Dispatches from the Underground // May 2025 Pt. 4

New Music

Ben Frost – Under Certain Light and Atmospheric Conditions / i don’t know how to describe this but if you like sunn 0))) and opn and wish they had a weird raver baby maybe that’s close – Ourobonic Plague

Daryl Groetsch – Blotted / Blotted consists of a low, undulating synthesizer tone that has been honed to the perfect gauzy texture to assist in blotting out the world. Designed and tested for sleep.

Greg Nieuwsma & Antonello Perfetto – Bird Brain (Cruel Nature) / From the epic “Modes of Attention pt 1” to the mystical avant-garde on “Territory is a place to sing”, it’s an adventure – Listening Habit

Patricia Wolf – Hrafnamynd (Balmat) / Hrafnamynd, a soundtrack to Edward Pack Davee’s autobiographical documentary about Iceland, memory, and ravens. Out July 11. We also made T-shirts and totes! – Philip Sherburne

Purple Trap – The Stone (Karlrecords) / ferocious set from the trio of Keiji Haino, Bill Laswell, and Rashied Ali. recorded in 2005, finally got an official release this year and it’s 🔥🔥🔥 – David James

Use Knife – État Coupable (h/t Nic Brown)

David Ness – Wild Mind (Wormhole World)

Hipwell + Kasperkiewicz (Woodford Halse) / one for fans of high quality German prog inspired bliss – Folk Police Recordings

Gateless Gate – Birch and Jay / A few ambient pieces, a few songs

Shane Parish – Solo at Cafe OTO

Leyden Jars – Illusory Truths / One of the strangest, most beguiling folk records I’ve heard all year. Don’t miss this – Nic Brown

Catarrh Nisin vs. 6v9id / Swordman Kitala – blue forty-four (Blue Tapes)

VA – Pride or Die (Dalmata Daniel) (h/t Antoni Maiovvi)

Listening Recommendations

Tom Mudd – Guitar Cultures / Adventures in guitar from the boundless imagination of Tom Mudd – De Selby

Rotten Piece and Infant Mortality Rate – Averted Vision / Cut up, sound collage, abstract, absurdist, experimental pranksterism. Twisted sound sculptures bristling with humor and true weirdness.

Music Videos

Golden Brown – Whisker Fatigue

Black Hill Transmissions – Wreck-Works / much more of the dubby, delay-fests i favour nowadays, but I played most of it – drone-y organ, heavy bass, little gtr bits, before chopping it up