Two LPs of staggering a-musical disobedience, strangulated free vocal freak, feedback threnodies and the most primitive nod-out free/metal/garage/skronk this side of the Breakdance The Dawn crew from Oren Ambarchi, Nick Kamvissis and Brendan Walls (who plays alongside Andrew Chalk in Marsfield) with contributions from Lisa and Naomi Tocatly. By far the best thing this wild group have ever done, Puppet Island seems them take on the lumbering metal-dirge style of Kousokuya but w/an obsessive, destructive streak that is almost autistic. The drumming is amazing, with a Bill Ward plays The Shaggs feel over repeating thunder-struck riffs that sound as if they are being played by electrified rubber bands. Throw in vocals alternately sung by small retarded children or macabre puppets and you have alla the ingredients for some of the most deranged free rock of this group’s ‘career’. Pretty amazing, edition of 280 copies in a full-colour gatefold sleeve. Highly recommended. 

Killer new issue of Lasse Marhaug’s beautifully produced music zine, best one yet, with major features/interviews with Graham Lambkin, Phill Niblock, The Menstruation Sisters, Pumice, Torturing Nurse, Will Guthrie, Svarte Greiner, Moe and Carl Michael Eddie. 100 pages, in colour, recommended. 

Edition of 350 copies that presents a live drone ritual from Tel Aviv in 2009 from long-term duo partners Oren Ambarchi and Robbie Avenaim: the title inevitably suggests the psychoactive minimalism of LaMonte Young’s Dream Syndicate and while there’s a similar approach to laminal vertical strata this feels closer to the skullfuck style of Phill Niblock or even Maryanne Amacher with percussion, guitar and electronics generating a miasmic field of microtonally complex power-drone with alla the violence of UK power-psych ala Total/Ramleh or the zoned interactive aspect of Japan’s Marginal Consort. Ambarchi’s recent work as part of the Haino/O’Rourke/Ambarchi trio nailed a bunch of people’s jaws to the floor. If you’re looking for something to follow it, then this is the spot.