SUNN O))) will have a new album available on April 3, 2026. There is only one track available to sample, but if this is an indication of what the whole album will be like, it will make for brutal listening. I’m looking forward to it, though I have a feeling Continue Reading
Drone Rock
Love Sea Sick – Sciócaz
As far as I can tell, Love Sea Sick is a Belgian band that offers noise rock in the vein of bands I love, such as Fushitsusha and Keiji Haino’s mid-period work. The guitar roars are loud yet controlled. There is a tension throughout the album that keeps you from losing interest. Well done, though not Continue Reading
Scattered Purgatory ( 破地獄) – Sua-Hiam-Zun (山險峻)
Today marks my last post from Beijing, as I will be flying out this evening to set up shop in Tbilisi, Georgia. On this occasion, I am excited to introduce my readers to Scattered Purgatory, a band I believe I featured on my old blog, A Miscellany of Tasteful Music. Continue Reading
The Land Of Yrx – Termination Point
The Land of Yrx are (were?) a charmingly weird band staffed by members of Audion, perhaps the most important magazine of my youth. The Freeman brothers would wax on about albums I wouldn’t have the chance to hear in full until I was in my 20s working at a record Continue Reading
Sula Bassana – Nostalgia
Though he have nearly 20 years under his belt with this band, I have to admit that I never heard David Schmidt’s music until this evening. Sula Bassana’s latest release, Nostalgia, is a gloriously slow wade into space rock. It’s heavy, sludgy, and exactly the sort of thing that I Continue Reading
Primitive Air – Creation Hymn
The spirit of Krautrock has spread well beyond the German-speaking world, and has for some time now. Primitive Air is an American collaboration between Drew Piraino, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Emil Amos reminds me of the more freaky (yet still gentle) parts of bands like Popol Vuh and modern bands like Continue Reading
The Myrrors – Borderlands
While reading an excellent blog called The Fragmented Flâneur (I highly recommend subscribing to it, psych fans), I came across a review from a band whose words I admire a lot, but had forgotten about. The Myrrors are an outfit from Tuscon, Arizona who manage to blend together the noisiness Continue Reading