Different Noises 32

On this show a varied mix of genres from very loud to very quiet. There’s music from a tribute album to The Jesus Lizard’s Goat album from Neon Kittens, Wipes and Dead Mammals. Also new music from Grey Skies Fallen, Weston Super Maim, Ohpen Ahrms, Touching, Apparition, Dave Graney and Clare Moore, Erika Angell, O Zorn!, Ancient Astronauts & Otim Alpha, Blokeacola, Fog Lamp Linda Smith, Mammoth Penguins, Peter Metro and Kwabna, Rasta Reuben Fredlocks & Ill Vibe, Sun Atoms, The New Music Ensemble of the Black Hills, The Dread Crew of Oddwood, Four Candles, and 2 Lost Souls.

Neon Kittens – Then Comes Dudley – Wax Donut Presents Goat – A compilation covering the seminal album by The Jesus Lizard, it hit the streets on March 15th. Goat brings together rising stars of punk, metal, and jazz from across the US and Europe to pay homage to one of the most important punk rock albums of the 20th century. The compilation features Neon Kittens and Dead Mammals from the UK, Kuhn Fu (featuring Michael Rene Sell) and Trigger Cut from Germany, Prosthetic Bung from Canada, and five rising stars from the US: Night Goat, Wipes, Bovine Nightmares, The Kronk Men, and Sinking Suns.
Grey Skies Fallen – A Twisted Place In Time – Molded By Broken Hands : their sixth full-length album sees them their most triumphant work yet. This album carries that feeling of the underappreciated and underrated dark metal scene that was culminating in the US during the late 1990s, an era where the band grew from, while helping to signal a new resurgence of doomy-dark metal artistry currently building.
Weston Super Maim – See You Tomorrow Baby – See You Tomorrow Baby – Emerging in the mid-2000s as a solo project from UK multi-instrumentalist Tom Stevens (All Of Space, Brown Stratos), the band cut its infant teeth in the MySpace and metal forum scene. But it wasn’t until 2020, when US-based Seth Detrick of Los Angeles thrash outfit PDP came on board to handle vocal duties, that the band fully sparked to life. Drawing inspiration from the abstracted time signatures of Meshuggah, the groove and dissonance of Will Haven, and the riffs of Crowbar – not to mention the boundary-pushing musicianship of bands like Car Bomb and Humanity’s Last Breath – See You Tomorrow Baby is an expansive work of cutting-edge extremity. Spanning caveman heaviness, wild complexity and passages of stunning melody, the album nevertheless represents a focused and coherent experience, with the band’s dedication to creating huge riffs and breakdowns dragging the listener along for the ride. Guest spots from members of Frontierer, Soreption, and Blindfolded And Led to the Woods add extra dimensions to what is already a multifaceted record.
Ohpen Ahrms – Make Me A Ghost – Lying Beside You – Chicago band inspired by heavy progressive rock and 1980s/’90s album-oriented rock romanticisms. Songs inspired by canonical riffing and post-rock noise feature winding layers of guitars, synths, and vocal harmonies that emerge through a landscape of metal, arena-rock, and shoegaze influences. Both the band’s moniker, and their debut album are in reference to Escape, the classic 1981 Journey album. Lying Beside You was driven by post-pandemic exploration in 2021, as Alan Strathmann (guitar/vocals/synths) and Quinn Curren (drums/percussion) – both of Chicago’s purveyors of melodic doomgaze Starless – began fleshing out songs with Sam Ross (guitar/vocals), and later recruited Sheldon Kessel (keys/organ) and Andy Wulf (bass) to arrive at a lineup.
Wipes – Seasick – Wax Donut Present Goat
Touching – Blue Shoes aka David Duchovny’s Dirty Linen – I Can Be Two People – Touching (aka Michael Falk) has turned a new musical corner, taking inspiration from a broad range of new sources and completely transforming his artistic direction with his bold new album I Can Be Two People At Once. The record was mixed by BC-based musician/producer Ryan Dahle (Mounties, Limblifter.) While serving as Artistic Director for Jazz Winnipeg, Falk fell in love with some of modern jazz’s more adventurous offshoots. He saw a fair amount of punk rock spirit and reckless abandon in the performances of artists like Donny McCaslin, Shabaka, and Pino Palladino. A self-taught musician and songwriter, Falk challenged himself to find a way to funnel these new musical influences through his love of overdriven synths, dramatic arrangements, and introspective lyrics. His new goal was simple: do everything in the exact opposite way he was used to. Alongside musicians Alasdair Dunlop, Sean Irvine, Sandy Fernandez, Dave Quanbury and engineer Micah Erenberg, Falk entered Winnipeg’s No Fun Club recording studio to lay down beds for what would become his most daring artistic statement to date. I Can Be Two People At Once pokes, prods and scalds a whimsical course through the canyon between jazz and indie rock
Apparition – Inner Altitudes, Light Transference – Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State – The follow-up to 2021’s lauded Feel LP sees the band traverse further into the realms of otherworldly doom-riddled progressive dark death metal. Since the conception of the band, they has been about creating an individualized version of death metal, all the while paying homage to its ancestors. Disgraced Emanations From A Tranquil State offers a dynamic range, from the brutal to the beautiful.
Dead Mammals – South Mouth – Wax Donut Presents Goat
Dave Graney and Clare Moore – Ice Bergmann – (strangely) (emotional)
Erika Angell – Let Your Hair Down – The Obsession With Her Voice : The acclaimed Montréal-based Swedish singer/composer from Thus Owls presents her solo debut. Angell is also known for being one half of industrial electronic noise duo The Moth and of avant-pop torch song duo Josef & Erika, and has worked with Daníel Bjarnason (Ben Frost, Sigur Rós), Arve Henriksen (Supersilent), Lisen Rylander Löve (Midaircondo), Liam O’Neill (SUUNS), Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Patrick Watson and many more.
O Zorn! – Ricochet – Vermillion Haze – Hailing from Long Beach, California, the band is led by enigmatic frontman Bill Kielty, a charismatic and confident performer that sits somewhere between Rob Zombie and James Hetfield in his delivery, and is completed by the exceptional guitar talents of Justin Suitor, the rolling thunder of bassist Justin Morales, and powerhouse drummer Derek Eglit. Together the O ZORN! collective creates the unmistakable, thumping groove that has begun to capture the hearts and minds of metal fans throughout the scene since the band was first breathed into existence in 2013.
Ancient Astronauts Otim Alpha – Akwaki feat. Brazen Rule – Fantastic Freewheeling : The Journey Continues
Blokeacola – Naked From The Waist Down – Quasars And Fluff
Fog Lamp – Anxious Stargazing – Anxious Stargazing : Oakland, California’s premiere synth-punks Fog Lamp have released their sophomore LP on The Bucket Records. With their refusal to conform to traditional norms, exemplified by their choice to incorporate a drum machine instead of a drummer, Fog Lamp continues to push boundaries and challenge expectations.
Linda Smith – I So Liked Spring – I So Liked Spring – Captured Tracks continues its rework of the Linda Smith catalogue with these first time vinyl pressings of two crucial works from her mid 90s period. Smith has never really stopped, and equally, she’s never really been anything other than charmingly great, but there’s probably a reason why CT has turned to these two albums first.
Linda Smith – All Of The Blue – Nothing Else Matters
Mammoth Penguins – Everything I Write – Here – The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming new album Here set for release on May 3 via Fika Recordings, and follows on from lead single ‘SPECIES’ released last month. Commenting on the track, which examines the dynamics of trust and intimacy in a long term relationship, vocalist Emma Kupa says: “Transparency is important in relationships and sharing your location can help someone not worry when your partner is travelling home late at night. This song is mainly about when someone has access to every part of your life and brain, and then in the last verse I’m just complaining.”
Peter Metro and Kwabna – Happiness – Happiness : Kwabna came to prominence on the Reggae scene in the UK and Europe with a string of popular Reggae Singles, and is now a popular and regular voice on UK, European, and Worldwide Radio Networks, with many regular appearances at some of the most prestigious events across Europe. Peter Metro, initially performing under the name Peter Ranking, he changed his name when he discovered that another deejay was using that name, and since he was resident deejay on the Metromedia sound system, he chose the name Peter Metro.
Rasta Reuben, Fredlocks, Ill Vibe – Journey To The Center of the Dub – Champion Sound Clash
Sun Atoms – Tower of Song (in the key of JAMC) – Ceiling Tiles – Portland synth-gaze-rock outfit SUN ATOMS presents a unique fuzzed-out tribute to iconic songwriter LEONARD COHEN with ‘Tower of Song (in the key of JAMC)’, released as the flipside of their new ‘Ceiling Tiles’ single. Out now via Little Cloud Records digitally and on 7″ vinyl and mixed by the iconic JAGZ KOONER (Massive Attack, Primal Scream, Oasis, Garbage), this is the first taste of the band’s sophomore album (out this summer).
The New Music Ensemble of the Black Hills – Dark Waters/Heroes – Remembrance & Renewal – Remembrance & Renewal is a work that was commissioned by Troy Kilpatrick and The Journey Museum and Learning Center in 2022 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Black Hills Flood of 1972. This disaster took the lives of 238 people and is regarded as one of the worst floods in American history. Composed, orchestrated, and directed by Alex Massa, this was the New Music Ensemble of the Black Hills’ debut performance
The Dread Crew of Oddwood – Evil Tide – Rust & Glory – Formed in 2008, – Wolfbeard O’Brady, Stark Cordwain, Deckard Cordwain, and Pistol(s) Pete – is hastily becoming one of the biggest independent folk metal acts in the world. Armed exclusively with acoustic instruments, these pirates they infuse the raw energy of heavy metal with Celtic and European folk music to tell tales of comrades lost, bloody sieges, drunken debauchery, and all manner of villainous misadventures. The new album Rust & Glory is a thirteen-song treasure-trove of all-acoustic, piratical, folk metal rippers which present a finely honed sound and creative voice that is truly unlike anything else in the metal scene today.
Four Candles – Strange Things Are Happening – The Penultimate Gig
2 Lost Souls – The Bounce? – Humility