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Day: November 8, 2020

Review: eric – We Can’t Be Stopped (Trading Wreckage, Oct 31)

 

 

 

 

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Jack Davidson Reviews 1 Comment November 8, 2020November 8, 2020

“Over-closeness, the noise and heat of being.”

            Don DeLillo, White Noise

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Welcome to Noise Not Music. Here you’ll find reviews of recent albums, various features and lists, and occasional mixes. I do not agree with the statement I’ve chosen as the title for this site; everything I write about here—a great deal of which could be called “noise”—is music. Catchy name though, eh?

I tend to focus on material that resides in the experimental or avant-garde realm of music, but nothing is off limits. If you have an album you’d like me to review, please email me or comment on a post. When I say nothing is off limits, I really mean it. However, I only review albums I like, and the “reviews” themselves (“blurbs” might be a more accurate label, but god, what an awful word) are more intended to encourage discovery rather than to express my personal opinion. Also, I will be much more likely to review an album if it is not sent as a promo blast/press kit. I almost always restrict coverage to things that have come out in the past two weeks or so.

Currently the site is written by just me, Jack, but I’m open to expanding in the future. If you’d like to write a guest review or essay (or anything, honestly; I’m not picky), just let me know.

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**I will no longer review or link to any material hosted solely on Bandcamp. Only submissions of any other kind—self-hosted, physical (email for address), file transfer, FMA, Soulseek, etc.—will be accepted. I know this is not the most convenient policy for many, but blame Bandcamp, not me. If you have rehosted previously reviewed material elsewhere and want me to switch links, please reach out.**

**Material hosted on Nina Protocol or any other platform associated with cryptocurrency, NFTs, or artificial scarcity of any kind is also very much unwelcome here.**

Mid-Year Favorites: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2̶0̶2̶2̶

Favorite Albums of the Year: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

   ⮡  Short Releases: 2020, 2021

   ⮡  Compilations, Archival, etc: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

   ⮡  Cassettes: 2021

   ⮡  Eponymous Debuts: 2020

   ⮡  Songs: 2020

   ⮡  Labels: 2018, 2019, 2021

   ⮡  Most Valuable Players: 2018, 2019

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Previous Posts

  • Review: James Emrick – Actoma (Soda Gong, Mar 17)
  • Review: Tenshun – Continuous Probability (self-released, Mar 4)
  • Review: Renee Willoughby – 33 (Irrational Tentent, Feb 10)
  • Review: Jackie-O Motherfucker – Manual of the Bayonet (Feeding Tube, Feb 24)
  • Review: Hardworking Families – Eight Knots Bathing (Chocolate Monk, Feb 12)
  • Mix: TRANCEDELICA MEGAMIX
  • Review: Matthias Urban – Intermission (Ultraviolet Light, Jan 30)
  • Review: Witches Bitches – Witches Bitches (self-released, Feb 2)
  • Review: Chad M. Clark – Vast Mass (Distant Taxa, Feb 3)
  • Review: Vid Edda – T.O. (Sensorisk Verden, Jan 27)
  • Review: Greymouth – Can Run (Cost of Living, Jan 27)
  • Review: Zbyszko Cracker / MAURICIO – Shovlin’ (Grandmother’s House, Jan 13)
  • Review: Shadow Pattern – Outside Inside (Inside Outside) (Radiant Clay, Jan 13)
  • List: Favorite Releases of 2022
  • List: Favorite Multi-Artist Compilations of 2022
  • List: Favorite Compilations, Reissues, and Archival Releases of 2022
  • Mix: The Yule Goat
  • Review: Yama Yuki – Tufan (Impulsive Habitat, Dec 5)
  • Review: Various Artists – PP-01 (Party Perfect!!!, Dec 2)
  • Review: Partial – Partial Previews (Suppedaneum, Nov 29)
  • Review: Gaped – Fever (Veil Tapes, Oct 27)
  • Review: Lisa Cameron, Damon Smith & Alex Cunningham – Time Without Hours (Storm Cellar, Oct 14)
  • Review: Micro_Penis – Süra Wald (Chocolate Monk, Sep 24)
  • Mix: Freeze Like a Fucking Progress Bar
  • Review: Candi Nook – How I Invented Sound and Redesigned the Human Ear (sPLeeNCoFFiN, Sep 30)
  • Reviews: Sick Days, Pool Pervert (Vacancy, Aug–Sep)
  • Review: mockART – views | interrupted (self-released, Sep 2)
  • Review: Moth Cock – Whipped Stream and Other Earthly Delights (Hausu Mountain, Sep 2)
  • Review: Jürgen Eckloff – Diese, Nichts & Solche (Fragment Factory, Sep 1)
  • Review: Ghost Dance – 1000 Instances of Grief (FTAM, Aug 20)
  • Review: Jordan Deal – GOGO Underworld (Cor Ardens, Aug 5)
  • Mix: Heartwood Stomp
  • Review: Arek Gulbenkoglu – fissure, fissure, fissure (self-released, Jul 26)
  • Review: Hydra – Your Name (Everyday Samething, Aug 1)
  • Review: Low Textures – untitled (Lo-music, Jul 15)
  • Review: Bulk Carrier – Federal (Blood Ties, Jul 6)
  • Review: Darksmith – Imposter (Throne Heap, Jul 1)
  • Review: Leisure Knots – Live at the Structure (Sweet Wreath, Jun 26)
  • Review: F****t Front – Cocksucker Blues (Cleaner Tapes, Jun 24)
  • Mix: Blunt Scissors
  • Review: Faded Ghost – Faded Ghost (Hamilton Tapes, Jun 23)
  • Review: Total Sweetheart – Early to Bed (Dada Drumming, Jun 17)
  • Review: The Lloyd Pack – I Bet You’ve Got Some Good Stories (Low Company, Jun 17)
  • Review: Rose Sobchak – Intangible Asset (E.S.O.D. Productions, Jun 17)
  • Review: Komare – Grace to Breathe That Void (Penultimate Press, Jun 12)
  • Review: Mallard Theory + Lackthrow – A Duck’s Building Constructed Out of the Bones of Its Enemies (Detachment Programs, May 13)
  • Review: Devin DiSanto – Waiting and Counting: Domestic Ritual for the Stereo Field (Rope Editions, May 12)
  • Review: Triple Negative – Rodez Island Cyclone (Cost of Living, May 23)
  • Mix: HATE ROCK
  • Reviews: Country Gun, Lapse (Small Mercies, May)
  • Review: Sophie Sleigh-Johnson – Nuncio Ref! (Crow Versus Crow, May 6)
  • Review: Dressing – Dressing (Krim Kram, Apr 29)
  • Review: No Artist – Dear Master, […] (Chained Library, Apr 15)
  • Review: Gorgeous Gorgeous – The Expressionless Fear (Brachliegen Tapes, Apr 1)
  • Mix: Out There
  • Reviews: Grey Windowpane, Roadhouse Duo, Staubitz and Waterhouse (Fruit of the Spirit, March)
  • Review: Barn Sour – One Trick Pony (Staighre, Mar 11)
  • Review: The Gerogerigegege – >(decrescendo) Final Chapter (いぬん堂, Mar 9)
  • Review: Chris Fratesi – Stunad (Lake Shark Harsh Noise, Feb 28)
  • Thoughts: An Open Letter to Bandcamp and a Message to My Readers
  • Review: Peter’s Gate – Field Recordings and Shortwave Volume I (self-released, Feb 22)
  • Review: Bolek i Lolek – Na Dzikim Zachodzie ​/ ​Skutki Uboczne (Live) (Antenna Non Grata, Feb 18)
  • Review: Nodolby / Marsha Fisher split (Activated Skeleton, Feb 18)
  • Review: Glorias Navales – Live at Fundación Comunidad Contemporánea (Frente al Fuego, Feb 18)
  • Review: Jum-Jum – Ways and Waves (Utrovortu, Feb 17)
  • Review: Curcuma Street – Ueckermünde (self-released, Feb 16)
  • Review: Ghost in Mozambique – 2016 / 2022 (self-released, Feb 14)
  • Mix: Fauna Are Friends, Not Food
  • Review: Suitcase Body – Star Bloom (Broken Tape, Feb 12)
  • Review: Rene Kita – Fraught Mackerel (self-released, Feb 12)
  • Review: crcfd – danceableas (The Absorption Directory, Feb 9)
  • Review: Michael Wall – Four Walls Falling (self-released, Feb 9)
  • Review: Unfucked – Unfucked (self-released, Feb 8)
  • Review: Psyberlama – 佛笑伽羅 (Karma Detonation Tapes, Feb 5)
  • Review: Jesucristo Mentiroso – Ruido Asesino (self-released, Feb 4)
  • Review: Defektmensch – – (self-released, Feb 3)
  • Review: Tossapol – P (self-released, Feb 1)
  • Mix: Tulia, Tulia, Tulia
  • Review: Galerie Déplacée – Tendresse (self-released, Jan 30)
  • Review: Excusable Negligence – Performance Outrage Enhancement (Skunt Productions, Jan 28)
  • Review: Breathe Heavy – Hypothermia (Cruel Symphonies, Jan 28)
  • Review: Group of Three – Group of Three (God in the Music, Jan 27)
  • Review: Razorwire Handcuffs – A Life of Gore (Audible Violence, Jan 25)
  • Review: Kortslutning – Self Obliteration (self-released, Jan 24)
  • Review: LDQ Ysimaro / Mente-Atada – Disembodied (Antenna Non Grata, Jan 22)
  • Review: Jelly Bark – BARK, PARK! (self-released, Jan 19)
  • Mix: Righteous Radio Rock
  • Review: Takahiro Mukai – Spell (Nazlo, Jan 18)
  • Review: Lonely Water – Après Nous, le Déluge (self-released, Jan 17)
  • Review: Tetuzi Akiyama & John Krausbauer – Gift (Erototox Decodings, Jan 15)
  • Review: Slowbleed – The Blazing Sun, a Fiery Dawn (self-released, Jan 15)
  • Review: Nameless Mist – II (Fólkvangr, Jan 14)
  • Review: Muster – _am_ (Slightly Off Kilter, Jan 10)
  • Review: Reaching Needles – Illwisher (Death to Dynamics, Jan 8)
  • Review: Augurio Drama – The Noise Box (Audible Violence Tapes, Jan 7)
  • Review: Roller – Offed (Radical Documents, Jan 5)
  • Mix: Free Country
  • Review: Wind Tide – Sound from Focused and Found Routines (self-released, Jan 4)
  • Review: Nehalennia – Galeophobia (ONN, Jan 3)
  • Review: F. Leote – Colagens (Panama Papers, Jan 2)

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Favorite Labels

  • Already Dead
  • Beartown
  • Black Artifact
  • Blood Ties
  • Bored Under Saturn (by me!)
  • Born Physical Form
  • Buried in slag and debris.
  • Chocolate Monk
  • Cleaner Tapes
  • Dada Drumming
  • dents de scie
  • Detachment Programs
  • Digital Regress
  • Eminent Observer (by me!)
  • ETAT
  • Fragment Factory
  • Fruit of the Spirit
  • Fusty C**t
  • Hamilton Tapes
  • Hanson
  • Helicopter
  • Krim Kram
  • Love Earth Music
  • ODMOWA
  • pan y rosas discos
  • Pentiments
  • Prensa Manual
  • Putrescent Tapes
  • Recordings for the Summer
  • Second Sleep
  • Serious Business / HoMF / Busey Teeth
  • Small Mercies
  • Staighre
  • Strange Noise
  • Throne Heap
  • Tochnit Aleph
  • Tutore Burlato

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Andrea Borghi – Lato (Buried in slag and debris., 2021)
Systems. – Endless Tunnel (Necessary Fixation, 2022)
Alförjs – QorusQoros (Sucata Tapes, 2019)
MP Hopkins – Two Pages & Flakes (Regional Bears, 2021)
Amphibian – Hanging Nettles (Small Mercies, 2022)
Serpent Dome – Juniper and Flesh (Black Artifact, 2022)
LAFMS et al. – The Blorp Esette Gazette Vol. 3 & 4 (Gilgongo, 2022)
Sentry – Perfect Blue Bubbles (Jollies, 2022)
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F****t Front – Cocksucker Blues (Cleaner Tapes, 2022)
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