Boris NO Released: 7.3.20 Boris ain't fuckin' around. The band's latest release, NO , was released as a digital LP on Bandcamp and finds the trio conjuring amplified gargantua via Discharge-blessed tempos ("Anti-Gone"), mountain-crumbling doom-laden immensity ("鏡 -Zerkalo-"), or softening sheets of ethereal tonality ("HxCxHxC -Perforation Line-"). NO functions well as an immediately gratifying and unbridled release of bullshit-free guitar-n-drum relayed energy. NO by Boris Sincerely,Letters From A Tapehead

Mouths by Psychic Graveyard was released for Bandcamp Friday on May 1st via Deathbomb Arc . A quick 5-song listen built purely from the time and frustration that extensive periods of quarantine have made available, Mouths is an electro-jolt of urgent, and mostly negative, energy. With commentary informed by the pandemic and the subsequent behaviors manifested by the American public, every track is a "mouth" and every mouth has a lot to say. "He gets drunk / He attends the protest / His American heart is rotting … inside his chest." — "American Mouth" The album is available digitally for purchase: https://deathbombarc.bandcamp.com/album/mouths Mouths by Psychic Graveyard Sincerely, Letters From A Tapehead

Good morning. I have some some ambient picks to begin the week via Sound In Silence and Verses Records . Test Card Music For The Towers Sound In Silence Released: 1.9.20 Fans of mid-70s Cluster and Brian Eno will appreciate the light and airy electronic and instrumental mutations of Test Card , the solo alias of artist  Lee Nicholson . Music For The Towers is Nicholson's third Test Card release, a palatable selection of electronic arrangements with amusing titles like "Data Taken Over Under Rating," "We Oscillated Like Sheep Grazing On Grassy Waveforms," or "Let Single Sideband Loneliness Receivers Be Happy." Music For The Towers by Test Card _________________________________________________ worriedaboutsatan Crystalline Sound In Silence Released: 1.9.20 With textural cuts and an ethereal lean, worriedaboutsatan 's Crystalline relishes in filling space with tone and timbre, wandering synthesized or analog embellishments and ...

Good afternoon, As a resident of the Philadelphia region, and a music enthusiast to boot, I'm happy to promote any organization that helps grant children of underserved communities the gift of music education. Rock To The Future , founded by Executive Director  Jessica Craft , has partnered with Relapse Records in curating and making available a new 2019 sampler, for which any money spent will help fund Craft's cause.  Great music, worthwhile effort. If you want to check out some selections from the Relapse sampler, you can hit up the embedded Bandcamp link . All info on Rock To The Future and Relapse Records can also be found below. Links and info were provided by Relapse Records. Relapse Sampler 2019 by Relapse Sampler Relapse Records is proud to offer our annual FREE label sampler highlighting another year of incredible music from our eclectic roster, featuring the best dark and heavy music from around the world. With genres ranging from death metal, black metal,...

When you read the mission statement of the record label Our Silent Canvas , an entity that prides itself on encouraging “exploration of the complete sensory experience, by developing performances featuring a collaboration of these various arts, ” it seems to outline and explain the existence of NOUS , a collaborative musical endeavor started by Ghost Against Ghost ’s Christopher Bono . With a five-member core of outsider and neoclassical artists — Bono, Greg Fox ( Guardian Alien , Zs , Ben Frost , ex- Liturgy ), Shahzad Ismaily ( Yoko Ono , Laurie Anderson , Bonnie Prince Billy ), Thor Harris ( Swans , Angels of Light , Amanda Palmer , Shearwater ), Grey McMurray ( itsnotyouitsme , So Percussion , Tyondai Braxton ) — NOUS was developed during a week of recorded sessions, the first of which will be released by Our Silent Canvas as NOUS I: A Musical Rite . Structurally varied enough to cross genres, though the album would undoubtedly qualify as a post-rock jam, NOUS I is fascinati...

The Austin-based experimental sextet known as The Young Mothers are releasing their second album this week, Morose .   Currently based in Austin, The Young Mothers tie together backgrounds as regionally varied as Texas, Chicago, New York, and Norway, engaging their multiple influences into a cross-genre synthesis of protest music and aural turbulence. As if to illustrate this perfectly, for the single "Black Tar Caviar," The Young Mothers compose a discordant, rhythmic tug of war that attempts to merge jazz-based improvisation with the bare-knuckle assault of hardcore or powerviolence.  Somewhat akin to the avant sonics and noise-fetish brass explorations of John Zorn , especially for its frenzy of a finale, "Black Tar Caviar" pairs confusion and aggression in a compelling way, pitting the avantgarde against the underground and reveling in the forms' rejection of each other.  Those opening Albert Ayler -styled sax notes almost seem like a red herri...

In April of 2017, Ulver released a chilling synthesizer-driven beauty of an LP titled,  The Assassination of Julius Caesar , which brought to mind some understandable comparisons, the most prominent and obvious, in my mind anyway, being  Depeche Mode .  As if to validate this comparison, a new three-song EP from the band surfaced called  Sic Transit Gloria Mundi , itself also an electronically robust and somewhat morose new offering that features two songs that weren't quite ready for inclusion in  Julius Caesar  and a cover of "Power Of Love" by  Frankie Goes To Hollywood .  Videos were also developed to accompany the two original tracks, "Echo Chamber (Room Of Tears)" and "Bring Out Your Dead."  Links for the videos can be found here and here , or in the album info I've posted.  Interested?  You can listen below via Ulver's  Bandcamp  and, if so inclined, buy the EP now digitally or wait until physical copies emer...

The spoken tale of "The Ferryman," precedes the funerary tone of "Truth or Consequences," this 2-song 10" by Jarboe and Father Murphy a quick, intensely dark, and moving listen. Jarboe's sung melancholia lightly and beautifully suspends over the organ that introduces "Truth or Consequences," creating a grander, more tender transition into the repetitious prayer that carries the song to its end. Releasing today via Consouling Sounds , you can listen to the album below before you purchase it. You can order it  here . All info, links, and tour dates are provided by Rarely Unable. LISTEN TO THE JARBOE & FATHER MURPHY EP, RELEASED TODAY VIA CONSOULING SOUNDS; LIVE SHOWS COMMENCE WITH RECORD RELEASE SHOW IN BELGIUM American artist and performer Jarboe and Italian occult duo Father Murphy release their collaborative EP today through Consouling Sounds , and commence their tour with a record release show in Belgium. LISTEN TO THE JAR...

Swansea Flaws Self Group Release: 4.28.17 Vocalist Rebecca Sanborn freely details a running stream of thoughts and observations as "Red Mittens" unfolds, introducing Flaws , the newly released second LP from Portland trio Swansea . While Sanborn riffs through what she sees and feels, ( "And, I don't sound cool/I don't sound smart/I don't sound awesome/I don't even sound like a freak" ), she's anchored by a clap-along backbeat and minimalist stabs of synthesized tone, electronically enabled pop sugar a touch more elaborate than the "Warm Leatherette" of yore. Swansea, the work of Sanborn ( Loch Lomond , Blue Cranes ), drummer Ji Tanzer ( Blue Cranes ), and multi-instrumentalist Kyleen King , is fun sans guilt, integrity and attention paid to how they approach synthpop constructs ("This Time") and percussive loops ("No Blame"), ear candy that's neither MOR or disposable.  Particularly engaging is the cha...

An album both despairing and lovely, I’ve been listening to Saltland ’s second LP, A Common Truth , over the last week or so. The solo moniker of Rebecca Foon , co-founder of Esmerine and member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra , Saltland’s latest LP is a composed reflection on climate change and its environmental and social impact. With a fascinating marriage of electronic/ambient elements and rich, textural string arrangements, plus instrumental assistance from Warren Ellis of The Dirty Three and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , Foon’s commanding presence, both instrumentally and vocally, moves through this piece with a captivating blend of emotion and warmth. I find her vocal in “I Only Wish This For You,” particularly haunting, her inflection breathy and kind of devastating. On the instrumental track “Forward Eyes I,” it’s as if you can hear the promise of a new day being slowly eradicated as time elapses, opportunity fading into the ether as daylight fades. A C...