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“I’m not as emotive with real world things as I am when I’m neck deep in anime, video games, books or comics.” Same… Will Wiesenfeld wraps up a busy year that saw the first ever official full-length release on a label by his Geotic project (Abysma, Ghostly International), which has been a catch-all for his ambient…
A lot of the talk swirling around Black Marble’s breakthrough Lab fav LP It’s Immaterial (2016, Ghostly) focused on Chris Stewart’s move from NYC to LA, but that record was already written and recorded before the move, making this his first proper LA record. Apparently, his car broke down shortly after his arrival, so he’d…
Album #4 from Fuck Buttons Benjamin John Power in his Blanck Mass guise. One of the heaviest records to come across my desk in a while, there’s nothing lighthearted about this whatsoever. 2017’s World Eater had its fair share of intense passages, but where that record was interspersed with the occasional relief of a lurching…
A Blackest Ever Black record you can sing in the shower. Carla dal Forno’s solo debut is the result of a long and fertile incubation period for the songwriter & multi-instrumentalist. An early associate of the B.E.B. stable, dal Forno has been exploring dark musique concrete and majestic lo-fi pop for a few years as…
WHILE WE RE STILL WAITING FOR DEAR TOMMY WE VE GOT CHERRY TO KEEP US WARM. One day it will come, Chromatics follow up to 2012 s Kill For Love, but I don t think I can hold my breath any longer. Cherry gives us the title track along with a few reinterpretations of cuts…
Chromatics drift into emotive zones of 80 s-inspired synth-pop with this drumless version of tracks from Kill For Love. Johnny Jewel still handles production duties, and has fine tuned his craft with a careful balance of moody synthswork and melancholy guitars. He s pretty much mastered the sound by now, and with Ruth Radelet adding those smokey,…
“Hey baby, what’s goin’ on?” “I’m just leavin’ the club right now…” This record initially got swept up in the italo revival nu disco hysteria, in part due to its association with Glass Candy’s Beatbox and the After Dark compilation (which we love). But upon closer inspection, it’s the smoky urban dread and stellar songwriting that really reverberate (maybe I’m just burned…
Record nerds will note that Dean Blunt lifted the prayer hands from Otis G. Johnson’s God Is Love for The Redeemer cover (and Dean Blunt nerds will note that this was a full two years before Champagne Papi did it), and Blunt s breakthrough solo effort isn’t too far off from Johnson’s low-budget gospel epic in terms of…
Just can’t get enough! Depeche Mode’s 2006 Best Of Volume 1 gets a much-needed vinyl repress, as original copies have become prohibitively expensive second-hand. Includes all the Violator-era smashes, late-period favorites from Exciter, Playing The Angel, etc., and of course “Just Can’t Get Enough.” DM completists will go straight for “Martyr,” an outtake from Playing…
First-ever survey of pioneering Italian experimental electronic label Trax (no, not that Trax), focusing on inter-continental auterism and one-off collaboration. Trax Test: Excerpts From The Modular Network 1981-1987 contains some of the earliest works by acts who would go on to be pillars in the worldwide noise & experimental music community; most notably Nurse With…
Fujiya & Miyagi’s thrilling amalgam of krautrock textures, new wave vocals and unabashed worship of Japanese culture now available on vinyl for the first time ever, having been originally released during peak “is vinyl dead?” hysteria (2006) despite garnering a “Best New Music” designation from Pitchfork upon release. The infectious groove of opener “Ankle Injuries” juxtaposes Klaus…
I literally made it on the road. I didn t write it before, I didn t prepare it. I just did it day by day as a kind of diary of my experience in America.” – Damon Albarn Damon Albarn recorded The Fall in the Gorillaz tour bus in between tour stops using only an…
John Maus sounds like Joy Division if they spent more time playing Castlevania and less time trying to get laid. His first since 2011’s We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves, (a huge favorite in the Lab office, s o our downstairs neighbors at Domino) has a cynical, apocalyptic paranoia running through its DNA, immediately evident on diabolic opener “The Combine.” Maus’ explanation for…
Konami Kukeiha Club s original score for Rondo Of Blood, finally on vinyl! Originally released for the PC Engine (aka Japan s version of the TurboGrafx 16) in 1993, Castlevania: Rondo Of Blood is an often missed chapter in the long running Castlevania saga. The game follows Richter Belmont (descendant of Simon and Trevor) on a quest to save his…
Before releasing the excellent Free Flight 12” on W.T. Records and teaming with Katie Rose for Further Reductions, as well as a string of releases on L.I.E.S. with his Vapauteen project, Shawn O’Sullivan played in Brooklyn coldwave trio Led Er Est. Dust On Common is the band’s debut full-length, released in 2009 by defunct Brooklyn…
A truly iconic quartet, completed at last. In Joy Division’s transition to New Order, their clearest upgrade was the addition of keyboard player Gillian Gilbert. She’s on guitar duty on this version, with the overall vibe more Movement than Closer. This is the version from Substance, which they never seem to reissue. What’s up with…
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