum Transmissions, Coil and Psychic TV, brought to you by FOPI. Features: Throbbing Gristle, Genesis P-Orridge, Psychic TV, Monte Cazazza, Peter Christopherson, Martin Denny, Joan Armstrong, Gary Gilmore, Adi Newton, Frank Zappa, Charles Manson, Alex Fergusson and Lynette Fromme (Manson Family).
A three-way summit on bleak doom and buzzing misery. Sandy Saunders (Torso), Darcy Spidle (Divorce Records) and Jordan Hines mix drums, bass, electronics and vocals into a thick morass. Vennt stakes out territory at the intersection of black metal, drone, doom and power electronics, then fortifies the barricades. US edition. Ltd x 400 hand-numbered copies with a copper cover and insert in a heavy PVC archive sleeve.
