YoshimiO, Susie Ibarra & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Flower of Sulphur (Thrill Jockey, 2018)

Thought this was an intriguing meeting of the minds. YoshimiO of the Boredoms, OOIOO, etc. Susie Ibarra, percussionist of great Downtown NYC imrpov scene fame. And Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe of Lichens and increasingly making a name for himself under, well, his own name. This is a live improvisational set chopped up into 4 sidelong pieces. As you might expect from having two percussionists it's fairly drum-heavy. Lowe contributes some garbled vocals that don't sound at all unlike what you might hear from Eye of the Boredoms lending the set a temporarily nostalgic vibe. The proceedings throughout are very spacious, relatively slow-moving. Lots of ideas are entertaining (there's a whole host of instruments - acoustic and electronic - in play throughout that I won't even try to place) and nobody seems to want to step on anyone's toes. Maybe a little too respectful although lots of active listening going on and corresponding engagement. At times the group lock into a groove and Lowe's vocals combine to put this thing in the Supersilent stratosphere but those moments are too fleeting. The set as a whole didn't do much for me. They let loose a little on the final passage but overall I was hoping for a little more jam from these 3 titans.

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Eartheater - IRISIRI (Pan, 2018)

Eartheater first came on my radar (and many others) with 2 Hausu Mountain tapes in 2015. She makes glitchy, disorienting music, combining electronics and synthesized percussion with voice, guitars and who knows what else. The whole thing is a confusing stew, kind of reminiscent of Inga Copeland but I would say even more detached from "song". Didn't do much for me.

Kevin Drumm - Jury Prize (Karl Schmidt Verlag, 2018)

Here's a new kd album on Tom Smith's Karl Schmidt Verlag label that's very much the opposite of some of the kd we've heard earlier this year - namely, it's loud as fuck. There's one 53-minute track here, "Schmickedtwice (Jury Prize)" and it sounds as chaotic and unhinged as anything from Drumm, certainly a return to the noisy Sheer Hellish Miasma days but sonically on par with analog Merzbow. Recorded this year though so not an old recording. It sounds like there's vocals buried way deep, somebody screaming through the TV static, maybe even some percussion? This one's a heater.

Albums of the Year 2017 // New Releases

//40 Migos Culture (300 Entertainment) //39 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Stranger Things 2: A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack (Lakeshore) //38 Unsane Sterilize (Southern Lord) //37 Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch Blade Runner 2049: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Epic/ASG) //36 Ricardo Villalobos Empirical House ([a:rpi:r]) //35 Brockhampton Saturation II (Question Everything Inc./Empire) //34 Fire-Toolz Drip Mental (Hausu Mountain) //33 Clams Casino Instrumental Mixtape 4 (no label) //32 Yves Tumor Experiencing the Deposit of Faith (no label) //31 Lil Yachty Teenage Emotions (Virgin/EMI) //30 Thriftworks The Feather and the Sword (no label) //29 Paul White & Danny Brown Accelerator (R&S) //28 Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi This Dazzling, Genuine "Difference" Now Where Shall It Go? (Black Truffle) //27 Nazoranai Beginning to Fal...

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