archived brainwashed reviews
Emeka Ogboh, “Beyond the Yellow Haze” (A-Ton/Ostgut Ton, 2021)
This bombshell release is the first album from Nigerian sound and installation artist Emeka Ogboh, but it sounds like the assured work of killer dub techno producer at the height […]
Body/Dilloway/Head (Three Lobed, 2021)
Past experience has taught me not to get too excited about promising-sounding collaborations between great artists, but the allure of this particular project was admittedly damn hard to resist: Body/Head […]
Old Saw, “Country Tropics” (Lobby Art, 2021)
This is the debut album from a “network of New England string pluckers, organ drivers and bell ringers” centered around composer/pedal steel guitarist Henry Birdsey. This is my first real […]
“Phương Tâm: Magical Nights – Saigon Surf, Twist & Soul (1964-1966)” (Sublime Frequencies, 2021)
This collection, which I hereby deem an instant Sublime Frequencies classic, is devoted entirely to the long-unheard and elusive discography of one of the most magnetic singers of Saigon’s “golden […]
Steph Kretowicz, “I hate it here” (CURL, 2021)
This unique debut album is definitely one of the year’s most pleasant surprises, as art/music journalist Kretowicz assembled a bevy of talented collaborators to craft a poignant and subtly hallucinatory […]
Container, “Creamer” (Drone, 2021)
This latest EP from Ren Schofield’s reliably intense Container project feels somewhat less like being flattened by an out-of-control train than usual. According to Schofield, his “intentions and goals for […]
Monokultur, “Ormens Väg” (Ever/Never & Mammas Mysteriska Jukebox, 2021)
This is the second full-length from the Swedish minimal wave/post-punk duo of JJ Ulius (Skiftande Enheter) & Elin Engström (Skiftande Enheter/Loopsel). Significantly, Monokultur spawned from the same fertile milieu that brought us […]
Mary Lattimore, “Collected Pieces II” (Ghostly International, 2021)
I believe I first started to become beguiled with Mary Lattimore’s work with the release of 2016’s At the Dam, but the following year’s Collected Pieces definitely deepened my interest […]