Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Nadja – Bliss Torn From Emptiness
Bliss Torn from Emptiness is a highly successful, epic and atmospheric marriage of ambience, drone craft, post rock and pummelling yet beautiful guitar heaviness. Managing to mix genre traits with ease making a sound and sonic world that is completely and utterly on their own.

Julee Cruise – Floating Into the Night
One of the special qualities of the work of David Lynch is his use of incidental sound and music. His soundtrack for Eraserhead (1977) was an example of industrial paranoia writ large only one year after the debut of Throbbing Gristle in London. His aesthetic was simultaneously contemporary and ahead of it’s time. Another example of his use of music was the frequent use of the singer Julee Cruise who’s elfin tones were deployed on Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks (both the TV series and film). This album is an amalgamation of the best of Julee’s Lynch inspired work.

G0g – Noriah Mills
This strangle titled project, mini two track album and puzzling packaged has little or no info to who or what created it. Falling somewhere between the cracks of ambient, black metal, doom and blacked guitar psychedelics

Various Artists – Thrashing Like A Maniac
This an enjoyable and fairly consistent compilation of the new wave of thrash music that’s reared its ugly headbang head over the last few years from the earache label, that features not just earache bands but a whole slue of other labels work too.