#503/504-2

Tashi Dorji - low clouds hang, this land is on fire (Drag City)

The revolution will not be televised, but it may be soundtracked. — Bill Meyer

#503/504-1

GORZ - my tongue on your cheek (Numeral)

[T]hey tear the world apart with uncontrollable screams and blasts of the most abrasive electronics imaginable. Then, just like that, as if to calm the listeners and themselves, they switch — Antonio Poscic

2025

Wire 15 (13)
Tashi Dorji - we will be wherever the fires are lit (Drag City)
Dotz & DJ Goblin - Mirtazapine Dreams (True Unity)
Golem Mecanique - Siamo Tutti in Pericolo (Ideologic Organ)
Various - Aggregate: New Works for Automated Pipe Organs (Wergo)
Sumac & Moor Mother - The Film (Thrill Jockey)
Bill Nace & Evan Parker - Branches (Otoroku / Open Mouth)
Joy Guidry - 5 Prayers (Jaid)
John McKay - Sixes and Sevens (Tiny Global)
John Cage - Chamber Works 1943-1951 (Another Timbre) +498
Cerys Hafana - Angel (tak:til)
SYPH - SYPH (Tapete)
Brighde Chaimbeul - Sunwise (Tak:til)
HAYWARDxDÄLEK - HAYWARDxDÄLEK (Relapse)
Dog Soup - Fragments (Dark Circles) +502
Merzbow / Cavalera / Bernocchi - Nocturnal Rainforest (Pan) +502

record of the year
Brighde Chaimbeul - Sunwise (Tak:til)

#502

HAYWARDxDÄLEK - HAYWARDxDÄLEK (Relapse)

Drummer Charles Hayward and MC dälek unite for an album of hypothermic foghorn terror — James Gormley