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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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  • Review: Curcuma Street – Ueckermünde (self-released, Feb 16)
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  • Mix: Tulia, Tulia, Tulia
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  • Mix: Free Country
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  • List: Favorite Short Releases of 2021
  • List: Favorite Cassette Releases of 2021
  • Feature: Favorite New Labels from 2021
  • List: Favorite Compilations, Reissues, and Archival Releases of 2021
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  • Review: Blood of Chhinnamastika – Black Dakini (Enforced Existence, Nov 17)
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  • Mix: Anti–Power Electronics
  • Review: K.W. Cahill – Two Films (Power Moves Library, Nov 15)
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  • Mix: Field Research
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  • Review: Water Source – We Went for a Swim and Parted Ways (self-released, Oct 25)
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