***Bruit Direct continues down the path of no-fucks-given with yet another ace from a deck already heaped with bewildering maa. In much the same way as Pasolini’s Theoreme (the film) once fizzled the corneas of the prim, THEOREME (the artist) is here to singe ears on this blistering debut. Laying down all the instrumentation and vocals herself, MAISSA D. posits that specters of the past continue to resonate. Deep inside the angular ingenuity of this chef d’oeuvre are subtle sonic vectors, analogous to Gutura, SIC and the corrosive side of Zick Zack.
LP $24.50
11/25/2016
***DAN MELCHIOR, GRAHAM LAMBKIN, LETHA RODMAN MELCHIOR and GLEN (who we hope Guinness will recognize as the world’s most recorded budgie) under the influence of oddball reports from regional newspapers. Highlights include Letha’s keyboard-playing and Glen’s chimpanzee impressions.
12" $19.25
01/08/2016
***The second full-length LP by this Australian band whose hypnotic, messed up, unmistakable / mistaken music uses an array of invented and homemade instruments and is, according to Still Single, “dotted by the legacy of Harry Partch’s creation of music and sound sources from inside the mind, but given to strong jazzy / RIO currents throughout, underscored by vocalist SARAH BYRNE’s adventurous alto surveying the wake of composed-with-improvised-feel tracks as they settle and march around one another.”
LP $25.25
11/19/2013
***“If Jacno had been raped by Iggy Pop, missed the abortion, abandonned (sic) the child on the fringes of a Cronemberg movie; if this child survived, was kidnapped and sold as a sex slave to Alan Vega by Donna Summer, (just after releasing ‘I Feel Love’), escaped in the dark streets of a violent b-movie involving cops, militia, sweat, dirt, lizards with guns, and naked nubile women, he would feel like SCORPION VIOLENTE was THE music made for him. And eventually, he would end up killing both members of this band, and eat them, maybe calling them ‘mummy’ while doing dirty things involving meat, broken records, body fluids and unheard-of orifices, most of them created for the occasion.”—Scorpio Violente
12" $20.15
06/29/2010
***A precarious concept album for the tragic era of the working poor that generated some priceless flailing among the chattering class, but Detailed Twang seemed to have the levelest head when they describe it as "Strange and pleasingly ill-fit mash of distorted horror rap, electronic tweedling, screams, monsters sound, and manipulations of all sorts. Mostly instrumental, and heavy in every sense of the word." Six tracks over and done with in less than ten minutes. For crying bones and bludgeoned hopes.
7" $9.25
03/09/2010