Noise
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Marc Jacobs pulled the title of his third disc After the Flash Flood from a similarly titled photograph by Joel Sternfeld. It’s an American desert landscape shot, one in which a house and car appear moments from slipping through a sinkhole that has already swallowed another vehicle. “The perfect framing and angle of the picture,…
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The Castel Sant’Angelo is revered by Roman Catholics around the world. Built on the bank of the Tiber River in Rome about 135 A.D., it was later the site of a key event in early Catholicism. Pope Gregory the Great, hoping to end a catastrophic plague by leading a procession in the area, reported a…
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At first blush, Belfast’s Ghost Signs appears to be playing a bit of a joke on us with this new release title. A Temporary Loss of Transience, put another way, is a short-term break from the absence of permanence. That somewhat circular definition may be entirely appropriate given Ghost Signs’ penchant for tape and guitar…
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The fourth instalment in Peter Kutin’s and Florian Kindlinger’s Decomposition series landed at the beginning of March. Decomposition IV: Variations on Bulletproof Glass is very much as advertised. The duo abused a 400-kilogram slab of bulletproof glass measuring two by three metres and recorded the whole thing for posterity. At one point, a wrecking ball…
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The contrast between the gentle ambient sounds Pepo Galán is well known for and Carlos Suero’s penchant for thick, dense electronics is central to the appeal of this new collaborative effort. The duo has produced a layered, ominously visual album. Galán’s work on the cover captures the feel of these five new works perfectly. Dark…
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Any album that sets out to contemplate our place in the universe had better have some gravitas. Portugal’s Afonso Arrepia Ferreira (a.k.a. Farwarmth) has plenty on this new release. At just 19, he’s produced an epic. These 13 tracks are giant, growling monsters. Ferreira combines electronics, noise and high-volume distortion with beautifully performed piano, synthesizer,…
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