archived brainwashed reviews
Kate Moore, “Revolver” (Unsounds, 2022)
This is my first exposure to Netherlands-based composer Kate Moore, but I probably would have encountered her much sooner if I paid more attention to the modern classical music scene, […]
Colpitts, “Music from the Accident” (Thrill Jockey, 2022)
This is the first album that drummer John Colpitts has released under his own name, but he has been a familiar and almost ubiquitous figure in underground music for years […]
My Cat is an Alien, “Music for Phantoms (IV)” (Elliptical Noise/Opax, 2022)
The Opalio brothers have been reliably surprising me with adventurous detours and evolutions for years, but this latest album is a creative leap into even more unexpected territory than usual. […]
Svarte Greiner, “Devolving Trust” (Miasmah, 2022)
This latest release from Erik K. Skodvin’s long-running solo project is billed as “zen music for disturbed souls.” Recorded back in 2018 in the bunkers of the “bombed out” Schneider […]
Carmen Villain, “Only Love From Now On” (Smalltown Supersound, 2022)
This latest release from “US-born, Norwegian-Mexican artist and producer” Carmen Hillestad finds her back on her usual label (Smalltown Supersound), but it otherwise feels like the logical successor to last […]
Shane Parish, “Liverpool” (Dear Life, 2022)
Somehow I have managed to remain largely unfamiliar with Shane Parish’s work until now, which nicely set the stage for me to be properly blindsided by this latest release. That […]
Éliane Radigue & Frédéric Blondy, “Occam XXV” (Organ Reframed, 2022)
This is the debut album for Claire M. Singer’s Organ Reframed imprint, which will now enable home listeners to experience a bit of her singular music festival of the same […]
The Humble Bee, “Light Trespassing” (Motion Ward, 2022)
I have a long-running fondness for tape loop artists, yet I had always lumped this Craig Tattersall project together with more conventional ambient fare until last year’s reissue of 2009’s […]