Dusty suits and half a deck of cards are all you really need, as long as it’s the good half. Take these tools and step on into the first physical full-length from Coffin Salesman. Nicrophorus Americanus is the title for this gunfight, and it sets up one Hell of a time. Lead by Aria Rad…
This is an extremely interesting and challenging release. It absolutely requires and warrants repeated listens to fully digest the weight of the sound and the atmosphere created within. The first thing you will probably notice is the pace of the music which is somewhere between tortoise-like and nodding-out. The darkness is enveloping and total and…
Things larger than single simple statements aren’t always the most fun. Sometimes after a long time, despite the work put into of the message, you no longer wish to hear what the message has to say. Are we retreading the same waters? Why are we looking back? What have we missed and left behind in…
Aa, the latest EP from Ricardo Dias Gomes, is a hypnotic record with a strong emphasis on bass and rhythm. Gomes’ ability to manipulate bass tones reflects his acclaimed work on Caetano Veloso’s late 00s albums, Cê (2006), Zii and Zie (2009) and Abraçaço (2012). It makes sense that a bass player who spent so…
I type as I listen. We open with glitches and kosmische loops engulfing us and slowly pulling us in. Whispers or birdsong or both gradually reveal melodies apparently lost in time, as if Terry Riley had poured an organ into a bucket. This is inherent kindness in relative chaos. We have a song that is…
If you were to give me one word to describe Girl Pusher's music, it would be cathartic. Cathartic in a way where the music is a raw and candid blackwashing of the female mind. Since the dawn of time, females had to live with expectations of their characters that wholly contradict that of a man's filthiest and…
