archived brainwashed reviews
OHYUNG, “You Are Always On My Mind” (NNA Tapes, 2025)
This is not my first exposure to this shapeshifting project from Brooklyn-based film composer Lia Ouyang Rusli, but it may as well be, as this inspired outsider pop album bears […]
Manslaughter 777, “God’s World” (Thrill Jockey, 2025)
I was a big fan of the 2021 debut from this duo of drummers Lee Buford (The Body) and Zac Jones (Braveyoung/MSC), but that definitely did not stop me from […]
Disinblud (Smugglers Way, 2025)
This is the debut full-length from the duo of Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith, who previously collaborated on a single back in 2021. Notably, I was a big fan of […]
Lucrecia Dalt, “A Danger To Ourselves” (RVNG Intl., 2025)
I was admittedly a bit blindsided by Dalt’s seemingly effortless transformation into an outsider pop chanteuse on 2022’s excellent ¡Ay! album and I am amusingly blindsided yet again with this follow […]
Oren Ambarchi, Johan Berthling and Andreas Werliin, “Ghosted III” (Drag City, 2025)
This reliably fascinating trio is back with a third installment in their excellent Ghosted series. The label describes this one as “a little looser and wilder than before,” which is […]
Thomas Ankersmit, “The Dip” (Students of Decay, 2025)
This latest opus from Berlin’s Thomas Ankersmit continues his work with the Serge Modular synthesizer, which is just fine by me, as his last two Serge albums were pure headphone […]
Matmos, “Metallic Life Review” (Thrill Jockey, 2025)
This latest release from the duo of M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel is billed as a “compressed fast-forward of Matmos’ career with a sonic parade of the metallic objects from […]
Gabriel Brady, “Day-blind” (Tonal Union, 2025)
This debut release from young Cambridge, Massachusetts-based composer Gabriel Brady was apparently recorded in his dorm room with little more than a bouzouki, a violin, and a “compact modular synth […]