4. Ad Nauseum/Funeral Parlor/Waves Crashing Piano Chords/MPHIAT/Contraktor
A fast-paced five way split between 5 very crucial acts of the modern avant-garde. Ad Nauseum is crunching, vaguely-martial power electronics with excellent vocals. Funeral Parlor offers haunting minor-key synth riffing. WCPC is more of the same potent microphone/amplifier perversion. MPHIAT is delightfully blackened, while Contraktor takes on static wall noise.
Ad Nauseum, Funeral Parlor, and WCPC are the highlights of this split, but MPHIAT and Contraktor both bring some excellent sound.
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3. Limbs Bin/Sidetracked- Split
Two of the finest acts in modern fast music sharing a tape. Not much more you can ask for.
Sidetracked's side is excellent. They experiment with a kind of song cycle, a singular drone interspersed with powerviolence minitracks. It's refreshing.
Sidetracked's side is excellent. They experiment with a kind of song cycle, a singular drone interspersed with powerviolence minitracks. It's refreshing.
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2. Spectre Eyes- Spectre Eyes
Spectre Eyes play minimalist, no-wave tinged Post-Rock in the vein of Swans or late-period Talk Talk.
The production is excellent, with a surprisingly clean guitar taking center stage.
The production is excellent, with a surprisingly clean guitar taking center stage.
Only for rainy days.
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1. The Giant Worm- Castings
This is a bit of an odd one out.
The Giant Worm is firmly indebted to the old school of avant-garde, the Beat Poets, The Fluxus, etc.
The Giant Worm is firmly indebted to the old school of avant-garde, the Beat Poets, The Fluxus, etc.
Castings is an album of improvisational spoken word set to improvisational music yet, somehow, it sounds cohesive and intentional.
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