The Pendle Witches in Eternal Agony

Demdike Stare are one of those bands that seems to have lit up the entire critical community (at least those I respect), but seem far too ascetic to make as lasting impressions as these reviews suggest. With all the kind ink, it seems these words are better reserved for conjuring peers (foremost, Coil) who came first and did it better. With that said, Tryptych is not bad, but for the almgamation it supposes (horror soundtracks/ deep drone/ Modern Love style dubtronics/ Caretaker or concrete Radiophic hauntology/ Shackleton style Fifth World rhythm) it should sound better.

Here's the review

This Island Earth

New review of Friendly Fires' maddeningly enjoyable Pala, an album which is sonically smart and pretty lyrically idiotic.

More Music About Housing Projects

Albeit with a completely different vantage. A short review of Salva's Complex Housing

RIP John Walker

Kangding Ray- Pruitt Igoe

A review of the great new EP

For more in Pruitt-Igoe, here's a trailer to a new film coming out on the projects.



There's some footage of the demolition here:



Here's a lo-res version of the sequence from Koyaanisqatsi



A news report from 1968

Hunt in the Garden of False Opportunity

My review of the surprisingly good Magnetic Man disc

Hopefully, I'll have more to say about "The Bug" soon.

Moebius- Blue Moon Soundtrack

A review of the Cluster front man's lone bid into the soundtrack game.

Bjorn Torske- Kokning

new review of the aforementioned

Here's a video from that Open Skies EP mentioned in the article for the old skoolers.

RIP Poly Styrene

RIP Max Matthews

Father of computer music

Evil is Real

A review of Univers Zero's remaster of Heresie

Univers Zero’s music, both performing and listening to it, is labor—a conscious, concentrated, and exhausting effort full of unresolved tension, illusory endings, and alchemical combinations. It’s ritual magick, seemingly in service of mystical elements that defy communication (it’s largely instrumental music except for the invented language used for the chanting throughout “La Faulx”) or easy comprehension (the odd time signatures, the complex structure, the long periods of atonality, et. al)...

Post-Structuralism

a review of ANBB's new album (Alva Noto and Blixa Bargeld)

RIP Sidney Lumet

Unfortunatey, all clips of Network on Youtube restricted embedding, so here's a tune of mine from 10 years ago (probably recorded earlier). It's not great, but it has that fantastic corporate cosmology speech in it.

DMX Krew

Wave Funk/Prolapse of the Wave Function reviewed