Zonal – Wrecked
Collaborations are the ultimate musical wild card, offering up either a pleasant surprise or unfulfilled potential. Fortunately for us, both Justin Broadrick (Godflesh and Jesu) and Kevin Martin (The Bug) have... Read More...
Botanist – Ecosystem
Uniqueness is often conflated with interesting ideas in our modern music consumption landscape. There's plenty of experimental music that, while undeniably different, is pretty deniably good. I've encountered ... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Not Your Friends!
Short bursts of off-kilter aggression have yet to go out of style for me. As much as I've gravitated toward longer and more complex music, I still periodically revisit my high school affinity for the '00s math... Read More...
Pharmakon – Devour
There's been much written about both the quality of vinyl and the lack thereof. I'm not interested in wading into the fidelity wars, but I do want to cite a recent "What's In My Bag" segment with Shepard Faire... Read More...
LINGUA IGNOTA – CALIGULA
Though I have no first-hand experience with this, my sense is that it's more difficult for women and members of the LGBTQ+ to break into the relative mainstream of experimental music. Sure, you could argue tha... Read More...
Jute Gyte – Birefringence
Up to this point, Jute Gyte has made an almost annual tradition of releasing the boldest black metal album of the year. With this project, multi-instrumentalist Adam Kalmbach has channeled the black metal blue... Read More...
Howling Sycamore – Seven Pathways to Annihilation
That title, coming from this band, is honestly terrifying. We're still reeling from Howling Sycamore's debut release, a supergroup comprised of some of death metal's best and making a weird type of avant-garde... Read More...
Zvi – Deer Pink
Sometimes music critics can benefit from adhering to the notion that "form follows function." It's an abstract use of the bauhaus principle, but one which feels especially relevant in the modern music landscap... Read More...
Hey! Listen to Folian!
One of the fastest ways to a music critic's heart is a seamless synthesis of styles. Anytime a group successfully blends adjacent or dissimilar genres, the results can push boundaries with a truly engaging, un... Read More...
EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Veilburner Ascend To Greatness With “Upstream and Parallel”
There are plenty of fantastic bands that toil in the margins of relative obscurity. Some eventually find a wider audience and catapult themselves to various levels of fame, while others never reach that covete... Read More...