noise
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Hallelujah by Igorrr Admittedly, if I had casually heard the phrase “operatic breakcore” getting tossed around in a music conversation, I’d truly be fighting the urge to step in and shout, “GIMMICK! GIMMICK! GIMMICK!” However, that’s really the only word grouping I can conjure to describe the sounds
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With loads of strange MIDI sound effects, synths, and a live drum kit, the recently formed Psykers are on their way to producing a twisted, enthralling, and electronic monster of some sort. The handful of video rehearsals they’ve pulled together so far on YouTube are pretty impressive. They’ve
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CLASSICS WEEK: My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless. Even 20 years after its initial release, this album still thrives as one of the strangest auditory experiences in rock and pop. Kevin Shields and company truly came together with a sonically surreal album here that still has modern experimentalists intrigued. WATCH THE
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Gnawed Gristle and Bone by Venowl Despite extreme metal’s noisy nature, there’s a surprising lack of artists making it who openly embrace noise as a compositional tool. If anything, noise is simply just a by-product of making such uncompromising music. However, that’s not the case with Venowl.
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On its sophomore album, the UK’s Dragged Into Sunlight works to diversify its grimy, blood-soaked sound, but brings less intensity in the process. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Deerhoof drops some visuals via this Richard Huntington Swanson-directed video for the track “Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III,” which is loaded with weird, artsy takes on circus sideshow acts. The song comes from the noise pop band’s latest effort, Breakup Song. Watch a review of it here.
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While Vessel does create a pretty consistent and well-groomed style on this album, which fuses elements of IDM and techno with some of the most shadowy sounds on record, some tracks are clearly more well-developed than others. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Here’s a track from a collaboration dropping on Nov. 20th via Software that has me pretty psyched. Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin are really at the top of their respective games right now when it comes to experimental and ambient music, and to hear the both of them collaborate
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Internal Combustion by Tony Falco & Josh Sinton A series of free jazz odysseys on this new collection of tracks from percussionist Tony Falco and saxophonist Josh Sinton. While Falco and Sinton don’t create the most relentless or chaotic improvisations, they do get quite noisy and freakish. Stream it
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While Crystal Castles continues writing some decent electropop tunes, on III the Toronto duo sees fit to decorate all of them with generic drum timbres and an overabundance of reverb. WATCH THE REVIEW
