archived brainwashed reviews
Nurse With Wound, “The Great Ecstasy of the Basic Corrupt” (Dirter/Jnana, 2016)
This is a long-awaited CD reissue of a largely unheard 45 RPM art edition LP from 2014. Although the idea of getting a small Steven Stapleton painting with an album […]
Rashad Becker, “Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. II” (PAN, 2017)
Rashad Becker’s 2013 debut album was a singular and radical work of art, resembling nothing less than field recordings from a sinister extra-dimensional jungle. For this follow-up, however, he apparently […]
William Basinski, “A Shadow in Time” (Temporary Residence, 2017)
Few current artists are as consistent and reliably absorbing as William Basinski, as he has carved a wonderful career out of conjuring work of hypnotic beauty from simple, well-chosen snippets […]
Muslimgauze, “Mohammad Ali Jinnah” and “Jerusalaam” (Staalplaat, 2016)
Staalplaat’s tireless trawl through Bryn Jones’s endless archive yielded yet another fine pair of releases to close out 2016. Jerusalaam, the stronger and more traditionally Muslimgauze-esque of the two, is […]
*AR, “Earth By Means of the Currents” (Corbel Stone Press/Aeolian Editions, 2016)
Richard Skelton was atypically quiet in 2016, as he and Autumn Richardson seemed to be focusing primarily upon their publishing ventures, poetry, visual art, and Skelton’s esoteric and multifarious research […]
Ian William Craig, “Centres” (FatCat/130701, 2016)
It has taken me an embarrassingly long time to finally acknowledge the sublime brilliance of Vancouver-based polymath Ian William Craig, but he certainly has not made it easy, as every […]
Radian, “On Dark Silent Off” (Thrill Jockey, 2016)
It has been seven years since these Viennese avant-rock deconstructionists last surfaced with a proper full-length release, so I was not quite sure what to expect with this album, particularly […]
Sarah Davachi, “Vergers” (Important, 2016)
Sarah Davachi’s impressively prolific 2016 finally winds to a close with this release, which is arguably the finest of her three albums this year. Following the uncharacteristically acoustic/organic All My […]