I remain utterly fascinated by Throbbing Gristle, to the point that if I run across one of their records out in the wild I’m quite likely to buy it. But I’m also fairly sure I’ve never played any of these records more than twice – I’d have to be in a pretty interesting headspace to […]
Category: Industrial
Alexandra Atnif – “Intolerant Red Marches” (2025)
I’ve been on the Alexandra Atnif train for a decade, since we first picked up her 2015 split cassette with Constable Flavour at Amoeba Records in Hollywood. In case those of you running record stores were wondering, there are indeed some folks like me who always check out the staff recommendations and will definitely buy […]
Amnesia Agenda – “Blood/Glass Osmosis” (2022)
When it comes to noise subgenres, I claim no expertise whatsoever. I don’t think I can clearly differentiate harsh noise (or even more specifically, harsh noise wall) from power electronics. And maybe it doesn’t matter, given how artists often feel about genre labels. Iceland’s Amnesia Agenda tag their 2022 release Blood/Glass Osmosis using both of […]
Nurse With Wound – “Second Pirate Session” (1998)
There are a number of quasi-obscure artists who fascinate me. These are musicians and bands who the average music fan (whatever that is) hasn’t ever heard of, and would probably hate, but which have a certain canonical place in the fringes where they dwell. Sometimes this makes me worry I’m being unconsciously pretentious, or perhaps […]
Desolation – “Desolation” (2022)
Malfortune Discs is a DIY label based just a few hours down the highway from me, in Portland, Oregon. It first came to my attention with the release of the 12 CDr box set The Chronicle of the Order of the Weeping Willow, a collection of all 14 releases by Order of the Weeping Willow, […]