archived brainwashed reviews
“Strain Crack & Break: Music From The Nurse With Wound List Volume Two (Germany)” (Finders Keepers, 2021)
As a longtime Nurse With Wound fan, I have always been a bit amused and perplexed by the almost-religious reverence that people continue to have for Steven Stapleton’s famous list. […]
Motion Sickness of Time Travel, “If We Were Landscapes” (Self-Released, 2021)
There was a period between 2010 and 2013 in which Rachel Evans seemed like a universally celebrated and ubiquitous figure in the “experimental music” milieu, as she released a flurry […]
Jon Collin, “Music From Cassettes, Etc., 2008-2017” (Fördämning Arkiv, 2021)
I initially slept on this album, as the prosaic title made it sound like a collection of old and orphaned songs rather than a minor sound collage masterpiece. The former […]
Dagar Gyil Ensemble Of Lawra, “Dagara – Gyil Music of Ghana’s Upper West Region” (Sublime Frequencies, 2021)
This mesmerizing and unique gem from Sublime Frequencies documents some killer field recordings made by Hisham Mayet in the Upper West region of Ghana back in 2019. I knew absolutely […]
“MIEN (YAO) – Cannon Singing in China, Vietnam, Laos” (Sublime Frequencies, 2021)
This collection of (mostly) acapella field recordings from Kink Gong’s Laurent Jeanneau truly emphasizes the “sublime” part of the Sublime Frequencies vision, as this is quite an eerily lovely and […]
Richard Skelton, “Four Workings” (Aeolian, 2021)
This latest album from Skelton seems intended to be a major new statement, though not quite a formal follow-up to last year’s These Charms May be Sung Over a Wound, […]
Nurse With Wound, “Barren” (ICR, 2021)
This double album had the misfortune of being released near the end of 2020, so it lamentably did not quite get the attention that it deserved (and being a live […]
Joe Colley, “Trance Tapes” (No Rent, 2021)
Back in 2016, noise/sound art legend Joe Colley returned from a lengthy hiatus to release the solid No Way In on Jason Lescalleet’s Glistening Examples, but he has been extremely […]