archived brainwashed reviews
The Skull Defekts (Thrill Jockey, 2018)
The Skull Defekts have long been one of the most baffling, wonderful, and unpredictable bands in underground music, equally likely to dazzle, disappoint, or just thoroughly confuse me with each […]
Dedekind Cut, “Tahoe” (Kranky, 2018)
I cannot think of many other projects that have been quite as instantly revered as Fred Welton Warmsley III’s Dedekind Cut, nor can I think of any other artists who […]
Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, “August 53rd” (Helen Scarsdale, 2018)
The last time I covered this enigmatic Midwestern ensemble, I was a bit frustrated by the limitations of their constrained palette, but I have since warmed to them quite a […]
Colleen, “Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique” (Leaf (2006)/Beacon Sound (2017))
Recently reissued, this unusual EP/mini-album was originally composed as a continuous hour-long piece for the French radio program Atelier de Création Radiophonique. The adventurously narrow theme of the endeavor itself is the […]
Elizabeth Cottern, “Heschl’s Gyrus” (Other Forms of Consecrated Life, 2017)
I recently stumbled upon this bizarre debut during an especially deep Bandcamp plunge and it is deliciously unlike anything else that I have ever heard. Both the artist and the […]
Abul Mogard, “Works” (Ecstatic, 2018)
According to legend, this enigmatic Serbian composer became deeply interested in music as a means of trying to recapture the sounds of the metal factory that he had worked at […]
Dean McPhee, “Four Stones” (Hood Faire, 2018)
Over the course of the last decade, Dean McPhee has quietly and unhurriedly established himself as one of most compelling and unique solo guitar artists around, weaving gorgeously meditative reveries […]
Teleplasmiste, “Frequency is the New Ecstasy” (House of Mythology, 2017)
Released back in early 2017, Frequency is the underheard debut full-length from the duo of Coil/Cyclobe alum Mike York and Mark Pilkington (from Strange Attractor Press). Given that singular and […]