archived brainwashed reviews
Fennesz, “Bécs” (Editions Mego, 2014)
For reasons that are not immediately apparent to me, Bécs is being billed as the conceptual follow-up to 2001’s landmark Endless Summer. To me, it just sounds like another characteristically […]
M. Geddes Gengras, “Collected Works Vol. I: The Moog Years” (Umor Rex, 2013)
My only defense for sleeping on this oft-dazzling album last summer is that nothing makes me wince quite like the word “Moog” these days, as I am sick to death […]
Diane Cluck, “Boneset” (Important, 2014)
It has been a very long time since a formal Diane Cluck album has surfaced, as even the collages/odds-and-ends collection Monarcana dates from nearly a decade ago. However, she has […]
Current 93, “I Am the Last Of All the Field That Fell” (Coptic Cat, 2014)
One of the many things that still keeps me excited about Current 93 more than 30 years into their career is that each new incarnation has the potential to be […]
Jandek, “Ready For The House” (Corwood Industries, 1978)
Originally attributed to The Units, this cryptic, haunting, and otherworldly 1978 debut is the album that began over three decades of myth, legend, and speculation regarding the man behind Corwood […]
Helm, “Silencer” and “The Hollow Organ” (PAN, 2013/2014)
Although I have only been following Luke Younger’s career for a few short years, one thing is very clear to me: he definitely does not like to repeat himself. Curiously, […]
Container, “Adhesive” (Liberation Technologies, 2014)
Listening to this EP is like being run over by a goddamn tank. Ren Schofield was one of the first harsh noise artists to take his cacophony to the dance […]
Éliane Radigue, “Adnos I-III” (Table of the Elements (2002)/Important (2013))
There has been an avalanche of fine dispatches from Éliane Radigue’s voluminous vault in recent years, which both pleases and overwhelms me, as I want to hear them all and cannot hope […]