archived brainwashed reviews
Helm, “Chemical Flowers” (PAN, 2019)
Luke Younger has been increasingly ambitious in reinventing the Helm aesthetic with each fresh release over the last several years, but this latest release still caught me off-guard a bit: […]
William Ryan Fritch, “Deceptive Cadence: Music For Film Vol. I & Vol. II” (Lost Tribe Sound, 2019)
I have only been familiar with William Ryan Fritch’s work for a couple of years, but he became one of my absolute favorite artists almost instantly. In fact, I have […]
Meat Beat Manifesto, “Opaque Couché” (Flexidisk, 2019)
Billed as a companion piece to 2018’s stellar Impossible Star, Opaque Couché continues Meat Beat’s recent hot streak with a double album packed with inventive and meticulously crafted dance music […]
Tim Hecker, “Anoyo” (Kranky, 2019)
Eight years ago, Tim Hecker released his landmark Ravedeath, 1972 album and followed it with an EP that revisited the source material in a more organic, stripped-down fashion (Dropped Pianos). […]
Caterina Barbieri, “Ecstatic Computation” (Editions Mego, 2019)
This Italian synth visionary made quite a spectacular impression with 2017’s Patterns of Consciousness and now makes her Editions Mego debut with its proper follow-up. To some degree, Barbieri picks […]
Keith Fullerton Whitman, “Late Playthroughs” (Self-Released, 2019)
In the early 2000s, Keith Fullerton Whitman parted ways with his Hrvatski moniker and started recording more ambient-minded work under his own name. His first major release in that vein […]
Zachary Paul, “A Meditation on Discord” (Touch, 2019)
I almost slept on this unexpectedly incendiary delight, as it deceptively seemed like just another solid drone album based on my initial and brief exposure to it. Then I noticed […]
Centrum, “För Meditation” (Rocket, 2019)
I probably do not follow the contemporary psych-rock scene as closely as I should, so this 2019 side project from Sweden’s Hills managed to elude me for a couple of […]