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Review: Anna Von Hausswolff ‘All Thoughts Fly’

7th October 20206th November 2020 Daniel Pietersen All Thoughts Fly, Anna von Hausswolff, Avant-Garde, Experimental, Southern Lord

When I first saw Anna von Hausswolff live, in the huge space of Tilburg’s 013 venue, what struck me most

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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 Metal, 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 Metal, 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 Metal, 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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