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The Body : I’ve Seen All I Need to See

The sludge metal duo dives headfirst into blistering landscapes of noise

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Matthew E. White and Lonnie Holley channel cosmic energy on “This Here Jungle of Moderness”

The first track from the duo’s new collaborative album is a frantic funk fusion landscape.

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Patricia Brennan : Maquishti

The vibraphonist/marimba player’s debut album is a set of soundscapes both elegant and patient.

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Boris & Merzbow : 2R0I2P0

The Japanese metal trio and noise artist mark their eighth collaboration with a close to a torturous year.

Harold Budd

R.I.P. ambient artist and composer Harold Budd

The legendary composer has died at 84.

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Liturgy : Origin of the Alimonies

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s new “opera” retains some of the black metal of their earlier days.

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Hear Megalophobe’s eerie, spacious new drone track “Voxy”

Hear a new track from Benjamin Levitt’s atmospheric new dance performance score.

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William Basinski – Lamentations

The ambient composer follows up a celebratory lounge-disco album with a mournful set of ghostly loops.

Darth Mango

Ghost Against Ghost takes on the Trump administration in new “Darth Mango” video

An intense, ominous track to score an administration of cruelty.

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Eartheater : Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

What exactly is the first clue that Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin is…

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A Beginner’s Guide to Coil’s experimental industrial

Where to begin with the influential, iconic industrial group.

Boris Merzbow new album 2R0I2P0

Boris and Merzbow announce new album, 2R0I2P0

Hear new track “Away from You.”

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clipping. – Visions of Bodies Being Burned

The L.A. noise rap trio deliver an immediate set of horror-hip-hop thrills interspersed with weird, harsh terror.

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Mary Lattimore : Silver Ladders

The harpist/composer invites Slowdive’s Neil Halstead on a dreamy, immersive set of ambient sounds.

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Gunn-Truscinski Duo – Soundkeeper

The experimental psych-rock duo’s fourth album is their biggest and most impressive set of excursions to date.

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Anna Von Hausswolff : All Thoughts Fly

The experimental darkwave artist transitions into a more abstract set of pipe organ instrumentals.

Moor Mother new album Circuit City

Moor Mother announces new album, Circuit City

Moor Mother has announced a new album. After a busy year with a number of…

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Gunn-Truscinski Duo’s “For Eddie Hazel” is a transcendent guitar celebration

The new psychedelic sound piece from ‘Soundkeeper’ is breathtaking guitar wizardry.

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Black to Comm announces new album, Oocyte Oil & Stolen Androgens

Hear the first track, “Stolen Androgens.”