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Blasting through western Massachusetts sound walls and offering enjoyment, Perfect Nails comes out with their second album. Cleverly, the album is Titled “ii”. I say cleverly because if the name was catchy and the masses found out about this album, the world would not be the same. The fabric of the average ear would greatly improve despite incoming tinnitus and potential electrocution from how good this album is. On “ii”, Perfect Nails is 1/2 drums and 1/2 guitar, and even though this sounds like a standard setup for an experimental rock duo, they are anything but a standard experimental rock outfit to me, nor just an “experimental rock duo from western mass”. A guitar that sounds like a droning laser and drums played with no remorse does not deserve to be bastardized. I think that this album takes a lot of influence from what Funky Kong would listen to in 2003 on your GameCube because this album has a bodacious and radical sound that reminds me of skateboarding montages, orange su...

  I love understated, rare, hard to find, “lesser known” and under-appreciated music. It’s like finding a treasure chest in the woods that nobody knows about yet. “Random Rare Music” will be a randomly produced written pieces about albums, artists, songs from anywhere, from any time period, current, “uncurrent" on hiatus and anything I feel needs to be listened to and appreciated more.  I discovered this album on the InterTube and instantly knew I had to start a new series on this page. My Grandmother Was A Church Organist sparks melancholy, poignant emotions for me. According to discography, this album was released in 2007 which isn’t super new but that will be a pattern in this series as I’m a firm believer that good music doesn’t expire. This album is warm, yet longing and the larger-than-life feeling I get from these songs are equally grounded and true to humanity. My Grandmother was a Church Organist encapsulates a great stylistic blend of lo-fi, dark folk, dream pop, cha...

  Nick Neuburg is more than a percussionist who relies on more objects, bowls, sticks, brushes, springs and nails than having a full drum kit. He also will channel improvisation in a way that tunnels through your reverberant ears and scratches the naturally curious parts of your brain. Some tracks are like a re-enactment of jumping in a pool of frogs and paying the price of 150 ribbits a second until you beat the frogs. Others sound more like going into a long tunnel and dragging a TV behind you with a metal chain with every step you make creating more sound than it would in most other settings. If you are an open, imaginative, listener this album would be a good pick. I recommend showing this disc and videos of Neuburg live to anyone who says Jazz can’t be a fun or freeing genre anymore. The fun is still there, just not as platformed and propelled and rewarded fairly as it once was. So help Nick Neuburg beat the industry and buy this CD to reward genuine fun and engaging music or ...

  Andrea Pensado and Chris Strunk are Sheer Anxiety, an electro-acoustic noise duo incorporating drums, bowls, wooden objects, electronics and voice. These recordings as the cover suggests are all live performances from 2018-2025, some of these I was lucky enough to catch in person. To myself, Sheer Anxiety has been a project that constantly is crossing the line back and forth between experimental music and performance art. Without including too much theatrics or props or anything of that nature, Sheer Anxiety uses sound and improvisation itself as a way to immerse listeners and particularly triggers my imagination to think about settings and situations that these tracks would fit. Moments of suspense throughout these tracks will leave you unnerved yet not disturbed or uncomfortable enough to press pause. Every sound on this CD feels like it was intentional to put before the next pattern and it builds up like a pyramid that’s waiting to collapse a few minutes later.  Noise pro...

  Through an uncanny array of sounds, words, effects, broken cassette tapes and feelings, Pumpkin Friend turns the strange into the familiar, transforming the creepy into a calming, home-like sensation, almost as if you’re in the same room as him when you’re listening to these recordings. The first track, "The Haunted Ice Cream Parlor” reminds me of walking into a 24 hour diner at midnight, slightly drunk and stoned, but not trying to be impolite and ordering a coffee then leaving to smoke a cigarette outside. To me it is easily the most standout track of the project yet it’s not underwhelming to listen to the rest, it’s actually a pleasant surprise. The rest of the album is a blend of dark folk, a sort of Lo-Fi psychedelic rock tone and outsider country to me. Lots of these songs make me reflect on lots of memories of myself hiking, or really camping without a tent in the middle of a hiking reservation in the dead of night with no concern for repercussions just for the simulated ...

  In between Noise River and Experimental Electronic Creek in Massachusetts is Seaworm, making music for librarians, paranoid schizophrenics, Charlie Brown, people who can be trusted with firearms, people who can’t be trusted with firearms, and communists with information the CIA doesn’t want you to know. This album, “Outliving the Evil Of This World” to me is like exploring your personal relationship with good people living in an evil fascist country. Questioning whether the evil country consumes you or consumes your environment, or both. Most importantly, how do we put an end to capitalistic evil and suffering? On this release there are four tracks with a somewhat distinct but different sound on each. It opens up with “lowercase phone jungle” which is like if frogs and flies got into drum and bass and started making tracks in the swamp but they couldn’t afford dj equipment so this is what you have. also reminds me of crocodiles.  The third and fourth tracks, “Bachanale for E...