archived brainwashed reviews
Golden Retriever & Chuck Johnson, “Rain Shadow” (Thrill Jockey, 2020)
I can think of few other projects that have elicited such a wide and continually shifting range of opinions from me as Portland’s Golden Retriever, as Jonathan Sielaff and Matt […]
Lawrence English, “Lassitude” (Room40, 2020)
It has been roughly three years since Lawrence English last released a proper solo album (2017’s Cruel Optimism), though he has kept himself quite busy with collaborative work since then […]
Midwife, “Forever” (The Flenser, 2020)
It is fair to say that every Midwife release is a deeply personal one, as Madeline Johnston has never been one to mask her true feelings with ambiguously poetic language […]
Clarice Jensen, “The Experience of Repetition as Death” (FatCat, 2020)
I was legitimately blindsided by Clarice Jensen’s wonderful 2018 debut (For This From That Will Be Filled), but it left me with absolutely no idea what to expect from her […]
Félicia Atkinson, “Everything Evaporate” (Shelter Press, 2020)
This latest release from F√©licia Atkinson is ostensibly a minor and somewhat transitional one, as it is a cassette intended as a sort of culminating document of a year spent […]
Klara Lewis, “Ingrid” (Editions Mego, 2020)
I was quite curious to see which direction Klara Lewis’s latest album would take, as her previous solo releases were generally quite radical and hyper-constrained in their avoidance of anything […]
Louise Bock, “Abyss: For Cello” (Geographic North, 2020)
Louise Bock is the latest guise of iconoclastic composer Taralie Peterson, who is best known for her role in psych-folk luminaries Spires That in the Sunset Rise. It is probably […]
My Cat is an Alien with Joëlle Vinciarelli, “Eternal Beyond II” (Elliptical Noise/Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers!/Opax, 2022)
The Opalio brothers have had quite an impressive history of adventurous collaborations over the years, as they have been joined by many of the most iconic figures in underground music, […]