Venetian Snares & Daniel Lanois - Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois (Timesig/Planet Mu, 2018)

Melvins and Lustmord released "Pigs of the Roman Empire" some...many years ago. Also an odd-duck-but-it-could-work collaboration. Much like Venetian Snares and Daniel Lanois here. Anyway not long after it came out King Buzzo made the comment that "some of the things people think he did were actually us and some of the things people think we did were him". That's the sign of a good collaboration, when all limbs get absorbed into one megalithic beast and the entity operates as an indiscernible One. Such is not the case for M. Funk & M. Lanois. It very much, almost constantly, sounds exactly like Venetian Snares' breakcore playing over Lanois' guitar glossolalia. Lanois is in dreamy, shimmery, ambient mode here, very cinematic and nuanced, and in fact it sounds like it would make a good listen on its own. Snares (whose game I know well and typically enjoy) just slathers his own beats atop with little regard for anything else that's going on. I know Snares is a smart, versatile and thoughtful musician - I guess that's why I'm disappointed he seems to be the one making zero effort to engage with Lanois. On a couple of tracks the duo come together well enough - the 9-minute centerpiece "United P92" does showcase Lanois' guitar snaking and unfurling around Snares' prickly beats and "Mothors Pressroll P131" is so furiously aggressive it almost beats you into submission. But overall the two just don't connect like they should which is too bad.

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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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