archived brainwashed reviews
Nurse With Wound with The James Worse Public Address Method, “The Vursiflenze Mismantler” (United Dairies, 2019)
It has been a hell of a long time since Nurse With Wound last surfaced with a proper new album on United Dairies, but 2019 is looking to be an […]
Big Blood, “Strange Maine 11.04.06” (Don’t Trust The Ruin, 2019)
Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella’s Big Blood project has consistently been one of the most delightfully unique and life-affirming bands in the American underground over the last decade or so. […]
Seabuckthorn, “Crossing” (Eilean, 2019)
English guitarist Andy Cartwright’s A House With Too Much Fire was one of the most striking and underappreciated albums of 2018, beautifully evoking a timeless and haunted-sounding strain of Americana. […]
I Feel Like a Bombed Cathedral, “AmOrtH” (Dirter, 2019)
This latest project from FaUSt guitarist/Ulan Bator founder Amaury Cambuzat has regrettably been under my radar for the last several months, but AmOrtH recently caught my attention by virtue of […]
Kink Gong, “Voices” (Discrepant, 2019)
Laurent Jeanneau’s work as Kink Gong has been one of the most compellingly quixotic and unique projects in underground music for almost two decades, but I have only recently begun […]
Richard Skelton, “Border Ballads” (Corbel Stone Press/Aeolian Editions, 2019)
Each new Richard Skelton release is a bit of a surprise these days, as his aesthetic is in a permanent state of flux shaped by where he is living and […]
Jean C. Roché, “Birds of Venezuela” (Sub Rosa, 2019)
This unusual reissue quietly entered the world last December when everyone was frantically obsessing over the year-end lists and features, so it did not get nearly the attention it deserved. […]
My Cat is an Alien, “Spiritual Noise, Vol. I” (Antigravitational, 2019)
My Cat is an Alien has always been very much an “outsider art” phenomenon, as the Opalio brothers have spent the last two decades tirelessly conjuring and reshaping a hermetic […]