Uniform & The Body - Mental Wounds Not Healing (Sacred Bones, 2018)

I wasn't a fan of The Body's I Have Fought Against It, But I Can't Any Longer from earlier this year, mostly because the guest screams of Michael Berdan who is the vocalist of...Uniform. So here's The Body and Berdan's Uniform in full-on collab mode although the album is a scant 27 minutes. But I actually like this a bit better. Berdan's vocals only have one setting, and it's Marv From Home Alone 2 Being Shocked All The Way Up To 11, so it grates after a while. But his vocals are pitched down in the mix here, and he sounds like an insane person screaming in the next room being picked up on the tape, and that's not bad at all. I've never heard Uniform outside of their collabs with The Body and they're a more industrial unit, so that's the flavor of this album - it sounds a lot more like Whitehouse, Ramleh or even Ministry than the pop/doom metal brand of The Body. It was OK enough but nothing that excited me terribly. Big fan of that "Crazy Train" cribbed title though.

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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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