Musique Machine Reviews

From Musique Machine:

Death In June – The Rule Of Thirds
Though born from the Neo Folk scene there’s something very other and strange about Death in Junes sound and sonic presence, at the base of all of songs on The Rule of Thirds is acoustic guitar but there’s lots of things making this a bizarre, intriguing, quirky and at times sinister playing experience.

ToyMonger – The Nightvision
The nightvision is this two pieces debut album with having only one cassette release before and it’s a highly effective and eerier shot of drone craft, dingy sometimes aggravated electronics and guitar scapes bringing to mind the same sort of dread filled and doomed soaked grim looping and building atmospherics of the like of Skull Defekts and Wolf Eyes at their more claustrophobic and grim soundtrack like.

Vinterriket – Gebirgshohenstille
Gebirgshohenstille finds one man German black metal/ ambient project Vinterriket focusing more on the atmospheric ambient keyboard side of his sound to create 6 sonic hymns to the loneliness and beauty of the mountain scapes, with only two tracks having blacked guitar and vocal tones on them.

MGR/Xela – Shipping Gold/Calling for Vanished Faces
This split release, available only on LP and download, presents a couple of unique performers who are quite dissimilar to one another in approach. Barge Recordings are touting this as the first in a series of unlikely pairings, and they’re off to a good start.

Derek Raymond, James Johnston & Terry Ed – I Was Dora Suarez
My relationship or should I say obsession with this spoken word/ sound scaping album goes back to when it was original released back in 1993, at the time I’d read a review about it saying that this was one the most appalling and gut wrenching things your likely to hear. So I spent the ensuing years looking through record shop rails across the world trying top find a copy of this depraved fruit, but I never could, but it always stayed in the back of my mind taunting me- so I was very excited when I saw it was to be reissued.

Skeletons Out – In Remembrance Of Me
In Remembrance of me is a dense, swampy and often atmospherically licked sonic stew of noise and drone textures built with only the use of vinyl and tapes, the pair of Jay Sullivan and Howard Stelzer building up a rich, strange and haunted sonic world.