archived brainwashed reviews
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 […]
Aaron Dilloway, “Switches” (Cejero, 2017)
The wonderfully unsettling and playfully creepy The Gag File deservedly got a lot of attention last year, but Aaron Dilloway also quietly released another excellent album on a small Dutch […]
Meat Beat Manifesto, “Impossible Star” (Flexidisk, 2018)
After a bit of a lengthy hiatus, Jack Dangers has returned with quite a bombshell of a new Meat Beat album. Self-described as resembling “an MC Escher optical illusion that […]
Richard Skelton, “Towards a Frontier” (Corbel Stone Press, 2018)
Billed as Skelton’s most ambitious composition to date, Towards a Frontier is a 66-minute epic that is part of larger multimedia project assembled during three trips to rural East Iceland. […]
Vox Populi!, “Magiques Créations” (Emotional Rescue, 2018)
Ever since their cult favorite Half Dead Ganja Music album was reissued back in 2013, I have been fascinated by this deeply unusual “ethno-industrial” duo from France and have done […]