“macmac” at one of our favorite college radio stations had this to say about Beru’s What Would I Do Without You:
Jessica Collins, Beru, mixes her acoustic guitar songs, simple and haunting, with layered male/ female choruses, with pounds of reverb and delay, plus spontaneus noise spurts and changes into new themes. Overall its [...]

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Larry Dolman always puts up Blastitude’s Best-Of list four or five months after the fact, but we always looked forward to it. Dude’s got an ear for skronk, dub and garage-rock that keep our ears glued on. So we’re pretty stoked that he took a liking to one of our Ecstatic Jazz Duos records, specifically [...]

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Musique Machine reviews Robe.’s Remains of a Burning World c76:
…six lo-fi, industrial movements position the listener outside, in bad weather, struggling to discern the sounds within a nearby warehouse… the ominous billowing of a coastal wind dominates the mid-range creating a churning fog of white noise that obscures a dirty, encrusted [...]

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Besides This American Life and Radiolab, Art for Spastics (KDVS) is our most-jammed podcast at TRHP HQ. It’s two hours of primo weirdo-rock, garage, drone, punk and plenty of other out-there junk every week. So we were pretty excited when DJ Rick spun Beru’s What Would I Be Without You cassette. Here’s what DJ Rick [...]

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Foxy Digitalis reviews Robe.’s Remains of a Burning World:
Minimal subtle variations of a lo-fi drone, the squeal of old hinges on a windswept night. The noise of all the little accumulated scratches of super 8mm film and the slight wobble of the spinning reel. Apocalyptic high-tension towers played at alternate tempos. A waterfall of jagged [...]

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…face slamming & horn honking mix of proton King Crimson like mettlics [sic], galloping grind-cored & punchy hard core rock, searing jazz attacks & the odd dip into more atmospheric & sleazed jazz/ rock work-outs.
Couldn’t have said it better ourselves, honestly. Read the full review.
Purchase Mothguts- III.

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Animal Psi wonders why we haven’t sold out of the Beru What Would I Do Without You cassette. We’re wondering the same thing.
Americana wrestles the glitch off the hill with time, and in the end, [Jessica] Collins appears more like a Samara Lubelski or Marissa Nadler for the dark and harmony which is now so [...]

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LA Weekly’s Inches reviews the latest in the Ecstatic Jazz Duos series:
The experimentally inclined pairing of guitarist Chris Schlarb and drummer Tom Steck typically records for Asthmatic Kitty, but here the group indulges its more chaotic side, eschewing the sprawling beauty that marked 2008’s acclaimed Interoceans LP (which featured an appearance from Nels Cline) for [...]

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Well, really, the title says it all, but here’s what Gregory McGreevy writes on Impose Magazine:
I’m a sucker for avant-folk females, so when Jessica Collins made what sounded like the music baby of Keinji Haino and Vashti Bunyan, well yeah, I was done from the start.
Purchase the cassette here.

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Foxy Digitalis reviews the I Heart Lung/DWMTG- Ecstatic Jazz Duos LP, available here.
Ecstatic Jazz Duos is a robust split of two diverse, non-idiomatic duos. DWMTG represents all that is wonderful about control and skillfully employed emphasis… Bassist Tony Gordon’s (Zandosis) fretwork is busy but precises, while percussionist Dale Miller is a testament to careful listening, [...]

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