archived brainwashed reviews
Celer, “Capri (Remastered Deluxe Edition)” (Two Acorns, 2026)
First issued back in 2009 as the inaugural release from Berlin’s short-lived Humming Conch label, Capri is one of the more polarizing highlights from the project’s early years, as it […]
Bent Light, “The Daylight Is Ours” (Memory Waste, 2026)
This wonderfully spacey new guitar duo is an offshoot of prolific New London, CT psych-rock collective Slyne and The Family Stoned (not to be confused with the UK’s Sly and […]
Seabuckthorn, “Never the Same River” (Lost Tribe Sound, 2026)
This newest album from French Alps-based composer Andy Cartwright is billed as “Seabuckthorn’s most rhythmic effort to date,” as he inventively transforms simple hand percussion and kitchen pans into hallucinatory […]
Josh Mason, “Kicking A Dark Horse” (Greyfade, 2026)
This boldly unconventional new release from Florida-based sound artist Josh Mason is the third installment in Greyfade’s FOLIO series (“a full-length music edition in hardcover book form”). The book, billed as […]
M. Geddes Gengras, “Guest List” (Hausu Mountain, 2026)
This ambitious and aptly titled new album from upstate NY synth wizard M. Geddes Gengras is something akin to a wild and eccentric game of the surrealist parlor game Exquisite […]
Abul Mogard and Rafael Anton Irisarri, “Where Light Pauses in the Silence of the Sun” (Black Knoll Editions, 2026)
This latest collaboration between Irisarri and Guido Zen’s Abul Mogard alias is billed as the duo’s second album, which admittedly makes sense from a “new material” standpoint, but gets a […]
Cloud Circuit (Watch That Ends The Night, 2026)
This deeply unconventional Montreal-based duo of poet Deanna Radford and sound artist Jeremy Young have been fitfully recording together since 2017, but this is their proper full-length debut. While I […]
Monolake, “Interstate” (Field Records (2026)/Monolake(1999))
Newly issued on vinyl for the first time ever, Interstate was arguably both Monolake’s full-length debut and the only fully collaborative release from the original duo of Robert Henke and […]