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Battle Standards (Talker)
Cold, then colder still. Talker emboss style and character onto the electronic music mileu (read more)
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Dying Swans? Gira Calls Time at the Roundhouse
The raging soul beneath the dust and disaster. Swans sing their swansong. (read more)
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Mastery in Sound: Swans (Live at Islington Assembly)
A resounding farewell to a visceral lineup, Swans configure an unparalleled sonic onslaught (read more)
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Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)
Mysterious, focussed, disciplined. Komora A put some backbone into ambient. (read more)
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Apres Release Avant-Hard (Swans and SikTh)
Unheralded gems from the underworld of avant-garde rock that you should have heard already (read more)
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An Ominous and Unsettling Ambience: #1 (Daghraven)
Intricately constructed and spanning the gap between melancholy and tragedy, Daghraven makes for brooding archeological listening (read more)
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Acoustic Success From Droney Metallers (Amen Ra)
Switching to acoustic, Amen Ra retain all their power and mood (read more)
Features
Post Punk Drone and Cultural Imperialism. (Wire)
Wire – A band so good they named both a cult TV series and a snotty music magazine after them. Live review (read more)
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Aidan Baker : Already Drowning
seven portraits of acoustic melancholy, distorted love and gothic eroticism (read more)
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King of Drone : Aidan Baker Interview
More than a feeling : Trebuchet interviews eclectic drone maestro Aidan Baker about a bunch of random stuff that we wanted to know. (read more)
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Tim Hecker – Rave Death, 1972
Deeply entranced, I imagine the black and white noise which is resonating around the room as scattered photographs. These sepia toned images are of nothing and everything, of people I know and those I never (read more)
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Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1
Southern Lord (2011) Earth’s latest offering, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1, shows a definite development from the heavy drone aesthetic of yore, encompassing a variety of influences including African desert rockers Tinariwen. The (read more)
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Earth – A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extractions
The opening song for this despondent treat is like the unfolding of a questionably green powdered orange, the insides of Earth evoking a terrified awe when revealed. An album which creeps up on you, there (read more)