archived brainwashed reviews
Flying Saucer Attack, “Instrumentals 2015” (Drag City, 2015)
After roughly a fifteen year hiatus, cult shoegaze/basement psychedelia visionary David Pearce has resurrected the Flying Saucer Attacker moniker, albeit in somewhat diluted form. Instrumentals 2015 is certainly sketch-like and […]
Helm, “Olympic Mess” (PAN, 2015)
I tend to enjoy just about everything Luke Younger releases, but he has always been a bit of a tough guy to pin down stylistically, as he has recently seemed […]
Stephen O’Malley, “Gruidés” (DDF, 2015)
Stephen O’Malley’s already unusual career has certainly taken some odd and unexpected turns in recent years, as the erstwhile amplifier-worshipper currently has both an insanely ambitious and jazz-inspired avant-metal masterpiece […]
Nurse With Wound/Blind Cave Salamander, “Cabbalism I, II, & III” (ICR)
This is an expanded reissue of a 2012 album that documented two 2009 live performances in which Nurse With Wound, Julia Kent, and Italy’s Blind Cave Salamander teamed up for […]
Amara Touré, “1973 – 1980” (Analog Africa, 2015)
In a perfect world, an artist of Amara Touré’s caliber would need no introduction at all, but the real world is weird and mysterious enough to definitely warrant one in this case, […]
William Basinski, “The Deluge” (Temporary Residence/2062, 2015)
Given how much I loved Cascade, my curiosity about this more ambitious companion album made for quite an impatient month of anticipation. Unfortunately, now that The Deluge has finally arrived, […]
Container, “LP” (Editions Mego/Spectrum Spools, 2015)
I think I can safely guarantee that no one familiar with Ren Schofield’s work has ever wondered what a new Container album might sound like, nor have they likely exhausted […]
Nurse With Wound, “The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion” (L.A.Y.L.A.H./United Dairies, 1985)
After years of hearing about the mythical NWW but never actually hearing them, I finally broke down and ordered this album (then an expensive import) when I was 19. Despite […]