archived brainwashed reviews
Legendary Pink Dots, “The Curse of Marie Antoinette” (Rustblade, 2013)
In typically perverse fashion, LPD bring their wildly prolific year to a close by burying their absolute best material on the second side of an extremely limited Italian picture disc […]
*AR, “Succession” (Corbel Stone, 2013)
While Richard Skelton has long been one of my favorite artists, he has not released anything new in a while that has captivated me quite like he did the first […]
Duane Pitre, “Bridges” (Important, 2013)
Pitre’s latest offering is a fine companion piece to last year’s stellar Feel Free, achieving a similar outcome through composition rather than computerized randomization. Built upon Duane’s now-characteristic pointillist plucking, […]
Rashad Becker, “Traditional Music of Notional Species, Vol. 1” (PAN, 2013)
Rashad Becker is a fairly revered and influential figure in experimental music circles due to his role as the resident mastering genius at Basic Channel’s Dubplates studio. That association is […]
The Dead C, “Armed Courage” (Ba Da Bing, 2013)
There is something endearingly heroic about The Dead C, as they have been gleefully blurring the lines between inspired deconstructionist rock and messy, half-assed indulgence to widespread indifference for almost […]
Alessandro Cortini, “Forse, Volume One” (Important, 2013)
Cortini is best known as a member of Nine Inch Nails and How to Destroy Angels, but his work with Trent Reznor is quite a bit different from this opening […]
“Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979” (Analog Africa, 2013)
Situated right in the middle of West Africa’s musical hotbed (Ghana and Nigeria are close neighbors), the country of Burkina Faso has remained relatively unanthologized thus far, a situation that […]
Legendary Pink Dots, “The Gethsemane Option” (Metropolis, 2013)
To the casual observer, it probably seems like either Edward Ka-Spel or The Legendary Pink Dots release (or re-release) an album just about every other week these days, but there […]