Category: Reviews
ZK – Discordia CS (2023)
Special Interests user Fistfuck Masonanie (August 4, 2023) – https://special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=52.msg102047#msg102047 Choked out frequencies. Maximalist thrashing strangled and shaped by the lack of peak limiters. Sounds fight to the surface and struggle to survive. Dense but the constant dropouts and broken sounds really give it character. Can’t recommend it enough. WCN Maniac’s Circle Discord user shrouded.in.antiquity …
ZENTA SUSTAINED – Serpent Track Patterns 12″ (2022)
WCN Maniac’s Circle Discord user Capers (February 25, 2023) Having not heard any earlier Zenta Sustained, this was not what I expected at all. McKinlay and Bloomer, motorbikes and legs, gotta be loud and wild I thought. And it is, but not the way I imagined. Two-layered attack of aggressive pops and some feverish bass-heavy …
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WASAUKSING SNIPER CS (2023)
Bandcamp user Dawid Scumwalski (November 2023) – https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/wasauksing-sniper Wasauksing Sniper’s self-titled record was a delightful surprise. Subdued noise, sounds like it was recorded on tape (I’m guessing and might be wrong, though). Varied, interesting, plenty of noise and unidentifiable sounds, reminiscent of proto-noise and post-industrial. Strongly recommended!
VIOLENT SHOGUN – The Possibility of Life’s Destruction CS (2020) / TED BYRNES – All Hands CS (2020) / B.P. – Zhiishiibi-Zhiibiing CS (2020)
Vital Weekly #1250 (September 15, 2020) – http://vitalweekly.net/1250.html The resurgence of the cassette was I suppose to be expected after the likes of HMV got the resurgence of vinyl thing. These three releases of pro produced limited edition tapes being a good example. As are the Bandcamp tags “experimental harsh noise power electronics”. The tags …
UN REGARD FROID – Exophilie CD (2023)
Scream & Writhe forum user Joie de Blumpy (January 21, 2024) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10509#p10509 Looks cold, cold as a thing to which it would be ill-advised to attach the tongue, but hots dang them some chromium plated anglings for exposed jugulars, can-tankerous collapsible metal bodies filled to the brim and bursting. Well as far as the …
UMPIO – Sin Memoria CD (2023)
Scream & Writhe forum user Joie de Blumpy (January 21, 2024) – https://screamandwrithe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=10509#p10509 Taking a hefty clanking sledgehammer to tiny twitching remnants of a de-cum-re-pressurized brain pain, above, scattered into a somehow reassuringly thriced-removed-from-hinged shatter-splat oblivia’d oblivion.
K.M. TOEPFER – Undercut CS (2019)
Raised By Cassettes (March 27, 2019) – https://raisedbycassettes.blogspot.com/2019/03/cassette-review-km-toepfer-undercut.html There is this ringing. It sounds kind of like a phone, but it also has this distorted static within it which makes me feel like it’s coming through some other way. Sharpness comes through as well, causing it to be somewhat harsh and then it’s full blown …
TOANCHE DWELLING – Hyleidos CS (2022)
NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Nigel Munroe (January 4, 2023) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/1182673165972534 I’ve given this a couple of spins since the year began and while it doesn’t blow me away from start to finish I’m definitely digging the way this has been put together. It’s extremely lofi, hiss drenched, junky noise that feels like much …
RUSALKA – Blood Comes Anyway CS (2013)
NOISE NOW PLAYING Facebook user Joel Shanahan (November 30, 2022) – https://www.facebook.com/groups/noisenowplaying/posts/1156877815218736 How fucking good is Rusalka? Not only is this tape absolutely crushing, but the sounds are oceanic and constantly in motion. It’s complete immersion—it fucks with your head and all the subtle artifacts within the blasts make you hear all kinds of shit …
RUSALKA – Base Waters LP (2019)
1208 North Fuller Ave Apt 1 (December 8, 2019) – https://1208fullerave.blogspot.com/2019/12/rusalka-base-waters.html RUSALKA, is the Vancouver Canada based project of Kate Rissiek and has been active since 2007. The album’s first track Sinking Blood Deep begins with a massive, deep distortion that has noise going off over the top of it. The intensity of the distortion …