MUTANT SOUNDS

  Just a small announcement to let all of you know that Shits And Giggles' debut LP "Trick Or Treat" is finally available and...

A multi-media artist with a wide remit, Santos' initial exposure within the music world was as a pianist and interpreter of the moder...

All over the map (and admittedly more than a bit patchy), this Russian curio still seems like ripe fodder for savvy heads, though one can...

Damn fine studio slicked New Wave pop eccentricity that mates the quirk pop polish of early Split Enz/early Tubes with the puckish herky jer...

One of the current manifestations of New Zealand underground luminary Peter Stapleton (Terminals, Pin Group, Bilders, Scorched Earth Policy ...

Emotive autumnal accretions of multi-tracked string scrape and plucked acoustic filigree, the layers strafing against each other in overlap...

As attentive Wire Magazine subscribers will likely have discovered by now, "Trick Or Treat", the debut LP by Shits And Giggles, Ar...

As a follow-up to my post of the third album by this legendary French jazz bassist (his c.v. including stints with Don Cherry and Didier Lo...

Containing music commissioned for a dance troupe and an animated film, Music For Fruit is another master class in the art of the unnerving ...

The work of this stunning Japanese R.I.O. outfit is manifestly an outgrowth of the dark chamber rock tradition of the Univers Zero/Art Zoyd...

Gifted with both a macro scale grasp of how to sustain the dream logic of surrealist audio architecture and an acute ear for the cellular de...

Since the link for this sweetly dewy eyed and anthemic slice of Danish folk rock wonderment has been down for eons elsewhere in the blogosp...

Like shit smeared berserkers armed with clown noses, bike horns and yelping chihuahuas, Switzerland's Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock (aka...

One of the rarest and most whispered about minimal synth platters, the approach on this private press American obscurity is decidedly spar...

This choice document of 80's American marginal fringe malarky carries on where the first installment that I posted a few weeks back left...

Ferocious and dazzling art prog maneuvers from an outfit spearheaded by former Sleepytime Gorilla Museum drummer Frank Grau, this eyebrow-ra...

Briefly issued many years back as an individually burned CDR from Sevcom.com (long since deleted), this sensational compendium of Australian...

A true legend of the Japanese countercultural underground, having over time worked with everyone from Shuji Terayama and his Tenjo Sajiki...

A gobsmackingly great out of the blue master class in surrealist mesmerism courtesy of one Per Giobel, a heretofore unknown (well...to me an...

Following my post of this peculiar and fascinating French post-industrial group's "L'Or'N Cat" LP and Jim's po...