R.R. Hearse fits into no category previously explored. Grainy, it’s a record that some will find difficult to grapple with. Nevertheless it’s a bold move […]
Tag: Noise
Sturqen :: Cura (Kvitnu)
Exploring an inner violence, Sturqen have inadvertently created a fluid audio distraction of raw industrial soundscapes. As Cura (Cure in English) suggests treatment or restoration of a […]
Logical Disorder :: Doomed Hope EP (Crazy Language)
A fabric of condensed cinematic melody, heavily textured beats and rhythmic digitized drones, Doomed Hope is both uplifting and brooding in one fell swoop. I […]
Lesley Flanigan :: Hedera (Physical Editons)
On Hedera a beat, generated by a defective tape deck, mangy as it is, is the golden loom on which she warps her voice with exquisite control and detail, […]
Honzo :: Melancholia (Arboretum)
This is dark, lonely music; terrifying in one respect and cruelly honest. And within this rawness, this discord, there are wonderful moments. One of the […]
Ben Rath :: Forgiveness (Sound In Silence)
Forgiveness explores melancholic and grey textural drone ambiences with a dialogue between processed sounds (notably taken from the piano and the electric guitar), looped electronic […]
V/A :: Mid Atlantic Death (Great Circles)
A compilation of contrasts set in the rust clad cast of Great Circles. If you wanted to crack this Philadelphia label, sample its metallic taste […]
Beneath the surface of Blackwater :: Interview and Mix
And what is that sound? Techno I would say. Not specific enough? Add some of the following and you’ll get a picture. Black. Psychological. Industrial. […]
Stig Inge :: Bremen (ZCKR)
Stig Inge continues to hammer his hometown, subjecting its denizens to his brand of addled electronics, stretched sounds and fearful shades. I was chatting to […]
Ionophore :: Sinter Pools (Malignant)
Sinter pools is a dark, ethereal and glitchy electronic album with moments of thrilling aspirations and post-modern inspired sound morphologies. A good musical discovery which […]
Double Review :: The Sand Rays / Ray Sands (CEIL)
Both are mysterious discs—looped, concrète, ambivalent, ambient and transportive. No trainspotter I, but old steam engines still conjure romance for me, especially caked matt black with the grease […]

















