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The Body ‘No One Deserves Happiness’ CD/LP/DD 2016

23rd February 20161st November 2019 Angela Davey 2016, Angela Davey, Avant-Garde, Heavy, Industrial, No One Deserves Happiness, Review, The Body, Thrill Jockey Records

With an ever growing list of side projects and collaborations, it was beginning to look like The Body were never

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Årabrot ‘The Gospel’ CD/LP/DD 2016

22nd February 20161st November 2019 Pete Green 2016, Årabrot, Avant-Garde, CD, Digital, Experimental, Fysisk Format, LP, Noise-Rock, Pete Green, Review, The Gospel

As the majority stride onwards into 2016, recent weeks have brought us music lovers unprecedented waves of pain as we

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Christian Death ‘Atrocities’ & ‘The Scriptures’ LP Reissue 2016

21st January 20161st November 2019 Guido Segers 2016, Atrocities, Avant-Garde, Christian Death, Death Rock, Gothic, Guido Segers, LP, Reissue, Review, Season Of Mist, The Scriptures

Christian Death is one of those bands that fit within a specific time frame and setting, There’s a certain cult

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Locrian ‘Infinite Dissolution’ CD/LP/DD 2015

23rd September 20153rd September 2019 Todd Robinson 2015, Avant-Garde, CD, Digital, Doom, Drone, Industrial, Infinite Dissolution, Locrian, LP, Relapse Records, Review, Todd Robinson

I have made no bones over the years about the fact that I adore Locrian, from their earlier noise infused

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Owl ‘The Last Walk’ DD 2014

14th January 20153rd September 2019 Ashlinn Nash 2014, Ambient, Ashlinn Nash, Avant-Garde, Digital, Doom, Owl, Review, The Last Walk, Zeitgeister Music

Owl, a band that when you first hear their work you could only describe them as being a whole-hearted ,

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Obake ‘Mutations’ CD/LP/DD 2014

18th November 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Avant-Garde, CD, Dave Bowes, Digital, Doom, LP, Mutations, Obake, Rare Noise Records, Review, Sludge

Change isn’t always welcome and, while the departure of Zu’s Massimo Pupillo from the ranks of Obake’s finely-honed jazz-sludge machine

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DNMF – S/T – LP/DD 2014

8th November 20143rd September 2019 Jorge Miguel 2014, Avant-Garde, Dead Neanderthals, Digital, DNMF, Drone, Experimental, Jazz, Jorge Miguel, LP, Machinefabriek, Moving Furniture Records, Review, Self Titled

DNMF is the final result of a collaboration between a group of strange but creative minds: Dutch heavy jazz act

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Manes ‘Be All End All’ CD/LP/DD 2014

21st October 20143rd September 2019 George Leeming 2014, Avant-Garde, Be All End All, CD, Debemur Morti Productions, Digital, Experimental, George Leeming, LP, Manes, Review, Trip-Hop

Eyeballs, limbs, shards of gold. The cover of Manes’ Be All End All is startlingly appropriate – depicting a chimeric

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Abstruse ‘Inner Space-Outer Void’ & ‘Outer Space-Inner Void’ – Space Twofold Series CD/DD 2014

7th September 20143rd September 2019 Dave Bowes 2014, Abstruse, Ambient, Avant-Garde, CD, Classical, Dave Bowes, Digital, Experimental, Industrial, Inner Space-Outer Void, Outer Space-Inner Void, Review, Self Released, Space Twofold Series

Is it possible to have too much ambition? In all honesty, the answer is probably no – nothing ventured, nothing

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Wilderness Hymnal ‘Transmutation’ CD/DD 2014

18th July 20142nd September 2019 Pete Green 2014, Avant-Garde, Black Earth Recordings, CD, Digital, Experimental, GHR Leeming, Pete Green, Piano Doom, Transmutation, Wilderness Hymnal

Piano doom. Those are not two words that in all honesty I expected to write at any point this year

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Death Blues ‘Non-Fiction’ LP/DD 2014

10th July 20143rd September 2019 Jason Fincher 2014, Ambient, Avant-Garde, Death Blues, Digital, Experimental, Jason Fincher, Jon Mueller, LP, Non-Fiction, Sige Records

There are records you listen to for entertainment. There are records you listen to for support. There are records you

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