June 14th Newsletter

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  • Pulp – More.
    Pulp – More.
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    WORDS FROM JARVIS ON “MORE”: “This is the first Pulp album since “We Love Life” in 2001. Yes: the first Pulp album for almost 24 years. How did that happen? […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Maria Somerville – Luster
    Maria Somerville – Luster
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    By the time Irish musician Maria Somerville started writing Luster, her landmark label debut for 4AD, she had lived away from her native Connemara for quite some time. Having grown […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Lifeguard – Ripped And Torn
    Lifeguard – Ripped And Torn
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    Ripped and Torn on June 6. The youthful trio of Asher Case, Isaac Lowenstein, and Kai Slater have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist
    Jenny Hval – Iris Silver Mist
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    Norwegian musician, artist and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album, Iris Silver Mist, out on 2 May, the lead single/video ‘To be a rose’, and a UK/EU tour. Iris […]

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On
    Horsegirl – Phonetics On And On
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    There is something about the bitter cold in Chicago that unites the city in January— the two weeks in 2024 that Horsegirl spent recording Phonetics On and On were some […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Caroline – Caroline 2
    Caroline – Caroline 2
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    Returning with ‘caroline 2’, the eight-piece collective embrace a bolder, more expansive sound. Going beyond their debut’s explorations of repetition, slowness and space, the [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
    Stereolab – Instant Holograms On Metal Film
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    Are you having Aerial Troubles with your Colour TV? We can’t help with the technical issues, but we are able to take your minds off the problem with news of […]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Stanley Cowell – Musa • Ancestral Streams
    Stanley Cowell – Musa • Ancestral Streams
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    Featuring stunning solo piano work by Strata-East co-founder Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams is a landmark album in jazz, celebrated for its intimacy and innovation. Recorded in 1974, it [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Eli Keszler – Eli Keszler
    Eli Keszler – Eli Keszler
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    The new, self-titled album from Grammy® Nominated, New York-based composer and percussionist Eli Keszler. Having collaborated in recent years with Oneohtrix Point Never, Skrillex, Rashad Becker [...]

    GENRE: Techno / House / Electronic
  • PainKiller – The Great God Pan
    PainKiller – The Great God Pan
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    The reunion of PainKiller, the world’s most extreme sax-bass-drums trio, was one of the great musical events of 2024. For the third installment of their new trilogy of albums, Zorn, […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
    John Zorn – Through The Looking Glass
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    Medeski, Marsella, Hollenberg, and Grohowski are Chaos Magick—a powerful electric quartet formed to perform Zorn’s twisted and challenging compositions. Founded in 2021 as a spinoff of the heavy [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Habibi – Habibi
    Habibi – Habibi
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    A cursory listen to Brooklyn indie act Habibi’s self-titled debut album would initially seem to suggest a straightforward punk approach to the classic girl group template. Front-loaded with [...]

    GENRE: Indie / Alternative
  • Maria Chavez & Sandy Ewen – All The Duos
    Maria Chavez & Sandy Ewen – All The Duos
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    Orb Tapes presents “All The Duos,” a brand new collection of collaborative pieces featuring Maria Chavez and Sandy Ewen. A colossal effort, this double CD release contains over 90 minutes […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Arelseum / Recovery Center – Split
    Arelseum / Recovery Center – Split
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    ARELSEUM: all sound by Ryan Lipynsky and Colin Marston RECOVERY CENTER: Synthesizers and feedback by Pow Martinez and Chester Masangya Vocals on “Qlippoth” and “KA RA YA SA TA [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Kevin Sims – Yarrow Canon
    Kevin Sims – Yarrow Canon
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    “People misrecite the best portion of what they memorize, memorize the best portion of what they write, and write the best portion of what they hear. So if you acquire […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8
    Nala Sinephro – Space 1.8
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    ‘Space 1.8’ is Sinephro’s debut album; each contributing piece is part of a connected, collaborative and deeply personal body of music. Performed and recorded at Pink Bird Recordings in Wanstead [...]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Rocket From The Tombs – Black Record
    Rocket From The Tombs – Black Record
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    Rocket From The Tombs is back. ‘Black Record’ delivers eight new tracks, as well as definitive recordings of Rocket classics ‘Sonic Reducer’ and ‘Read It And Weep’ and a cover […]

    GENRE: Garage / Proto Punk, Punk / Hardcore
  • Thobbing Gristle – The Second Annual Report
    Thobbing Gristle – The Second Annual Report
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    “Following a small quantity of limited cassette releases, 1977’s The Second Annual Report was the formal debut of British industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle. (The First Annual [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Kevlar ‎– Agitators Of The Mind
    Kevlar ‎– Agitators Of The Mind
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    “Agitators of the Mind is a collection of studio tracks selected for live actions in Germany, France and Poland.” Label: Unrest Productions – UNPRDCD16 Format: CD, Album Country: UK [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Nightspore ‎– Godseed
    Nightspore ‎– Godseed
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    “Mid-paced gnostic acid techno recorded to cassette 4-track. Deluxe CD with 6-panel fold out insert. The new full-length album of strange rhythms and ominous vocals strikes a tone for the [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic, Techno / House / Electronic
  • Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
    Pearls Before Swine – These Things Too
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    “By the time of their third LP, Pearls Before Swine’s mainstay Tom Rapp hadn’t changed much in his approach. He was still singing inscrutable folk-rock-psychedelic songs with a [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • Orplid ‎– Geheiligt Sei Der Toten Name
    Orplid ‎– Geheiligt Sei Der Toten Name
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    Ambient neo-folk Label: Eis Und Licht – rex regum 240399 Format: CD, EP, Reissue, 2nd Edition Country: Germany Released:1999 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Pessary – Laid To Rest
    Pessary – Laid To Rest
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    Skeletal and minimal industrial ambient from the UK Label: Dirter Promotions – DPROMCD 07 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 1992 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
    Psychonaut* – The Witches’ Sabbath
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    Tribal dark ambient filled with occult influences. Label: Athanor – ATNR 007 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: France Released: 2000 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic
  • Mz.412 – In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi
    Mz.412 – In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi
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    “1995 bore witness to the resurrection of nefarious Swedish horde MZ. 412 (previously manifest as Maschinenzimmer 412) – Nordvargr, Drakh, Ulvtharm and Shaitan. This ground-breaking, [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Controlled Bleeding – Songs From The Ashes
    Controlled Bleeding – Songs From The Ashes
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    “A slightly unusual CD in that it actually consists of two separate albums released as one. The entirety of the previous year’s Music From the Scourging Grounds, which had not […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Detrimental Effect – Your Truth
    Detrimental Effect – Your Truth
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    “After two release on the UK-base Label Unrestproductions, Detrimental Effect joins Tesco for their 1st CD release. Fresh Analog power electronic sounds that create an old school industrial [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Fire + Ice – Birdking
    Fire + Ice – Birdking
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    Classic Neo-folk from a genre stalwart, featuring contributions from Douglas P & others. Label: Fremdheit – FREMD CD 2000 Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 2000 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Post-Punk / Goth / Darkwave / Minimal Synth / Neofolk
  • Grunt – Petturien Rooli
    Grunt – Petturien Rooli
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    “Recorded between 2007-2009, making it longest recording task of project so far. Presenting some of the new sides of Grunt, but with the touch known from before. Album contains no […]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Institut – Live Like Traitors, Die Like Traitors
    Institut – Live Like Traitors, Die Like Traitors
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    “Allow yourself to remember the sixties for a moment, a world full of ideals, protesters and national secrecy. Steaming masses, no regrets, frightful threats. Influenced by political [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Intrinsic Action ‎– Peepland: The Complete Singles
    Intrinsic Action ‎– Peepland: The Complete Singles
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    “Compiles all of the official and authorized vinyl releases by Intrinsic Action.” Label: BloodLust! – B!052 Format: CD, Compilation Country: US Released: 2006 VG+/VG+

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Intrinsic Action ‎– III
    Intrinsic Action ‎– III
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    “Re-mastered re-release of the third I.A. cassette, originally issued in 1987. The core recordings consist of the band’s third live show, ever. Includes two bonus SCTL tracks. [...]

    GENRE: Industrial / Power Electronics
  • Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
    Tom Rapp, Pearls Before Swine ‎– City Of Gold
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    “”Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you” sayeth Jesus in Matthew […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych, Folk / Country
  • The New Blockaders + Ice Yacht – Wer Ist Wer Und Was Ist Was
    The New Blockaders + Ice Yacht – Wer Ist Wer Und Was Ist Was
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    ‘In my hand a beautifully designed CD on Nihilist Records from Chicago. It contains four long soundscapish minimal noise-ambient ‘constructions’ developed by The New Blockaders [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • The New Blockaders – Live At Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
    The New Blockaders – Live At Morden Tower Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
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    “Armed with hammers and some carefully chosen materials, TNB perform a ‘conceptual destruction’ of pure sonic violence. By deliberate saturation of the environment by way of [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Nurse With Wound With Bladderflask – Backside
    Nurse With Wound With Bladderflask – Backside
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    2024 – New studio album featuring Bladderflask. Originally issued as a limited edition Lp lathe cut. STEVE STAPLETON, ANDREW LILES AND RICHARD RUPENUS Contains 20 minutes extra material. [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
    Clifford Thornton – Ketchaoua
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    Official BYG Records release: one of the defining labels of the Free Jazz era – Follow-up release of Live at the Panafrican Festival by Archie Shepp. After appearing with Archie […]

    GENRE: Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
    Mother Gong – Fairy Tales
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    Enhanced CD Edition remastered from the original master tapes. CD digi-sleeve mimics the vibe of the original LP and comes with a 12-page booklet that includes lyrics for an immersive […]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • 13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
    13th Floor Elevators – Easter Everywhere
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    New 96KHZ-24bit transfer from an original mixed master – Facsimile stereo edition . 1967 second studio album by the Texan pioneers of psychedelia. This ground-breaking album not only [...]

    GENRE: Art Rock / Krautrock / Prog / Psych
  • Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
    Priest In Shit – Virgin Martyr
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    Four tracks of harsh noise with a junk noise vortex that leans into all manner of collapsed constraint. Richard Ramirez, Sean Matzus, and guests Anjilla Ulfhednar, Scott Kindberg, Thomas Puopolo [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
    Death Dedication – Dopamine Abjection Sabotage
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    Tracks complied from previously released cassettes released on Property Solution as “Dopamine Scythe”, “Imprudent Abjection”, “Pure Slaughter Value” and “Sabotage Momentum” All sounds and [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
    Amplexus – Necessary Intercourses
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    Amplexus is a raw unforgiving barrage of harsh noise as one might expect from two well-known figures in the noise world. There is definitely some shared territory with the newer […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
    Macronympha ‎– The Disintegration Of History
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    Reissue of cassette on Bizarre Audio Arts from 2018

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Parasite Nurse  – Lack
    Parasite Nurse – Lack
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    Parasite Nurse’s follow up to 2023’s “Life Is Beautiful” with “Lack” which as far as I’m concerned, it might be necessary to listen to as a whole, all [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
    Reona + T. Mikawa – Live at Bar Isshee
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    A live documentation of a collaboration between T. Mikawa: Electronics and Reona: Tap Dance, Metal sheets, Chains, Loud speaker. Disarming, complex tension creeping through a labyrinth of junk [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Betty Davis ‎– Nasty Gal
    Betty Davis ‎– Nasty Gal
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    “In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre–punk, funk–blues fusion that had yet […]

    GENRE: Soul / Funk / Disco
  • Heule / Leguía / Rivero / Escalante – An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
    Heule / Leguía / Rivero / Escalante – An Inscrutable Bodily Discomforting Thing
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    A monumentally fucked up recording from this quartet. Anything short of saying “AUDIO ASSAULT” is not doing any justice to the release. This is fucked up and violent/blown out & [...]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise, Jazz / Fusion / Free Jazz
  • Michael Vallera – The Other World
    Michael Vallera – The Other World
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    Released in an edition of 300 CDs by Torn Light Records — The Other World was recorded in the spring of 2023 by Greg Norman at his home studio in […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Maëror Tri* – Ambient Dreams
    Maëror Tri* – Ambient Dreams
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    ‘All sound you hear on this CD originated from natural ambient sources. No electronic sound-sources were used. Ambient recordings made between August of 1989 and June of 1990 in West […]

    GENRE: Experimental / Noise
  • Steve Roach – Darkest Before Dawn
    Steve Roach – Darkest Before Dawn
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    “Darkest Before Dawn is a long-form composition that is meant for continuous play. It is from Steve Roach, a master of that technique. His activity that preceded this CD had […]

    GENRE: Modern Composition / Musique Concrete / Electronic