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skullflower - This Is Skullflower
Having last heard from Skullflower on the terrorising black metal opus Strange Keys To Untune Gods' Firmament, this disc comes as something of a surprise, taking the form of a spacious, improvised set that goes easy on the aural punishment. Perhaps the reason for this discrepancy is that these pieces were recorded back in 1995 with a very different incarnation of the band that not only included Matthew Bower (guitar, piano) and Stuart Dennison (drums, viola) but additional players John Godbert, Russell Smith and Richard Youngs. The very fact that the first track is titled 'Lounge' suggests that the band is very aware that they're going easy on their audience, but by any normal standards this is still fearsome, experimental stuff: 'Creaky Rigging' is a kind of raga-come-sea-chantey, dirging seductively over a quarter-hour or so, while 'Glider' is closer in spirit to mutant free-jazz. It's only really by the time we're stuck into the immense thirty-seven minuter 'The Pirate Ship Of Reality Is Moving Out' that shades of the terrorising guitar ceremonies that were yet to come make themselves apparent.
Strange Keys To Untune Gods' Firmament
Neurot Recordings
MP3 Download // £6.99
FLAC Download // £8.99
Insane Wagnerian guitar noise and drone metal from Matthew Bower
FLAC Download // £8.99VHF
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Unusually nuanced, laidback Skullflower improvisations from 1995
VHF
CD // £13.99
From Takoma-esque strums to buzzing analogue synthesizers reminding of Jim O’Rourke at his best.
VHF
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The 12-string guitar reframed into a dreamy cloud of harmonic beauty...
JESSE SPARHAWK & ERIC CARBONARA
VHF
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Jesse Sparhawk (playing a 38-string lever harp) and Eric Carbonara (on a 22-string Chaturangui).
VHF
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Æthenor darken our doorstep with a fourth album of amazing doom expressions...
VHF
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Dark drones and modern composition fused together by Stephen O'Malley, David Tibet, Alexander Tucker et al.
Family Vineyard
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Another excellent collaboration from these two avant-blues masters
Type Recordings
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The very last studio album from the mighty Yellow Swans...
Acuarela
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Haunting and enigmatic lo-fi song sculptures from Californian psych maven Eva Saelens
Type Recordings
CD // £7.99
Incredible album fusing in elements of Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis, Slowdive and Badalamenti...
Times Of Grace / Tribes of Neurot's Grace
Neurot Recordings
2CD // £13.49
Neurosis' 1999 album, Times Of Grace, is reissued in for the first time in Europe
RADIUM
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Metal-tinged, effects-draped cello instrumentals, reminiscent of Zeena Parkins' harp deconstructions
Type Recordings
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Easily one of the standout LP's of year: haunted loops, half-remembered lullabies and layered embers of sound.
