my current favorite psych/noise band, site needed some spit and balls after all this indie stuff. Totally accessible, even if you havent heard a noise song or know what noise is, its crazy instrumentals and killer ambient stuff. time to pass out.
Operator Dead….Post Abandoned

Sometimes the drones on Operator Dead scream until it sounds like the record’s lungs are going to implode. At others, they’re pretty, if not quite pastoral. (Occasionally, the band goes for both extremes on the same track.) Over the 19 minutes of opening track “When the Tripods Came”, Yeh and crew build a resonant buzzing like a tamboura run through a distortion pedal– you assume this is Yeh’s violin, but the density of the music makes a mockery of figuring out which sound comes from which player– that’s joined by pounding, tribal drums and free flurries of cymbal by Tremaine. The electronics sound like everything from bagpipes squawking through crappy reverb to the traditional roar of psychedelic guitar fuzz. The track’s opening half is actually intoxicating– almost inviting– but it slowly tangles into a climax of ear-bleed noise before painfully, and abruptly, shorting out.
Various Artists (Thurston Moore, Wzt Hearts, Burning Star Core, John Wiese, etc) – Untitled 3CD

aq’s review, list #267:
A totally mind blowing collection of artists, representing the state of ‘noise’ today. 55 bands, 3 cds, totally elaborate over the top packaging, a project so epic it took three labels to make it happen, but now that it’s done, it was so worth the wait. So utterly gorgeous. And while we’d be the first to admit that we were a bit scared by the idea of a triple cd noise compilation, the actual state of ‘noise’ is actually that much of it is quite beautiful, almost all of it is surprisingly listenable, and a lot of it is downright lovely. It’s not just hissing jets of white noise these days. Textural and moody, rhythmic and abstract, it might be more fair to describe this as an experimental comp rather than a noise one, but to be fair, many of these tracks are noisy in their own way. And like any comp, it’s the bands you know and love that suck you in: Burning Star Core, Guilty Connector, Dead Machines, Thurston Moore, Strotter Inst., Leslie Keffer, Earwicker, Destructo Swarmbots, Mike Shiflet, Hum Of The Druid, Sword Heaven, The Cherry Point, Herpes O Deluxe, Travis Ryan (from Cattle Decapitation), Panicsville, Gerritt & John Wiese, but what keeps you in, and earns repeat listens, is the chance to discover new weird music from bands you’ve never heard before: OP Rechts, Bet Hell, Josh Lay, Cotton Museum, Big China & Little Trouble, Forbes Graham, Small Life, Lovae, The Heirs Of Rockafeller, Perfect Teeth, Tonight Golden Curls, Black Meat, Door, Noveller, Jason Zeh, Teeth Collection, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Skullcaster, Steve Bradley, Wether, Mermaids, Wet Hearts, Magicicada, Oblong Box, Aughra, Donna Parker, Robert Inhuman, Yellow Tears, 1thousand Holy Shards, Back From Iraq, Sick III Cell, Scutopus, Ben S. Jacobs, Blango, Decimation Blvd., Ultra//Vires, Darsombra, Subterrane. Phew. We’ve yet to make it through all three discs, but what we’ve heard so far is awesome. So much so that every time we listen to this, someone comes up to see what we’re listening to, after almost every song. In fact just while this review was being written, Allan asked what was playing 3 or 4 times. The tracks are that varied, and that good. It might be a bit daunting to do a track by track description, just know that we’ve listened to almost the whole thing, and loved pretty much all of it, even the noisiest tracks. And it’s incredibly well sequenced too, the tracks are matched and segue into each other as if it were and album proper, not a compilation. So good. Our faith in noise may have been restored!
And we haven’t even discussed the packaging yet. A sturdy rectangular box with a removable lid, held together by a thick textured paper obi, gold metallic ink on red, inside, 4 thick cardstock inserts, each with unique red and gold art on one side, while on the other, one contains liner notes, the other three the track listings and band info, with the cds affixed to the center, and each cd is adorned with unique and different art. Wow. It truly is gorgeous looking, so much so that it’s hard to believe it’s only sixteen bucks. But we’re not complaining. Not sure how limited this is, but something this nice and labor intensive, we’re guessing they won’t be around for long. Essential listening for lovers of modern music, noise and otherwise, and recommended especially for even the most noise-phobic among you…
Artist/tracklist:
101. Black Meat – Writer’s Block
102. Door – Tree Fort (No Leaves)
103. Noveller – Vibric
104. Jason Zeh – Scant
105. Teeth Collection – 1 Untitled Track
106. Earwicker – Hyper-Abyssic
107. tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE – 61 Sequences Sampled #01
108. Gerritt – Untitled
109. Thurston Moore – Dickraymakerz
110. Wzt Hearts – Small Den
111. Skullcaster – Bone Conduction
112. Steve Bradley – Forces in 2 Dimension
113. Wether – Sting & Sweat
114. Mermaids – Sleeves Are Evil
115. Strotter Inst. – Treibjagd
116. Mike Shiflet – Competing Clouds and Nooses
117. Leslie Keffer – Lord Norbert
118. Magicicada – IsWas
201. Burning Star Core – Let’s Name Her Snowy Cuz It’s Snowy Outside
202. Oblong Box – Black Needles
203. Aughra – FRANCOJ
204. Travis Ryan – Miserability
205. Donna Parker – Fresh Curtains, Summer Day
206. Robert Inhuman – Savage Groping Until Dizzy & Euphorically Cumming
207. Yellow Tears – Choked At Last
208. 1Thousand Holy Shards – Longest War
209. Back From Iraq – Yarg
210. Sick Ill Cell – Unseen
211. Dead Machines – Hostel Hemlock
212. Herpes Ö DeLuxe – Unerwuenschte Schwellung
213. The Cherry Point – Above
214. Scutopus – Occupations of Uninhabited Space
215. Ben S. Jacob – Invocation
216. Blango – rGalle 1/6 fP*rs Splarge (rm)
217. Decimation Blvd – Closed Wound
218. Ultra//vires – Vapor
219. Subterrane – Mouthful of Metal
220. Destructo Swarmbots – I’ll Have Three of Them Barbarian Cremes
221. Darsombra – Nymphaea
301. Panicsville – A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
302. OP Rechts – Passiv Negativ
303. Bet Hell – Dreaming in a Mausoleum
304. Gerritt & John Wiese – Fireball
305. Josh Lay – Endless Black Void
306. Cotton Museum – Brown Boil
307. Big China & Little Trouble – Gunsham
308. Forbes Graham – Day 4
309. Small Life – Patience
310. Iovae – Saturn Plunge
311. The Heirs of Rockefeller – Space Rerun Continuum
312. Perfect Teeth – Belinda
313. Hum of the Druid – Antler Caught in Storm Drain
314. Sword Heaven – Skinned and Glued
315. Tonight Golden Curls – Foam Choke
316. Guilty Connector – Howling at the Moon 39.2 As Emerges From the Depths of Ikoma Yama -First Ikoma Attack
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