Dispatches from the Underground // September 2024 Pt.1

New Music

Sulk Rooms – LF22 / Earth & Horror (Mortality Tables)

Polypores – There Are Other Worlds (Castles in Space)

Francesco Leali – Let Us Descend / Chamber jazz reimagined by The Bug is as close as I can get to describing this astounding record and I’m still some distance wide of the mark. Yet another AOTY contender in a month already stuffed full of them – Nic Brown

Irene Blanco – Kronblade (Permanent Draft) / layers of percussion, not unexpected from aco-founded by Valentina Magaletti – Bill Barnett

Rob Mazurek and the Exploding Star Orchestra – Live at the Adler Planetarium (International Anthem) / My goodness, some echoes of a certain ‘Directions in Music’ and lovely loose organic vibe to what I’ve heard from this release – Fraser H

Thou – Umbilical / i am now thouing it up – mmmmmmmmm

Sharp Pins – Mod Mayday 23 / Please check this album out. I can’t believe how good it is – Andy Mascola

Listening Recommendations

Danny Paul Grody – Arc of Day (via Nick J Mascis)

Max Cooper – Emergence / Remixed / glorious electronic soundscapes and drama – Fraser H.

Atom Heart Live in Berlin & Barcelona – Atom Heart (Rather Interesting, 1995) /  two beautiful sets of ambient electronics from Atom Heart aka Uwe Schmidt – Noise Research

kimono – mineur agressif / One of my favourite albums turns 21 today – the absolutely excellent Mineur Aggressif by Icelandic band Kimono. Hits that real sweet spot between expansive post rock and melancholic slow core, and does it so fuckin well – Gavin Miller

The Bonk – The Bonk Seems To Be A Verb (via odubhda)

Mirroring – Foreign Body / Just came across this gem, the collaboration between Grouper and Tiny Vipers – Allister Thompson

High Five – Duet​/​An anxious roar of gaseous ice EP (Phonautograph Records) – see Wurmpth Furdber

Music Reviews

amelia courthouse — broken things (Spinster) / amelia courthouse’s Leah Toth follows up 2019’s spectral Ruby Glass with four lingering meditations on sound and life and mortality – Dusted Magazine

Reading

Ranking my favorite Wire albums – via Humanizing the Vacuum / Alfred Soto