I loved reading through the complications and spectacular efforts that went into creating these pieces, but even more the works in themselves are masterful structures full of meaning and compelling invention. One of those rare records that leaves you able to imagine vast fields of unexplored musical territory, and assures you that the explorer sent out to them is sure to exceed what you can imagine Giles
What gnarly Sarlacc pit did this free-rock trio crawl out of? Cloud Nothings' Jayson Gerycz (drums) and Dylan Baldi (sax) get Weirdo Cleveland with guitarist John Kolodij (fka High aura'd) on two side-long tracks. Both start dusky and slow — very much Kolodij's mode — but build to Last Exit-level skronk, as if to shred out of the goopy, toothy maw with axes and saxes drawn. https://www.vikingschoice.org/archive/mystic-folk-hill-country-black-metal-psychedelic/ Lars Gotrich
Maria Chávez digitally processes surface noise from vinyl — the seeming, disquieting nothing — into floating saucers of sound, whooshes dubbed to space and scrapes skipped and panned around a room without beginning or end. Lars Gotrich