archived brainwashed reviews
Lea Bertucci & Norbert Rodenkirchen, “The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity” (Cibachrome, 2026)
This latest release from NY-based saxophonist/composer Bertucci continues her bold expansion into improbable and adventurous new territory, as it is a commissioned collaboration with German flutist Norbert Rodenkirchen. The two […]
Mark Trecka, “Romance Wake Naming” (The Garrote, 2026)
The latest solo album from this NY-based avant-crooner is an impressively wild evolution from his previous work, as Romance Wake Naming feels like a heartfelt yet feral homage to “the […]
Loraine James, “Detached From The Rest Of You” (Hyperdub, 2026)
As evidenced by the many intimate and autobiographical passages about self-doubt, numbness, and creative frustration it contains, this latest album from James was “forged from the fire of internal struggles.” […]
Carla Dal Forno, “Confession” (Kallista, 2026)
This is the second full-length that Carla Dal Forno has released since returning to her native Australia and those sunnier environs continue to have a welcome warming effect on her […]
Noveller, “I Am The Weather” (Experimentia, 2026)
This latest full-length from guitar visionary Sarah Lipstate is a bit of an inspired outlier, as she has expanded Noveller’s usual guitar-centric palette to include a baby grand piano, percussion […]
Alvarius B., “Malarial Dream” (Abduction, 2026)
This latest album from Sublime Frequencies co-founder and Cairo-based expat Alan Bishop’s long-running and eclectic solo project is a bit of a pleasant surprise, as he enlisted an absolute murderers’ […]
Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin, “ITERAE” (greyfade, 2026)
This first meeting between NYC-based composer/conceptual artist Branciforte and Belgian jazz pianist Dumoulin is an impressively ambitious and mindbending “musical dialogue” recorded over the span of two days. Both artists […]
Vanity Productions, “The Vanity Project” (Northern Electronics, 2026)
This long-running solo project from Posh Isolation co-founder Christian Stadsgaard has gradually evolved from its modest minimal techno beginnings into a vision that inventively blurs the lines between harsh noise, […]