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n admittedly be quite a cacophonous and unstable concoction at times but the best moments beautifully channel the raw and chaotic anything goes intensity of a great bygone era in underground music the garrote the opening rumors of survival provides a wonderfully churning and blown out introduction to the album as trecka repurposes a mbira sample from the late jamie branch into a clattering pulsing and rhythmic ball of noise that said trecka s scott walker esque vocals were admittedly a bit more of an acquired taste for me as i have seen them previously described as david bowie at his most untamed which can be a somewhat jarring element in this particular context i would personally go with new romantic vocalist with the intensity dialed up way too high to feel like pop anymore but i am mostly a fan as the wailing and primal catharsis of those vocals are the heart of the album and they are also the thing that transforms these pieces into a raw direct and unique artistic statement rather than just a mere homage to some cool 80s industrial artists also i would be remiss if i did not mention that trecka is generally quite a cool and adventurous vocal artist as his frayed and howling melodies are ingeniously enhanced with a vibrant host of cut up and swooping samples and layers read more lea bertucci the days pass quickly immersed in the shadow of eternity 31 may 2026 anthony d amico albums and singles this latest release from ny based saxophonist composer bertucci continues her bold expansion into improbable and adventurous new territory as it is a commissioned collaboration with german flutist norbert rodenkirchen the two artists first met back in 2019 after a performance by rodenkirchen s early music ensemble sequentia and bertucci was immediately fascinated by both rodenkirchen s collection of ancient flutes and all of the folklore and tuning notation challenges inherent in recreating medieval music when bertucci landed the opportunity to record at the zkm center for art and media in karlsruhe back in 2023 the stars were finally in perfect alignment for the two artists to collaborate on something special and unique that inventively blurs the lines between past and future the resultant work is something of a shapeshifting beast that has morphed from an eight channel spatialized live performance to an infinite durational installation to a 34 minute stereo album to my ears there is probably nothing else on earth quite like it but it falls in roughly the same avant garde ballpark as maryanne amacher phill niblock and catherine christer hennix cibachrome the album borrows its title from a quote by a former carthusian monk explaining why the monastery s chartreuse production was decreased despite high demand during the pandemic to allow the monks more time for their spiritual concerns it is a perfect title as one of rodenkirchen s flutes is a replica of a vulture bone flute that dates from as far back as 37 000 years ago and the duo s pythagorean tunings date back to ancient mesopotamia circa 600 bc and are based on the mathematics of the natural world much like the monks bertucci and rodenkirchen see the current age of scorched earth capitalism as an ephemeral chapter in a story that spans millenia and predates america christianity capitalism electricity and western turning systems then again maybe it won t be ephemeral in the way that i hope as bertucci seems particularly fascinated with the more apocalyptically inspired strains of early music and notes that experiencing a total solar eclipse made her feel connected to the experience of my ancestors from ages ago of a primeval confusion sense of humility and wonderment at the awesome power of the skies it is probably safe to say that this album is her valiant attempt to re capture that singular feeling read more carla dal forno confession 24 may 2026 anthony d amico albums and singles this is the second full length that carla dal forno has released since returning to her native australia and those sunnier environs continue to have a welcome warming effect on her songwriting she has also grown considerably more eclectic and inspired in both her instrumentation and her assimilation of fresh influences over the last few years while her songwriting talents have sharpened significantly as this album of quiet upheaval is a hook packed intimate and refreshingly sincere collection of would be indie pop hits about heartache yearning desire and every other deep human emotion that matters in that regard confession is a significant leap forward but dal forno is otherwise still the same bass wielding post punk chanteuse as ever kallista amusingly i noticed the other day that dal forno self described her early berlin work as lone kosmische misanthropy which is quite a far cry from her current stripped down and bass driven young marble giants style indie pop vision the interesting bit is that dal forno s radical stylistic transformation happened without her making any major foundational changes to the essence of her sound ten years after fast moving cars she is still essentially making bedroom pop magic from little more than a bass a drum machine and some honest and introspective musings about life heartache and relationships the only thing that truly changed is that she gradually cleared away all the murk gloom reverb and rigidity to let in some welcome light space warmth fun and leftfield inspiration in short she focused entirely on being real human and direct and jettisoned everything that diluted or blunted those aspects there is one semi throwback to dal forno s blackest ever black past however as the rubbery slow motion stomp of nighttime feels like it should have been the shadowy bloodless berlin party anthem of 2016 read more loraine james detached from the rest of you 24 may 2026 anthony d amico albums and singles as evidenced by the many intimate and autobiographical passages about self doubt numbness and creative frustration it contains this latest album from james was forged from the fire of internal struggles fortunately all that inner turmoil ultimately resulted in an absolutely killer album that feels like a massive artistic breakthrough so i guess it was all worth it though james herself may strongly feel otherwise the catalyst for james reinvention unexpectedly came from her work producing anysia kym s confession ep which gave her the experience of a more pop setting and the tools and insight to work her instrumentals into more conventional shapes the ingenious bit is that james new embrace of pop inspired song structures provides an accessible shape to some very ambitious radical and non pop enhancements in her production techniques and beat crafting skills the final piece of the puzzle is that james tagged in a host of eclectic guest vocalists who seemed to know exactly what was needed to transform her stuttering blurred and shapeshifting instrumental tracks into sensuous hook packed left field pop magic hyperdub the most unexpected of the many guest vocal performances is unquestionably low s alan sparhawk who urges everyone to make love rather than war over a backdrop of gently rolling rock drums and bleary electric piano to his credit sparhawk makes a surprisingly credible soul vocalist in this unfamiliar context but peak again is definitely an outlier for a whole host of reasons on the considerably more outré side of the spectrum is the miho hatori featuring flatline as hatari sensuously sings in both japanese and english over pitch bent synth chords and a skittering convulsive and glitch ravaged groove the straight up hip hop of ending us all is another wild detour as le3 black raps over lo fi smeary synths and some killer live drumming from fyn dobson elsewhere anysia kym takes the mic for the album s hottest would be single as score is a perfect marriage of intimately underproduced vocals jazzy electric piano chords gently trippy flutes and squelchy futuristic percussion tirzah contributes a simmering and seductive gem as well as habits and patterns beautifully blends hushed and melancholy heartache with invasively destabilizing and jackhammering loop spasms read more noveller i am the weather 17 may 2026 anthony d amico albums and singles this latest full length from guitar visionary sarah lipstate is a bit of an inspired outlier as she has expanded noveller s usual guitar centric palette to include a baby grand piano percussion instruments and an impressively lynchian guest vocal performance from her occasional bandmate iggy pop i suspect that such evolution was inevitable however as lipstate now has a new studio and has been landing some relatively high profile soundtrack work since moving from brooklyn to la in 2020 naturally the demands of commissioned work would certainly influence her working methods and inspire some new techniques and textures in another way however i am the weather can be seen as a return to lipstate s roots as well as she spent years learning classical piano before she reinvented herself as a self taught guitarist at age 17 as is often the case with bold creative evolutions there are admittedly a few growing pains and missteps lurking among these nine pieces but the bigger story is that such moments are interspersed with a few of the most beautiful pieces that lipstate has ever recorded experimentia the most immediately striking piece on the album is unsurprisingly the lead single the girl who was death as iggy pop s unsettling and gravel voiced monologue unfolds over a shapeshifting and increasingly howling fragmented and nightmarish backdrop while this is the first time that the two artists have worked together on a noveller piece their collaborative relationship first began back in 2019 with a spoken word performance of dylan thomas s do not go gentle into that good night that landed on pop s free album unsurprisingly there is a cool riff at the heart of the piece and pop has some great lines but the more impressive achievement is that the girl who was death feels plucked from an imagined non existent episode of twin peaks while it is undeniably cool and attention grabbing that outlier is a bit too brief and iggy pop centered to quite capture lipstate at the full height of her powers fortunately there is quite an impressive run of mid album pieces that swing the balance in the other direction read more éric la casa francisco lópez induction mutation 17 may 2026 creaig dunton albums and singles previously a digital only release as part of francisco lópez s two headed snake series of collaborations this split release between him and equally legendary composer éric la casa features the two working independently but from shared source material what exactly that source material is never becomes entirely clear but it gives a consistency between two very different amazing works swarming the source material specified is just 11 years of objects and spaces so any clear identification beyond what occasionally sounds like field recordings is pretty much impossible certain characteristics of sound appear clearly throughout both artists compositions but utilized in noticeably different ways read more alvarius b malarial dream 03 may 2026 anthony d amico albums and singles this latest album from sublime frequencies co founder and cairo based expat alan bishop s long running and eclectic solo project is a bit of a pleasant surprise as he enlisted an absolute murderers row of talented collaborators to record a collection of mostly original new instrumental pieces notably the album is billed as drifting closer to late period sun city girls albums like funeral mariachi but that kinship is mostly true in a general sense rather than a stylistic one as malarial dream is unusually lean on covers and often feels like the work of a formidable full band it also mirrors funeral mariachi in its comparative listenability as both bishop s solo career and sun city girls have their share of prickly indulgences and eccentricities obviously bishop remains the same idiosyncratic chaos element as always but malarial dream places him at the center of a collection of middle eastern inspired desert psych jams recorded with an incredible international cast of killer improvisors abduction the album opens with the short and punchy rock n roll which is evidently one of the album s two obscure covers as bishop s dwarfs of east agouza bandmate sam shalabi is credited as the composer he also happens to be the one rockin the oud in the thorny and droning central riff but the album s strongest moments tend to be the less muscular and rock inspired pieces that follow in the multiple hallucinations of an assassin part 2 for example bishop and huda asfour trade acoustic guitar and lap harp motifs over a pleasantly rolling percussion rhythm and a gently flanging synth drone amusingly part 2 bears little resemblance at all to the version that appeared on sun city girls bright surroundings anyone who has been feverishly waiting three decades for its sequel to appear will likely experience some rough cognitive dissonance read more joseph branciforte jozef dumoulin iterae 28 april 2026 anthony d amico albums and singles this first meeting between nyc based composer conceptual artist branciforte and belgian jazz pianist dumoulin is an impressively ambitious and mindbending musical dialogue recorded over the span of two days both artists played separate fender rhodes electric pianos with their own array of processing and effects while branciforte further spiced up their interaction with a custom live editing system designed to process both musicians outputs in real time the physical album is similarly unusual as branciforte describes it as a multi disc object that divides these eight pieces into four 3 cds that can be played in varying sequences along with one normal sized disc that contains the full 70 minute album in its entirety i can certainly understand why branciforte decided to go big with the packaging as iterae is an absolutely mesmerizing and landmark release that beautifully blurs the lines between classic oval style glitchery psychotropic bitches brew style dark magic and the lingering otherworldly dissonances of a great morton feldman piece greyfade as branciforte describes it iterae s eight modular sections hover between form and abstraction precise sonic architecture and dream like flow but a more reductionist and concise term like ambient adjacent would probably suffice as well as there are a lot of flickering and dreamlike drones at that heart of this release that said these pieces are considerably more harmonically complex and subtly dissonant than actual ambient music read more vanity productions the vanity project 19 april 2026 anthony d amico albums and singles this long running solo project from posh isolation co founder christian stadsgaard has gradually evolved from its modest minimal techno beginnings into a vision that inventively blurs the lines between har...