archived brainwashed reviews
The Dead C, “Trouble” (Ba Da Bing, 2016)
This latest opus captures The Dead C at their most endearingly perverse, brilliant, and anti-virtuosic, as they have somehow managed to craft a double album without actually having any conventional […]
Biosphere, “Departed Glories” (Smalltown Supersound)
Geir Jenssen is my kind of artist: the kind that now only surfaces when he has something truly new or significant to convey. Ending a five-year hiatus, Departed Glories is […]
Sarah Davachi, “All My Circles Run” (Students of Decay, 2016)
Following hot on the heels of this year’s synth-centric Dominions, Sarah Davachi returns to Students of Decay for a bit of an unexpected curveball: an album with no synthesizer at […]
Andrew Chalk, “Everyone Goes Home When The Sun Sets” (Faraway Press, 2016)
This is kind of a companion piece to 2015’s absolutely sublime A Light At The Edge of The World, embracing a similarly fragile and dreamy mood, but taking a very […]
Thomas Brinkmann, “A 1000 Keys” (Editions Mego, 2016)
Lamentably, I have not been following Thomas Brinkmann’s career at all until now, as I had unfairly assumed that he was exclusively a techno producer and probably not of much […]
Klara Lewis, “Too” (Editions Mego, 2016)
When I heard Klara Lewis’s self-released EP back in 2012, I was deeply impressed with how effectively she shaped her “found sound” collages into song-like structures, but worried that such […]
Legendary Pink Dots, “Pages of Aquarius” (Metropolis, 2016)
The Legendary Pink Dots have been in the midst of a creative renaissance for years now, fitfully releasing some of the finest work of their career amidst the unending and […]
Catherine Christer Hennix, “Central Palace Music” and “Live at Issue Project Room” (Important, 2016)
This intriguing and wildly divergent pair of unreleased performances provides a fascinating window into the curious evolution of Hennix’s singular artistry. The newer and more listenable of the two is […]