2011: Still Glittering, Pt. 2

Anders Hana - Dead Clubbing

(Drid Machine Records, 2011)

Anders Hana is the "Ha" in MoHa! and Dead Clubbing, his single-sided debut LP is, well, it's gorgeous--perfect even.  Six intense and gritty machinations, each with perilously gridlocked percussion set in looped propulsions, destined to fall off their prescribed track. 



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Dead Neanderthals - We Are Dead Neanderthals

(Self Released, 2011)

If you're a fan of Anders Hana or MoHa! you'll find a lot to like about Dead Neanderthals.  Operating most often in controlled (or barely controlled) bouts of noise jazz and free rock, the duo (on drums and saxophone) have put out three violently delicious 3" CDs, two of which came out last year (including We Are Dead Neanderthals), and all of which are downloadable on their Bandcamp page (which also features their newest 10", a mind-bashing endurance test for the sadomasochists among us).  Did I mention that Dead Neanderthals alerted me to Anders Hana's Dead Clubbing?  Thanks Dead Neanderthals!



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Zac Nelson - Sound a Sleep Sound

(Bathetic, 2011)

I hate this album cover so much, you better believe this album is amazing.  Otherwise I wouldn't be posting this stupid thing on FG.  Providing something of a reprieve from the pummel-heavy obliterations of Anders Hana and Dead Neanderthals, Nelson's work here is lush and mesmerizing, but in some ways no less chaotic.  Sound a Sleep Sound is brilliantly flowing, scattered electronics in the same solar system as acts like Caboladies and Shark's Teeth.  The A side, "Cloud Mine," is pretty much perfect.  Nelson is pretty prolific and all over the place stylistically as well, on other releases, but always really good.  It's just, this cover sucks so bad...

Lee Noble - Horrorism

(Bathetic Records, 2011)

If you're into ghosts, ghosting, dim lights, dim lamps, dim sunsets, general dimness; if you're into groggy hums, low humming, low flying birds flying upside-down and in reverse; if you're into extraterrestrial fog, extraterrestrial miasmas, extraterrestrial ghosts and ghosting, extraterrestrial ghost viscera hanging in the air, extraterrestrials; if you're into mottled surfaces: concrete, bird-wings, degraded metals, worn/faded cotton; if you like it when it's mid-afternoon and a slow moving darkness propagated by a hulking mass of clouds terminates your afternoon and sucks you into the loose-quilted fabrics of your favourite grandmotherly-stitched quilt, watching David Lynch movies with the volume low so that when the rain hits against the windows it infiltrates the scenes in the movie; if that's what you are inclined towards, you might be interested in Horrorism.


"Desire Isn't Suffering" Lee Noble from Bathetic Records.