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Review: Rain Drinkers – Yesodic Helices (2012)

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artist: Rain Drinkers release: Yesodic Helices format: LP year of release: 2012 label: Brave Mysteries duration: 30:17

One of my favourite discoveries from last year, and they’re back already with their first LP release: Wisconsin’s duo Rain Drinkers. Zavier Krall (pseudonym of Troy Schafer) and Joe Taylor have put out several albums since 2010, ranging from good to [...]

Review: March of Heroes – La Chute (2011)

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artist: March of Heroes release: La Chute format: CD year of release: 2011 label: Steinklang duration: 71:49

detailed info: discogs.com

I always approach martial industrial records with a sense of trepidation, as there are a lot of so-so, uninspired albums out there, in a genre that is rather claustrophobic, if we’re totally honest. Too many [...]

Eclipse Review: Nature and Organisation – Death in a Snow Leopard Winter (1998)

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artist: Nature and Organisation release: Death in a Snow Leopard Winter format: CD year of release: 1998 label: Snow Leopard / World Serpent duration: 41:19

detailed info: discogs.com

If Death in a Snow Leopard Winter has been given a bit of a stepmotherly treatment in the annals of music history, it is undoubtedly because it will [...]

Review: V.A. – John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth (2011)

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artist: Various release: John Barleycorn Reborn: Rebirth format: 2xCD year of release: 2011 label: Cold Spring duration: 2:32:05

detailed info: discogs.com

Perhaps it was to be expected that after the original John Barleycorn Reborn 2CD set and last year’s ‘sequel’ We Bring You a King with a Head of Gold, the MP3-only supplement to the former [...]

Review: Premonition Factory – Live at Kink FM X-Rated (2012)

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artist: Premonition Factory release: Live at Kink FM X-Rated format: CD year of release: 2012 label: Longstreet duration: 62:39

detailed info: discogs.com

The Sense of Time was one of our favourite records of last year, and it proved that Sjaak Overgaauw has a brilliant touch in balancing recordings for a studio album. This new one proves there [...]

Review: Songs of Green Pheasant – Soft Wounds (2012)

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artist: Songs of Green Pheasant release: Soft Wounds format: CD year of release: 2012 label: Rusted Rail duration: 38:08

detailed info: discogs.com

From the category ‘albums that need a few spins to click’ comes the latest release on Rusted Rail; it is Sheffield’s Duncan Sumpner and his fourth album as Songs of Green Pheasant. At first listen [...]

Review: V.A. – DRONE-MIND//MIND-DRONE vol. 1 (2011)

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artist: Ubeboet / Halo Manash / Jarl / b°tong release: DRONE-MIND//MIND-DRONE vol. 1 format: LP year of release: 2011 label: Drone duration: 52:47

detailed info: discogs.com

After an impressive 100 seven-inch releases, the Drone series by Drone Records recently came to an end. And while the ten-inches of Substantia Innominata are still running, the label decided to start a new range [...]

January 2012 Short Reviews

Akhet

Akhet – Akhet [discogs]

There are rare impromptu recording sessions where everything just comes together. Akhet is a result of one of those, an incedental collaboration by Paul van den Berg, Marc Verhaeghen, and Dirk Serries. The four long tracks on this LP released by Tonefloat clock to almost an hour, filled with quirky [...]

Review: Syven – Aikantaite (2011)

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artist: Syven release: Aikantaite format: CD year of release: 2011 label: Vendlus duration: 64:55

detailed info: discogs.com

A new project from Finland is the duo Syven, consisting of A. Tolonen whom we remember as the main artist behind Nest, and Andi Koski-Semmens, a vocalist previously in Pantheist and Ereipia. Together they’ve put together a debut album [...]

Review: Peter Bjärgö – The Architecture of Melancholy (2011)

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artist: Peter Bjärgö release: The Architecture of Melancholy format: CD year of release: 2011 label: Cyclic Law duration: 40:19

detailed info: discogs.com

Peter Bjärgö is best known as the man behind illustrious projects such as Arcana and Sophia, but this brand new solo album of his is certainly not something to dismiss as a side project. Over [...]