The mighty Hands In The Dark are gearing up for some stellar releases this summer. ::: All pre-orders start May 29th ::: ::: 3 is the magic number ::: HANDS IN THE DARK
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I’ve heard and read so many people saying 2011 was a bad year for music. Where are these people looking? What are they listening to? Because it’s certainly not been my experience of the year. For me 2011 has been one of the most exciting years in a long time, with more variety than...
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2011 was overflowing with amazing sounds. Here’s a snapshot of some things that entered into and stood out in my own little musical universe. Best Album Lee Noble “Horrorism” (Bathetic) I’ve been quite fond of everything I’ve heard from Lee Noble over the past few years. His previous releases tended to compartmentalize specific aspects...
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The hints of it have been there for the past couple years, but even as someone who is a big fan of his earlier releases, I still didn’t expect the singular excellence that Lee Noble’s first LP, Horrorism. The album, no doubt one of the year’s best, is an introspective lullaby saturated with syrupy...
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Lee Noble is a shadowy figure. Combining haunted genres and plenty of variety on his Sweat Lodge Guru debut, Noble (if that’s a real name) has released an absolute drone-psych monster with No Becoming.
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Horsehair Everywhere has an all-star line up that you’re probably familiar with: Frank Baugh of Sparkling Wide Pressure, Geoffrey Sexton, Patrick Singleton, Caleb Steelman, Samuel Steelman, Lee Noble, TJ Richards, Stephen Molyneux, and others.
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Best Album Pimmon, “Dimension P” (Headlock) This was a limited edition tour CDr put together for the Mutek 2010 Festival in Montreal where Sydney’s Paul Gough made an appearance. I wasn’t able to make it up to Montreal, but this disc blew me away, and still continues to hold a magnetic power over my...
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Here are some things I enjoyed in 2010: Best Album Sun City Girls, “Funeral Mariachi” (Abduction) Part of the Sun City Girls’ appeal for me was always their unpredictability, their total refusal to play by anyone’s rules but their own. So it was fitting then, not only as a tribute to the late Charles...
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