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

            Don DeLillo, White Noise

Noise Not Music condemns the Palestinian genocide and is committed to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.

Welcome to Noise Not Music. Here you’ll find writing on recent releases, various features and lists, local show reports, mixes, and more.

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. When I say nothing is off limits, I really mean it. However, I only review albums I like, and the “reviews” themselves are more intended to encourage discovery rather than to express my opinion. I am much more likely to check something out if it is not sent as a promo blast or press kit. I almost always restrict coverage to things that have come out in the past month or so. My inbox is always full and I can’t get to all of it.

Currently the site is written by just me, Jack, but I always want guest writers. Hit me up if you’d like to contribute a review, report, etc.

Contact/submit via noisenotmusic1@gmail.com
Ask for mailing address. Based in Lenapehoking (NY)

**In support of Bandcamp United and in opposition to the corporatization of independent music distribution, I no longer link to Bandcamp on this site. If you would like something to be considered it needs to be available for purchase or download elsewhere.**

**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, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Favorite Albums: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

— Cassettes: 2021, 2023

— Compilations, Archival, etc: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

— Eponymous Debuts: 2020

— Labels: 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023

— MVPs: 2018, 2019

— Short Releases: 2020, 2021

— Songs: 2020

— Splits: 2024

— Various-Artist Compilations: 2022

Categories

  • Features & Lists
  • Miscellaneous
  • Mixes
    • Ambient / Drone
    • Art Brut
    • Collage / "Non-Music" / Other
    • Dance
    • Field Recording
    • Glitch
    • Jazz / Improvised Music
    • Noise / PE / Wall
    • Pop / Folk / Hip-Hop
    • Rock / Metal
    • Spooky
  • Reviews
    • Guest Reviews
  • Show Reports

Previous Posts

  • Review: Erell Latimier – Stay Still (Kythibong, Nov 18)
  • Review: Ineffable Slime – Deep and Desperate Fictions (Virtues, Nov 4)
  • Review: Iris Our – Victual Vittle Bottle Cunt (Recital, Oct 31)
  • Review: Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas – A Mountain Sees a Mountain (Old Heaven Books, Oct 20)
  • Mix: A Cool Dark Place to Die
  • Review: Stimulant – Sub-Normal (Nerve Altar, Sep 19)
  • Review: Rhodri Davies & Alfredo Costa Monteiro – Widdershins (ICR Distribution, Sep 5)
  • Show Report: Benjamin G. Scott / Shots & Yan Jun (Weehawken St, Sep 16)
  • Review: Stalking – Feedback Destroyer (Breaching Static, Aug 29)
  • Review: Zhao Cong – blow,blow,​blow,blow,blow (Oigovisiones, Aug 14)
  • Review: A Fail Association – “Only Connect” Sessions 2024–2025 (Limited Hangout, Aug 5)
  • Review: Rhizome Weaving – You Are Not Sorry Enough (Venalism, Jul 31)
  • Review: Radio Species – Compressed Knowledge (Soda Gong, Jul 18)
  • Review: Double Goocher Shop – Radio Carrion (Reading Group, Jul 9)
  • List: Favorites from the First Half of 2025
  • Review: Sick Days – Dress Entire (Vacancy, Jun 16)
  • Review: Sheep Ditch – Foster Park Bowl / Perkins Cul de Sac (Already Dead Tapes, May 30)
  • Review: Penis Geyser (Gracious Host, May 7)
  • Mix: Barely There yet There Indeed
  • Review: Robert Fuchs – C.O.T.H. (Usagi Productions, Apr 15)
  • Review: RM Francis & Jung An Tagen – H E L L O After-Person (ETAT, Apr 2)
  • Review: Opera Benezet (Postal Swing, Mar 16)
  • Review: Slacking / Black Corolla – Lonely God (Clangor Tapes, Mar 21)
  • Review: SCRY – CAPTCHA (self-released, Mar 10)
  • Show Report: Spaghetti Human Being / Bentley Anderson / Ka Baird & Sam Newsome / id m theft able (INTERCOMM, Apr 4)
  • Review: Mark Anderson & Anthony Guerra – River Transcription (Regional Bears, Mar 11)
  • Review: Skafrenningur – Þríleikur (Malevolent Relics, Mar 1)
  • Review: Scathing – Venomous Blossoms / Carnivorous Blooms (self-released, Feb 28)
  • Review: Clearance – Life Hack (self-released, Feb 13)
  • Review: Posset – SCUM (Index Clean, Jan 27)
  • Review: Ted Byrnes – Minutia (un poco fría, Jan 28)
  • Mix: Movin’
  • Review: Breathing Heavy – not bad (OTOroku, Jan 13)
  • Review: 日常 – 一​,​二 (Sub Jam, Jan 12)
  • List: Favorite Releases of 2024
  • List: Favorite Split Releases of 2024
  • List: Favorite Compilations, Reissues, and Archival Releases of 2024
  • Review: Arek Gulbenkoglu – Swan in the Past (KINDLING, Dec 1)
  • Reviews: Unknown Artist, Belisimo (Everyday Samething, Nov 8)
  • Review: Winter’s Treasures – Out of Reach and Useless (Phons, Oct 29)
  • Show Report: Star / Kieran Daly (Triest, Nov 13)
  • Review: Wasauksing Sniper – Ghost in the Trenches (Western Front, Oct 11)
  • Review: Instituto de Psicogeografía – Psicogeografía II (Resonant Tapes, Oct 4)
  • Review: Angelo Bignamini – Rebelòt (More Mars, Sep 26)
  • Review: Spore Spawn – Okoranaideto (Oxen, Sep 20)
  • Review: Hingst – Absolut Hingst (Ominous, Sep 7)
  • Review: Carl Lindh – listening with the tips of my fingers (zappak, Sep 1)
  • Reviews: John Collins McCormick – Your Money Your Life and For Other 1, 2, 3, 4 (Garbage Strike, Aug 20)
  • Review: Spring of Life – Training Camp (self-released, Aug 3)
  • Review: Komare – untitled C30 series (self-released, Jun–Aug)

Further Reading/Listening

A Closer Listen
A4 Copy Paper
Anti : Music
Being Nice to People is Cool
Bleak Bliss
Blue Spectrum
Celestial Railroad
Die or DIY
Disaster Sources Radio
Global Groovers
Itinerant Radio
Miraculous Agitations
Outside Noise
Oxygen Lounge
Terminal Escape
Yellow Green Red

Print

A Wall of Text
Datacide
Deft Esoterica
Intrusive Signals
Noise Receptor Journal
Puke Pink
Rocker
Untitled
We Jazz

Favorite Labels

Absurd Exposition
adhuman
Aloe
Already Dead
Beartown
Bent Window
Black Artifact
Blood Ties
Bored Under Saturn (mine!)
Buried in slag and debris.
Chocolate Monk
Cleaner Tapes
Dada Drumming
dents de scie
Detachment Programs
Digital Regress
Eminent Observer (mine!)
ETAT
FIM
Fragment Factory
Fruit of the Spirit
Fusty
Hamilton Tapes
Hanson
Helicopter
Infant Tree
Krim Kram
Love Earth Music
Minimal Impact
ODMOWA
Oxen
pan y rosas discos
Pentiments
Prensa Manual
Putrescent Tapes
Recordings for the Summer
Second Sleep
Serious Business / HoMF / Busey Teeth
Small Mercies
Sofa
sPLeeNCoFFiN
Strange Noise
Throne Heap
Tochnit Aleph
Tutore Burlato
Usagi Productions
Vacancy
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