Album sleeve is designed by Rocket friend and 'Sawdust Caesar' Ian Green.
The ltd edition album is released via Cardinal Fuzz and you can buy a copy direct from Paul Allen – just drop him message via his Facebook page here: Anthroprophh
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Pharaoh Overlord – Without Songs All Will Perish
(Absolute banger that fuses cosmic Italo disco, Loop'esque fuzz, Abba Melodies and Death Metal vocals from Aaron Turner from ISIS, Old Man GLom etc...the whole album is incredible)
Pharaoh Overlord
Petbrick – Pet Sounds Vol.1
(First of a series of ltd edition EPs – this first one features the mighty LG Petrov from Entombed)
Petbrick
Tomaga – Extended Play 2
(Essential sounds)
Tomaga
Sam Barton – Acid Apple Satin Walls
(Sam from Teeth of the Sea's debut solo album)
Sam Barton
Leg Puppy – Detroit (Gnoomes Remix)
(Gnoomes drop some acid)
Leg Puppy
Thee Alcoholics – Thee Alcoholics
(Big noises being made on Wrong Speed Records)
Thee Alcoholics
Knyfe Hyts – Super Knowledge
(Brooklyn drones feat Shahin from Oneida)
Knyfe Hyts
Metal – Point Vacancies
(Rocket remixer Jamie Paton and Teeth of the Sea's Mike Bourne go 'Metal')
Metal
Coh – II-II Vittorioso calando
(Fuzzed electronics from the great album Strings)
Coh
East Of Eden – Jig-a-Jig
(Fuzz and fiddles)
East Of Eden
Batsumi – Lishonile
(Great jazz repetitions)
Batsumi
Nero Kane – Lord Won't Come
(Desert Swans)
Nero Kane
Lucidvox – We are
(Our second favourite Russian band releases great new album)
Lucidvox
Matching Mole – Live on Rockenstock
(Love this rare footage Cherrystones posted)
Matching Mole
Sophia Loizou – Untold
(Thanks to Mike Bourne for this recommendation of electronic landscapes)
Sophia Loizou
Nortt - Hedengangen
(Black fuzz)
Nortt
Paris – The Devil made me do it (Poach A Pig Mix)
(One of the best)
Paris
Jah Lion – Sata
(An old fave...what an album!)
Jah Lion
Radie Peat – Dark Horse (This Ain’t No Disco)
(Folked drones)
Radie Peat
Skogen Bringer – Odjurets Hämnd
(Great Swedish ROCK from a few years ago)
Skogen Bringer
Patrick Cowley – Somebody to Love tonight
(Great original version of this banger – thanks to TOTS for playing it to us)
Patrick Cowley
Funkadelic – Vampy Funky Bernie (3rd Tune Olympic)
(On fire)
Funkadelic
Holy Scum – Fuck
(Second EP of noise by this GNOD offshoot)
Holy Scum
Jon Hassell – Amsterdam Blue
(Autumn sounds once again)
Jon Hassell
The Beast – The Beast
(Early 80's metal)
The Beast
Penza Penza – Beware of Penza Penza
(Estonian fuzzed funk - bit of a Fumaca Preta vibe)
Penza Penza
David Fanshawe – Alur Horns (recorded in Uganda)
(Heavy horns and rhythms)
David Fanshawe
UKAEA – Vampire Moth - Energy Is Forever
(Electronic dissonance)
UKAEA
Divide and Dissolve – We Are Really Worried About You
(Great new signing on Invada)
Divide and Dissolve
Third Ear Band – Ghetto Raga
(Thanks to Paddy Shine for the intro to this – like Arbete Och Fritid meets France)
Third Ear Band
Pig Destroyer – The Octagonal Stairway
(Thanks to Iggor for sharing this slice of eclectic noise)
Pig Destroyer
Circulus – The Aphid
(Wigged out folk grooves)
Circulus
Tati Au Miel - As someone who truly loves and expresses
(Sonic noise)
Tati Au Miel
Shackleton and Wacław Zimpel – Primal Forms
(Great analogue excursions)
Shackleton and Wacław Zimpel
Thinking Fellers Union 282 – Lovelyville
(Incredibly inventive and absorbing album from '91, we bought it on release from the late and great Revolver Records in Bristol....still and record that amazes today)
Thinking Fellers Union 282
Edan Ahbez – Full Moon
(Dream the dream the dreamers dream)
Edan Ahbez
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The desert-meets-the-dancefloor soundscape of Malibu Liquor Store calls to mind another, equally arid album: 2017's Concrete Desert, the excellent collaboration between The Bug and Earth. While stylistically the similarities are few, the parallel is apparent in the psychogeographic impulses of their creators. In an interview with tQ, The Bug's Kevin Martin spoke of a desire to "sonically map a visual terrain." In the case of Concrete Desert this terrain was the real world city of Los Angeles. On Malibu Liquor Store, we're presented with a more fluid map of hallucinatory territory. It's an ever-shifting space in which familiar sonic markers are glimpsed only fleetingly as the listener is pushed onwards by the perpetual motion of the Can-style rhythms....
Read the rest here: The Quietus
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Following Chris GNOD's amazing Voivod mix for Fat Out – Paddy has now created his "Every day I wake up" mix for them listen above.
Gnod bless
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Ramping up their focus from three massive tracks to one double-sided statement, Portuguese-German duo Paisiel rake the listener over an emotionally fraught trek on Unconscious Death Wishes. The title gives off a sinister air and the band doesn’t shy away from the angst inherent in that notion. The composition moves from stark, nervous synth rising in the darkness to the skittering rhythm that marked their last album. The drums don’t give much relief from the tension though, as they ring out like barking threats from just past a circle of light and security; the listener crouched in the wilderness that the pair have presented. Paisiel know there’s danger looming and with that title in mind, maybe they’re inching closer towards it out of irrepressible curiosity or maybe out of an unconscious need to let chaos do its work.
João Pais Filipe’s rhythms play coy until around the 12-13 minute mark when they become all encompassing, fighting Julius Gabriel’s sax heat for attention in the speakers. The pair become locked in a dizzying tempest of swirling, slashing phrases and knotted beats. Gabriel’s sax lines begin to unravel, howling and pawing at the air. The atmosphere grows thick with danger, dread, and pheromones that say fight or perish...
Read the rest here: Raven Sings The Blues
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Autotelia’s debut record ‘I‘, out now on Rocket Recordings, is richly textured instrumental ambient music. Birthday Cake For Breakfast debuted a video from ‘I’ over the summer, with lovely abstract colours and shapes in the video to match the lovely abstraction of the music. You might put it on right now to listen to while you read this review.
The instrumental duo’s music is warm and lush, made with a mix of bass and guitar, effects pedals, synths, drum machines and so on. Much of ‘I’ consists of very simple beats combined with slow, shimmering drones which are very pretty, with other elements moving in and out around them. Often new sounds are very subtle – a ringing that sounds like feedback, say, or a bit that sounds like quiet static – and are introduced by building up slowly so that you (or at least I) notice them then realise I’d been hearing them for some time without noticing them. Some elements drop out similarly slowly so that I realise they’re gone and wonder when that happened. The effect for me is one basking in the music then suddenly catching up, then returning to basking...
Read the rest here: Birthday Cake for Breakfast
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I first made contact with São Paulo's Deafkids when their third album Metaprogramação was released through Neurot records. Recently, the experimental post-punk trio released Deafbrick, a collaboration with Petbrick (an experimental/electronic duo with none other than Iggor Cavalera in its line-up). Deafkids guitarist Douglas Leal and drummer Mariano de Melo were kind enough to take turns in answering my questions about how the collaboration came to pass, and what to expect from their upcoming tour with Oranssi Pazuzu.
Dreams of Consciousness: Hey guys, it's been over a year since our last interview. What have you been up to since then?
Mariano: Oh god, so much stuff! After that interview we released Metaprogramação, our third full-length, toured Europe with Rakta in support of both our collab 7'' and Metaprogramação. Afterwards, Jaz Coleman from Killing Joke came to Brazil to produce a still unreleased record for us. Right after, we went for our first U.S. tour in support of Neurosis with Bell Witch and a tour sharing stages with Big | Brave. After all that, we went to Europe again by the end of the year, where we played for the first time in places like Greece and Ireland, as well as having a quick stop in England to play some concerts, where we also recorded the Deafbrick album.
This year we were supposed to go to the U.S. to tour in support of Old Man Gloom and go back to Europe as well, but as we all know, things went sour very fast, and as such we're trying to adapt and understand. I'm in the countryside of São Paulo at my mom's house (I came to visit her before the tour, and in two weeks all plans were already cancelled, so I ended up staying), the guys are in the capital. I released my first solo album (as Sarine), Douglas is about to release a new collab album from his solo act Yantra together with Acavernus (Paula from Rakta) on LP... we're all trying to keep ourselves active in this meantime, as to keep from freaking out from isolation and the fucked up political and social situation of our country.
DoC: You have a new album out with the London-based duo Petbrick. How did it come about? What was the collaboration like - were the two bands ever in the studio together, or did you trade files back and forth from your respective locations?
Read the rest here: Dreams of Consciousness
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Rebellion is well-known to us': inside Mexico's vital underground music scene
Mexican musician Lorena Quintanilla – who has just released Hibiscus, the second album from her solo project J. Zunz – talks us through life inside México's vibrant underground scene
I’ll start off by saying that my point of view when it comes to México's underground is probably biased, and I’m sure there is much more going on than what I see. It’s impossible to reach every corner of such a large and vast country like México. But I can talk about my 15-year experience of being an active musician in the underground scene.
México's underground music scene is a very specific niche where garage, psych, noise and electronic music – among many others genres – interact. It's inspiring that, no matter all the obstacles that we go through every day, this scene keeps moving on; reinventing itself and thriving. Of course, this comes as no surprise, because the underground is so often spurred on by acts of resistance – and what better place to live the act of resistance than in a country asphyxiated by the non-inclusive white superstructure? Rebellion is a well-known form to us, it’s a necessity we nurture every day...
Read the rest here: Louder
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This always-unpredictable offshoot of the otherwise unpredictable Finnish band Circle seems to have consolidated Ektro labelhead Jussi Lehtisahlo's recent fixation with peppy, business-core sales-meetings-of-the-80s' synth evocations (perhaps this is the most evil music of all? The soundtrack of capitalism blanketed in fuzzy 80's synth nostalgia?). Regardless, the busy Krautrock and Italo-soundtrack influences that have dripped in here get a severe jolt when Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom, SUMAC, etc) drops his deathly vocal charge into the mix. A pretty amazing mix of disparate elements and perfect for your next business Zoom meeting background.
See the piece here: Metal Injection
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