https://dismissyourself.bandcamp.com/album/blackland-radio-666-pt-2 Genre: Horror Core Rating: 🎃🎃🎃🎃 Released on Halloween 2022 SpaceGhostPurrp doubles down on his image as a creepy weirdo. The lyrics sound like they come from Jason Voorhees stuck in PornHub. He’s killing and fucking. Sonically SGP lays out some weird production. At first I was thinking this might be exaggerated for Halloween butContinue reading “Blackland Radio 666 Pt. 2 by SpaceGhostPurrp”
Category Archives: experimental
Cataclysmic System Binding Loss by Carbon In Prose
https://carboninprose.bandcamp.com/album/cataclysmic-system-binding-loss Genre: Experimental Rating: Highly Recommended released October 24, 2022 Unlike a lot of the ambient drone releases this one offers different moods and approaches. CIP doesn’t limit the sound sticking with a uniform format. There’s nothing remotely mainstream about it, and ultimately the feeling is sad. The music doesn’t always explicitly sound melancholy butContinue reading “Cataclysmic System Binding Loss by Carbon In Prose”
Call and Response by Stefan Goldmann
https://ashinternational.bandcamp.com/album/call-and-response Genre: Experimental Rating: Highly Recommended As the title hints at Call and Response is the artistic expression of reverberation. If the machines have any sentience perhaps they feel like slaves and chain gang workers from the past. Musically this also calls on more modern traditions. A 2022 release like this with this sound isn’tContinue reading “Call and Response by Stefan Goldmann”
screen time by Thurston Moore
https://thurstonmoore1.bandcamp.com/album/screen-time-2 Genre: Experimental Rating: 📖 📕 📚 📑 💻 Released in 2021 feels like thurston fired up a fatty put on some loren mazzacane connors and thought goddamn i need to do some of this often i think we think our idols of yesteryear shouldve been killed and we ignore too much with this releaseContinue reading “screen time by Thurston Moore”
Starlight And Still Air by Starlight Assembly
https://starlightassembly.bandcamp.com/album/starlight-and-still-air Genre: Art Pop Rating: 🌌🌌🌌🌌🌌 released on bandcamp October 22, 2021 Other reviews and hype: https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/starlight-assembly-starlight-and-still-air-cd/BNSD.062CD.html https://www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2021/10/starlight-assembly-starlight-and-still-air/ https://lineamasondixon.it/en/2021/10/27/starlight-assembly-2/ The vocal arrangements sort of remind me what can be heard in contemporary opera compositions. And unfortunately I typically find that style annoying, soulless, and simply poorly done. But there’s always room for me to learnContinue reading “Starlight And Still Air by Starlight Assembly”
Beyond the dark zone by Cristiano Bocci
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-dark-zone Genre: Experimental Rating: 🎺 🎺 🎺 🎺 This one’s an aggressive percussive creature. If you remember the band Crash Worship the music on here builds tension in a similar fashion. It also has a film noir cinematic soundtrack vibe. Especially when you’re watching some movie and it occurs to you that the score composerContinue reading “Beyond the dark zone by Cristiano Bocci”
Stipple by Knobs
https://knobs.bandcamp.com/album/stipple Rating: 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 Genre: Ambient released on bandcamp September 15, 2022 Stipple is an excellent ambient release that leans heavily on acoustic instruments and borrows from the genre of music known as glitch. It’s been a minute since I’ve heard a new glitch release but it’s a genre I’m fond of and when it kindContinue reading “Stipple by Knobs”
Good To Be Back In Reality by Colin Webster / Matthew Grigg
https://colinwebster.bandcamp.com/album/good-to-be-back-in-reality Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 🎷 released on bandcamp August 20, 2022 Webster and Grigg have released a free jazz record that pushes into the realm experimental noise. Resting somewhere on the horizon bringing to mind earlier pioneers like Borbetomagus and Keith Rowe. The tracks bubble with abstract unfolding sounds. TheContinue reading “Good To Be Back In Reality by Colin Webster / Matthew Grigg”
Preserves by Street Tentacle
https://balancepointacoustics.bandcamp.com/album/preserves Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷 Released on Bandcamp August 8, 2022 It’s been a minute since I’ve heard any new free jazz releases banging like this one. There’s the joke about jazz is anything with a saxophone. While that may not be true, it is true that saxophonist Jeff Chan is actually the onlyContinue reading “Preserves by Street Tentacle”
Tilting Irons by TONGUE DEPRESSOR
https://tonguedepressor.bandcamp.com/album/tilting-irons Genre: Experimental Rating: 🐍🐍🐍🐍 released on bandcamp February 15, 2022 Two tracks by this avant garde duo. Sounds like a spelunking expedition in Lee Ranaldo lock grooves. Neither musician seems to have any desire to show off. They just hop into very peculiar patterns and slowly warp and bend what starts out warped andContinue reading “Tilting Irons by TONGUE DEPRESSOR”
construída 2 by May HD, Mariana Carvalho, Em Extinção, Taticocteau
Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ released on bandcamp July 25, 2022 Unrecognizable national anthems brought forth from decimated vinyl to protest the repulsiveness of life in Brazil during the reign of Jair Bolsonaro. As an American, and further as a Floridian, I get it. This is a not a noise release but it is anContinue reading “construída 2 by May HD, Mariana Carvalho, Em Extinção, Taticocteau”
A NU MYSTIC TRAJECTORY by HKE
https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/album/a-nu-mystic-trajectory Genre: What Pop Music Should Be Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp July 7, 2022 First off, praise. AOTY list maker. All that. Fucking brilliant. So goddamn great. It’s really burdensome to try to describe. First and foremost, fuck my review, just listen to it. It’s sad music. In aContinue reading “A NU MYSTIC TRAJECTORY by HKE”
HedNod Thirteen by mick harris
https://mickharris.bandcamp.com/album/hednod-thirteen Genre: Minimalist Dub Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp June 24, 2022 I’ve slowed down on my reviews because BandCamp has been a fucking desert lately. Everything I want to listen to and review is missing tracks hoping you’ll be so thrilled with what’s available you’ll send in money forContinue reading “HedNod Thirteen by mick harris”
January 7, 2022 by Kenneth Kirschner
https://kennethkirschner.bandcamp.com/album/january-7-2022 Genre: Contemporary Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Kirschner captures the style of composition of the mid twentieth century two or three degrees out from Schoenberg perfectly. The slow unfolding of notes crawling around diminished scales into to the nether of atonality never to find resolution piano style is delicately plated. He’s fantastic atContinue reading “January 7, 2022 by Kenneth Kirschner”
Vibraphone Improvisations by Will Redman
https://willredman.bandcamp.com/album/vibraphone-improvisations Genre: Avant Garde Rating: 5/5 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ released on bandcamp March 29, 2022 This one is an austere, no gimmicks, no bullshit, no show off flash – vibraphone improvisation. It’s the right instrument done the right way. I’d be comfortable calling this third stream jazz just based off of the instrumentContinue reading “Vibraphone Improvisations by Will Redman”
Khimaira by Child of Illusion
https://susanasantossilva.bandcamp.com/album/khimaira Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 releases May 13, 2022 Chris Pitsiokos – alto saxophone Susana Santos Silva – trumpet Torbjörn Zetterberg – double bass To me, Silva is golden. I treat everything she does with awe and respect. Put it this way, I get as excited about her releases as I do anyone’s inContinue reading “Khimaira by Child of Illusion”
Form Less Ness by Andy Cartwright
https://seabuckthorn.bandcamp.com/album/form-less-ness Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released May 6, 2022 Andy Cartwright, whose best work is the bowed-guitar centered alias Seabuckthorn, has thrown his hat in the very crowded arena of ambient music. I’ve exhausted my free listens on bandcamp so it definitely kept pulling me back. He has a special way of using both foundContinue reading “Form Less Ness by Andy Cartwright”
house of care by perila
https://lillernetapes.bandcamp.com/album/house-of-care-2 Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 28, 2022 perila sticks to a winning formula that she delivers on better than all others. The ingredients are simple single instrument ambient compositions. Already from just this she creates an earthy ambience earthy in the Garden of Earthly Delights sense. The sound of Cambrian PeriodContinue reading “house of care by perila”
Level One Mage by Erik Gundel
https://erikgundel.bandcamp.com Genre: Ambient Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 8, 2022 LOM is a surprisingly diverse record. The bandcamp notes and a little googling lets you know that Brooklyn resident (how do they afford it?), Gundel, takes his craft seriously and has been at it for a while and his professional approach pays dividends. ThereContinue reading “Level One Mage by Erik Gundel”
having you, halving me by thought refuge
https://thoughtrefuge.bandcamp.com/album/having-you-halving-me Genre: Ambient Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 8, 2022 Clocking in at about 16 minutes, time is somewhat of an irrelevancy for this dreamy instrumental guitar centered ep. There’s two important things going on here and I’m going to reference Grouper and Guided by Voices to explain it to you. The Grouper partContinue reading “having you, halving me by thought refuge”
Feeding The Machine by Binker and Moses
https://binkerandmoses.bandcamp.com/album/feeding-the-machine Genre: Free Jazz Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp February 25, 2022 Goddamn this is wild. This record does for free jazz what Spacemen 3 did for psychedelic rock. This record is the four minutes spent zooming on nitrous while you were already tripping on acid. Roots wise, the echo brings to mind Bitches BrewContinue reading “Feeding The Machine by Binker and Moses”
Sarin Blizzard by Pestilent Rain
https://pestilentrain.bandcamp.com/track/sarin-blizzard Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 3, 2022 This is a single 14 minute track of music grown mostly out of the beatless industrial noise tradition but filtered through a drone lens. It’s not so harsh that it leaves the impression that Pestilent Rain only wants to clobber you with noise. NorContinue reading “Sarin Blizzard by Pestilent Rain”
Stuutjes by Berlinde Deman & Rutger Zuydervelt
https://machinefabriek.bandcamp.com/album/stuutjes Genre: Experimental Rating: 5/5 released on bandcamp April 1, 2022 All I’m going to do is gush. I think sometimes people who take it on to themselves to review serious music like this feel embarrassed or think it’s childish to gush but when you’re confronted with greatness at the this level it’s a dutyContinue reading “Stuutjes by Berlinde Deman & Rutger Zuydervelt”
Vairagya by Mario Lino Stancati
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/vairagya Genre: Experimental Rating: 4/5 released on bandcamp April 1, 2022 The distinction of borders are probably less important than they were in the 1960’s but there’s still a borrowing and building symbiotic relationship of artistic ideas among Italian and German composers. This one’s Italian and you can hear the space savore sanguino. Vairagya, I’veContinue reading “Vairagya by Mario Lino Stancati”
Breaking News by Hildegard Westerkamp
https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/breaking-news Genre: Electroacoustic Rating: I refuse to put a number on it. released March 25, 2022 “The pieces presented here were created between 1988 and 2012” I’m determined not to feel self-conscious about writing sentences like this next one. To me, this release is a sonic representation of what it is to be a livingContinue reading “Breaking News by Hildegard Westerkamp”
Warmth Highest 