Articles by Bryon Hayes

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  Yellow Swans

  At All Ends

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2007

  Harsh beauty, supple poignancy, At All Ends, the third studio album from Portland’s Yellow Swans, is rife with dichotomy; its amorphous sou...

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  Cline / Parkins / Rainey

  Downpour

  PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2007

  Recorded live at the 2006 Festival International de Musique Actuelle, this hour-long set of frenetic free improvisation is chock full of hi...

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  Brian Ruryk / Gastric Female Reflex

  Brian Ruryk / Gastric Female Reflex

  PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2007

  Toronto’s favourite juvenile delinquents have sailed a slab of junkyard concrète towards an unsuspecting universe, and it’s housed in what...

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  The Bark Haze

  Total Joke Era

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  Nanaimo, BC native Andrew MacGregor’s recent fecundity has found him rubbing elbows with some key players in the esoteric fringes of the No...

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  Noctilucent Valleys

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  Loren Chasse is a San Francisco native and alumnus of several outfits that together form the beautifully prolific Jewelled Antler Collectiv...

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  Monotract

  Trueno Oscuro

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  As a solo artist, noise impresario Carlos Giffoni unloads inchoate electronic mayhem in what seems like unsurpassable quantities. As a memb...

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  Mouthus

  Follow This House

  PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2007

  On Follow This House, Brooklyn terror drone ear butchers Nate Nelson and Brian Sullivan ease up on the usual unrelenting sonics, offering a...

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  Death Unit

  Infinite Death

  PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2007

  This sweet silver slab contains more firepower than the intestines of a 250-pound-burrito devouring Dungeons & Dragons devotee. No Fun Fest...