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End Of A Year Self Defense Family - "I'm Going Through Some Shit / All Fruit...
Looking into my computer screen one morning not too long ago, I attempted to show my roommate the tumblr for EOAYSDF. The blog reads something like a twitter feed serving random musings mixed up with...
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The Haters - In The Shade Of Fire
part of what i am very interested in, these days, is perusing the past. Taking stock of the present. Freezing time, for a moment, and going through old records by classic Noise musicians, trying to...
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Kinski - Down Below Its Chaos
Saw these guys open for White Hills at Mississippi Studios the other night. I used to see them regularly, back in Chicago, opening for Acid Mothers Temple and other psych freaks. I remember always...
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The Weeknd - Echoes of Silence
here's one for the weekend.The Weeknd sound like a club night's hang-over. Teeth grinding, spine shaking, fucked raw, possibly bleeding. Blinds closed against the sunlight. Perpetual night.The Weeknd...
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Wolf Eyes Interview
A recent episode of The Out Door, via Pitchfork, featured a lengthy dissertation on the manifold offshoots of the Wolf Eyes crew; Nate Young, John Olson, Mike Connelly. I know a lot of folks out there...
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Skincage - Axon (bandcamp)
Jon Ray has described his music as Dark Ambient, but this is not some Brian Wilson acolyte falling asleep on the bass register of his synthesizer. Instead, this is the kind of Dark Ambient that makes...
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I AM THE LAKE OF FIRE (demos)
there is something about this music...let no one deceive you, there is another worldit is within youevery boy and girlthere is a kingdomthere is a kingthe cosmos is his dominioneverything ever was will...
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Neurotic Wreck - Leave Tonight mixtape
Neurotic Wreck is a young post-dubstep producer, coming out of the North West of England. He's also coming out of the post-punk idiom, like Joy Division/New Order, but says that Justin Broadrick's Jesu...
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:Lackthereof - Forgive Yourself:
As you gasp/blabber for air in the dark sine waves, Menomena member Danny Seim hoists your dripping body onto his safe and sound dinghy. As captain, he departs on his new album Personal Strength...
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Chasma - Declaration of the Grand Artificer
Don't call them cascadian black metal.Even if they kind of sound like it.Chasma are a 3-piece from Portland. They play a style of psychedelic black metal that will definitely thrill fans of Wolves in...
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Jandek - Ready For The House (corwood #0739)
Ready For The House is the first album from Jandek, notorious texan recluse detuned poet savant. Originally released in 1978, originally released under the name The Units, he sold all of 2 copies in...
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Coil - Bee Stings
Where's the bells? Where's the bats? Where's the summer? Where's the keyboard? Where's the instinct? Where's the patience? Where's the tiny golden books? - Glowworms/WaveformsWe're soldiers of my...
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Grouper - He Knows, He Knows, He Knows
Here's a tiny sliver...Grouper seems to exist on her own plane. Calling through the mist, reaching out through the windows. Seeking connection, yet defying it. Liz Harris' ambient drones have heart, a...
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Flatline Construct/Richard Ramirez/Prurient - untitled
Real noise is undeniable. It consumes yr inner world. It incapacitates you. There is a peace in this, finally an excuse to relax; to do nothing. This is perhaps, to the 2000s, what a Gong record, or...
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At The Head Of The Woods - Beyond Time And Space
[ L I S T E N A N D B R E A T H E ]At The Head Of The Woods are beyond time and space. This record, released on the Summer Solstice of 2008, sounds like lying on yr back, beneath a mossy oak tree,...
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Death In June - But, What Ends When These Symbols Shatter?
But, What Ends When These Symbols Shatter? is the first Death In June record i heard. I didn't get it at first. I'd heard of Douglas Pearce's connection to the Throbbing Gristle/Coil/Current 93 axis,...
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl - The Rope
i've had a nearly insatiable appetite for dark, atmospheric folk music lately. This has led me back down a mouldering tunnel towards Goth's dark light. Black Tape For A Blue Girl was one of the first...
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Insect Factory - Terrastock 7 CDr
i've been wanting to talk about the music of Jeff Barsky, and of my experience at the seventh Terrastock, since the fucker occurred. Procastination and over-speculating on the relevance, prevented me...
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Body Swap
saw these dudes last night @ the Kenton Club w/ Insect Factory (which i spoke ov over here). Insect Factory has gotten better and better, since last i saw him 4 years ago, but the first band was utter...
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The Torn ACLs - Real Risks
File Under: The Torn ACLsThe facts:a pop band from Seattle, Wa.There are four men in this band.They are - WILLIAM CREMIN - MILES RANISAVLJEVIC - JASON...
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Hungry Ghosts - Self Titled
so i have been wrestling in the real world with my involvement with music, what the fuck am i hoping to accomplish anyway, and why am i doing this? You write a blog, and all the links get taken down....
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Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
"Anyway... I've started to make a tape... in my head... for Laura. Full of stuff she likes. Full of stuff that make her happy. For the first time I can sort of see how that is done."- Rob, High...
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Nils Frahm - Screws
is offering up his new opus as a free download, as well as available physically from Erased Tapes.Berlin-based pianist and composer Nils Frahm didn't let a broken thumb slow him down. Instead of taking...
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Dead Can Dance - Into The Labyrinth
This is the record that started it all. It is single-handedly (pun slightly intended) responsible for my becoming an unrepentant music obsessive. This record, DCD's 7th and the first with American...
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VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons Of Gold (Skam, 2010)
A lot of my favorite music these days seems to be archive-diving, cross-referentied works of collageist fury. The Dada cut-ups mutant evolution, surfing on the datastreams, masters of post-modernism. A...
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