Mugstar – ‘Graft’ (2020)
The Liverpudlian loonies unfurl their dozenth album, including collaborations with Cosmic Dead and Can’s Damo Suzuki, so you can guess where their heads are coming from. Unlike earlier...
Jeff Penczak
Big Blood – ‘Dark Country Magic’ (2020)
Following a decade of travelling the alternative universe submerged in experimental, avant-folk, psychedelic, New Weird America(na), several members of the Portland, Maine-based communal collective that was Cerberus Shoal...
Anton Barbeau – ‘Manbird’ (2020)
Anton Barbeau has recorded over 30 albums, but sadly, many people have never heard of him. On a positive note, however, Kawabata Makoto and his Acid Mothers Temple...
White Manna – ‘ARC’ (2020)
The seventh studio album from California’s intrepid space navigators explores a more introspective mood. With songs ranging from under a minute to over ten, there’s a soothing somnambulant...
Prana Crafter – ‘MorphoMystic’ (2020)
The enigmatic William Sol creates mystical, organic experiences drawn from frequent nature walks through the woodlands near his home in Washington State. So the title of his latest...
The Asteroid No.4 – ‘Northern Songs’ (2020)
The Asteroid No. 4 have always worn their influences on their collective sleeves and the tongues firmly planted in their cheeks. A heady collective of musicologists, their albums...
Happy Dead Man – ‘Vines Grown Between My Eyes’ (2020)
A mind-numbingly twisted nightmare featuring a collaboration between industrial/dark ambient musician W. David Oliphant (Maybe Mental, Life Garden), Sun City Girl Alan Bishop and Fat Gray Cat vocalist...
Dodson and Fogg – ‘Against The Wall’ (2020)
Chris Wade has been busy during the lockdown, recording an EP and this full-length, his third this year and approximately 26th this decade! Instrumental opener ‘Driving Out’ rides...
The Heads – ‘Reverberations Volume 2’ (2020)
Maintaining listener interest and avoiding aimless, boring meandering is difficult when an artist releases an album consisting one long track. Jethro Tull succeeded (twice!) and cult stoner/doom rockers...
The Original Magnetic Light Parade – ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ c/w ‘Confusion Reigns’
The Original Magnetic Light Parade is another international collaboration from Bearsuit (as is their seemingly standard modus operandi), this time pairing Belgian composer/producer/violinist/pianist Alexander Stordiauwith longtime Bearsuit artiste...