archived brainwashed reviews
Mary Lattimore, “At the Dam” (Ghostly International, 2016)
Harpist Mary Lattimore’s excellent second solo album is the fruit of a grant-financed road trip across the US, inspired by various natural wonders along the way and recorded at several […]
Tim Hecker, “Love Streams” (4AD, 2016)
Tim Hecker’s first album for 4AD is already a major event, unexpectedly garnering praise from sources as mainstream as The New York Times and Rolling Stone. We live in strange […]
Surgeon, “From Farthest Known Objects” (Dynamic Tension, 2016)
This seventh album under the Surgeon moniker from UK techno iconoclast Anthony Child is a bit of an unexpected divergence from his previous work. Naturally, the pummeling repetition and industrial […]
“Senegal 70: Sonic Gems & Previously Unreleased Recordings from the 70s” (Analog Africa, 2016)
There are very few people around making better compilations than Analog Africa’ss Samy Ben Redjeb. For this latest treasure trove of newly unearthed obscurities, Samy teamed up with Teranga Beat’s […]
Final, “Black Dollars” (Downwards, 2016)
This is a well-deserved and expanded vinyl reissue of the absolutely stellar My Body is A Dying Machine EP, which Justin Broadrick quietly released in digital-only format back in 2010. […]
Brannten Schnüre, “Sommer im Pfirsichhain” (Aguirre, 2015)
Perpetual frontrunners Natural Snow Buildings and My Cat is an Alien aside, the single most unique and transcendental album of 2015 was this full-length debut from Würzburg,-based experimental folk duo Brannten Schnüre. […]
The Inward Circles, “I have heard a music and it is delirious” (Aeolian/Corbel Stone Press, 2015)
At this point, it is quite clear that The Inward Circles project is the home for Richard Skelton’s darker impulses, dealing primarily in brooding ambiance, churning violence, and grinding horror. […]
My Cat is an Alien, “The Dance of Oneirism” (Backwards/Elliptical Noise, 2015)
The Opalio Brothers have been on quite a hot streak in recent years, as both Psycho-System (2013) and Abstract Expressionism for the Ears (2014) were massive, tour de force plunges […]