archived brainwashed reviews
Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force, “Khadim” (Ndagga, 2025)
It has been almost an entire decade since this project (or any project at all, really) last surfaced from dub-techno visionary Mark Ernestus, but I can think of few other […]
loscil, “Lake Fire”
Scott Morgan has been quietly and steadily releasing beautifully crafted and fog-veiled grayscale ambient-dub excursions for over a quarter century now so I was not expecting a huge creative leap […]
Olga Anna Markowska, “ISKRA” (Miasmah, 2025)
This release is correctly billed as the debut solo album from this Polish composer & multi-instrumentalist, but Markowska previously surfaced back in 2024 with a similarly fine EP (Thrills) and […]
Maria Somerville, “Luster” (4AD, 2025)
It took six years, but Maria Somerville is finally back with another album, her first for the iconic 4AD. That is certainly a fitting home for Somerville, as Luster’s best […]
Cross Record, “Crush Me” (Ba Da Bing, 2025)
This latest release from Emily Cross’s long-running solo project is an absolute stunner that beautifully marries the intensity of prime Nina Nastasia with art-damaged slowcore melancholy and further ices that […]
Rrose x Polygonia, “Dermatology” (Eaux, 2024)
This collaboration between Seth Horvitz’s Rrose alter ego & the Munich-based Lindsey Wang is a marriage made in heaven, as Wang’s dancefloor-driven beat mastery brings a sensuous physicality to Rrose’s […]
Eliana Glass, “E” (Shelter Press, 2025)
On its face, this smoldering debut from NYC-based jazz chanteuse Eliana Glass seems like quite an inspired outlier for the historically avant garde-minded Shelter Press, as the smoky, sensuous minimalism […]
Rashad Becker, “The Incident” (Clunk, 2025)
This is both the inaugural release for Becker’s Clunk label and his first new album in nearly a decade, but it stylistically picks up roughly where his brilliantly demented Traditional […]