archived brainwashed reviews
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 […]
Demdike Stare, “Wonderland” (Modern Love, 2016)
It has been an interesting couple of years for the former holy trinity of the UK’s blackened and gloom-shrouded post-industrial dance deconstructionists: Raime picked up guitars and turned into a […]
Legendary Pink Dots, “Festive” (Self-Released, 2016)
It is rare for me to get very enthusiastic about tour-only releases, as I feel that artists generally want their best material to be heard by as many people as […]
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 […]
Steve Hauschildt, “Strands” (Kranky, 2016)
For some reason, I never fully appreciated Emeralds when they were around, but I think I am belatedly redressing that wrong with my interest in Steve Hauschildt‚Äôs quietly impressive and […]