Various Artists - Golpea Tu Cerebro: Spanish Underground Cassette Culture, 1980-1988 (Insane Muzak, 2018)

Noise compilations are already pretty dodgy affairs. "Hey want 20-odd blasts of random, context-less noise blasted at you for 80 minutes?". Usually not so fun. But I snagged a groovy Vinyl-on-Demand comp called Mexican Cassette Culture 1977-1982, which I guess this one maybe stemmed from (first release from this Insane Muzak imprint, which sounds like a name John Olsen might come up with, or one who was aping John Olsen might come up with), and it was great. But it was VOD so you got like 6 or 8 sides, a few tracks from each group, some longer sidelong pieces, etc. A bit of time to sink your teeth into each artist. This one is the aforementioned 2-4 minute blasts variety and after a while it's hard to really hear anything at all. As a bit of a history lesson in subversive music in Spain in the 80's it's interesting, but it's not much fun to listen to. Meh.

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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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