archived brainwashed reviews
Big Blood, “Fight For Your Dinner II” (Don’t Trust The Ruin, 2022)
I was not expecting 2014’s odds n’ ends collection Fight for Your Dinner to ever have a sequel, so this latest batch of eclectic covers, one-off experiments, unusual collaborations, and […]
Abul Mogard, “In a Few Places Along the River” (Self-Released, 2022)
This latest release from Mogard is something of a modest one, as he describes it as “the result of experimentation with familiar and less familiar instruments available to me in […]
Steve Roden, “Stars of Ice” (New Plastic Music(2008)/Room40 (2022))
Back in 2008, Steve Roden quietly released one of my favorite ambient albums of all time in a signed limited edition of 250. Of course, I did not realize it […]
William Ryan Fritch, “Built Upon a Fearful Void” (Lost Tribe Sound, 2022)
This latest double album from the California-based Fritch is something of a culmination of two separate long journeys, as it took eight misfortune-filled years to complete and it also concludes […]
Steve Roden, “Oionos” (Room40, 2022)
I am thrilled that Room40 is digging up and reissuing some woefully underheard gems from Steve Roden these days, as a hell of a lot of fascinating work passed me […]
“Swifter Than the Moon’s Sphere – English Fairy Lore” (Folklore Tapes, 2021)
There are a number of fascinating small labels exploring unusual niches these days, which I suppose makes the current era something of a golden age for curious outsiders with deeply […]
Elena Setién, “Unfamiliar Minds” (Thrill Jockey, 2022)
Basque composer Elena Setién’s second album for Thrill Jockey is quite an unexpected leap forward from the more pop-minded Another Kind Of Revolution. While Setién’s love of strong melodies and […]
Meitei, “Kofū II” (Kitchen, 2022)
Meitei’s plunderphonic exploration of “lost Japanese moods” has been an intriguing and unusual project right from the start, but it started to blossom into something truly great with 2019’s Komachi […]