Judge My Most Recent Batch Of CD Purchases, Please.
 

Supersilent - 8
Kevin Drumm - Land Of Lurches
Nurse With Wound - Alice The Goon
John Cage - Empty Words With Music For Piano / One7
NNCK - Clomein
Acid Mothers - Minstrel In The Galaxy
Acid Mothers - We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo
Acid Mothers - some other one, fuck.....it's in the car and I can't be bothered.

ok i guess

Pretty good but don't abandon the board again over Joanna Newsom!

supersilent - all i know is that they are on rune grammafon. kevin drumm - whatever this is i need to hear it cos sheer hellish miasma was insane. nurse with wound - never bothered checking this band out, hear about them everywhere. john cage - dont listen to. nnck - yes, cant go wrong with them. great album. acid mothers temple - i like them but havent heard much - but anything with afrirampo is a must have. i wondered were they had gotten to! thanks for letting me know

that album is about 5 years old. afri rampo played some UK dates last december though.

Sheer Hellish Miasma and Frozen by Blizzard Winds were pretty much exceptions - everything else he's done that I've heard is pretty meh, IMO and that.

What Glice said. Sheer Hellish Miasma was wonderful, though the rest I've heard was pretty pointless boring drone (note: i am a fan of drone)

Supersilent - 8 ... this band is interesting, and sometimes quite good. Having said that, 8 is not one of my favs.

Kevin Drumm - Land Of Lurches ... never heard, but I love Sheer Hellish Miasma.

Nurse With Wound - Alice The Goon ... one of the better NWW releases. A Sucked Orange will always be my fav.

John Cage - Empty Words With Music For Piano / One7 ... meh. More interesting conceptually than fun to listen to.

NNCK - Clomein ... Good. GReat, in fact, if you're in the mood.

Acid Mothers - Minstrel In The Galaxy ... Once you have 5 or 6 of their albums, you pretty much don't need anymore, except..

Acid Mothers - We Are Acid Mothers Afrirampo ... this one is awesome, and a bit different, and one of their best.

The collab he did Daniel Menche "Gauntlet" is great, and I liked his collab with Prurient too "All Are Guests In The House of The Lord"

Thanks for the informative comments everyone. This was my very first NNCK, Supersilent, KD and NWW experience.

I have to say that I fucking adore the KD and I can't wait to get more of him. I really like NNCK and Supersilent. NWW I'm not so sure about yet - he/they obviously have a talent for layering/arranging. I somewhat concur with the comment regarding Acid Mothers - "you only need 5-6" - I'd say 20, haha....but lately there have been a few "inessential" purchases. That particular Cage one really is the height of "concept over delivery" hahaha.....I love me a ton of Cage, but this one is, er, special.

Hahaha, well, in all honesty, there was "other stuff" going on in life then. But still, that thread is a huge disappointment for me. Am I really the only SNYG who thinks it is fucking monumental? AOY? (I should have posted this there, sorry.)

Skuj, that's funny about NWW, I often have many.. erm... discussions about him/them/whatever, saying the same thing. A lot of the stuff he does is quite interesting conceptually, and I can certainly appreciate it -- honestly, it's hard to criticize properly, since it's not really setting out to do anything that can be compared to any other type of music or whatever. Still, a lot of his stuff is just one gigantic pot of seemingly random stereophonic studio twinkering pidge-podge, which has its place and is fascinating in small doses, but the NWW camp hasn't exactly shown quality control, and it's become more innessential with each release. Still, any band with that many releases is going to have a few stinkers... I think the only band who I can honestly say I love all of their 100 ep's/singles/lp's/whatever is probably The Residents... NWW has, to my ears, 15-20 truly great, amazing albums... but I've listened to, you know, way more than that... I have a feeling it'll be one of those things I put on in my later years and appreciate more..

I like it a lot but it's not something I'd say is monumental. But alas it's just a messageboard, if I made everyone on this board listen to some of my favourites then they'd probably throw some disheartening mean comment towards the art that I love so much, but you know it's all in the name of messageboard fun.

I think you know this, but the CD re-release version is 3 tracks. Track 1 shocked me, based on all I had read about NWW.....some kinda funky jazz vibe at first, hahaha....but then a lot more happens, and the vocals at the end are priceless. Track 2 seems unmemorable after the few listens I've had so far. Track 3 (Alice The Goon itself?) is much more interesting though.

The Drumm CD just fuckin blows me away. I love how he sculptures his Noise. And he does volume manipulations, which blew me away. It made me realize, suddenly, that you CAN fuck with volume levels on a piece, and perhaps instruct the listener not to adjust the volume once the CD is playing. This was a big shock to me really.....who fucks with VOLUME as an aspect of the recording? Track 2 of said album reminds me of Merzbow circa 1985.

The NNCK set is wildly varying - contemplative pieces vs full on noise. It's such a huge motherfucker of a record - 75mins - extremely generous. I must have more NNCK in my life.

their new studio album just got released a few days ago. although some of the songs on it they were already playing live 5 years ago.

haven't heard
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not one of NWW's best, but still pretty good
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there is my valuable contribution.

Kevin Drumm is my favorite noise/drone dude and one of the few I still listen on the reg, I love Acid Mother's.

Can i ask you where you got "Land Of Lurches"? Been looking for a copy myself but i'm having trouble finding one.