archived brainwashed reviews
Big Blood, “Unlikely Mothers” (Blackest Rainbow, 2014)
Sometimes I wonder why the rest of the world does not seem to appreciate the singular genius of Colleen Kinsella and Caleb Mulkerin like I do. Other times, an album […]
Black To Comm (Type, 2014)
It has been quite a long wait since the last proper Black To Comm album (2009’s wonderful Alphabet 1968), so it was an absolute delight to have Marc Richter unexpectedly […]
The Inward Circles, “Nimrod is Lost in Orion and Osyris in the Doggestarre” (Corbel Stone Press, 2014)
Richard Skelton has a long history of shifting monikers, unusual concepts, and stylistic evolutions, but this latest project still came as a bit of a surprise to me, as it […]
Grouper, “Ruins” (Kranky, 2014)
Liz Harris is becoming an increasingly complex and compelling artist, as her discography has started making unexpected leaps into the past that feel like leaps into the future. Originally recorded […]
Ashley Paul, “Heat Source” (Important, 2014)
The best description of Ashley Paul’s music that I can think of is that it sounds like she heard a Jandek album one day and thought “Yes! This is exactly […]
My Cat Is An Alien & Cédric Stevens, “Abstract Expressionism for the Ears” (Opax/Elliptical Noise, 2014)
No one will ever accuse the Opalio brothers of lacking ambition. Their previous release, 2013’s Psycho-System, was a hallucinatory drone epic that spanned six discs and clocked in at over […]
Naked Island (Peak Oil, 2017)
This is the debut effort from the duo of Ensemble Economique’s tirelessly prolific Brian Pyle and Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier’s Félicia Atkinson and it is a great one. Consisting of two […]
Ensemble Economique, “Melt Into Nothing” (Denovali, 2014)
Although I absolutely loved 2011’s Crossing the Pass, By Torchlight album, I had a hard time keeping up with the flood of divergent releases Brian Pyle has unleashed over the […]