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Tarpit Troubleman TMU-147 CD £12.99 A major hook-up: White Rock is a collaboration between Double Leopards (Mike Bernstein and Maya Miller) and New York Now Wavers Mouthus. Tarpit is their debut disc, consisting of two long tracks that beat like heavy leather wings powered by cracked electronics, field recordings and moments of fucked digital distortion. Later sections manage to approximate a similar kind of man/machine-styled damage to The Dead C circa “Sun Stabbed”/”Helen Said This”, while the second track contains moments of such dazzling analog beauty that it sounds like some lost reel of kindergarten Krautrock somewhere between Kluster and, uh, Cluster. Just beautiful, that’s what. |
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Futures Troubleman TMU-151 10" £9.99 Beautiful/limited 10” vinyl edition of this brand new collection of homemade electronic grudge and tape-lurch from the always flattening duo of John Olsen (Wolf Eyes) and Tovah O’Rourke (Wooden Wand And The Vanishing Voice). Parts of this sound like The New Blockaders in denim cut-offs and Reign In Blood patches with a penchant for Roxy-era Eno. Recommended. |
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Radish On Light Troubleman TMU-177 CD £6.99 New album from this excellent US underground cell bundles a wildly variant clutch of escape strategies, from modal, snake-stoning guitar that sounds like Pentangle plays Savage Republic through Swans-scale monolithomania, elongated psych rock jams, scrabbly pots of improvised chatter and a weird Ralph Records/MX-80/Subterranean Modern avant-American goof feel. |
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Radish On Light Troubleman TMU-177 LP £8.99 Tough to source vinyl edition of the new album from this excellent US underground cell bundles a wildly variant clutch of escape strategies, from modal, snake-stoning guitar that sounds like Pentangle plays Savage Republic through Swans-scale monolithomania, elongated psych rock jams, scrabbly pots of improvised chatter and a weird Ralph Records/MX-80/Subterranean Modern avant-American goof feel. |
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In Brooklyn After Dark Troubleman TMU-187 12" £8.99 Edition of 750, new 12" EP from Religious Knives, featuring Mike and Maya Bernstein from Double Leopards, Nate Nelson from Mouthus and bassist Todd Cavallo. This is the group's most aggressively sci-fi punk side to date, with padding drums, minimal bass and howling vox slowly obliterated by almost Sister Ray-levels of keyboard storm. Operating somewhere in the margins between Silver Apples, Chrome, Can and Swell Maps circa Full Moon/Blam!, the new Religious Knives material is some of the best avant-primitive rock song this side of Pluto. |
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The Female Mind Troubleman TMU-180 LP £10.99 Edition of 750 LP from this pugilistic rock/noise trio featuring Dominik Fernow of Prurient on guitar, Joe Potts on percussion and Richard Dunn on electronics and vocals. Martial No Wave drum/guitar assault with alla the reductive brutality of Teenage Jesus & The Jerks infected with electro-pulse moves that are somewhere between Can and Suicide, tortuous barely-there vocals and ferocious, everything in the red production values. |
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On Two Sides Troubleman TMU-196 LP £13.99 Excellent LP by this mysterious one-man NYC outfit. The sound is extremely DIY/Messthetics reverent, with a primitive new wave attack that would reconcile 70s/80s future shock ala the first Chrome album with angsty melodies, vocal F/X, a nicely smudged production style, Minimal Man-style apocalyptic keyboards and song structures that reflect on the whole NZ/Flying Nun school of garage/bedroom wows, ending up sounding like a more synth/drum machine deformed version of Luxurious Bags. If you dig Woods/Hospitals/Sic Alps/Eat Skull et al then dig this. |
