Bernie Brooks

Open Heart Surgery: Hidden In This Is The Light That You Miss By Regis

Karl O'Connor's first proper Regis LP in 19 years is an emotionally holistic tour de force, says Bernie Brooks

Primo!

Sogni

Primo! spruce up well-worn influences on their second LP, Sogni, delivering an invigorating, unique listening experience, says Bernie Brooks

Mass Effects: On The New Soft Pink Truth Album

Drew Daniel's latest LP as The Soft Pink Truth, Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase, is a stunner that revels in communitas while flirting with house music and ambient tropes, says Bernie Brooks

Nathan Fake

Blizzards

Nathan Fake's Blizzards buzzes and clicks and pops as he embraces gremlins in the circuitry to deliver his best work yet, says Bernie Brooks

AHRKH

Beams From A Spiritual Panorama

AP Macarte's first solo AHRKH outing since 2015 is an otherworldly and wonderful deep listening session, says Bernie Brooks

I Think People Get The Wrong Idea: An Interview With Sightless Pit

Ahead of their debut LP, Grave Of A Dog, Dylan Walker and Lee Buford of Sightless Pit talk to Bernie Brooks about club bangers, small details, Seth Manchester, Skyrim, and more

OOIOO

nijimusi

OOIOO’s latest transmission, nijimusi, is a joyous exposition of masters at work, says Bernie Brooks

Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, Ebe Oke

Dokument #2

Brian Eno, Laurie Anderson, and Ebe Oke craft a transporting case against leading a cloistered artistic existence on the vinyl-only Dokument #2, says Bernie Brooks

Gross Net

Gross Net Means Gross Net

Philip Quinn’s sophomore LP as Gross Net is a darkly romantic Brexit record that rewards repeat listens, says Bernie Brooks

Beyond Good & Evil: Breaching Lightning Bolt’s Sonic Citadel

Twenty-five years and seven albums in, Sonic Citadel finds Lightning Bolt making some of the best music of their career, says Bernie Brooks

Songs Of Incexprence: Kemper Norton’s Brunton Calciner

Kemper Norton’s latest LP, brunton calciner, is a transfixing ode to transformative processes told through local history, customs, and folklore, says Bernie Brooks

Soft Walls

Not As Bad As It Seems

Lo-fi rock Re-Animator Dan Reeves remains a slave to the repetition on Soft Walls' third and best full-length, says Bernie Brooks

No Other Approach: HYPERSTITION DUO Interviewed

Regrouped in London, ex-members of Blood Sport Sam Parkin and Alex Keegan talk to Bernie Brooks about the ecstatic, anti-capitalist rhythms of their new project, HYPERSTITION DUO, the dissolution of their former band, and their new label POLYPHONIC ASSEMBLAGE

Félicia Atkinson

The Flower And The Vessel

Félicia Atkinson’s new double LP, The Flower And The Vessel, navigates the intimate, unruly liminal space between comfort and discomfort, quiet and disquiet, says Bernie Brooks

Trash Kit

Horizon

Trash Kit’s third LP, Horizon, embodies the bright, drawn-out days into which it has emerged, says Bernie Brooks

Various

Pure Sounds Of Michigan

Pure Sounds Of Michigan paints a beautiful but incomplete picture says Bernie Brooks

Heavy Bleeding

Heavy Bleeding

A collaboration between Heavy Lifting and the now-defunct Blood Sport, Heavy Bleeding’s posthumous debut is both deeply familiar and extraordinarily alien, says Bernie Brooks

Harrga

Héroïques Animaux De La Misère

Harrga's uncompromising debut is harrowing liberation music, says Bernie Brooks

Aseethe

Throes

The tracks on Aseethe’s new LP, Throes, move slowly, but with purpose and conviction, says Bernie Brooks

Oozing Wound

High Anxiety

With their fourth LP, High Anxiety, Chicago rippers Oozing Wound expand their sound and eviscerate, says Bernie Brooks

MY DISCO

Environment

MY DISCO’s fifth LP is a visceral act of self-erasure says Bernie Brooks

Black To Comm

Seven Horses For Seven Kings

Black To Comm’s latest is a masterpiece of sound design, and that’s no backhanded compliment, says Bernie Brooks

Just Heavy, Big Stuff: An Interview With Klaus Johann Grobe

Hot on the heels of a new LP and catastrophic gear robbery, Bernie Brooks talks to Klaus Johann Grobe’s Sevi Landolt about kitschy sounds, eroticism, and rebounding from the loss of all but one piece of gear

Hiro Kone

Pure Expenditure

With her second LP, Hiro Kone cements her position as one of the finest electronic musicians working today

The Spiritual Space: Szun Waves Interviewed

With their second album 'New Hymn To Freedom' out this week on the Leaf Label, cosmic jazz trio Szun Waves talk to Bernie Brooks about reaching enlightenment through their performance

I Have Spoken With Intent: An Interview With Nicky Mao Of Hiro Kone

Following the release of her collaboration with Drew McDowall, The Ghost Of Georges Bataille, Hiro Kone’s Nicky Mao talks to Bernie Brooks about spectral presences, the collaborative process and her time in NYC

A Return to Normilcy: An Interview With Normil Hawaiians

Ahead of the reissue of More Wealth Than Money and their upcoming performance with Richard Dawson in London, Normil Hawaiians talk to Bernie Brooks about improvisation, their debut LP, and the future of the band

Herd Mentality: An Interview With Cattle

Following a devastating set of concussive, highly percussive noise rock at Supernormal, Cattle talk to Bernie Brooks about their recent debut LP, DIY, and what lies ahead

LISTEN: New Hiro Kone Album

Hiro Kone's exceptional debut LP, featuring Drew McDowall, Roxy Farman, and James Baldwin, is on the horizon, so we caught up with her to discuss the record and offer you an exclusive first listen. Homepage photo courtesy of Mara Corsino

British Sea Power

Let The Dancers Inherit The Party