L’ocelle Mare – Serpentement
18 April 2012Produced in the Protestant temple of Bergerac, an instrumental album of complex beauty that explores what constitutes music and what noises can be coaxed from instruments.
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Gate – The Dew Line (Remastered)
16 April 2012One can only applaud MIE Music for resurrecting this absolute treasure, and continue to absorb the brilliance of Gate’s incendiary, unfathomable and timeless molestation of rock’s archetypes.
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Praise for Jonny: Andy Stott, Cut Hands, Dalglish and Ship Canal at The Vortex, London
03 April 2012Joseph Burnett bids a fond farewell to the Exotic Pylon series at the Vortex club.
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Liminal Minimals – March 2012
30 March 2012We look through some more records we couldn't review in full.
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Meshuggah – Koloss
29 March 2012The latest work from Swedish band Meshuggah is a complex, deep and brutal slice of metal.
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Dolphins Into The Future – …On Sea-Faring Isolation
26 March 2012A reissue of the 2009 album sees the additional music augment the sense that Martens in a landscape painter in sound.
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Carter Tutti Void – Transverse
23 March 2012A collaboration between Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti & Nik Void could easily be classified as purely a "live" album, but it's so much more than that.
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Jenny Hval and Phaedra at The Borderline
22 March 2012This Rune Grammofon showcase night paired together two of the label’s biggest Norwegian successes from last year, the sensual drone folk psychedelia of Phaedra and the looser, more improvisatory songwriting of Jenny Hval.
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Tetras – Pareidolia
20 March 2012The latest double album from the Tetras trio dips a bucket deep into a stream which has flown through music since the mutant malevolent minimalism of Miles Davis's 1970s output.
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Imaginary soundtracks: An Interview with Ikue Mori
19 March 2012Ikue Mori will be appearing with Norwegian artist Maja S.K. Ratkje at London’s Cafe Oto, so what better time to discuss her wide range of projects, her history on the New York No Wave scene, and on how preparations have gone for the London show.
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