Musings from the MEANS editor…
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Ugly Animal : Twisting light From Flesh
This sure sounds like something that’s going somewhere but I guess that it’s not. Soft spots for music that sounds like the bit before everything kicks in but never does, and Ugly Animals live… Read more
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Be Kind Cadaver : Lights Out on the Reservation
Drawing on a shared love of conceptual art, the two halves of Be Kind Cadaver are visual artist Leroy Brown (guitars, percussion) and performance artist Distant Animals (vocals, synthesis, percussion), who together focus on… Read more
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Frank Riggio : QU4DRILOGY
In the world of music reviews, few words get bandied about as much as the near infantile ‘under-rated’, a term usually wedged in before the description of a billion-selling Beatles album. Despite this habit,… Read more
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LINE-MAKING : open scores and the occupation of space
The utility of open-scores – be they graphic, text, or any other abstract medium – lies in their staggering of the reproductive process. Rather than relying on pure symbolism, where a visual object equates,… Read more
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David Curington : BUY THIS THING
Academic trouble-maker David Curington returns with another album of highly conceptual, ironic collage: a noisy, anarchic, glitching fest of all the sorts of sounds most people go out of their way to avoid. Releases… Read more
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Monster of East Felton : A Dead Horse
Swirling through our ears due to their inclusion on the latest MEANS compilation, the fantastic ‘Monster of East Felton’ enlivens the senses with a very dead horse: an intoxicating smash and grab of the… Read more
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Black Decelerant : Reflections Vol. 2
The world is not short a woozy, textural, ambient drone album or two, lost as it is amidst a slightly surprising resurgence of the sort of ‘new age’ soundscape that were really very uncool… Read more
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Mickey Mouse Degrees
In the last few weeks, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced a crackdown on ‘rip-off degrees’ as a key pledge of his election campaign, following on from proposals first made in July 2023 (though… Read more
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interview : Siavash Amini
For the second in our ongoing series of artist interviews, we catch up with Siavish Amini, a composer of avant-classical influenced electronic music with releases on labels like Room40, Hallow Ground, Opal Tapes and Umor Rex. Often borrowing… Read more
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