mewithoutyou – It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright!

mewithoutyou It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright: Mewithoutyou are back with another honest album. What it’s honest about is a little hard to tell. Aaron Weiss’s lyrics have become more obscure, but also remain meaningful. While they all seem to have a religious overtone, one can read more than [...]

Supermachiner – Rust

Supermachiner Rust: A little something old, a little something new. This is a 2 CD re-release of Supermachiner’s first, and only, album “Rise of the Great Machine”. Supermachiner was the side-project of Jake Bannon from Converge. Rather than make just another Converge clone, Bannon decided to ambient metal-like music that was about machines’ place in [...]

Greg Malcolm-Leather and Lacy

Greg Malcom Leather and Lacy: Jazz hating multiple guitar playing New Zealand free improv musician does an album worth of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy’s compositions. Malcolm plays the melodies quite beautifully on a conventionally played guitar on his lap. For the backing parts Lacey sets up guitars hanging by him and at his feet. He [...]

Keith Rowe / Keith Rowe & Taku Unami-Keith Rowe and Taku Unami / Keith Rowe

Keith Rowe / Keith Rowe & Taku Unami Keith Rowe and Taku Unami / Keith Rowe: Beeps blurps and scrapes. A very interesting very minimalist release. A cool listen, but only when you’re in the mood for it. 13/15: weird things to play a guitar with

Derek Bailey-Pieces For Guitar

Derek Bailey Pieces For Guitar: A series of solo free jazz guitar solos. Though atonal, and often quite harsh, theres a variety of moods and textures explored on this album. Bailey sometimes sounds like Monk at his most vicious and sometimes like a contemplative Anton Webern. He experiments readily with feedback and live panning and [...]

The Boredoms-Super AE

The Boredoms Super AE: Spaced out post-rock peppered with noise, electronic, and punk influences. Not an album to throw on at a party. This ones great for sitting back with a pair of headphones or as background music for doing something creative, like painting or drawing. Rating: 12/15 super points

cLOUDDEAD – Ten

cLOUDDEAD Ten: Here is a rare album: an experimental rap album that’s good. It’s tough describing this album since it’s constantly changing through out. What I’m going to say is that it is well through out and executed. The beats are at first very minimalist, but upon further listens reveal more depth. The songs change [...]