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Burial Hex, the well established pseudonym of experimental singer-songwriter Clay Ruby, comes to a graceful end with The Hierophant, a marvelous work that fuses elements of darkwave, death industrial, and modern classical music. Stream the title track above and get the album now via Handmade Birds.
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Burial Hex, the well established pseudonym of experimental singer-songwriter Clay Ruby, comes to a graceful end with The Hierophant, a marvelous work that fuses elements of darkwave, death industrial, and modern classical music. Stream the title track above and get the album now via Handmade Birds.
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https://soundcloud.com/sige-1/black-spirituals-radiant With Of Deconstruction, Oakland free improvisation duo Black Spirituals has delivered one of the year’s greatest potpourri albums. Bassist and electronics operator Zachary James Watkins and percussionist Marshall Trammell found each of the album’s three substantial pieces on simple and vague grooves, exploring
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https://soundcloud.com/lastlizard/dickies-theme Last month, Alex Zhang Hungtai announced the laying to rest of his long-running and acclaimed no-wave singer-songwriter alias Dirty Beaches. The recently released Stateless was packed with gorgeous drones and was thankfully an elegant end for the project. There was a silver lining to this
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Kijinoise by Kijinoise Here’s something that caught my ears while wading through Bandcamp earlier today. Kijinoise is a Chinese musician who has been uploading projects quite prolifically since late last month, using solely a guitar to deliver a fuzzy fusion of drone, noise, progressive rock, doom, and free improvisational
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Kye, the record label of one of my very favorite artists Graham Lambkin, has put out its final two releases of 2014. The first is Australian novelist Matthew Revert‘s Not You, a singer-songwriter project with lo-fi and electroacoustic inclinations, as you’ll find with cut “The Heart’s Heartbeat”
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https://soundcloud.com/rune-grammofon/supersilent-121 On its 12th album, Norway’s eminent free improvisational outfit Supersilent is still managing to turn out some pretty evocative and extraordinary music. Having dabbled in avant-garde jazz, EAI, noise, and experimental rock throughout its career, the trio now finds itself in a decidedly dark
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Wir Essen Seelen In Der Nacht by Gnaw Their Tongues On November 1, Dutch black metal outfit Gnaw Their Tongues will put out a new full-length titled Night of Consecration. In the meantime, they’ve thrown this EP of four experimental pieces up on their Bandcamp. It’s a really
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While Sunn o))) and Scott Walker make the effort to accommodate one another on this new collaborative album, the chemistry isn’t as explosive as I had hoped.
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https://soundcloud.com/lescalleet/kevin-drumm-jason-lescalleet-the-echo-of-your-past-excerpt OK, I want to give a quick shout-out to this latest collaboration between seasoned electro-acoustic/drone/avant-garde/whatever artists Kevin Drumm and Jason Lescalleet – with The Abyss, they have turned out what is without question one of the darkest, most abject musical works I’ve
