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Articles by Joseph Trotman
Blanck Mass - Animated Violence Mild - Soundblab - Soundblab
While the world anxiously awaits the next Fuck Buttons album - going on six years now - the world of experimental noise has lately received delectable morsels from one half of the project - Benjamin John Power under the Blanck Mass moniker. Since Slow Focus, Blanck Mass has been the primary output for Fuck Buttons related material; Andrew Hung (the other half of the duo) has gravitated more towards conventional pop with 2017’s Realisantionship.
David Vassalotti - Guitar Dream - Soundblab - Soundblab
For the past decade or so, David Vassalotti has found acclaim for his guitar work in Florida-born post-punk outfit Merchandise. "Guitar Dream", his second effort as a solo artist, proves that in this time he has accumulated a wealth of experience, not just as a player, but as a masterful songwriter in his own right.
Sauna Youth - Deaths - Soundblab
"Deaths" is Sauna Youth's last album in a loosely-linked thematic trilogy that began in 2012 with their debut LP "Dreamlands". But, it barrels forth with momentous purpose for an album that's intended to have a tone of finality to it. In this way, it does not deviate much from the winning formula of 2015's excellent middle-installment "Distractions". It's a near-constant barrage of glucose-saturated hook-punk bangers, offset with the occasional spoken word piece.
Trevor Powers - Mulberry Violence - Soundblab
In 2016 Trevor Powers retired his project Youth Lagoon after three reasonably well-received albums. Essentially a solo endeavour, he wasn't exactly citing irreconcilable differences. The moniker, he claimed, and the body of work he had created under it, had become creative inhibitions in and of themselves.
The Sediment Club - Stucco Thieves
Stucco Thieves sounds like the kind of punk album that didn't require a lot of time to make. Now in their tenth year as a band, it seems The Sediment Club have honed their approach to the point where whole albums feel like a single cathartic exhalation. The result of this, a no-wave inspired noise-punk band somehow keeping their shit together for a decade, feels both clinical and chaotic, with an odd sense of fatalism injected into the chaotic melange.
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