Japan's Zeni Geva are relentless, forceful and ultra- intelligent - their steamrolling assault of progressive jazz-noise rock hymns inbred with touches of ancient traditional Japanese passages is not...
Everyone's favorite hyper-imaginative, alt-country- space-waltz folkster Mark Linkous returns to destroy rock forever with his third full-length disc. A bulk of the material was recorded/produced with...
Records which employ structures and rhythms typically associated with minimal techno tend to be recorded to sound sterile and detached. Polmo Polpo contradict this aesthetic. They combine sometimes...
Former Jessamine cohorts Andy Brown and Rex Ritter and friends step up the flow of their liquid space jazz funk to the next level. Whereas their debut was doused with the textural jams of Miles Davis,...
Led by the spiritual struggling-for-peace vocals of Kim Torres, this New Hampshire four-piece beautifully characterizes the sounds of damaged loneliness, abuse, autism and stillness. The surreal...
ISIS blend minimalist-dub, music concrete and heavy churning tribal psychedelic drone to create a hypnotically intense listening experience. Recorded at the Outpost in Stoughton, MA, as well as...
British band Unisex was formed in 1996 as a collaboration between members of the seminal shoegazing band the Telescopes - Stephen Lawrie and Jo Loland with Nick Hemming. Since then the group has...
Between the months of October 2000 and January 2001, producer/engineer David Bottrill (see issue #19) sonically conducted and committed a musical masterpiece to tape: Tool's Lateralus. The 79 minute...
What is peculiar about the avant rock music machine that Kitchens And Bathrooms create is that has a 3rd person narrative quality to it. That is, their approach is so set back (but not necessarily...
For twelve months, Ben Christian Green (of Godflesh) deposited himself within the Cambrian mountains to escape modern civilization and search within the imposed silence of his surroundings - to hear...
Sonic Boom seems to have disappeared from the general public eye since the demise of his seminal band Spacemen 3 over a decade ago. His musical excursions have become increasingly more withdrawn into...
For those who are into absorbing sparse modern folk with a cerebral poetic twist a la Wilco or Sparklehorse, then the sparse and etched sounds of Royal City will carry you through another joyfully...
