Ears For Eyes

If you’ve seen Sarah Angliss play live and wondered how she could capture her rambling, magical suitcase of weirdness in a recording, ‘Ealing Feeder’ goes some way to realising it. Sadly missing the robotic ventriloquist dummy heads and breathing handbag of her performances, this album still retains the eerie magic of Sarah’s music which pitches… Continue reading Sarah Angliss – Ealing Feeder →

‘Ruminations’ by Death in Scarsdale is another nighttronic transmission from Invisible City, a label thick with nocturnal lurkers. This tape is a two part ooze of sick mouldy tape loops. Fibrous and deceptively delicate REM swirls. Evoking the deep still night, the part where even the foxes sleep. Snatches of bird song sound sarcastic; life-sounds… Continue reading Death in Scarsdale – Ruminations (Invisible City Records) →

‘Colony’, the latest noise album from the prolific sound and visual artist Alocasia Garden (aka Reece Thomas Green), for the Crow Versus Crow label, opens with ‘First Light’, a rumbling chipped glass-rimmed drone-throb like a slowly breathing stone chest, an expanding and contracting complaining assemblage, something rigid paradoxically flexing. ‘Consumed by Struggle’ is less orderly,… Continue reading Alocasia Garden – Colony (Crow Versus Crow) →

The Herhalen label has released two tapes so far this year that are bleak and banging; dank and void-cold. Luke Lund’s ‘Rogue Star’ is pulsating, scabrous and violent. Deep night-sky techno, full of treacherous physics, as the album notes have it; a logic being flexed from beneath, space-time skin bulging as something shark-like cruises beneath.… Continue reading Herhalen round-up: Luke Lund – Rogue Star / Percival Pembroke – Darklands →

‘Think Away’ by Delphine Dora (piano) and Sophie Cooper (trombone) is magical in an ambiguous Studio Ghibli sort of way. Their music captures a sense of the uncanny that is on the border between menace and wonder; a Leonora Carrington reading would benefit from a live improvisation from these two musicians. ‘Stillness and Movement’ pairs… Continue reading Delphine Dora & Sophie Cooper – Think Away (Was Ist Das?) →

EUH! are an anything-goes free-jazz cosmic car-boot-sale noise band, consisting of Wayne Rex (drums) and Hacker Farm alumni, KEK-W (electronics).  The album is a bracing shot of washed-out spookiness combined with a hectically eclectic approach to instant-composition. A fluid, muddy music. Chaotic improvisations that border on the surreal. ‘Whipporwill’ is metallic clatter in conversation with… Continue reading EUH! – EUH! 1 (self released) / April Larson – Up Below (Polar Seas Recordings) / Lofe – Spit Wine (Crushing Objects Records) →

Dead Neanderthals are a scorching free-jazz noise fire-duo, made up of drummer Rene Aquarius and saxophonist Otto Kokke. In 2014, they released the astonishing ‘Prime’, a blistering cataclysm of a record, a ceaselessly furious eruption, which saw another saxophonist, Colin Webster, joining them to add that extra density needed to progress from recklessly confrontational to… Continue reading Dead Neanderthals – Craters, Molar Wrench (with Sly and The Family Drone), and The Depths (various labels) →

'Incantations From Yin Valley' begins like a heads-down doom rock noodler in the vein of Bardo Pond but the warm fuzz refuses to settle into a consistent groove. This sets the tone for the rest of the album, throughout the tape any propulsive force is usually smoothed out laterally into slow drones and swells. Bridget… Continue reading Bridget Hayden – Incantations From Yin Valley (Fort Evil Fruit) →

A lilting conversational tone opens ‘Hesperian Garden’ by Phil Legard; voices synth-mashed into Enochian John Dee angel burble, layered and accumulated gradually. The unhurried moss-like thickening of detail is a musical strategy employed throughout this album. Drones build in stature, becoming steadily more malign and dark. The third track ‘Threshold II’ is a highlight, incongruously… Continue reading Phil Legard – Hesperian Garden (Larkfall) →