archived brainwashed reviews
Darkroom, “Fallout 4” (Expert Sleepers, 2022)
This is my first encounter with this UK-based improv unit, but Fallout 4 is the latest installment of a series of live documents that began all the way back in […]
Ellis Swan, “3am” (Quindi, 2022)
This Chicago-based singer-songwriter is a bit of an enigma to me, as details about his discography are quite slim. As far as I can tell, however, 3am is his second […]
Oren Ambarchi, “Shebang” (Drag City, 2022)
Few artists have consistently fascinated and perplexed me quite like Oren Ambarchi, as I absolutely loved his early solo guitar albums like Grapes From the Estate, then witnessed him spend […]
Andrew Chalk, “The End Times” (ICR, 2022)
Keeping up with Andrew Chalk’s discography has always been an amusingly challenging endeavor, but the challenge has shifted from pouncing on limited edition physical releases to vigilantly ensuring that he […]
Voice Actor, “Sent From My Telephone” (Stroom, 2022)
This mammoth and category-defying opus is easily the most wildly ambitious debut in recent memory (if not ever) and also happens to be one of my absolute favorite albums of […]
Greg Davis, “New Primes” (greyfade, 2022)
Back in 2009, Important Records released a landmark compilation entitled The Harmonic Series (A Compilation Of Musical Works In Just Intonation). Significantly, that album featured a Greg Davis piece entitled […]
Moth Cock, “Whipped Stream and Other Earthly Delights” (Hausu Mountain, 2022)
I doubt anyone can truly say that they know what to expect from a new Hausu Mountain release, but I still felt a bit gobsmacked by the latest from this […]
Bill Orcutt, “Music For Four Guitars” (Palilalia, 2022)
Over the last few years, it has become quite clear to me that any major new solo guitar album from Bill Orcutt is destined to be an inventive, visceral, and […]