archived brainwashed reviews
Croatian Amor, “Love Means Taking Action” (Alter/Posh Isolation, 2016)
I am not sure if I am very late to the party on Croatian Amor or unintentionally getting in at exactly the right time, but Loke Rahbek’s latest album has […]
Hypnopazūzu, “Create Christ, Sailor Boy” (House of Mythology, 2016)
This collaboration between David Tibet and early Current 93 alum and erstwhile Killing Joke bassist Youth is quite a fascinating, bizarre, improbable, and intermittently perplexing release. Given how little attention […]
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 […]
Container, “Vegetation” EP (Diagonal, 2016)
Ren Schofield’s reliably bludgeoning Container project is back with a yet another EP of caustic, pummeling beats and squelching, swooping electronics. He has moved to a new label (Powell’s Diagonal […]
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 […]