Releases of note (so far) for 2023

[Brian O'Blivion]

A few that have not yet been mentioned:

Apologist - Everything Feels Brighter (No Rent)
Commuter - No Longer Penitent (New Forces)
Cyess Afxzs - No Bull One Left Behind (Krim Kram)
Elisha Morningstar - Marte (Buried in slag and debris.)
Merzbow - CATalysis 猫媒 (Elevator Bath)
Mot / Murmur - Mot / Murmur (White Centipede Noise)
Primitive Isolation Tactics / Quivering / Shameful / Altar Boa - Covert Weapons, Searing Prayer (Table Scraps)
Shredded Nerve - Third Sign (New Forces)
Tim Gick - Body Without Organs (No Rent)
Vasculae - Spectrum Art (Monorail Trespassing)

[murmur]

Jef Mertens & Bardo Todol - Tape Music for Electric Guitar and Hurdy Gurdy (Buried in Slag and Debris)

Thomas DeAngelo - Voiceprints & Aircuts: Sound Poetry By Other Means (Adhuman)

[shrouded.in.antiquity]

Presage - Venerated CS

Haven't seen the Presage tape mentioned a whole lot but I agree it is most excellent. Quite the follow-up to Hair Diaries.

A few more releases of note:
Primitive Wings - Morphosis CD (can't overemphasize this enough)
Seepage - Tertium Quid 2CD. Had to wait a little while to get this but it was well worth it. Seepage has become one of my absolute favorite projects since I've started listening. Everything from the pacing to the sheer mind numbing absurdity of the sounds is perfect.
Green Tea - Snowblower. Already a top favorite for the year I've played it many times since it came in the mail. Hard to believe that it's a debut, I really hope that a follow up isn't far behind.

[adult human]

Max Julian Eastman's Zabriskie/Manor needs a large shout out here.

[Lactating Tardigrade]

Presage - Venerated CS

Haven't seen the Presage tape mentioned a whole lot but I agree it is most excellent. Quite the follow-up to Hair Diaries.

A few more releases of note:
Seepage - Tertium Quid 2CD. Had to wait a little while to get this but it was well worth it. Seepage has become one of my absolute favorite projects since I've started listening. Everything from the pacing to the sheer mind numbing absurdity of the sounds is perfect.

Presage is so solid, takes his time to put out each tape, but you always know it's going to be quality. More highs and mids with less low end than Hair Diaries if memory serves correctly. Side B is very active with lots of good layers and edits, done very well. May spin all of the tapes side by side soon to compare.

And agreed on Seepage, this new double CD is fantastic. All of their material has been excellent but this really takes them to another level. I would say it's my favorite release of the year and maybe the last couple of years. It's extremely good. The new solo Kiran album is also great. Heavier emphasis on the "electro-acoustic" minimal sound on this one but good mix all the way around.

[Whiteboard Maverick]

Burselm Accomplice Vol. 2 (Burselm Crypt Recordings)
Christian Mirande - Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next (Regional Bears)
Dressing - Morning Terror, Evening Well (Abhorrent A.D.)
Francis Plagne - Udge (Horn of Plenty)
Hhost - Windswept Italics (Altered States Tapes)
Isobel D'Cruz & Simon J Karis - Cassowary Paint (Nice Music)
JP - Pink Electronics (Granite City Recordings)
Luciano Maggiore & Louie Rice - Three Things (Adhuman)
Wino Lodge - Pocket Mutations (Chocolate Monk)
Witness K - S/T (Ever/Never Records)

Uh a bunch of those may not fit too well with the usual threads here, but if you're into singular voices making idiosyncratic gestures you should do yourself a favour.

[Matthias]

Juho Toivonen – Kasveille Ja Eläimille LP (Futura Resistenza)
Francis Plagne - Udge LP (Horn of Plenty)
Incipientium – Underg​å​ng LP (Happiest Place)
Christian Mirande - Beautiful One Day, Perfect The Next LP (Regional Bears)
Leighton Craig - Logical Descent LP (self-released)
CIA Debutante - Down, Willow LP LP (Siltbreeze)
Stewart Skinner - For The Happiness Of The World CD (Usag)

[adult human]

Nice to see the Christian Mirande lp mentioned.

Same for Wino Lodge - the roll they’ve been on for the last couple of years is scary.

CIA Debutante - Down Willow. Likely to end up an album of the year in this house. Might be the best one yet? Certainly the most confident.

[shrouded.in.antiquity]

The new solo Kiran album is also great. Heavier emphasis on the "electro-acoustic" minimal sound on this one but good mix all the way around.

I just heard this one over the weekend and I agree, I was surprised by the more minimal palette, but I think it works effectively.

I also wanted to mention a few more releases that I haven't seen talked about very much:
MO*TE - Kill The Sun CD (Dada Drumming)
One continuous hour long track give or take, somehow feels both longer than it seems and at the same time shorter.
Umpio - Sin Memoria CD (Absurd Exposition)
I haven't heard a great deal of Umpio's output but I just finished listening to this and I'm very interested in hearing more. This disc has everything I love to hear on a harsh noise CD.

[garrison_keillor]

I'm really liking Slit Throats - King Of The Monster Trucks (Phage Tapes). Some of the sounds on there do a great job of scratching a certain itch I'm incapable of formulating into words.

[PetiteSoles]

I’ve listened to Dysphoria Ultra by Nit a couple times now and am really liking it a lot. Gonna have to figure out how to get my hands on some more of his work.

[k.p.g]

Coming back to check in with this one now that I have heard quite a few new releases from this year.

Scathing - Flesh Wreckage (Cruel Symphonies)
this one will take the cake for me as best noise record of the year, probably. Absolutely maniacal in every sense of the word, and getting to play with him twice this summer was an honor.

Max Eastman - Zabriskie/Manor (Satatuhatta)

Green Tea - Snowblower (New Forces)

Sissy Spacek - Absorb Wanting Symbols (Petite Soles)

Skin Crime - A Soul Eaten By Darkness (Hospital)

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

The return of Crucial Blast Records has meant that one of their first releases is from Boredom Knife. Highly recommend this.

https://crucialblast.bandcamp.com/album/stalker


And I've heard good things about the split tape between Slit Throats and Ruptured. It came out on Angst. Wish it was available digitally, but maybe that'll happen after it goes out of print?

Get it here: https://www.screamandwrithe.com/product ... ptured-cs/

Or here: http://angst.limitedrun.com/products/73 ... split-c-20

And listen to some of it here: https://www.soundohm.com/product/slit-t ... ptured-tap

[PetiteSoles]

Green Tea - Snowblower. Already a top favorite for the year I've played it many times since it came in the mail. Hard to believe that it's a debut, I really hope that a follow up isn't far behind.

I just heard a snippet of Children of the Wisteria and loved it. So I turned it off and ordered Snowblower. I really look forward to it.

[Happiness, forever]

Stalin & Hijokaiden !!!!!

https://anywherestore.p-vine.jp/en/coll ... s/alplp-11

STA-KAIDAN『1983.9.17 LIVE』 LP

ALPLP-11
Format： LP
Price：3,980yen＋tax
Release：2023/10/04

★First production limited edition
★With Obi
★First LP release

Star Staircase, a combined band of The Stalin and Emergency Staircase, reissued their legendary live recordings for the first time on vinyl and CD!

Star Staircase was formed by Michiro Endo's Stalin and Hiroshige JOJO's Emergency Staircase, and later became the origin of the "Staircase Collaboration" series. The legendary live performance recorded in September 1983 at Kyoto University's Seibu Auditorium was reissued on CD for the first time after 40 years! The roar of the Emergency Staircase over the classic songs of The Stalin, the stage and the audience screamed out in violent documentaries!

[lastof]

everything bizarro warrior but i bought recently:

living room - failed attempts at scorched earth
reis/lorenz - horizontal hold

quadrupling or more the primitive wings - morphosis

this might be disliked but i bought a cd called "Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness" by Madison Greenstone. it's purely acoustic extended techniques on Bb clarinet but it might as well be harsh noise

total sweetheart - lazy saturdays. this band is killing it with EVERY RELEASE. love that they're all pretty much two track c60s in format even on cd ya know what i mean

the new boyfriends 1+2 double cd reissue, if that counts. completely goated pure harsh noise.

MUST be mentioned: perfected grave vault - mutative forecast. charlie mumma and aaron aspinwall doing a fantastic job.

heat signature - brain on war.

[ChicagoAnimal]

I haven't done "Best of the Year" lists in like 13 years or so, but the best noise/experimental album I heard this year was the contemporary Italian tape/electo-accoustic compilation "Tutto A Posto Niente In Ordine" on Nashazphone. Absolutely stunning example of forward-thinking experimental from names both known and semi-known. Blows away anything I heard in the way of this year or last.

[Joie de la Blumpy]

MO*TE - Kill The Sun CD (Dada Drumming)
One continuous hour long track give or take, somehow feels both longer than it seems and at the same time shorter.

Yup!

Er. Anyone with any dissertation-level recommendations on the subject? Cause there has got, like, to be something there (even without T Riley and T Mikawa repeatedly saying so (fuck em!)), no doubt stuck deep inside of one of them places where it (the terminated subject) is not, necessarily (or so I'd assume), inclined to shine. I digress*.

Btw. mattias gustafsson. nedbrytningen. The proverbial shit. Of the year. (Even without the poor bird getting hosed.)


* I would

[Antirealist]

Daniel Menche – Rustler

not noisy at all, yet excellent

[murmur]

The new Knurl / Artbreakhotel split 2CS, Scrap Metal Labyrinth, on Buried in Slag and Debris is really excellent. Four sides of varied, interesting metal sounds from two of the best at it. Plus the packaging is particularly beautiful!

[Scream & Writhe]

It's getting to be that time of year. What was everyone digging in 2023?

[New Forces]

Green Tea – Snowblower (New Forces); Children Of The Wisteria (Satatuhatta) CDs
Joe Colley – Asking As If (Drone) 10”; Pleasure Pressure (New Forces) LP
Eyes Of The Amaryllis – Lunchtime On Earth (I Dischi Del Barone) 7”
People Skills – Hum Of The Non-Engine (Digital Regress) LP
Darksmith of California – End Of Life (Second Sleep) LP
Viodre – Drawing Horses (Kalifornia Love Addiction) CS
Macronympha – Whorecestra (Dada Drumming) 3xCD
Jackson-Pratt & Shredded Nerve (Total Black) CD
David Gilden – Texas Pillbox (Fusty Cunt) 16xCS
Livskraft – Livskraft (Forlag For Fri Musik) LP
CIA Debutante – Down, Willow (Stiltbreeze) LP
Shredded Nerve – Third Sign (New Forces) CD
Spring Of Life – Interface (Self Released) CS
C.C.C.C. – Polygon Islands (Usagi) CD
Ants In The Afterbirth (Head Meat) CS
Incipientium – Limbo (Harmful) CS

[adult human]

Always difficult to do this justice. But according to my notes I enjoyed these particularly...there's some stuff here I wouldn't have thought actually came out this year. No doubt a bunch of stuff in the 'to listen' pile from this year that would have been on the list were I to get to it in time.

Matthieu Fuentes - Ily, Almeria (More Mars)
Chik White and Bill Nace - Off Motion (Open Mouth)
Angus Maclise - Tapes (Art Into Life)
Natalia Beylis - Library of Sticks (Artsy)
Star - Elephant In The Snow (Hospital Prod)
no artist - Midday (Robert Fuchs)
CIA Debutante - Down, Willow (Siltbreeze)
Creep of Paris - Ever More Precise Accounts of the Cave (Drowned By Locals)
Deli Kuvveti - B​ü​k​ü​l​ü​r B​ü​k​ü​lmez (Tsss Tapes)
Max Julian Eastman - Zabriskie / Manor (SATATUHATTA)
Dan Sour - Drinkers Mass (Spoor LLC)
Kiran Arora - The Wilderness Years (Fantasy Knife)
Red Wine & Sugar - Turkish Coffee & Twice Baked Potatoes (Chocolate Monk)
Otto Willberg - The Leisure Principle (Black Truffle)
Idea Fire Company - Bathroom Electronics (Horn of Plenty)
various - NIT tapes (State51)
Shadow Pattern/Anna Peaker - split (Infant Tree)
various - Under the Island: Experimental Music in Ireland 1960 - 1994 (Nyahh)
Wino Lodge - Pocket Mutations (Chocolate Monk)

[NoIdolsNoHeroes]

Seconding all the love for Green Tea, Star, and Menche.

Was also very much digging:

Black To Comm - At Zeenath Parallel Heavens

Yellow Swans - Left Behind

Pita / Friedl

[New Forces]

Wino Lodge - Pocket Mutations (Chocolate Monk)

Sad that this one seems long gone, digital sounds cool