archived brainwashed reviews
The Dead C, “Eusa Kills” (Flying Nun, 1989)
This 1989 album is most notable for being generally regarded as The Dead C’s “pop” album. Also, a lot of people seem to rank it quite highly within the band’s […]
The Dead C, “The White House” (Siltbreeze, 1995)
This 1995 release is generally regarded to be one of the dirt-encrusted jewels of The Dead C’s frequently perplexing discography. For the most part, however, that place of honor is […]
*AR, “Diagrams for the Summoning of Wolves” (Corbel Stone Press, 2015)
Being a rabid Richard Skelton fan, I was initially heartbroken when this release sold out before I could get my hands on it, but now that I have the digital […]
Disappears, “Irreal” (Kranky, 2015)
2013’s Era was a criminally underappreciated monster of an album that marked an significant, unexpected surge forward in forging a distinctive and wonderful aesthetic all Disappears’ own. I am not […]
Big Blood, “Unlikely Mothers” (Blackest Rainbow, 2014)
Sometimes I wonder why the rest of the world does not seem to appreciate the singular genius of Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin like I do. Other times, an album […]
Black To Comm (Type, 2014)
It has been quite a long wait since the last proper Black To Comm album (2009’s wonderful Alphabet 1968), so it was an absolute delight to have Marc Richter unexpectedly […]
The Inward Circles, “Nimrod is Lost in Orion and Osyris in the Doggestarre” (Corbel Stone Press, 2014)
Richard Skelton has a long history of shifting monikers, unusual concepts, and stylistic evolutions, but this latest project still came as a bit of a surprise to me, as it […]
My Cat Is An Alien & Cédric Stevens, “Abstract Expressionism for the Ears” (Opax/Elliptical Noise, 2014)
No one will ever accuse the Opalio brothers of lacking ambition. Their previous release, 2013’s Psycho-System, was a hallucinatory drone epic that spanned six discs and clocked in at over […]