archived brainwashed reviews
Nurse With Wound/Blind Cave Salamander, “Cabbalism I, II, & III” (ICR)
This is an expanded reissue of a 2012 album that documented two 2009 live performances in which Nurse With Wound, Julia Kent, and Italy’s Blind Cave Salamander teamed up for […]
Amara Touré, “1973 – 1980” (Analog Africa, 2015)
In a perfect world, an artist of Amara Touré’s caliber would need no introduction at all, but the real world is weird and mysterious enough to definitely warrant one in this case, […]
William Basinski, “The Deluge” (Temporary Residence/2062, 2015)
Given how much I loved Cascade, my curiosity about this more ambitious companion album made for quite an impatient month of anticipation. Unfortunately, now that The Deluge has finally arrived, […]
Nurse With Wound, “The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion” (L.A.Y.L.A.H./United Dairies, 1985)
After years of hearing about the mythical NWW but never actually hearing them, I finally broke down and ordered this album (then an expensive import) when I was 19. Despite […]
The Inward Circles, “Belated Movements for an Unsanctioned Exhumation August 1st 1984” (Corbel Stone Press, 2015)
I can always count on Richard Skelton to find the strangest and most unexpected inspirations for his albums and he does not disappoint me with his latest: Belated Movements is […]
William Basinski, “Cascade” (2062, 2015)
This is simultaneously a highly unusual and an extremely representative addition to William Basinski‚Äôs impressive discography: on one hand, it is yet another composition characteristically built upon a single brief […]
Muslimgauze, “Zilver/Feel The Hiss” (Staalplaat, 2015)
I had been doing an excellent job of ignoring the constant trickle of unnecessary Muslimgauze vault scrapings for the last few years, but the surprising amount of excitement surrounding this […]
Colleen, “Captain of None” (Thrill Jockey, 2015)
Back in 2013, Cécile Schott unexpectedly ended a very long hiatus in appropriately unexpected style by reinventing herself as an eccentric, viola da gamba-wielding singer/songwriter. Captain of None is both a continuation […]