Three Radikal Rekerds #8: Macerated Mirrored Mazes

Genre: Bedroom Pop

Standout track: Evil People

"Evil computers, evil telephone lines... But if you say you see evil, you better look inside, cuz thats where evil lies." That was just my favourite line from the aforementioned standout track, which I chose to interpret as an indictment of our bad moralizing habits in the age of social media. If you are in the mood for some bereaved yet bold icy neo-disco anthems, this might just be the perfect record to alleviate that mood.

 

Genre: Experimental/Spoken Word

Standout track: H uzs Huz sHu zs Huz s H uz s 

Everything by Territorial Gobbing is like a cautious exercise in venturing into hitherto unplumbed depths of music and sound art. Like the audio logs of a nerve jangling descent into a plane of existence composed of twitching, dismembered cartoon character limbs and self-aware living noise behaving like scavenger animals. Scary, funny and a little patience-pushing at times, wheras most noise musicians resort to pairing abject imagery/themes with walls of shrieking ear-punishing noise, TG here would rather actually creep n' freak you out.

Genre: Techno

Standout track: Basement Light

Recent offering from the irrepressibly leftfield Newcastle upon Tyne based label Opal Tapes. The kind of deep and dark techno that purposefully straddles that veneer-thin line between hardcore floor-filler dance music and thunderously intellectual EBM of industrial.