archived brainwashed reviews
loscil // lawrence english, “Colours Of Air” (Kranky, 2023)
This stellar collaboration springs from a conversation that Scott Morgan and Lawrence English once had about especially “rich sources” for electronic music composition. Unsurprisingly, that discussion led to the inspiration […]
Celer, “Selected Self-releases 2006-2007” (Two Acorns, 2023)
Given Celer’s incredibly voluminous discography, releasing any kind of comprehensive retrospective would be one hell of a quixotic and cost-prohibitive endeavor, but this collection does the next best thing. Weighing […]
Roméo Poirier, “Living Room” (Faitiche, 2023)
This third album from former lifeguard/Brussels-based electronic composer Poirier may very well be the most beautiful distillation of his gently psychotropic strain of loop-driven, summery, surf-side electronica to date. The […]
Omertà, “Collection Particulière” (Standard In-Fi/Zamzam, 2022)
The French Standard In-Fi label has been one of my casual obsessions over the last few years and this second album from Omertà was my favorite release that surfaced from […]
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 […]