oOoOO & Islamiq Grrrls - Faminine Mystique (Nihjgt Feelings, 2018)

After witch house blew up (and after becoming one of the few witch house artists worth listening to) oOoOO promptly took some time away from that crappy and toxic scene - respect points. He reemerges here in a collaborative effort with Islamiq Grrrls, a relative unknown producer/vocalist from LA. On Faminine Mystique they sling tattered witch house garb over the bones of pop tunes, to a really strange effect - some of these songs feature references to Chris Isaak, the Eagles, breakbeat, hip hop...as usual within that Scene, it's hard to tell how much of this is loving homage, irony, or pastiche. But it works pretty well. I'm not sure if each musician wrote their own lyrics but it seems to me that the tracks with Grrrls' vox feature clunkier lyrics which kind of weighs the project down, and they never truly lift off into completely uncharted avant pop territory but it's certainly a departure from "witch house typical" and definitely shows two artists trying to come up with a new kind of musical discourse, even if they aren't inventing a new language. Think Religious Knives with a more hip-hop bent and you're in the ballpark. Interesting.

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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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