archived brainwashed reviews
Kali Malone, “Does Spring Hide Its Joy” (Ideologic Organ, 2023)
This latest release from this eternally innovative Stockholm-based composer is a durational tour de force that first began to take shape in empty Berlin concert halls in the early months […]
Ak’chamel, “A Mournful Kingdom of Sand” (Akuphone, 2023)
The latest from this shapeshifting and anonymous southwestern psych duo marks both their return to Akuphone and the first proper follow up to 2020’s landmark The Totemist. To some degree, […]
Carla dal Forno, “Come Around” (Kallista, 2022)
This latest album from Carla dal Forno is her first since relocating to a small town (Castlemaine) in her native Australia and that dramatic change in environment has understandably made […]
Angelo Harmsworth, “Singe” (Students of Decay, 2022)
I was a bit later to the Angelo Harmsworth party than I would have liked, but the Berlin-based American composer has been fitfully releasing very distinctive blown-out “ambient” albums for […]
Julia Sabra and Fadi Tabbal, “Snakeskin” (Beacon Sound/Ruptured, 2022)
This is the first full-length collaboration between Sabra and Tabbal, but it is apparently also the sixth collaborative release between Portland’s Beacon Sound and Lebanon’s Ruptured Records (which was co-founded […]
Lucrecia Dalt, “¡Ay!” (RVNG Intl., 2022)
I was caught completely off guard by this latest opus from Dalt, as much of it sounds more like a three-way collaboration between Astrud Gilberto, Perez Prado, and Walter Wanderley […]
Raphael Loher, “Keemuun” (three:four records, 2022)
This may be Swiss pianist/composer Raphael Loher’s first solo album, but he has crossed my path before with his Baumschule trio (featuring Julian Sartorius and Manuel Troller). I am much […]
The Soft Pink Truth, “Is It Going To Get Any Deeper Than This?” (Thrill Jockey 2022)
When I first heard the thumping house/disco EP Was It Ever Real?, I had a very hard time believing that it could possibly be a teaser for something more substantial, […]