archived brainwashed reviews
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 […]
Black Sun Productions, “Toilet Chant” and “Dies Juvenalis” (Anarcocks (2004/2007)/Hallow Ground (2016))
Hallow Ground continues their impressive recent run with two vinyl reissues from these erstwhile Coil collaborators and eternally provocative and intriguing iconoclasts. Both of these releases were originally issued as […]