Wednesday 30 December 2020

#443

Israel Vines - And Now We Know Nothing (Interdimensional Transmissions)



It’s the sound of apparatus roiling about, rusty hardware in motion (...) Grinding, mechanical, a uniform of clinks, turning of cogs, the giant machine speaking in its own vernacular. — John-Paul Shiver

Tuesday 1 December 2020

2020

Wire 15 (8)
Catatonic Effigy - Putrid Tendency (Iluso)
Tyshawn Sorey & Marilyn Crispell - The Adornment of Time (Pi Recordings)
Chaos Motion - Psychological Spasms Cacophony (Transcending Obscurity)
Jan St. Werner - Molocular Meditation (Editions Mego)
Witch ‘n’ Monk - Witch ‘n’ Monk (Tzadik)
GRID - Decomposing Force (NNA Tapes) +#435
MSHR - Signal Hybrid Recursion (De Player)
Moor Jewelry - True Opera (Don Giovanni)
Maggi Payne - Arctic Winds (Aguirre)
Bob Vylan - We Live Here (Venn Records)
Hedvig Mollestad - Ekhidna (Rune Grammofon) +#439
Tashi Dorji - Stateless (Drag City)
Clipping - Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop)
Laura Cannell, Kate Ellis, Stewart Lee, et al - These Feral Lands Vol.1 (Brawl) +#441
Krust - The Edge of Everything (Crosstown Rebels)

record of the year
Witch ‘n’ Monk - Witch ‘n’ Monk (Tzadik)