Dark, raw, broken and unpolished… the latest album from the Radian trio has a bit of an identity crisis, but is worthy of repeated listens.
Reviews Experimental
Steven R. Smith – Cities
Cities is something like the 30th release Smith has been a part of, and yet he still manages to create new and beautiful soundscapes that explore folk, post-rock and drone music.
Six Organs of Admittance – Luminous Night
Luminous Light is another step of crafty perfection that has become synonymous with Six Organs. Another triumph for Ben Chasny as he crafts his landscape of palatial dream.
Patrick Kelleher – You Look Cold
Pieced together in a couple of home studios, You Look Cold is as lo-fi an album as you might expect from something that employs a chocolate spread jar as percussion.
TLOBF Interview :: múm
Peter Bloxham catches up with Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason to talk about the Icelandic experimental pop collectives new album ‘Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know’.
Peter Wright – Snow Blind
Peter Wright’s album is a huge sonic experience. Before you know it, you’ll have lost weeks of your life to this album. Don’t say no-one warned you.
Thomas Truax – Bullingdon Arms, Oxford 26/03/09
“The weird nature of what Truax does is spellbinding” : Tonight sees Mr Truax on the first date of a UK tour that finds him covering music from the films of David Lynch. A match made in heaven, according to Sam Shepherd.
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Better than Animal Collective’s recent? Most definitely. Adam Elmahdi reviews the greatest album of 2009 so far…
Zu – Carboniferous
Noise rock, brutal metal, experimental jazz, all in one giant melting pot. Take a dip, you’ll feel the bloodlust soon, Marc Higgins is sure of it.
Weird Owl – Ever the Silver Cord be Loosed
At their best Weird Owl are hypnotic and spell binding, at their worst, they simply meander about like a hippy trying to come to terms with the consumerism of the 80′s (that short period of time just before joining the capitalist gang-bang obviously).
Six Organs of Admittance – RTZ
‘RTZ’ squeezes together several lesser-known pieces from Six Organs early years into a colossal arc of drone influenced folk that might test the patience of even the most hardened fan. Maybe best avoided by newcomers and embraced by completists only.
Introducing: Three Trapped Tigers
As the UK becomes a hot bed for experimental music, we introducing another promising act full of ideas that meld seemingly separate influences into great music.
