Drew McDowall
Drew McDowall is a Scottish composer and sound artist from Paisley, born in 1961 and now based in New York. He came out of the industrial music scene as a member of Psychic TV in the 1980s and then of Coil, and since 2015 he has released a series of solo electronic albums, most of them on Dais Records. McDowall formed the art-punk trio Poems with Rose McDowall in 1978. He worked regularly with Coil and became an official member of the group in the mid-1990s. After moving to the United States in the early 2000s he started Compound Eye with Tres Warren of Psychic Ills.
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Metal Machine Music: Power To Consume [Vol. 1]
On Metal Machine Music: Power To Consume Vol. 1, a coalition of noise heavyweights channels Lou Reed’s most infamous album into a new crucible of feedback, tape rot and industrial grind, where extremity becomes form and chaos is sculpted into brutal,…
Magnetism
Recorded in a single day in 2022 at McDowall's Brooklyn studio, then mixed and remixed across three years and three cities. There is no organ anywhere on it: the sound is Karplus-Strong synthesis, a filtered delay line modelling a plucked string, tun…
A Thread, Silvered And Trembling
Scottish experimental/electronic musician Drew McDowall’s lifelong interest in an elegiac solo bagpipe style called pibroch (ceòl mòr in Gaelic) has been an inspiration for much of his previous work (including Coil’s legendary Time Machines). This fo…
Lamina
This long-gestating box set of Scottish electronic pioneer Drew McDowall’s solo work takes its title from a technical term meaning ‘plate’ or ‘layer’ most often used in contexts either geological or anatomical: Lamina. He speaks of the compiling proc…
Unnatural Channel
Modular synthesizer enthusiast Drew McDowall is best known for his work with British industrial legends Coil during the '90s, although his career actually stretches back to the late '70s. The Scottish musician started post-punk band the Poems with hi…
Agalma
** Edition of 750 Dark Transparent Green Vinyl ** Veteran NYC based Scottish electronic musician Drew McDowall's latest work is his loftiest, most liturgical, and a least industrial outing to date — and potentially the apex of his recent discography.…
The Third Helix
For this third release on Dais, Drew McDowall reaches into concept, ritual, and immersion, in an exercise of unravelling the DNA of hallucination. The Third Helix is McDowall’s product of deconstructive exploration, twisting the fibers of being into …