Articles by Bryon Hayes

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  Wastelanders

  Cosmic Despair

  PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2012

  How many labels does it take to put out a drone release in the increasingly fertile sub-underground? In the case of Cosmic Despair, the sop...

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  Pharaoh Overlord

  Lunar Jetman

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2012

  The seventh studio album from Finland's Pharaoh Overlord, Lunar Jetman is quite a departure from the monotonous stoner rock with which the...

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  Tetras

  Pareidolia

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

  Epic in both density and duration, Pareidolia evokes the psychological phenomenon with which it shares its name. Taken at face value, the f...

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  Aaron Dilloway

  Modern Jester

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

  With four sides of vinyl as his canvas, former Wolf Eyes member Aaron Dilloway casts a wide net across a violent sea of tape loops. Three y...

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  Valdivia / Brenders

  Brandon Miguel Valdivia / Kyle Brenders

  PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

  Calgary's Bug Incision collective originally focused on documenting that city's flourishing underground improvisatory music scene, but has...

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  Erland Dahlen

  Rolling Bomber

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2012

  The title of Norwegian percussionist Erland Dahlen's solo debut refers to the Slingerland Rolling Bomber kit employed in the album's creati...

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  Noise Level

  Body

  PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2012

  At its nascence in 2004, Noise Level was conceived by its creator (London, ON native Ed Matthews) as an electronic ethno-ambient project. O...

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  Nova Scotian Arms

  Cult Spectrum

  PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2012

  Following hot on the heels of a split LP with wife Rachel (who records as Motion Sickness of Time Travel), Cult Spectrum is the first solo...