Categories: Misc

Dispatches from the Underground // August 19, 2021

Over at Quietus > Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen / The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA (h/t JR Moores)

Over at Dagger Zine > Guardian Singles- S/T (Trouble in Mind)

Over at Louder > The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant 80s bands (overground, but still worth reading)

Over at Talkhouse > Mr. Goblin talks Channeler by HXXS / the scariest album he heard lately

Over at Foxy Digitalis > Review of Sylva Sylvarum by Ora Clementi

Send your unheard music / field recordings / spoken word / noises to The Dark Outside / back for another 24 hour broadcast in Galloway Forest – from noon 25th until noon 26th September (h/t Grey Frequency)

Up for pre-order via Constellation Records > Qalaq by Jerusalem In My Heart / new album of vital and haunting electronics and electroacoustics, framed by founder and producer Radwan Ghazi Moumneh’s spoken and sung Arabic, buzuk-playing and sound design (h/t Frederic D. Oberland) + reading via Sonofmarketing

Feast your eyes on the upcoming Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan release from Castles in Space

Last day to preorder Dressed in Borrowed Light by Clara Engel + Geocentrics by Pharagonesia (out on Third Kind Records)

Get a nice Slugmag tee before its gone for good!

Stream of Dreams happening on August 21st via Mixcloud / BlackWaxSolution

From back in 2017…Death is Messy by Ape School/ dark record for a good cause (h/t Eric Slick)

Repeater Radio is taking over the online airwaves this weekend!

Little preview of Hootie Tootie, Disco Cutie by Sound Effects of Death and Horror / upcoming 4 track EP of out of tune disco music for mediocre dancing

Watch the classical guitar rendition of Captain Beefheart’s “One Red Rose I Mean” by Shane Parish

2 Minute Read from back in February > Plague Notes, Unnamed, Unknown, A Finger Dragged Through Dust by My Heart, an Inverted Flame // Malevolent synth doom horror movie ambient sprawl that’s a recent favorite thing (via Adam Grimord-Isham / Lost Bones and Dreams of the Ghost Age)

Out today via Reckless Yes > Competition Winner single by Japan Review / Kvetch Sounds is out on Oct. 29

Ilya S.

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