archived brainwashed reviews
Lise Barkas & Lisa Käuffert, “Lo Becat” (Soleils Bleus/Morc, 2024)
This album is definitely one of the more unlikely underground hits to cross my path in recent memory, as this strikingly unique bagpipe performance first quietly surfaced as an extremely […]
Moonshake, “Eva Luna” Deluxe Edition (Matador/Too Pure (1992), Beggars Arkive (2023)
I believe I stumbled upon Moonshake’s singular 1992 debut full-length by blind luck at a used record store, but I cannot remember if I picked it up because I was […]
Dean McPhee, “Astral Gold” (Bass Ritual, 2024)
This fifth full-length from Yorkshire-based guitar visionary Dean McPhee is actually a compilation of sorts, bringing together the pieces from his out-of-print Cosmos / Ether lathe cut 7″ (2022) with […]
Maria W. Horn, “Panoptikon” (XKatedral, 2024)
I tend to enjoy damn near everything that Sweden’s XKatedral label releases, but this half-disturbing/half-transcendent tour de force by co-founder Maria W. Horn still managed to completely blindside me. Panoptikon’s […]
Rafael Toral, “Spectral Evolution” (Moikai, 2024)
Before I heard this album, I mistakenly believed that I had a reasonable familiarity with Rafael Toral’s oeuvre, as I had heard and enjoyed a handful of his classic guitar-era […]
Dead Bandit, “Memory Thirteen” (Quindi, 2024)
This is the second album from the instrumental duo of Ellis Swan and James Schimpl and the first Dead Bandit album to follow Swan’s killer 2022 solo album 3am. Happily, […]
“Flux Gourmet Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Ba Da Bing, 2024)
I acknowledge it is only February right now, but I believe I can confidently state that this soundtrack will be the weirdest and most mystifying new album that I will […]
Tristan Allen, “Tin Iso and the Dawn” (RVNG INTL, 2023)
This is New York-based composer/puppeteer Tristan Allen’s full-length debut and it is quite an ambitious one, as Tin Iso and the Dawn is the first chapter of a planned “shadow […]