Review: Semai – ‘136199’ (noise)

Warning: Listen to this release in the middle of the night with the lights out and the volume up on your earbuds at YOUR OWN RISK. The latest release from Czech noise artist, Semai is really one of the most sonically frightening, vacuous releases I have heard in a long time. This recording rivals the...

Review: Artemeida – ‘Radio Lyric Irina” (electronic/experimental)

Today we begin a three-part series of releases sent to us from the Brooklyn, USA label, Alrealon Musique. The first is an EP from the Russian artist, Artemeida called Radio Lyric Irina. It's important, for reference to note on the Bandcamp page the following passage about the artist; that she was trying to express "very...

Review: Hands Holding The Void – ‘BRDLND’ LP (experimental/ambient/noise)

Coming to us now is the extremely-unique, Chicago-based artist, Hands Holding The Void and their album, BRDLND. Now before we get into the review, you, the reader need to understand the true uniqueness of how the artist created this well-thought out album. So, I urge you to read the Album Description below as those are...

Review: Lugola – ‘You Are Not Special’ (Noise/Experimental)

We continue our Steinklang Industrial Label-themed series with one of the more recent releases, You Are Not Special, by the Poland-based noise act LUGOLA. LUGOLA gives us eight tracks of varying lengths from about three minutes, forty eight seconds to just over nine minutes. Their Bandcamp page states that the album “is so far LUGOLA's...

Review: Escuadron De La Muerte – ‘Bastion XXIII’ (noise)

This week we begin a series of great releases from one of the best experimental/noise labels existing: Steinklang Industries. Why one label in one week?  Why not. We begin with a 2020 release, ‘Bastion XXII' from the band, Escuadron De La Muerte. We don’t know much about this particular act other than the fact that we...