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… another bright light glimmering in the crystal ball of futurepunk. - DJ Rick, Art for Spastics

… [A-side] like Eat Skull covering [Neil Young's] “Sedan Delivery” inside a Robotussin humidor. Side B has a remarkable Xpressway like quality to it’s aura. Could be outtakes for either Jefferies Brother 7″ [...]

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[TRHP15] Electro-acoustic French musician Nicolas Laferrerie offers one of his most obliterating pieces yet on I’M TONE DEAF. While split into ten tracks, it’s a fully-realized 20-minute work that pulses heavy electronic beats alongside manipulated audio and cut-up fire-jazz sax squawks and battling “war drums.” Laferrerie intersperses bouts of [...]

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[TRHP14] Some seriously blown-out blues, deranged scuzz-rock and destroyed improv from Brooklyn’s Totally Dad. Listening to New Black Draughms‘ sewage-clogged rawk, you get the impression that an instrument is beaten senseless every time a song ends, and by the close of the album, there’s just nothing left. CDr [...]

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[TRHP13-cs] We can’t wait. No More Paths will come out on a real-deal CD, but so many people have e-mailed that TRHP’s gonna go ahead and offer this somnambulist soundtrack on cassette. (Note: This is the unmastered version, but there’s a great gritty and muddled quality that makes it distinct from the final product.) Spraypainted [...]

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[TRHP12] Bong-hit noise scrapple from Jeff Rahuba (Long Legged Woman) and Doug Patterson (Better People). Abrasive tape manipulations fall down the stairs in paranoid murmurs. A longing for times past when majik and pagan rites were employed in direct communion with the forces of nature. This is folk music, [...]

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[TRHP11] The liners to the latest better people EP recommend the following: “Get stoned and listen to this with you[r] headphones on… and turn it up loud.” Salvia plasters heavy tape loops, gurgling rhythms, piercing drones and the sound of a thousand orcs on the attack. BUT it’s [...]

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Long Legged Woman (in duo format) scales back the overwhelming psychedelic noise-rock and tape collage for a more intimate recording. Newtown Nights is an acid-folk album washed in deathly earth tones, dark and haunting bleak basement tapes sung by ghosts. B&W stickers on arigato pak with a black [...]

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[TRHP09] Guitarist/drummer Ben Collins has been uploading free downloadable albums to his Awake Asong blog for a while now (seriously, check it out), but this solo noise-metal opus really got my attention. In a 40-minute single track, Gubbio moves through raging Fushitsusha guitar feedback, meditative and metallic drone destroyed [...]

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[TRHP08] Sweet Teeth combines both the sounds and members of Dark Meat and Long Legged Woman — clusterpsych classic-rock tendencies paired with hypnotic avant-rock. From the Fourth Hand’s lone track, “Morning Raga,” is a tribal drum-heavy affair recorded live at the 40 Watt [...]

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[TRHP07] As one of NYC’s most aggressive fire-jazz units, Owl Xounds continues to link ESP’Disk and the Misfits, but here also approaches beautiful noise on two 20+ minute pieces. Mainstays Adam Kriney (drums) and Gene Janas (upright bass) are augmented by Bonnie Kane on amplified flute and sax with electronics. Kane’s contributions bring [...]

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