Anyone who actively seeks out this record should have a pretty good sense of the type of noisy shenanigans Thurston Moore might get up to in the comfort of his home studio with a little wine and marijuana for company. Mention of those vices in a come-on poem, an obscure split cassette by the Haters/Merzbow and a photograph of a young Johnny Winter are oddly distinct references as points of inspiration for this series of soundscapes. Sensitive/Lethal contains two 20-minute-plus epic noise bookends, “Sensitive” and “Lethal,” sandwiching the much briefer “Lonesome,” which sounds like a bunch of planes slowly crashing into a squeaky wheel. “Sensitive” is surprisingly affable experimentation, perhaps thanks to a steady acoustic drone anchoring the cacophonous symphony of muted guitar noises Moore drags out of his instruments. “Lethal” might be exactly what its title claims. The track’s extreme feedback jitters spike into potentially damaging frequency ranges but how much caution would you expect from Moore’s mini-Metal Machine Music? (No Fun)
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Aidan Baker’s Nadja have been receiving more and more attention for their incredible fusion of metal, ambience and experimentation. Between his solo work and his doom-y Nadja project, Baker’s racked up well over 20 recordings in the last year. ARC, though, have been relatively less active. The “r”
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Philly’s Shot x Shot quartet delivered a striking debut a couple years back with their self-titled disc for High Two. Recorded in a hugely reverberant church, it showed the quartet reworking gritty free-bop into grandly overarching soundscapes. Their newest disc has more conventional acoustics but
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It's safe to say that Kataklysm helped pave the way for the Montreal, QC death metal scene, which has continued to flourish over the years. Since their 1991 inception, they've consistently churned out quality records and Heaven's Venom, their 11th studio release, is another top-notch album...
Compared to the great lumbering Horton that is the American music business, we might as well be Whos up here. With one-tenth the population of our southern neighbour, the Canadian music business lives on a dust mote, so minimal is our impact, generally, on the economics of the business worldwide....
