#358

NRSB-11 - Commodified (WeMe)



At high volume the whining synths of “Globalisation” become like alarm sirens, evoking the anxiety of life in a society on perpetual crisis alert. — Rory Gibb

#357

SOS - Looking for the Next One (Cuneiform)



Imagine Soft Machine and Chicago Underground Duo in a tag team battle with an evil computer. — Daniel Spicer

#356

Tom Johnson / Samuel Vriezen - The Chord Catalogue / Within Fourths / Within Fifths (Edition Wandelweiser)



Catalogue consists of all 8178 chords available within an octave. According to the pianist, Johnson achieves clarity and elegance: “There’s a scintillating polyphony… the harmonies morph into and out of [tonality]… you hear strange spectral melodic lines.” — Andy Hamilton

#355

Ras G and the Afrikan Space Program - Back on the Planet (Brainfeeder)



So “Cosmic Lounge Kisses” can sound like Stockhausen going to work on the Diwali riddim — Joe Muggs

#354

NOHOME - Nohome (Trost)



NOHOME finds [Brötzmann] back at the helm of a free rock outfit and demonstrates that he’s lost little of the fire that made 1990’s Last Home (with his saxophonist father Peter) and 1995’s Home so thrilling. — Joseph Stannard

#353

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp)



Tomorrow’s Harvest is the name of a US based company whose online store sells dehydrated food, water purifiers, gas masks and everything else your family might need to survive an unspecified disaster. Titling the record thus is a canny act of destabilising listener complacency (...), one that looks back to the 1970s heyday of doomsday literature, where fears of nuclear war and ecological meltdown played out in the pages of sci-fi paperbacks and self-sufficiency manuals. — Abi Bliss

#352

Lee Patterson & Vanessa Rossetto - Temperament as Waveform (Another Timbre)



Rossetto described the work as a process of removal, in which one player would contribute by telling another what to strip out of a piece. Apparently the field recordings were often the first to go. — Bill Meyer

#351

Mainliner - Revelation Space (Riot Season)



Kawabata’s solos are more unhinged than on even the heaviest Acid Mothers Temple releases, and behind him the rhythm section throbs and thunders. — Phil Freeman

#350

Pat Thomas - Al-Khwarizmi Variations (Fataka)



On “Variation 3” he strays even further from conventional virtuosity, with a piece that sounds like he accidentally drops his phone inside the piano and spends several minutes trying to retrieve it with a coat hanger. — Daniel Spicer