[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 […]
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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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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 […]
[Album: Swingers Get Killed] What do you say about The Rita? There’s nothing clever to say about The Rita. This was made in ’98, the same year that Madonna dropped Ray Of Light. Same year as Freak On A Leash. The same year Neutral Milk Hotel dropped some album with a potato on the cover […]
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DJ Punisher – “A3”
[Album: Untitled EP] In 14 minutes, Delroy Edwards (AKA Ron Perlman’s son – yes, the A-list actor Ron Perlman) gets away with murder. The DJ moniker is subterfuge: this is a noise cut. Harsh, bleach-down-the-windpipe, scalding analog feedback noise. The opening track deceives by riding in on a hotwired kick-drum slathered in waves of bloodsoaked […]
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Anne Gillis – Lxgrin
[Album: eponymous] I went in blind, encountered the gagged and hiccuping, and found myself surrounded by mocking voices. Laughter, uncomfortable and derisive. A pair of lips moulded into a plastic top spinning to stutter, wobble, nearly topple over the record groove before defying gravity – it’s begging please, it’s saying “this, this, this!” and then […]
I am here to tell you guys about my favorite breakcore artist of all time. I know a few of you posted that “Noise” song that Igorrr posted a few weeks ago, but I’m here to talk about some of his earlier stuff, though we aren’t going too far back. I have heard someone say […]
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Ron Morelli – “New Dialect”
[Album: A Gathering Together] No one knows where New York City gutters drain to. Don’t ask the sanitation department. Don’t ask a civic engineer. Don’t ask a local. Nobody wants to know. Dead meat coagulates in lightless corners under the rails. Morbid silhouette floats on placid water, thumps gently against the porcelain. Morelli runs the […]