Article
Kate Simko

Albums
2562
3ofmillions
3 Seconds Of Air
Monty Adkins
Agoria
Anduin
Natalie Beridze TBA
Black Eagle Child
Boduf Songs
Bodzin Vs Romboy
Build
Marco Carola
Blake Carrington
Codes In The Clouds
Dreamsploitation
Federico Durand
Elektro Guzzi
Emanuele Errante
FiRES WERE SHOT
Rick Frystak
Garin & Gobart
Gerard and Graydon
Kraig Grady
Guthrie & Budd
Marcus Intalex
Jumpel
Slavek Kwi
March
Maschine
Melodium
Alton Miller
Obsil
Phaedra
Semiomime
Shaula
Kate Simko
Sleepingdog
Nobuto Suda
Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Compilations / Mixes
5ZIG
20 F@#&ING Years
Michelangelo Antonioni
Fabric 56: Derrick Carter

EPs
Agoria featuring Kid A
Aleph
A Story of Rats
Orlando B.
Ceremony
Cex
Matthew Dear
Entia Non & Tanner Menard
Nick Kuepfer
Clem Leek
Mat Le Star
Lulacruza
Paul Lyman
Moss
Resampled Part 1
Resampled Part 2
Snoretex
Subeena

A Story of Rats: Relinquishment
FSS

Relinquishment presents two cassette sides of gothic dronescaping from A Story of Rats, otherwise known as Seattle-based multimedia artist Garek Druss. Straight up, the material's haunted in the best way possible, with Druss serving up some seriously disturbed kosmische shudder just in time to make one's skin crawl. Each composition weighs in at about sixteen minutes, with Druss using synthesizers, harmonium, melodica, voice, and electronics to generate his undertow and pulling guitar by Matthew Merris into the fray on side two. The instruments' sounds meld into a scabrous mass on the first side, while the second's phantom voices and metallic guitar pulsations generate a slow-moving drift that's more peaceful than harrowing. Listening to FSS's first ever cassette release (a one-time edition of 100 copies, though FSS digital subscribers will receive wav files of the album's tracks) thus proves to be no Merzbow-like test of endurance, but a veritably pain-free, even soothing exercise, as Relinquishment 's nuanced settings fall, much to this listener's satisfaction, on the understated side of the equation.

April 2011