columbus OHIO

More thrashed rock by one of columbus’ finest, psychedelic horseshit. Bursting with spacey, layered jams including the sublime bleak vacations, a seven minute velvets like trip to the moon.

san francisco CALIFORNIA

‘cherry cola, sno-cones and taffy” is how san fran rocker ty SEGALL describes his new lp for goner records. the songs still have plenty of hooks buried beneath layers of fuzz and reverb but cuts like casear show segall getting looser and mixing in some new twists.

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ITALY

marco FERRERI’S psychedelic nightmare,dilinger is dead, finally released in the united states, still packs a punch 40 years later. The film tells the story of one surreal night in the life of a bored designer of gas masks. Full of mod design, including a polka dotted gun, and beauties like anita pallenberg, the film’s surreal evening unfolds against the high fashion and low pop culture of the late 60s.

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dresden GERMANY

oliver SCHARF’S debut lp year of panic is full of great bouncy lofi gems. Put out on brooklyn’s Captured Tracks this fits right in with the label’s other house partying throwback/throwaway acts. With plenty of noise and hooks it’s great for aimless summer afternoons.

new york NEW YORK

david MAZZUCCHELLI, the brilliant illustrator of batman year one, city of glass, and rubber blanket, has put out his first full length original work - asterios polyp. The novel’s titular character, an architect who has yet to realize any of his speculative, highly theoretical work, is forced to reexamine his life and career following an accident which takes him from manhattan and ivy league teaching appointments to being a small town mechanic. Mazzuccheli experiments with a number of constantly shifting styles, color application, and drawing techniques to illustrate the story and push the boundaries of image and text’s relationship.

WISCONSIN

zola jesus’s stridulum ep does away with the obscuring lo-fi production to push nika DANILOVA’s booming voice out front. the trained opera singer form northern wisconsin uses her powerful instrument to push her driving, wailing dirges. the ep is particularly smooth sounding with no hiss or fuzz but rather clean vocals and plenty of pulsing moody textures below the surface. songs such as the sweeping “night” build from a synthy hum to a swirling pulsing soundtrack for the perfect foreboding late nite.

london ENGLAND

nicholas winding REFN’s over the top bronson tells the story of brtiain’s most violent prisoner charles bronson. the surreal film sets up the story as if bronson were retelling it from a stage in london which allows it to play like a circus or demented performance art as tom hardy continually breaks through the fourth wall. hardy pushes bronson’s brutality and rage to the extreme as he details his many hostage situations and fights within the prison system for over 34 years (mostly spent in solitary).

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melbourne AUSTRALIA
eddy current suppression ring’s rush to relax is a worthy follow up to their brilliant primary colors. out on goner records, they recorded the album in a frenetic six hour session. while building on their sound from previous albums they haven’t fallen into the trap of repeating themselves. still playing with stooge like guitars and kiwi pop sensibilities the album allows them to stretch themselves out a bit from short burners like “walked into a corner” which clocks in at under a minute to the 7min+ groove of “second guessing.” the album has a sharp crispness with plenty of groove from the slower pop gems like “i can be a jerk “and “gentleman” to the punchier like “anxiety “and “burn.”

berlin GERMANY

criterion has released their beautiful reissue of wim WENDER’S wings of desire. The moody, existential film tells the of angels watching over the city of berlin at the end of the cold war. They listen in and record the thoughts of the city’s inhabitants. One angel falls for a beautiful trapeze artist and decides to fall to earth to join her and experience life. The film is gorgeously shot in black and white by henri alekan and features performances by nick cave & the bad seeds as well as a peter falk starring as himself.

geneva SWITZERLAND

nice face’s immer etwas out on sacred bones delivers a nice solid punch with its fuzzed out distortion. full of plenty of energy and sinister swirls, the lp lets ian MAGEE show off his command of texturing noise, beats, and haunted vocals. the songs push straight ahead at a breakneck pace with no filler and plenty of trashy surf rock fun.