archived brainwashed reviews
Sarah Davachi, “Vergers” (Important, 2016)
Sarah Davachi’s impressively prolific 2016 finally winds to a close with this release, which is arguably the finest of her three albums this year. Following the uncharacteristically acoustic/organic All My […]
Hypnopazūzu, “Create Christ, Sailor Boy” (House of Mythology, 2016)
This collaboration between David Tibet and early Current 93 alum and erstwhile Killing Joke bassist Youth is quite a fascinating, bizarre, improbable, and intermittently perplexing release. Given how little attention […]
The Dead C, “Trouble” (Ba Da Bing, 2016)
This latest opus captures The Dead C at their most endearingly perverse, brilliant, and anti-virtuosic, as they have somehow managed to craft a double album without actually having any conventional […]
Sarah Davachi, “All My Circles Run” (Students of Decay, 2016)
Following hot on the heels of this year’s synth-centric Dominions, Sarah Davachi returns to Students of Decay for a bit of an unexpected curveball: an album with no synthesizer at […]
Andrew Chalk, “Everyone Goes Home When The Sun Sets” (Faraway Press, 2016)
This is kind of a companion piece to 2015’s absolutely sublime A Light At The Edge of The World, embracing a similarly fragile and dreamy mood, but taking a very […]
Thomas Brinkmann, “A 1000 Keys” (Editions Mego, 2016)
Lamentably, I have not been following Thomas Brinkmann’s career at all until now, as I had unfairly assumed that he was exclusively a techno producer and probably not of much […]
Legendary Pink Dots, “Pages of Aquarius” (Metropolis, 2016)
The Legendary Pink Dots have been in the midst of a creative renaissance for years now, fitfully releasing some of the finest work of their career amidst the unending and […]
Norman Westberg, “MRI” (Room40, 2016)
As much as I love Swans, one of 2015’s great mysteries for me was trying to figure out why some people liked Norman Westberg’s solo 13 album so much, as […]