Review: Monolith – The Black Cradle
“I’d like to be/under the sea/with a giant squid’s chitinous beak/cutting through me”
– Ringo Starr if he was aboard The Black Cradle
Review: Múr – Múr
Múr Múr Múr, how do you like it, how do you like it?
Review: Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean
Who needs vocal melodies when you can just talk intently about surrealism and the occult?
Review: Together to the Stars – The Fragile Silence
The post-blackers are post-back.
Review: Ikaiora – Beneath a Drifting Haze
“just another one-man bedroom project” (positive)
Review: Vestige – Janis
Catharsis? In MY metal? It’s more likely thank you think.
Lost In Time: Kayo Dot – Hubardo
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but boats will take me down a river carved out by an eldritch sky rock
Review: Mountaineer – Dawn and All That Follows
Close your eyes and drift away on the fuzz
Review: Sumac – The Healer
From fresh and fallowed limbs, petals open
Review: Botanist – Paleobotany
Careful! Don’t touch my mesozoic conifer fossil collection!