While I still haven't figured out the right place keep my oversized Wormrot box, which I reviewed in the last edition of this series, I already got myself another multiple-album collection from the merch table at the Nadja show in Hamburg. Thankfully this one's sized a bit more reasonable. This box plus a double cassette in a butterfly case and one just normal tape makes already six tapes again, so damn, this write-up is really overdue.
NADJA + VAMPILLIA - Trilogy (3MC box) (2021)
including:
NADJA + VAMPILLIA - The Perfect World (2013)
NADJA + VAMPILLIA - Imperfection (2014)
NADJA + VAMPILLIA - Artificial Act of God (2018)
"The Perfect World" is a fitting title for the 2013 collaboration between the two prolific bands Nadja and Vampillia. The Canadian drone metal/shoegaze/industrial duo and the Japanese "brutal orchestra" melted guitar, bass and drum machine from one side and piano, strings, occasional extreme vocals and more guitars from the other side together to a ginormous wall of beautiful droning emotion. Jesu meets Subrosa? That works as a hinto into the direction, but the magnitude of this sound goes beyond any comparison of this kind. I get that the partially long lingering on rather formless ambience isn't everyone's cup of tea, but still - rightfully this record, which brings brutal slow motion riffs, cold electronic drums and breathtaking classical elements together so seemigly effortless, should be huge in doom and adjacent scenes! It's no wonder that the collaborators came together for more again.
Where "The Perfect World" finished with the twenty-four minutes large mammoth track "Icelight" its successor "Imperfection" carried the torch with two similarily huge instrumental chunks. Both "Imperfect World" and "NeuPrimitive" present the formula of the joint collective in an even bigger and more consequent way, adding more layers of bombast and brutal Sunn O))) rumbling.
With a much longer time between releases "Artificial Act of God" perfected the sound to its grandest form, added the element of partly unexpectedly grind-jazzy live drums and finished the trilogy with touches of even more avant-garde and Mono post rock. Larger than life!
Which album ultimately is the best remains an open question I don't even want to try to answer. But all three together, as compiled by Bad Moon Rising in this box, which is limited to a hundred copies, provide an experience of swansy proportions.
Where "The Perfect World" finished with the twenty-four minutes large mammoth track "Icelight" its successor "Imperfection" carried the torch with two similarily huge instrumental chunks. Both "Imperfect World" and "NeuPrimitive" present the formula of the joint collective in an even bigger and more consequent way, adding more layers of bombast and brutal Sunn O))) rumbling.
With a much longer time between releases "Artificial Act of God" perfected the sound to its grandest form, added the element of partly unexpectedly grind-jazzy live drums and finished the trilogy with touches of even more avant-garde and Mono post rock. Larger than life!
Which album ultimately is the best remains an open question I don't even want to try to answer. But all three together, as compiled by Bad Moon Rising in this box, which is limited to a hundred copies, provide an experience of swansy proportions.
MIDWIFE - Luminol (glitter MC) (2021)
A shorter and much more intimate sound embraces us on Madeline Johnston aka Midwife's mini album "Luminol". Her stripped down singer/songwriter shoegaze sounds exactly like I remember it from her mesmerizing appearance on this year's Roadburn Festival. Minimalistic and veiled by an eery haze, yet ultimately endlessly beautiful this half-way stop between doom and dream pop never fails to pull you close to the artist's soul.
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - Live in Brisbane `21 (Needlejuice red glitter + blue glitter 2MC) (2022)
Let's end this thing less melancholic with a sonically rather light and jammy side of the hardest working band in Australian psychedelic rock (and beyond)! Can anyone still count even their studio albums? With the material free to use as official bootlegs it gets even harder to comprehend. Well, at least this live recording in itself doesn't present any hard challenge for the listener.
Performing mostly pre-"Nonagon Infinity" material (except some songs from the last of the five 2017 albums "Gumboot Soup") King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard go unplugged in this chill live performance, so besides drums, bass and acoustic guitars it's all harmonica, flutes, piano, mellotron and saxophone here.
Fourteen tracks already sound like something, but if you consider that there are also a couple of long jams like the opener "The River" (sixteen minutes) or "The Bitter Boogie" (twelve minutes) in here, it almost seems like a no-brainer to release this gem on double-cassette. I'm not brave or stupid enough to call this my favorite Gizz release of 2022 yet, but being a live show recording it plays in another category then the five studio albums - yes, they're doing that again! - of this year anyway.
So just let me conclude this text by saying that "Live in Brisbane '21" is super enjoyable to listen to, the only live album of the band so far, which immediately rang my must buy alert after listening to just one song online. Relaxing good times galore!
Performing mostly pre-"Nonagon Infinity" material (except some songs from the last of the five 2017 albums "Gumboot Soup") King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard go unplugged in this chill live performance, so besides drums, bass and acoustic guitars it's all harmonica, flutes, piano, mellotron and saxophone here.
Fourteen tracks already sound like something, but if you consider that there are also a couple of long jams like the opener "The River" (sixteen minutes) or "The Bitter Boogie" (twelve minutes) in here, it almost seems like a no-brainer to release this gem on double-cassette. I'm not brave or stupid enough to call this my favorite Gizz release of 2022 yet, but being a live show recording it plays in another category then the five studio albums - yes, they're doing that again! - of this year anyway.
So just let me conclude this text by saying that "Live in Brisbane '21" is super enjoyable to listen to, the only live album of the band so far, which immediately rang my must buy alert after listening to just one song online. Relaxing good times galore!
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