Rock /
Chaleur Humaine
2021 release ** "Uman’s Chaleur Humaine, the debut album from the French duo of musicians and siblings Danielle and Didier Jean, resurfaces for the first time since its original release in 1992. While history, both private and public, is scattered with creative relationships between siblings that simply “did not work,” UMAN’s story is uniquely different and defined by this bond, and a shared journey impressing footprints along an adventurous musical terrain. Prior to Chaleur Humaine, Danielle an…
Few Traces
2018 release ** "Few Traces surveys a near decade of Mark Renners scarcely released and unreleased material from 1982 to 1990, embracing and evoking the timelessness of his artistic statement: a wordless translation of the individuals musical experience, met with the poetic expression of being here. Mark Renner first encountered punk while a teenager in Upperco, a country town in rural Maryland. Growing up on his family farm, he became a young acolyte of the British exports hitting not-so-distan…
UNZ!
2005 release ** "Antisisters ( Pavel A. "Nowayout" Gromov (vocals), Sergey "Foxygene" Gromov (machines, live drums), Alexander "Sandwitch" Sosnovsky (guitar), Igor "HAnGo" Gomonov (machines, live keyboards) is one of the eldest darkwave bands from Moscow, Russia. In spite of the long biography Antisisters is still an underground band that is deliberately avoided by the musical press. The members hide their faces on band photos and you can see their real faces only on concerts that are very rare.…
God Blesses Us, Mother Dresses Us
2010 release ** Bedroom synthpop recording alias of Wesley Eisold pre Cold Cave. Expanded CD reissue of the LP released by Art Fag Records in 2009. "This 2006-2008 collection of twenty-four electronic bedroom recordings features previously unreleased songs as well as all tracks from the out of print LP and demo."
Welcome To The Weird World
2013 release ** "Plutonium Baby was born in the south-east quadrant of Rome, where Black Guitarra, formerly of Motorama, joins Fil Sharp and Feith Da Grave of the new-wavers Cactus. A guitar, a synth, the drums and above all a lot of reverb and distortion on the voices: Jay Reatard shouting at Suicide and Screamers, with the addition of Pussy Galore chewing on the B-52's. The result is an unusual mix of punk, wave and garage, expertly blended by Alex Vargiu (Bloody Riot / Bingo / The Dissuaders)…