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Review: Richard Moult - Ethe (2010)

artist: Richard Moult
release: Ethe
format: CD
year of release: 2010
label: Deadslackstring
duration: 53:26

detailed info: discogs.com

In the barren days of the present many of us look around for art that is serious without being pretentious; that is beautiful without being kitsch; that is challenging without being alienating; that is autonomous without being egotistical; that is melancholy without being self-indulgent. [...]

Review: The Driftwood Manor - Every Light Goes Out Eventually (2009)

artist: The Driftwood Manor
release: Every Light Goes Out Eventually
format: CDr
year of release: 2009
label: Slow Loris
duration: 27:34

detailed info: discogs.com

After a very successful debut (mini-)album, A Gathering, in 2008, The Driftwood Manor bridge the gap to the next one with an EP release on Irish d.i.y. label Slow Loris. Every Light Goes Out Eventually is again a [...]

Review: Autumn Grieve - Stray Birds (2009)

artist: Autumn Grieve
release: Stray Birds
format: CDr
year: 2009
label: Corbel Stone
duration: 24:42

detailed info: discogs.com

The world is full of gems. Some you find after a long time of frantic searching and toil, hidden away somewhere. Others you just find on your travels, through sheer luck or coincidence, or perhaps left in its place by someone. Stray Birds is, [...]

Review: Splinterskin - Wayward Souls (2009)

artist: Splinterskin
release: Wayward Souls
format: CD
year of release: 2009
label: Cold Spring
duration: 44:49

detailed info: discogs.com

Ohio-based musician Splinterskin released his debut album on Cold Spring last summer, a full-length piece filled with moody and unnerving dark folk. The many short pieces on this record breathe an atmosphere of forest nights, creaking walls, and spiritual horror that is the [...]

Review: Tervahäät (2009)

artist: Tervahäät
release: Tervahäät
format: CD
year of release: 2009
label: Anima Arctica
duration: 36:26

detailed info: discogs.com

The fifth release from Finnish underground label Anima Arctica is this self-titled debut work by Tervahäät, a duo consisting of Antero Väätäjä and Ilmari Akkanen. This shortish but interesting album builds bridges between raw post-industrial ritual tracks and frosty Finnish folklore.

From the start [...]

Review: Pregnant - Spirit of Being (2008)

artist: Pregnant
release: Spirit of Being
format: 3″ CDr
year of release: 2008
label: Reverb Worship
duration: 15:26

detailed info: discogs.com

Many good things come in little packages, and that’s why the 3″ format is so attractive. Something about presenting a little release on a little format is just plain right, and it helps that many of these get released by DIY [...]

Review: Cisfinitum - Devotio (2006)

artist: Cisfinitum
release: Devotio
format: 10″
year of release: 2006
label: Substantia Innominata
duration: 23:49

detailed info: discogs.com

One of the ways in which experimental music can be thought-provoking is to take a familiar sound source and bend, stretch, twist or mangle it until it achieves a whole new level of expression. Listening to such an everyday sound an sich can already [...]

Review: Birch Book - Volume III: A Hand Full of Days (2009)

artist: Birch Book
release: Volume III: A Hand Full of Days
format: CD, LP
year of release: 2009
label: Little Somebody (CD), Ahnstern (LP)
duration: 60:41

detailed info: discogs.com

After releasing the excellent second Birch Book album in 2007, and a couple of successful tours with the likes of Woven Hand, Faun, and Sieben, it was time for B’eirth to settle down [...]

Review: Rose Rovine e Amanti - Demian (2009)

artist: Rose Rovine E Amanti
release: Demian
format: CD
year of release: 2009
label: Cold Spring
duration: 42:52

detailed info: discogs.com

Recorded in Rome in 2008, Demian is the second full length album by Rose Rovine E Amanti (mastermind: Damiano Mercuri) on Cold Spring Records. The album collects ten tracks of hot-blooded neofolk with a flair that is the trademark of many [...]

Review: Seasonal Sevens: Summer & Autumn (2009)

artist: Emily Scott / Hélène Renaut; Pamela Wyn Shannon / The Magickal Folk of the Faraway Tree
release: Seasonal Sevens: Summer; Autumn
format: 7″
year of release: 2009
label: Autumn Ferment
duration: 6:27; 5:55

detailed info: discogs.com (summer; autumn)

The Seasonal Sevens are a series of 7″ double A-sides released by Autumn Ferment Records. Starting out in summer 2009, each season will [...]