(the eyes don't have earlids) Noel Meek with Richard Youngs, Neil Campbell and Lasse Marhaug Wellington, New Zealand musician Noel Meek founded and curates the critically applauded label End of the Alphabet Records. Over the past few years, the label’s built a considerable fanbase and released an
2017 Sol Mortvvs: Sol I, II, III If you can make it through the 22 minutes of nerve-stabbing frequency manipulations on Sol Mortvvs’ Sol III, then other two recordings in the one-man sonic sorcerer’s Sol series will be a
2017 Hollywoodfun Downstairs: Tetris True story: I was actually listening to a radio interviewee explain how playing the video game Tetriscan rewire your brain, when Tetris, the latest album from New Zealand three-piece Hollywoodfun Downstairs (HFD), dropped
Arabrot Six Noises EOY '16: Outliers, Experimentalists, and Psychedelic Voyagers I’m not entirely sure how to describe the pool of albums below. It’s somewhat of a mishmash of the avant-garde and alternative albums that I enjoyed the most in 2016. Although,
2016 Bastard Noise & Sickness: Death’s Door Harsh noise is a hard sell. It’s deliberately challenging, demanding and punishing, and most people don’t even consider it to be music at all. That includes people who’ll happily listen