archived brainwashed reviews
M. Geddes Gengras, “Collected Works Vol. I: The Moog Years” (Umor Rex, 2013)
My only defense for sleeping on this oft-dazzling album last summer is that nothing makes me wince quite like the word “Moog” these days, as I am sick to death […]
Diane Cluck, “Boneset” (Important, 2014)
It has been a very long time since a formal Diane Cluck album has surfaced, as even the collages/odds-and-ends collection Monarcana dates from nearly a decade ago. However, she has […]
Current 93, “I Am the Last Of All the Field That Fell” (Coptic Cat, 2014)
One of the many things that still keeps me excited about Current 93 more than 30 years into their career is that each new incarnation has the potential to be […]
Jandek, “Ready For The House” (Corwood Industries, 1978)
Originally attributed to The Units, this cryptic, haunting, and otherworldly 1978 debut is the album that began over three decades of myth, legend, and speculation regarding the man behind Corwood […]
Éliane Radigue, “Adnos I-III” (Table of the Elements (2002)/Important (2013))
There has been an avalanche of fine dispatches from Éliane Radigue’s voluminous vault in recent years, which both pleases and overwhelms me, as I want to hear them all and cannot hope […]
Noveller, “No Dreams” (Important, 2013)
When she is at her best, Brooklyn-based experimental guitarist Sarah Lipstate is capable of creating work of almost breathtaking beauty. On this, her debut for Important, she is at her […]
Huerco S., “Colonial Patterns” (Software, 2013)
This is the debut full-length from Brian Leeds’ Huerco S. nom de guerre, one of the most exciting projects to emerge from burgeoning scene surrounding Opal Tapes. While Leeds does […]
Natural Snow Buildings, “Daughter of Darkness” (Ba Da Bing, 2013)
Ba Da Bing have officially blown my mind yet again, following their 4LP reissues of the epic Night Coercion Into the Company of Witches and The Snowbringer Cult trilogy with […]