[Instruments Of Discipline, 2019] Reclamation. Noise music crushes its own materials, grinds them through the blades of barely tolerable sounds, staples the chunks back together in possessed union. What you hate, what was stolen from common ownership, what you fear, what was thought to be lost – reach out, grasp it, take it back, display […]
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Noise music and other noise genre related music reviews. This is where you can find LP, EP, tape, single-track, and streaming-only reviews and commentary on releases within the nebula of noise.
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Blind Date – Open Trap
An avalanche of jagged metal. Buildings erupt into shards. Caustic ash. Vehicles detonate. Fires burn wild throughout the city. The singed horizon of Bellona. Open Trap yawns jagged, exhaling, a blast-furnace. This cassette is a powerhouse of hot noise, favoring interruption and causality over the deadpan wall crunch of many contemporaries on New Forces. Samples […]
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Shredded Nerve – Final Vision
Old cinemas are dead as malls. Newspaper covers the windows – the paint curls like overgrown fingernails. Black mold. You could picture it decades ago all lit-up, but nostalgia is a disease. They’ll tear it down one day. Until then, the dead cinema you remember (or imagine, if you never lived near a closed-down cinema) […]
[Album: Value + Bonus] You think this is funny, Russell? Noise as humor is a certain sort of head-sick. Maybe he’s just playing around and doesn’t really mean to trick anyone – but I think he’s in that camp of noise artists who are truly divorced from trying to contextualize their sound and simply do […]
I wonder if this was the first noise double-album. I have no stats on that, but being released in 1985 such a thing would surely have been fresh on the noise radar – Controlled Bleeding (legendary) emerged during the heyday of Industrial Records with an emphasis on being loud, brutal, and pastiche. To further their […]
Bull of Heaven, for those unaware, are a band that have been around since 2006. They are most infamous for their album 210: Like a Wall in Which an Insect Lives and Gnaws, which clocks in at 50,000 hours, or 5.7ish years. However, besides making Drone pieces that literally no one is ever going to […]
[Album: Dread] Big name. This was the first piece of noise I probably ever heard – 2:30AM at the community radio station, plucked it out of the CD library and examined the cover. A fingerprint? A grinning face? A crescent. Expecting nothing I popped it into the player. I recall taking off the headphones thirty […]
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Laurel Noose – Dog Grave
Mystery is in the aesthetic of noise. Part of what’s compelling about harsh noise is the package: the artist, the song title, the music, the format. Most noise is obscure and homemade, and little to nothing known about the artist. Discovery may be part of the appeal of the genre. Dog Grave is a cassette […]
I wonder what Philip Best was like at age 14. Would they describe him like they do every single school shooter? Quiet, kept to himself, dressed odd, read a lot of books? Was he an asshole? Did he push other kids down the stairs? Your brain isn’t even halfway finished growing at age 14. Maybe […]
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Suum Cuique – “Strohtopf”
[Album: Ascetic Ideals] I’m sure that we can discuss the borderline between ambient and noise over and over before we fail to reach a conclusion. Maybe the borderline is “does it make you wince?” Strohtopf probably straddles this line, with plenty of spaciousness in the middle where you can float like Bowman, orbited by staggeringly […]