Noveller – Red Rainbows CD
No Fun Productions
Having the opportunity of seeing Noveller perform at the last No Fun Fest I had some idea of what to expect of Red Rainbows, but it also meant that my expectations were set high. Perhaps I was a bit put-off by the cover featuring a kind of half-assed painting of Jim Morrison, but luckily the disc is all I had hoped for.
Red Rainbows is an ambient drone album but one that is melodic and harmonic with the best of guitar fueled textures, feedback, and …

Irukandji – The Suicide Jump E.P. CDR
Silken Tofu
Irukandji opens this twenty minute behemoth of a track with some glowing synthesized textures. The sounds are somewhat familiar but it’s not until the Tangerine Dream-like harmonies begin to form into a melody that this sample becomes quite obvious to me. A perfect tongue-in cheek reference where the home-run break down arrives just in time to be completely blown out by an insanely heavy blast of noise.
Perhaps Irukandji could have fooled the most benign of listeners, but it’s because of the apparent non-irony …

TwoDeadSluts OneGoodfuck/Cock E.S.P. – Split C4
Lascivious Aesthetics
The world is moving fast. Faster and faster every day. Each friend added to my stupid Facebook page just makes the endless spewing of information wash by like water flowing through a breaking levee, flooding more and more with with each opening fissure. Is information cheaper today then it ever has been? Or are we actually valuing it more by spending more time mulling over it, archiving it, and finding new ways to present the same old shit.
These questions are heightened by this fantastic …

Wether/A Snake in the Garden – Split C20
905 Tapes
A perfect pairing of only the grimiest of harsh noise hell. This is a no frills release with the sickest sounds from Delaware’s Wether on one side, and Vermont’s A Snake in the Garden on the second side.
Side A is Wether’s turn for air time and they present one track entitled “Spoken in German”. Well, everyone knows that German sounds bad-ass and this track is no exception. Of course I can’t hear any actually spoken words, German or otherwise, but what I …

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Content Nullity – Rotting Walls of Decaying Sound 3″CDR
Scrape Tapes
Here’s a sexy little 3 incher from England’s prodigal son Tommuel Reynolds. This is the first full release I have heard from Content Nullity and it is no suprise to me that the sound here is absolutely beautifully layered death industrial noise.
Opening this 5 track disc is the quicky “Mould” immediately foreshadowing a gloomy mood with some subdued harsh noise and spurts of high-pitched feedback. “The Infinite Void” starts off slowly, like a machine just kicking off. Before I know it …

Clew of Theseus – Meridian CD
Cathartic Process
Clew of Theseus is the ambient/noise/industrial project by main proprietor of Cathartic Process Ben Brucato. I believe this is the first that I have heard from the man, his project, or his label. First off, the packaging comes across as quite artsy. Different textures align all sides somewhat reminding me of a Groundfault release. The information is plastered on in a small box but colored to blend in just right.
The sounds are not too far off from what the cover represents. The tracks are …

Sujo – Arak 3″CDR
Inam Records
This one knocked me on my ass, but quite softly. Arak is about 20 minutes of pure drone bliss from this group I am not familiar with. Smartly packaged in a little pink slip with something like two fighting prehistoric sea creatures printed on a folded transparency, it has the mark of a quality DIY operation. It’s the sounds on the disc though, that really do rise above the expectations set by the outer packaging.
A slow rhythmic dirge quickly kicks in mixed with high pitched wailing …

V/A – “It’s Battery Acid, You Slime” C60
Heavy Psych
I always find compilations such a fucking pain in the ass to review. Having so many artists jammed into one release, so many different sounds and visions and worrying about those each specifically. Then there’s always the question of how uniform you prefer things to be. Should all the artists sound very similar? Should they all bring something different to the table? Add to that an unlabeled cassette tape. You have to either remember what track you’re on or pay attention very …

Just came across this hour long performance from LAFMS  at a park in Eagle Rock, CA. last September. Wild.