GHQ

GHQ
"Everywhere At Once"
2008 (Three Lobed)

1. Rembrance - 04:42
2. Four Trees - 13:37
3. Drop City Blues - 04:54
4. Morrow Rose - 05:05

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2008):
"This is one of nine albums which make up Three Lobed’s Oscillation III series, featuring exclusive recordings from Bardo Pond, The Bark Haze (featuring Thurston Moore), Jack Rose and Lee Ranaldo, among others. A bit like Konkurrent’s In The Fishtank series, it offers artists an experimental breathing space aside from their normal output. GHQ is a trio of Steve Gunn, Marcia Bassett (from Double Leopards) and drummer Pete Nolan (of Magik Markers). Unlike some of the more extended pieces in the series, GHQ’s album is a varied collection of four contrasting tracks ranging from the tense, hovering guitar buzz of “Rembrance” (sic) and the murmured vocal drones and dappled psychedelia of “Four Trees” to the hollowed out drift of “Drop City Blues” (not unlike the eerie torpor essayed in Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan”) and the murky reverb and hum of “Morrow Rose”."

Fabulous Diamonds

Fabulous Diamonds
"Fabulous Diamonds"
2008 (Slitbreeze)

1. Untitled - 02:36
2. Untitled - 04:02
3. Untitled - 02:53
4. Untitled - 03:12
5. Untitled - 05:13
6. Untitled - 03:53
7. Untitled - 02:23

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Review from Wire Magazine (August 2008):
"The latest run from the relaunched Siltbreeze label has been the most impressive yet, and alongside the Eat Skull LP, the Fabulous Diamonds album is the cream of the bunch. An Australian boy/girl duo, they work from a blueprint of primitive drums, keyboards, saxophone, tapes and piano, with Nisa Venerosa’s simplistic rhythms extrapolated and confused via huge dub-scale doses of effects, while Jarrod Zlatic switches between drugged, Terry Riley-esque drones and devotional Pharoah Sanders-style sax. Their vocal duets have a frail pop quality that sounds most like the Aussie wing of the International Pop Underground while the overall heft of the sound is as propulsive and psychedelic as The Silver Apples. A unique and maddeningly addictive listen."

Zola Jesus

Zola Jesus
"New Amsterdam"
2009 (Sacred Bones)

1. Odessa (Live on WNYU) - 04:07
2. Dog (Live on WNYU) - 04:23
3. Orthodox (Live on WNYU) - 04:34
4. Last Day (Live on WNYU) - 04:28
5. New Amsterdam - 03:13
6. Lady Maslenitsa - 04:02
7. Nativity - 03:00
8. Little Girl - 01:22
9. Be Your Virgin - 01:41
10. Lady in the Radiator - 02:18

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Zola Jesus on AMG

Pumice

Pumice
"Quo"
2008 (Soft Abuse)

1. Pumice Quo - 05:31
2. World With Worms - 02:09
3. Fort - 01:34
4. Thermos in the Studio - 02:12
5. Pebbles - 02:20
6. Whole Hoof - 02:46
7. Sick Bay Duvet - 03:27
8. Dogwater - 03:29
9. Heavy Punter - 04:57
10. Battersby - 03:10
11. Beak Remedy - 07:13

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Review from Wire Magazine (August 2008):
"Pumice aka Stefan Neville is the new heir apparent to the New Zealand DIY punk/pop crown previously held by The Clean, Chris Knox and This Kind Of Punishment. His songwriting combines a crude lo-fi aesthetic that manifests itself in muffled vocals, huge ‘dooming’ drums and a motorik take on Lou Reed-style chord solos with drunken folk melodies, lonesome vocals and bursts of free rock. Quo expands the remit even further, with song styles that run the gamut of breakneck hardcore, sea shanties and even moonfaced doo-wop, all rendered with that classic ‘edge of the world’ feel that defines all of the greatest New Zealand independents."

Salaryman

Salaryman
"Karoshi"
1999 (Twelve Inch)

1. Strong Holder - 03:03
2. The Companion - 04:10
3. Thomas Jefferson Airplane - 04:31
4. My Hands Are Always In Water - 04:04
5. Monterey Days / Malibu Nights - 03:49
6. Dull Normal - 04:36
7. Graze The Umbra - 03:33
8. Taco Muerte - 04:16
9. My Dog Has Fleas - 03:05
10. Craters Of The National Moon - 03:56
11. Karoshi - 04:51

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Review: AMG
Official Site: Salaryman

Extra Life

Extra Life
"Made Flesh"
2010 (LOAF)

1. Voluptuous Life - 02:09
2. The Ladder - 06:29
3. Made Flesh - 04:59
4. One of Your Whores - 05:05
5. Easter - 06:15
6. Black Hoodie - 03:26
7. Head Shrinker - 04:09
8. The Body is True - 11:15

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Review from Wire Magazine (March 2010):
"New York’s Charlie Looker presents a personal vision as bewildering as his resumé (Glenn Branca, William Parker) is impressive. Made Flesh offers a contemporary form of urban Prog, drawing as much on the symphonic clang of Branca and Chatham as the brooding chamber rock of Magma and Univers Zero. The crashing rhythms which introduce “Voluptuous Life” set the tone for a work which finds Looker unafraid to plumb ludicrous depths in pursuit of his muse, occasionally displaying a kinship with Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart in terms of unapologetic self-absorption. His affected nerd-squawk vocals are at times irritating but in truth everything here grates, and admirably so."

Radio Massacre International

Radio Massacre International
"Septentrional"
2006 (DiN)

1. The First Cry... - 11:05
2. Seven Sceptres for Sephulcrave - 11:43
3. Trident - 11:19
4. Searching Septentional Skies - 09:19
5. ...The Last Laugh - 12:47

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Review: Synthmusicdirect.com

Walter Horn / Gary Kendig / Hugh Dickey

Walter Horn / Gary Kendig / Hugh Dickey
"Screwdriver!"
1999 (Leo Records)

1. Chainsaw At Sousa's Funeral - 15:58
2. Containment Apron - 09:39
3. Hurricane Elroy - 19:42
4. Sushi Lounge - 03:25
5. Ambulance And Gas Provided By Mutilation Bros,. Inc - 10:24
6. Welcome To The Lonely Village - 06:24
7. Screwdriver! - 09:52

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Jungle

Jungle
"Live in Leningrad 1985"
2008 (N&B Research Digest)

1. Etude Without Nature No. 1 - 04:54
2. Etude Without Nature No. 2 - 04:08
3. Function - 02:15
4. The War of All Against All - 06:25
5. Danger Zone for Consciousness - 03:29
6. Requiem - 04:20
7. Conformism - 01:55

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Review from Wire Magazine (April 2009):
"Jungle Live In Leningrad N&B Research Digest Download N&B Research Digest is a Russian/Finnish download label run by Anton Nikkilä and Alexei Borisov. This recording from Russian sextet Jungle is jazz rock from the Leningrad Rock Club on 16 March 1985. Made up of guitarist Andrei Otraskin, bass player Igor Tikhomirov, percussionists Pavel Litvinov and Andrei Myagkostupov, together with saxophone players Yuri Orlov and Nikolai Fedorovich, Jungle’s style lurches from melody to manic and back again. Interspersed with beautiful instrumental segments and engaging repeated guitar patterns, Jungle have trace elements of European free jazz and US No Wave along with their Eastern European sensibilities."

The Gang Font feat. Interloper

The Gang Font feat. Interloper
"The Gang Font feat. Interloper"
2007 (Thirsty Ear)

1. You Haven't Lived until you have had to Have read Beowulf - 02:10
2. Spencer's Background vs. Todd's claim - 04:01
3. Homage: Claude Schnell - 03:07
4. A Chance To Play Across The Shadows - 04:38
5. The Familiar Cadence Of Banging - 02:09
6. Herman Ze German Cassette - 04:11
7. Let's Go Find A Quiet Place To Cool Down - 13:24
8. The Litigious Mike Love - 03:06
9. "Wild" Mick Brown - 03:38
10. European Ambulance - 05:00

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Review from Wire Magazine (June 2007):
"Such was the epochal importance of Husker Du, the memory of the Minnesota trio makes men of a certain age go misty-eyed. After they split it was drummer Grant Hart and guitarist Bob Mould who made the running in the solo stakes while bass player Greg Norton took 15 years off and opened a restaurant with his wife. However, in collaboration with Dave King from Bad Plus, Norton has returned with The Gang Font featuring Interloper. They sound like The Mothers Of Invention playing surf tunes backwards in a space age jazz club. The uptempo roller-riff of “The Familiar Cadence Of Banging” has the playful chaos of The Meat Puppets. Or there’s the jerky hedgehog spiked pop of the delightfully titled “You Haven’t Lived Until You Have Had To Have Read Beowulf”. Intelligent fun for the musically maladjusted."

Celephais

Celephais
"I Am Kuranes"
2009 (Hoss Records)

1. Caparisoned - 03:38
2. Calling - 02:50
3. Naraxa - 04:03
4. Tanarian Steep - 03:08
5. Ooth Nargai - 07:50
6. Fingers In Your Mouth - 03:25
7. Pawing the Aether - 02:21
8. Dulled, Prosaic - 04:01
9. Trevor Towers - 07:17
10. I Am Kuranes - 05:18

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Review from Wire Magazine (August 2007):
"Both the name of this Atlanta, Georgia based trio and their album title are references to a short story from American horror writer HP Lovecraft. Celephais was a fictional city created in a dream by a hobo called Kuranes who, when he dies, became the chief god of his imaginary realm. Celephais initially come across like an enjoyable Metal thrashabout, before mutating into something darker, stranger and more involved. The driving force of their sound is retained throughout, but underneath lies a catacomb of intricately tunnelled improvisation, feral looping and muted growling made even creepier by a spectral organ."

Utarm

Utarm
"Panic Chamber"
2009 (Roggbif Records)

1. Scratches In The Coffin Of Human Existence - 13:08
2. Panic Chamber Tomb - 05:37
3. Anthropophagous - On Golden Wings Of Ignorance - 12:56
4. Pierced And Drained On The Holy Mountain - 13:22
5. Wrapped Around The Horns Of All Beeing - 08:44

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Black Sheep

Black Sheep
"Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse"
2009 (Invada)

1. Ernesto - 18:15
2. Protest-Underground - 12:25
3. Che - 05:29
4. Underground Resistance - 11:27
5. Leila Khaled - 15:10
6. Kiss My Sweet Apocalypse - 28:40

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Ulan Bator

Ulan Bator
"Ego:Echo"
2000 (Young God Records)

1. Hemisphere - 08:42
2. Santa Lucia - 06:14
3. Etoile Astre - 04:32
4. Let Go Ego - 16:10
5. Hiver - 03:57
6. Selva - 01:40
7. La Joueuse De Tambour - 06:34
8. Soeur Violence - 06:25
9. Echo - 10:06

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When

When
"Svartedauen - The Black Death"
1998 (Tatra Records)

1. Svartedauen - The Black Death - 38:27

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Ponytail

Ponytail
"Themes for Cops"
2008 (N&B Research Digest)

1. Themes for Cops - 34:21

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To Live and Shave in L.A.

To Live and Shave in L.A.
"Noon and Eternity"
2006 (Menlo Park Recordings)

1. This Home And Fear - 24:24
2. Early 1880's - 19:22
3. Percent Obstruct Street - 13:08
4. Mother Over Silverpoint - 09:31

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Psychic Ills

Psychic Ills
"Mirror Eye"
2009 (The Social Registry)

1. Mantis - 10:47
2. Meta - 04:20
3. Sub Synth - 02:09
4. Eyes Closed - 03:10
5. I Take You As My Wife Again - 09:35
6. Fingernail Tea - 05:52
7. The Way Of - 04:52
8. Go To Radio - 02:43

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The Crowned Heads of Europe

The Crowned Heads of Europe
"Witnesseth"
2008 (Sounds of Battle and Souvenir Collecting)

1. Processional (The Four Faces) - 02:11
2. Vena Amoris - 08:01
3. Timeslip In Colour - 02:10
4. Broken Belfry (Dark Hearts & Trumpets) - 09:17
5. Sifting Sleep - 04:02
6. Bluebonnets - 09:18
7. The Baker's Sorrow - 08:01

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White Rainbow

White Rainbow
"New Clouds"
2009 (Kranky)

1. Tuesday Rollers and Strollers - 18:06
2. Major Spillage - 12:49
3. All the Boogies in the World - 20:09
4. Monday Boogies Forward Forever - 16:00

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