Yellow Tears - The Pissmop LP

Artist: Yellow Tears
Album: The Pissmop LP
Year: 2008
Genre(s): Noise

Harsh, brooding, good.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Whitehouse - Racket

Artist: Whitehouse
Album: Racket
Year: 2007
Genre(s): Power electronics, noise, industrial

Angry angry angry racket brought to you by power electronics/industrial legends Whitehouse.

Download. (file removed)

Posted by DW.

Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

Artist: Boredoms
Album: Vision Creation Newsun
Year: 1999
Genre(s): Noise rock, psychedelic

A beautiful album consisting of nine amazing tracks whose names are just symbols.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Young Widows - In And Out Of Youth And Lightness

Artist: Young Widows
Album: In And Out Of Youth And Lightness
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Noise rock

New album from Young Widows reminds me a bit of the Birthday Party meets Health... really cool direction they've headed in. It's a lot more polished and refined but still retains their classic rawness.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Pelican - Australasia

Artist: Pelican
Album: Australasia
Year: 2003
Genre(s): Post-metal, sludge

Instrumental post-metal band Pelican's first full-length, Australasia, is pretty fucking epic and awesome. If you don't have this and are into this sort of thing it's a must-have.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Emaciator - Neglect

Artist: Emaciator
Album: Neglect
Year: 2007
Genre(s): Noise

Great tape from Emaciator, a project related to Pedestrian Deposit.

Link removed by request. Buy it here.

Posted by DW.

The Residents - Smell My Picture

Artist: The Residents
Album: Smell My Picture
Year: 2008
Genre(s): Avant-garde, electronic

Consisting of instrumental outtakes from The River Of Crime, Tweedles!, and The Voice Of Midnight, the 1000-copy limited Smell My Picture is fun for the whole family. I got this recently at a fantastic live show on their Talking Light tour and got a very high number for my copy, 994/1000. Enjoy.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Triclops! - Cafeteria Brutalia

Artist: Triclops!
Album: Cafeteria Brutalia
Year: 2007
Genre(s): Progressive, psychedelic, experimental

The Triclops! EP preceding Out Of Africa. Bug Bomb is sick.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Dead Body Love - Low-Fi Power Carnage

Artist: Dead Body Love
Album: Low-Fi Power Carnage
Year: 1995
Genre(s): Noise

Harsh, bleak, and pessimistic.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Closure in Moscow - First Temple

Artist - Closure in Moscow

Album - First Temple

Year - 2009

Genre(s) - Rock/Progressive/Experimental

Sounds a lot De-Loused era Mars Volta. I wouldn't say they are ripping them off, but take a great amount on influence from their vocals and basic song structure. There are some unique songs found the album, and I find this to be a solid album overall.

Download

Posted by KB.

Jason Crumer - Ottoman Black

Artist: Jason Crumer
Album: Ottoman Black
Year: 2008
Genre(s): Noise, ambient

A perfect blend of harsh craziness, ambiance, drone, and weirdness. A beautiful album.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Albert Hammond, Jr. - ¿Como Te Llama?

Artist - Albert Hammond, Jr. - ¿Como Te Llama?

Album - ¿Como Te Llama?

Year - 2008

Genre(s) - Indie / Alternative

One of Albert Hammond, Jr 's (The Strokes) solo albums. I personally enjoy this record more than Julian Casablancas solo efforts.

Download

Posted by KB.

Sonic Youth - SYR 9: Simon Werner A Disparu

Artist: Sonic Youth
Album: SYR 9: Simon Werner A Disparu
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Avant-garde, noise rock, alternative

The latest in Sonic Youth's highly experimental SYR series is this interesting soundtrack. It's a lot more musical than most of the SYR albums but still really bizarre and not particularly accessible. A great listen nonetheless.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Vomir - Hommage Au Duc De Reschwig

Artist: Vomir
Album: Hommage Au Duc De Reschwig
Year: 2009
Genre(s): Wall noise

Another bleak and seemingly endless harsh wall from Vomir.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Bongripper - Hippie Killer

Artist: Bongripper
Album: Hippie Killer
Year: 2007
Genre(s): Doom, drone, stoner metal

Another awesome Bongripper album. I'm not sure if this one is supposed to be one song like some of their others; I don't think so, but it kind of seems to flow that way. Enjoy.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

Artist: Explosions In The Sky
Album: Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Post-rock

Great new album from one of the best post-rock bands.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Boris - New Album

Artist: Boris
Album: New Album
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Metal, pop

One of three new Boris albums, this one released in Japan only, this album is a bit of a surprise. It's a lot more poppy, electronic, and polished than anything they've done before. Interesting, but a hell of a lot different than, say, Amplifier Worship or Flood or the rest of their discography.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Sunn O))) - ØØ Void and Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound - The Iron Soul Of Nothing

Artist: Sunn O))) and Sunn O))) Meets Nurse With Wound
Album: ØØ Void and The Iron Soul Of Nothing
Year: 2000 and 2008
Genre(s): Drone, dark ambient, experimental

Sunn O)))'s classic ØØ Void was reissued by Daymare in 2008 with the previously unreleased The Iron Soul Of Nothing as disc two, a collaboration, if that's even what it is, with Nurse With Wound, though I have the feeling it may be more in the nature of a remix album. Nonetheless, this is great stuff; the NWW collab in my opinion is better than the original album (particularly Ash On The Trees), and these artists should perhaps work together more often in the future. Enjoy.

ØØ Void.

The Iron Soul Of Nothing.

Posted by DW.

Kolihapeltis - Vomiting Blood

Artist: Kolihapeltis
Album: Vomiting Blood
Year: 2010
Genre(s): Noise

My personal attempt at wall noise, a subgenre I haven't really dealt with much. I think this release turned out all right, though; it consists of one track around 25 minutes long. Enjoy.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Melvins - Honky

Artist: Melvins
Album: Honky
Year: 1997
Genre(s): Metal, experimental, avant-garde

Perhaps the most experimental full-length album ever released by the Melvins, Honky isn't for everybody; however it has over time become probably my personal favorite. Mombius Hibachi captures the essence of classic Melvins with a hint of more strangeness than usual, and most other tracks really take it over the top. A ballsy album. Not easy listening, but rather interesting listening.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Torche - Torche

Artist: Torche
Album: Torche
Year: 2005
Genre(s): Poppy sludge

Torche's debut is some of the heavier work they've done; it's still reminiscent in many ways to their previous band, Floor. I love this album; I hope you enjoy it too.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Duran Duran Duran - Over Hard

Artist: Duran Duran Duran
Album: Over Hard
Year: 2010
Genre(s): Breakcore, electronic, experimental

Another Duran Duran Duran album with another obnoxious album cover. This one is a bit more straight-up breakcore, but doesn't lose any of the authenticity that the previous album had. The track Furious George is incredible.

Download.

Posted by DW.

The Cherry Point - Black Witchery

Artist: The Cherry Point
Album: Black Witchery
Year: 2006
Genre(s): Noise

Oops. I recently posted a Cherry Point release called Virgin Witch, not realizing that as well as being its own release, Virgin Witch is actually just track one on this album, which I hadn't listened to yet at the time. So, here's the whole thing! I still think Virgin Witch is the best track.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Amps For Christ - Circuits

Artist: Amps For Christ
Album: Circuits
Year: 1999
Genre(s): Folk, noise, experimental

Amps For Christ is hard to classify as you can see by the weird and somewhat contradictory list of genres I placed down. This is really an extremely beautiful album though. Highly recommended.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Guilty Connector - Curved Dream In Town

Artist: Guilty Connector
Album: Curved Dream In Town
Year: 2008
Genre(s): Noise

One of the more interesting Guilty Connector releases. I hope you enjoy it.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Of Montreal - thecontrollersphere

Artist: Of Montreal
Album: thecontrollersphere
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Alternative, electronic, experimental

This is a little weirder than most of what Of Montreal's been doing lately; I personally really enjoy it.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Maps & Atlases - Living Decorations

Artist: Maps & Atlases
Album: Living Decorations
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Math rock

This is a five-track single for Living Decorations from Maps & Atlases' most recent album Perch Patchwork.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Nietzsche Goes To Wal-Mart

Artist: Nietzsche Goes To Wal-Mart
Genre(s): Noise, experimental, avant-garde

Here are two albums from my friend's project, Nietzsche Goes To Wal-Mart. Fucked up creepy lo-fi noise with a sense of humor. I think both were recorded in 2010 but Ecce Homo Post-Modernism Revival might have been 2009. Check it out!

Download: Ecce Homo Post-Modernism Revival

Download: Descent Into Prolapse

Posted by DW.

Children of Nova - The Complexity of Light

Artist - Children of Nova
Album - The Complexity of Light
Year - 2010
Genre(s) - Progressive/Rock/Experimental

Great EP! To me they sound like mix of The Mars Volta and Fall of Troy. They have a full length coming out later this year, I'm really looking forward to it.

Download

Posted by KB

Deterge - QFT

Artist: Deterge
Album: QFT
Year: 2010
Genre(s): Noise

This, which I actually have owned since summer from a show and would have shared earlier except that it's only on tape, and I am unable to rip tapes, was just posted on the Static Fanatic recently. So I'm passing on their post to you. This is Deterge, another project of Jim Haras from Pyrrhic Thanatology Monger, and released on his own label, Fusty Cunt Tapes. Really cool stuff. Side A is absolutely fantastic, consisting of muffled screaming behind irritating pulsing walls. Side B is some good straight up harsh stuff.

Download.

Posted by DW.

The Armed - Common Enemies

Artist - The Armed
Album - Common Enemies
Year - 2010
Genre(s) - Hardcore / Punk

Short 10 minute EP from Detroit based band The Armed. I'd compare their sound to Converge, so if you like them I'm sure you'll dig this.

Download

Posted by KB

Updates

If you noticed, the page looks a bit different now. In addition to the slightly different look of the layout, we've provided links to some of our favorite blogs and a section in which you can scroll alphabetically by artist and see our old posts organized clearly. We haven't gotten around to tagging all our old posts yet, so this should be complete in a few days. Most of this was the work of KB and not myself, but I figured I'd put up a post letting everybody know. Also, the link had been broken I think from the start on a World's End Girlfriend entry from October; I fixed it if anyone's still interested.

Cheers,
DW.

Expo '70 - Illusive Landscaping

Artist: Expo '70
Album: Illusive Landscaping
Year: 2007
Genre(s): Drone

Beautiful guitar-based drones.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Death In June - All Pigs Must Die

Artist: Death In June
Album: All Pigs Must Die
Year: 2001
Genre(s): Neofolk, industrial, experimental

The first half of this album is more their neofolk style while the second half is more experimental in nature. I personally think the first half is stronger but that's just me; I'm sure a lot of Death In June fans would disagree. Nevertheless, a good album.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Nero's Day At Disneyland - Colonists

Artist: Nero's Day At Disneyland
Album: Colonists
Year: 2007
Genre(s): Breakcore, experimental

Another wacky, manic, and bizarrely triumphant release from Nero's Day At Disneyland. This EP has some of his coolest songs.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Trepalium - XIII

Artist - Trepalium

Album - XIII

Year - 2009

Genre(s) - Metal

Great album from French metal band Trepalium. Lots of great metal elements implemented into the album. Some songs are more groovy, while other are fast, heavy and technical. The vocals are somewhat "corish", but they work well with the music. Pretty original album that is totally worth checking out, especially for big fans of the metal genre.

Download

Posted by KB

Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern

Artist: Marnie Stern
Album: Marnie Stern
Year: 2010
Genre(s): Math rock, avant-garde, experimental

Marnie Stern is a great female singer/songwriter in the vein of Hella, Maps & Atlases, and Battles, to some degree, but also standing entirely in her own right with her unique brand of interesting math rock based music. This is her third and most recent album. Recommended.

[Link taken down by request. Still recommended; you can access Kill Rock Stars (the label) and probably find it there!]

Posted by DW.

Stephen O'Malley & Atsuo - Uroborus Circuit

Artist: Stephen O'Malley & Atsuo
Album: Uroborus Circuit
Year: 2011
Genre(s): Noise, drone

Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O)))) and Atsuo (Boris) collaborate to create two tracks of manipulated feedback; no instruments involved. Really cool stuff.

Download.

Posted by DW.

Car Bomb - Centralia

Artist - Car Bomb

Album - Centralia

Year-2008

Genre(s) - Mathcore/Experimental

This album is chaotic mathcore with many experimental elements. There are several amazing sections to this album, I'm excited to see how the band progresses on their next album.

Download

Posted by KB

Belz Krov - Korpimaa Eklektia

Artist - Belz Krov

Album -Korpimaa Eklektia

Year - 2010

Genre(s) - Industrial/Noise/Experimental

This was a request from Last.fm user Impronen. I personally don't know much about this artist other than he is from Finland. After skimming through the album, I can tell you its worth checking out. Thanks you Impronen for showing this to us!

Download

Posted by KB

Down I Go - Tyrant

Artist - Down I Go

Album - Tyrant

Year - 2008

Genre(s) - Dinocore/Disastercore/Robotcore/Tyrantcore

Sounds like: Earthquakes, tidal waves, swarms of disease carrying mosquitoes, burning houses, sinking ships, exploding reactors, starving dinosaurs, Bostonites drowning in treacle, fatal coughing fits, burning hair, stock market crash, planes falling from the sky…

(Genres and description from Last.fm)

Download

Posted by: KB