Just received an order from Phage, which included the recent SS release "Wreck". This is a short (28 mins) but extremely powerful harsh noise onslaught with a lot of subtleties. I find it exhilirating! Could have stood for another track but this one was just long enough.
Any suggestions on other things in this vein?
I remember their self-titled debut CD on Helicopter (re-released on Troniks/PACrec & later as a 2x7" on A Dear Girl Called Wendy) being very diverse and full of subtleties as you mentioned, while still being a straight onslaught of harsh noise. This was over ten years prior to Wreck, which I have not heard - or many of their more recent albums, but I have a feeling their whole discography has a bit of what you crave. It's a bit massive already; anyone have suggestions of Sissy Spacek's better releases?
My favorite is French Record. A lot of start and stop and metal clamoring, maybe not always full on harsh noise but very tasteful. Especially that track "Really Into the Haters".
Wherever you found their California Ax 4CD set, purchase it with closed eyes.
Also, in case of wanting any electro-acoustic works, buy Sepsis CD.
Quote from: Otomo_Hava on September 07, 2013, 01:27:29 PM
Wherever you found their California Ax 4CD set, purchase it with closed eyes.
Also, in case of wanting any electro-acoustic works, buy Sepsis CD.
The 4 disc set should be on my doorstep today or Monday!
Good info - thanks, all!
Never liked this guy. Always came off as "bratty"
I like the ridiculous grindy shit, specifically Gore Jet and Anti-Clockwise 7"s. Awesome live band too.
Quote from: jesusfaggotchrist on September 11, 2013, 08:34:34 PM
Never liked this guy. Always came off as "bratty"
Musically or personally?
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on September 11, 2013, 10:38:54 PM
I like the ridiculous grindy shit, specifically Gore Jet and Anti-Clockwise 7"s. Awesome live band too.
I've spun gore jet hundreds of times, really good live. Dash is a favorite of mind by them, though, highly recommended.
Looks like there's some new stuff on the horizon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLY6APO79m0
Are there any interviews with Mumma and Wiese only about Sissy Spacek? I'd like to hear about their process. The Ways of Confusion album in particular makes it seem like there is some interesting procedure there.
new album available now
https://shop.nwnprod.com/search?q=Sissy+Spacek
Quote from: Zeno Marx on August 02, 2018, 08:18:24 PM
Are there any interviews with Mumma and Wiese only about Sissy Spacek? I'd like to hear about their process. The Ways of Confusion album in particular makes it seem like there is some interesting procedure there.
Quote from: New Forces on April 25, 2018, 05:52:30 PM
Lots of SS activity this summer (records, shows) due to it being the 20th anniversary. The next issue of the New Forces zine will be all Sissy Spacek with a history of the band / interview with John and Charlie, among other things.
Absolutely something to look forward to there.
Yes, the next issue of New Forces will be all Sissy Spacek to accompany the release of their new LP on New Forces. Look for that in September.
Quote from: New Forces on August 07, 2018, 04:32:18 PM
Yes, the next issue of New Forces will be all Sissy Spacek to accompany the release of their new LP on New Forces. Look for that in September.
This is seriously cool - just ordered the LP on NWN and both of these are highly anticipated releases!
I probably said this before in this thread but the last batch of SS CDs were so tight. Mitch from Gasp, Don Bolles, tons of weirdness, CDs tent to get filed and not get the attention they deserve so I haven't gone in great detail on them but seriously cool releases.
New Blear album is top notch. Industrialism.
Loving the amount of new releases from Sissy Spacek at the moment, though hard to get them in the UK.
Awaiting a copy of Ways of Confusion from HMV of all places.
@New Forces - well looking forward to that zine!
Quote from: Zeno Marx on August 16, 2018, 02:56:30 AM
New Blear album is top notch. Industrialism.
Yea it's awesome, they have a slew of upcoming releases and they cover so much different sonic territory
Quote from: sadneck on September 05, 2018, 04:43:35 PM
Loving the amount of new releases from Sissy Spacek at the moment...
Yeah, what's up with that? I mean, they have five full lenght releases of 2018 already? Soon close to Merzbow pace...
Do they really keep quality?
(Will probably try them out anytime soon)
Quote from: j-han on September 06, 2018, 03:43:32 PM
Quote from: sadneck on September 05, 2018, 04:43:35 PM
Loving the amount of new releases from Sissy Spacek at the moment...
Yeah, what's up with that? I mean, they have five full lenght releases of 2018 already? Soon close to Merzbow pace...
Do they really keep quality?
(Will probably try them out anytime soon)
The records tend to differ depending on who was playing and where/how it was recorded. The duo stuff tends to be the more straight forward grindcore/noisecore stuff, but when they play with larger groups it often ends up being long form harshnoise stuff, sometimes more concrete/sound art stuff etc... supposedly one of the newer japanese only CD releases is an ambient album or soemthing....
Quote from: j-han on September 06, 2018, 03:43:32 PM
Quote from: sadneck on September 05, 2018, 04:43:35 PM
Loving the amount of new releases from Sissy Spacek at the moment...
Yeah, what's up with that? I mean, they have five full lenght releases of 2018 already? Soon close to Merzbow pace...
Do they really keep quality?
(Will probably try them out anytime soon)
Extra active right now because it's the 20th anniversary of the band. Personally I think the quality is all high, having listened to all the new stuff. As has already been said, there's lots of variation, so it's not just the same grind record over and over
Got my copies of the 2 Daymare Recordings CDs yesterday; only had the chance to listen to Spirant so far but it's killer. Kinda similar to Duration Groups (similar or the same line up even). Ted Byrnes on drums is killer. Improv-jazz-grind? It's superb.
http://www.metal-temple.com/site/catalogues/entry/reviews/cd_3/s_2/sissy-spacek-ways-of.htm
A+ review of Ways of Confusion
Quote from: sadneck on September 20, 2018, 01:26:07 PM
Got my copies of the 2 Daymare Recordings CDs yesterday; only had the chance to listen to Spirant so far but it's killer. Kinda similar to Duration Groups (similar or the same line up even). Ted Byrnes on drums is killer. Improv-jazz-grind? It's superb.
Where did you get these from? Definitely interested in ordering!
(Edit: I am having some “challenges” navigating that Daymare site!!)
Quote from: holy ghost on September 22, 2018, 10:59:12 AM
Quote from: sadneck on September 20, 2018, 01:26:07 PM
Got my copies of the 2 Daymare Recordings CDs yesterday; only had the chance to listen to Spirant so far but it's killer. Kinda similar to Duration Groups (similar or the same line up even). Ted Byrnes on drums is killer. Improv-jazz-grind? It's superb.
Where did you get these from? Definitely interested in ordering!
(Edit: I am having some "challenges" navigating that Daymare site!!)
Try here: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/searches?term.media_format=cd&q=sissy+spacek (they also have lots of Hijokaidan et al if you're after other stuff too)
Cheers, thanks! Daymare site is only in Japanese - and these aren't even up on discogs yet.
Quote from: holy ghost on September 24, 2018, 10:45:22 AM
Cheers, thanks! Daymare site is only in Japanese - and these aren't even up on discogs yet.
Yeah, I'm surprised the Dotsmark disc is on there but not these 2 on Daymare.
I tried to order the Dotsmark disc from the label but my order got cancelled and I've had no reply to any emails, so waiting for a Discogs seller for that one.
CDJapan is good, ordered a fair few things from them and had no trouble - though the box with my Sissy Spacek discs was subject to some customs which hasn't happened before.
I've put in a PayPal request for the dotsmark disc, I'll try CD Japan for the daymare discs.
Quote from: holy ghost on September 26, 2018, 10:47:43 AM
I've put in a PayPal request for the dotsmark disc, I'll try CD Japan for the daymare discs.
That's what I did and my order got canceled almost immediately. I've emailed twice about it but had no reply.
Quote from: sadneck on September 26, 2018, 11:37:29 AM
Quote from: holy ghost on September 26, 2018, 10:47:43 AM
I've put in a PayPal request for the dotsmark disc, I'll try CD Japan for the daymare discs.
That's what I did and my order got canceled almost immediately. I've emailed twice about it but had no reply.
Damn, that's a shame - I ordered the two Daymare CDs from CDJapan as well, no problems navigating their site - thanks for the tip.
I'll keep up my optimism I get an email from the Dotsmark site but not holding my breath - if anyone has any leads I'd really like to get this one!
Won't Mr.Wiese have these for sale via his Helicopter store or the Sissy Spacek bandcamp?
That's a definite possibility, shipping from Japan is about the same from the US for me at this point....
I asked him that on Facebook and he just pointed me towards the label sites to order. I *think* they are "japan" exclusives. We'll see.
Btw, I've been listening to Formation on my drive to and from work this week. It's VERY different, at least the first track is a simple buzzing drone piece, very straight forward, no grind/noise/concrete stuff. The rest is abit more junk noise/concrete but a touch more ambient than usual. It's a nice one.
I tried again with Dotsmark but gave them my credit card info this time instead of asking for a PayPal invoice.
"We'll see"
We've contacted Dotsmark to get copies of the SS discs on both Dotsmark and Daymare for US customers. We will also try to order more copies of the World Discography CD for those interested. Once copies are available we'll make a post here.
My order was accepted and they've charged my credit card so I'm hopeful I'll be able to grab that Dotsmark one, it sounds totally wild and I'd love to catch that DVD too....
I've got the Blear LP on order and I've paid for the New Forces stuff but I'm waiting to have it shipped until October. I love how SS comes in waves, I think last year it was the Rip box and some other stuff and he year before at the end of summer there were a ton of things and all those Taperoom tapes, etc.
Just got a note from Dotsmark - he was organizing the Sissy Spacek tour and was behind in his shipping. Just updated the order and provided tracking and apologized for the delay - which was only a few days!!!! Very cool.
I'll have to try order again then!
What's the page count and page size on the New Forces Sissy Spacek zine?
Quote from: Zeno Marx on October 11, 2018, 11:36:46 PM
What's the page count and page size on the New Forces Sissy Spacek zine?
8 1/2 x 11 and about 20 pages or so? Solid read, an interview that takes up most of the zine and some reviews. Definitely essential for any SS mincers out there. And the fucking LP is great as is Blear and the NWN one.
Thanks for the details.
Skeleton Dust will be receiving copies of the Sissy Spacek - Expanding Antiverse CD/DVD, as well as restock copies of the World - Discography CD on Dotsmark shortly. We also just received copies of the Formation disc on Daymare, along with restock copies of the Ways Of Confusion LP which will be in our Discogs store momentarily. Copies of the Spirant CD on Daymare should be arriving in the shop in the hopefully-near future as well.
I'm still waiting for my Daymare order - glad I paid for registered/insured shipping. Very interested in hearing the Daymare CDs. Dotsmark one was really cool but I haven't had a chance to check out the DVD.
EDIT: of course like 10 minutes after I make this post the mailman shows up to deliver the package. Pretty stoked.
Y'all like how a couple of us went crazy ordering from Japan for these gosh darn CDs and they're still in stock at the Helicopter storenvy?
I hit Spirant up this morning on my way to work and fuck it RIPS HARD. Love these larger groups with more of a saxy free jazz spirit to them. This one friggin' slaps.
Quote from: holy ghost on January 03, 2019, 07:07:45 PM
I hit Spirant up this morning on my way to work and fuck it RIPS HARD. Love these larger groups with more of a saxy free jazz spirit to them. This one friggin' slaps.
Reckon that's my fav of the lot, maybe. Still digesting them all. The New Forces LP rips hard, too.
I snagged the Caravan C40 a while back and put it in a pile and forgot about it until today which is a shame - it's GREAT. Aaron Dilloway is all over it and the mix is really great. Two long tracks that are more "musique concrete" than "noisecore" and it works great. This would be a great candidate for an LP version as this is limited to 99 copies, says the tape sleeve. Definitely a solid, standout recording!!
Quote from: holy ghost on February 28, 2019, 01:16:26 AM
I snagged the Caravan C40 a while back and put it in a pile and forgot about it until today which is a shame - it's GREAT. Aaron Dilloway is all over it and the mix is really great. Two long tracks that are more "musique concrete" than "noisecore" and it works great. This would be a great candidate for an LP version as this is limited to 99 copies, says the tape sleeve. Definitely a solid, standout recording!!
I grabbed that one too but it's still in my listening pile.
Spun Trash Staging last night and Spiriant in the car this morning. Both fantastic and completely different.
Let me know if anyone has a copy of the Caravan tape they could part with, missed that one
Summer update pre-orders available - collabs with Smegma, Hijokaidan, The Haters. Everything looks magnificent!!
Most excited for that Hijo collab but I'm sure they are all solid releases. The Hater's sample II doesn't do too much for me, but VII sounds promising. Also very curious about those Haters bonus tapes, especially Scraping Glaze which the Discogs submission has a "marches, experimental" style tag...
Couldn't not go for that stupid expensive special bundle with the pointless extra test pressing copy of the flexi.
The Hijo collab sounds like most Hijo really, but that's no bad thing.
Been spinning L/L a lot lately. As much as I LOVE harsh/grind Sissy, I'm getting real deep into their more free jazz/concrete/collage stuff at the moment.
Quote from: sadneck on June 06, 2019, 10:54:54 AM
Couldn't not go for that stupid expensive special bundle with the pointless extra test pressing copy of the flexi.
The Hijo collab sounds like most Hijo really, but that's no bad thing.
Been spinning L/L a lot lately. As much as I LOVE harsh/grind Sissy, I'm getting real deep into their more free jazz/concrete/collage stuff at the moment.
I saw the Helicopter email when I woke up and I lay in bed for like 20 minutes mentally debating if I had the cash available for such a purchase - I went against it and just did the bundle #2 in the end but I'm hella jealous! I haven't listened to any samples yet but this is their best summer bundle yet from the sounds of it. I love the Sissy Spacek collab 7" with Smegma from a few years ago.
I'm stocking the new Helicopter for EU and international - including both the CD and LP version of the Hijokaidan collab.
So there has been a HUGE bunch of Spacek stuff out over the last month or so.
This most recent one is a big chunk of harsh/core noise stuff. Worth your time: https://sissyspacek.bandcamp.com/merch/sissy-spacek-corpus-6-panel-digipak-cd
I grabbed that CD and the two super limited tapes from the bandcamp, waiting on them to arrive (tracking says "in Jamaica NY" so probably next week) and also noticed on discogs there were a couple of super limited lathes and tapes I missed out on over 2019.
I grabbed the tapes as well but haven't had a chance to listen yet.
I also got the Collateral Dilation lathe last month but again, not listened yet.
Quote from: sadneck on June 17, 2020, 02:15:28 PM
I also got the Collateral Dilation lathe last month but again, not listened yet.
How is it?? Really wanted this but couldn't justify the cost.
The CD on Troniks with Jay Randall on vocals is fucking great. Exactly what I'm looking for right now. Have spun it a bunch.
Could not have asked for a more appropriate LP reissue than the collab with Smegma. One of my FA routes from recent times. Double CD on Gilongo looks pretty great too but still waiting to hear that one.
I really hope there's a follow up to Lead Their Exit. It's my favorite SS and grindcore record. No fluff no mercy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkSx-AoJmPk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkSx-AoJmPk)
New Sissy Spacek/Smegma collab LP looks beautiful! One of my favourite CDs from last year, this LP edition looks absolutely stunning. Amazing eye popping colour happening here.
Didn't have time to check out the double CD that also arrived, but that is really exciting stuff lined up for this weekend.
The Haters / Sissy Spacek CD on Helicopter is good. It is not TOTALLY phenomenal, but really good. It says done in 2018, but under what conditions, I do not know. To my ears it sounds more like old Haters snotty and dusty noise textures would be taken under digital processing. Not really processed with any lame efx, but just added clarity, added sharpness, added loudness. I have no idea what the process has been like, but if someone said GX handed over bunch of "In the shade of fire" era source tapes and Sissy boosted it all up and made texture walls, I'd say that sounds about right!
Hijokaidan / Sissy Spacek CD, there is two versions of this right? American Helicopter and the Japanese Dotsmark. I was mentioned Japanese version has more stuff in it. That's the only version I have. Good stuff! Collaborations and solo works, ripping and ear tormenting noise chaos.
Picked up the "Prismatic Parameter" double CD recently, for some reason it won't play in my CD player at home but ripped just fine. Big 2016 SS group with Ace Farren Ford, Bill Nace, Charlie Mumma, Joe Potts, John Wiese, Martín Escalante, Rick Potts, Ted Byrnes - this is hands down one of the BEST Sissy Spacek releases I've heard, great clattery playing reminiscent of Topography of the Lungs type British free jazz/improv and the wilder bits are reminiscent of classic Brotzmann led large groups.
Fucking WILD release! Definitely one of the best things I've heard all year. I drive a lot for work and I spent all day in the car with this one fucking BLASTING! Very similar to the "Duration Groups" CD from a few years ago but just more.... refined? Really solid. One of the best things I've heard all year.
Quote from: holy ghost on December 04, 2020, 09:52:50 PM
Picked up the "Prismatic Parameter" double CD recently, for some reason it won't play in my CD player at home but ripped just fine. Big 2016 SS group with Ace Farren Ford, Bill Nace, Charlie Mumma, Joe Potts, John Wiese, Martín Escalante, Rick Potts, Ted Byrnes - this is hands down one of the BEST Sissy Spacek releases I've heard, great clattery playing reminiscent of Topography of the Lungs type British free jazz/improv and the wilder bits are reminiscent of classic Brotzmann led large groups.
Fucking WILD release! Definitely one of the best things I've heard all year. I drive a lot for work and I spent all day in the car with this one fucking BLASTING! Very similar to the "Duration Groups" CD from a few years ago but just more.... refined? Really solid. One of the best things I've heard all year.
Finally got my copy in the mail and listening to it today. I whole heartily agree with you about how good it is, this might be one of my own personal favorite Sissy Spacek records now. The contributions from all members are edited together so well into a really nice amalgamation of sound.
The tracks on the first disc sound more free flowing and organic, like an acoustic noise ensemble. Topography Of The Lungs is a great comparison. The acoustic and traditional instrumentation is more up front in the mix and the electronics are a more subdued to compliment the rest of the sound.
I like how the second disk moves away from the European Free Improvisation style, just for a bit, and showcases tracks with more open space. Helps keep the album fresh and gives the listener a little reprieve before getting back into the full on improvised assault.
The larger group recordings always feel like something special to me. If I had gotten this album earlier, it would certainly have been on my Best of 2020 list.
Going to do a more formal write-up soon, but I caught Sissy Spacek last night at along with Primitive Man, Blood Incantation and a bunch of other bands. They were definitely the outlier but there was a lot of weirder metal. I haven't seen SS since 2010 when they played at The Bank in Baltimore doing Gore Jet style batshit crazy cybergrind-ish stuff. And I was in the middle of a speed bender for that one so it's a fond memory but also a big blurry mess of one. Didn't know what to expect for this one but when I saw Mumma behind the drums and Weiss behind a table with gear plus guitar I knew it'd be good. Absolutely blasting noisy-grindy-skronk of the highest caliber. Vocals somewhere between goregrind and the gibbering bits of a Masonna plus more traditional harsh vocals from Mumma. Drums being processed through Weiss's gear while also doing additional ripping noise and guitar abuse. Super tight start stop bits. Eventual partial destruction of the drum set which was in turned processed and played back again. More screaming grinding blasting and ripping. It was hard-on inducing. Absolutely fucking killer and I'm so glad I didn't skip this show because my old bones really wanted to. Picked up a few SS albums from Weiss after and I'm very interested to see how they compare to what I saw.
For those in NYC/Brooklyn, I believe SS is playing tonight and tomorrow at St Vitus. Don't miss this shit.
Electric Field in Parallel & Reslayer
The new discs with Jay Randall are so good... I threw in Electric Field In Parallel to start and that first track "White Car" hits SO HARD. Perfectly edited and non-stop action for 30 minutes and not a dull moment. I appreciate how after the more lengthy tracks on Electric Field, the Reslayer CD hits you with the shorter and faster moving tracks. I can't imagine how much editing went into the material across both discs.
Each release is perfect, and easily at the top of the already impressive Sissy Spacek discography in my opinion. Wiese never slows down. Also, LOVE the cover art for both albums.
Dead Sissy thread for 4 years? It cannot be!
I have a confession to make: I never listened to any SS until today. I saw the (great!) name everywhere, I thought "I'll look them up sometime", and finally, today was the day.
And I spent 2hrs sampling various releases. Everything from long freeform to HNW to 81 tracks in 18min Noisecore.
Sweet Jesus!! I need a drink. 😂
With tears in my eyes I narrowed it down to 7 to buy from the vast selection at S+W.
I'm amazed at the discography, the sheer variety of works, and the overwhelming power of everything that I have heard, which represents a snowflake on an iceberg.
I'll review this thread. Man, I have a lot of catching up to do. 😂
I'm thrilled to see that some of My Initial Seven get some high praise in this thread.
I generally leaned towards longer duration CDs. I dunno about these short ones. Fuck! 7min? 😂 But I did a 27min and an 18min, based on reviews / descriptions. How can you not love 81 "songs" in 18min? 😂
Absorb Wanting Symbols
Raiser
Gong
Mirror Agressor Slate
Bolero Shield
Mechanical Abstraction
Electric Field In Parallel
Did I say 7 releases? Actually, I got 14.
My Sissython begins tonight! I rather randomly chose Gong to start this epic, maiden journey.
4 tracks. 57+min. Mumma/Wiese. Half 2021 and half 2024.
Silences!
Stop/start...noisy/junky/shards of glass/etc...but the silences stand out...regularly, randomly, strangely... Did they expect that I/we would notice the silences?
I love the clear, sharp production.
Beautiful chaos, this.
I didn't notice a break between tracks 1 and 2. This is a 29min piece, really.
Same with tracks 2 and 3. This album is playing like a 57min piece!? Although I hear subtle differences in track 3. The tone / density / shifts... Similar, but different. No more silences! Loopier. Yeah, we moved to a different part of this junkyard in space, but the feel of this album remains constant.
I fucking love this album.
It sounds like Merzbow's chickens showed up, briefly.
Yeah...again a subtle shift to track 4. Even loopier? Denser/softer. But I love how this album stays in the same lane, at similar speed, while doing turns and hills.
A thrilling ride. My head is spinning. What a wonderful way to start my Sissython.
(A slight sidenote: When I opened up Besiege, I was...er...besieged. "Wtf is this?" It looks like a 3inch CD, but it's 5inch, and transparant beyond 3inch. I had to briefly test-play it, which was fine. Then I had to research: In my 40+ years of buying CDs (and a few years at a Record/CD shop), I had never seen a "minimax" CD. You learn something new every day. I suppose this can work for a 19min CD. And this sidenote can serve as my intro to Besiege...tomorrow night's play.) 😂
And so...Besiege...
A 2021 re-release of a 2020 cassette.
Mumma/Wiese. 2x10min tracks.
It's quite incredible what they pack into this 20min. This is serious fucking PE. (Or Harsh Noise? Not Noisecore though!? Labels labels labels.) Very impressive. Intense and hard. A few very brief stops/starts.
I don't know if I hear "percussion" per se? Buried deep into these dense layers? And I think I hear voice in the mix from time to time? I'm not sure.
This is quite a different beast from Gong.
For decades I have been in love with long-duration albums. I shunned 30min (or shorter) ones. It must be related to my bathtub listening habits. 😂
But recently, Sissy Spacek, Mildred Pierce, and a few other bands (named after famous ladies? 😂) have caused me to rethink my silly, stubborn ways.
I can play this fucking thing 3x in the hour!
I really admire most of the artwork surrounding these CDs, often by JW himself.
I did play 3x! 😂 I think I noticed an arc.
Fucking wonderful.
Reslayer.
7 tracks. 20+min. Mumma/Randall/Wiese. 2022.
I'm choosing these in a random order.
Silences! Again. 😂 I'm sure it's weird that one of the first things I notice, between great slabs of torrent and chaos, is the stop/start for a quarter to a half second, here and there. This must be a
Wieseism. It's very effective, to my ears. It adds to the cut-up feel.
I think this one is out-besieging Besiege. I also hear more wall-action here, cut-ups notwithstanding.
Fuck, this is powerful. I'm not recognizing tracks. It's really one single 20min fuckmeup. But again, I sense an arc - it's denser later. I think.
This never lets up for a second. (Maybe a quarter to a half second somtimes. See above.) 😂
Beautiful, varied, harsh noise assaults.
I played it twice.
Cosm.
3 tracks. 37min. Mumma/Ohno/Wiese. A 2023 release of a 2021 work.
Drums/guitar/bass/organ? Wtf is this? Are Sissy Spacek the King Gizzard of the "Noise" world? Jazzy improv?
I suppose this is good. I am enjoying it. But I can't get "minor Borbetomagus" out of my head.
(Actually, I can't get the Spinal Tap "change in direction" scenes out of my head.)
I might adore it someday!
I played it twice.
Blear.
6 tracks / 41+min. A 2022 re-release of some 2016/2017 recordings. (Track 6 is bonus - live.) Mumma/Wiese.
Well, this one starts off different again. It's a hazier/dreamier sound. I feel like I am in a train station. Hundreds of people rushing everywhere. I get dizzy. A whirlwind. Fucking wonderful.
This suddenly gives way to epic junkyard action. Metal sheets are tossed about. Glass breaks.
Then another change of pace - an eerie, spooky thing. Quiet. Sinister. A whole album of this would be cool.
Wow. 3 brillaint, varied tracks.
This is the first of my 14 Sissys where I'm hearing very different tracks within. Up to now all CDs have played rather like singular statements.
Then I'm jolted - explosions!? Gunshots? Track 4 gives me battlefield vibes. A strange and lovely choir type undercurrent. This eventually fades and leaves only the "battlefield" part. Fascinating.
Track 5 is different again. Sparse. Various percussives at random intervals. But a loop? I think. Junk metal action is in the background - a distance away. This becomes hypnotic. Yes - a loop.
(Here endeth the original 27min 5-track album.)
Track 6 seamlessly enters. Staccato type pulses slowly give way to a soft white noise haze. (This is live? It really feels like part of this album arc, vice an add-on.) Then it morphs into what reminds me of track 4. But it meanders and fades into quiet, spacious, dronage regions, and acts as a perfect closer. (I cannot imagine this album ending at track 5.)
I fucking love this. The "singular statements" up to now really work for me. But so does this varied, dynamic, superb album.
I played it twice.
Threshold.
5 tracks / 28+min. This seems to be 2013, 2014, and 2022. Mumma-Wiese usually, but also Randall on the newer tracks.
I enjoy these excursions to Sun Ra and Junk Noise territory, but give me fucking Harsh Noise! (ie Threshold delivers!)
The above dates might give off a "compilation" vibe, but this album flows really well. Great job on the sequencing.
This is fucking wonderful. Is it simply Harsh Noise? Noisecore? I don't do labels very well. Harshcore? 😂
It goes 1000mph, but track 5 throws a slight curveball. Things get weird and twisted for the grand finale. I think the machines overheated on tracks 1-4, and now they are eating themselves, self destructing, into a steaming pile.
God what a lovely 28min this is. It might be my fav so far. But I'm fucking dizzy in this Sissython.
I'll play it twice...
(I love the CD artwork - a lovely patio, with flowers, a hot tub, reclining chairs by the pool... Might some unsuspecting Celine Dion fan find this at Value Village (I'm 64 - I might die when VV still takes CDs!) and take it home? The horror...the horror...)
Mirror Aggressor State.
81 tracks/18:53. 😂
Horne/Mumma/Weise. A 2024 release of a 2023 recording. (In fact, 21 Dec 2023.)
I was surprised that my old-ass CD player calculated 81 tracks.
This is the one I've most looked forward to. Is 81 tracks in 19min a joke? Or is it an experiment that fails?
So, this is Noisecore, right? Or maybe Grindcore? I'm not good with "labels".
I'm surprised that Mumma is NOT the drummer here. I thought this was his gig, vice vocals! Horne is the insane woodpecker at a garbage can here.
Oh! He's the dude in Sulfuric Cautery!
Mumma seems to have precisely 2 vocal styles here - the grunt (I think often with lyrics?) and the crazed, sustained shout. I'm impressed. He mixes the 2 very well, and in many different combinations and permutations.
(It ended at that paragraph. 😂 Replay...)
Many of these 81 tracks really are parts of a longer "song". They cheated a bit. 😂
This really is working for me! Maniacal. Intense. Some variety. Yet another angle in my continuing Sissython.
(Oh fuck, it ended again. One more time...) 😂
On the 3rd play I realize that this really does come across as an epic 19min arc, with many stop/starts, and abrupt turns. The division into 81 really is a bit silly, and fun.
A fantastic blast!
Edit: I'd like to copy/paste a review from Lactating Tardigrade at S+W:
Mirror Aggressor State is straight-up noisecore with no semblance of song structure outside of drumstick count-offs and blurred grind noise. 81 songs that go by in just 19 minutes. This line-up is John, Charlie on vocals, and Isaac of Sulfuric Cautery on drums. All of the releases with Isaac have been great, but I would say this is the best release they've put out so far. Even in some of the promo material, Isaac has been mentioning this is his favorite thing he's ever drummed on. This is very much in the vein of Arsedestroyer or the Insect Warfare noisecore single-sided 12". I feel like I keep saying this about recent releases, but this is one of the best releases of the band. Excellent and can't recommend it enough. This and Antitheater which I reviewed above are top-tier Sissy Spacek.
(Interlude: Because Sissy has finally taught me how to enjoy a short CD, I went even further tonight, and purchased a couple more: One is 13min, and one is...gasp...7min! 😳 I truly have seen the light. (Or the dark?)) 😂
Absorb Wanting Symbols.
5 tracks/38+min. A 2023 release of some live and studio 2022 recordings. Mumma/Wiese, and, at various times Dilloway/Matzus/Nace.
The 2 parts of Alternate Universe offers...erm...alternate soundworlds: 1 is harsh/dense as fuck, and it kicks you in the teeth from the first millisecond, while 2 gets much more "industrial junk drone". The Big Bang followed by expansion and cooling? I'm in!
Unseen, also in 2 parts, follows, and flows beautifully from Alternate Universe. First, a wall. Waves of wall. A hyptnotic white sheet of sound. Various elements burst through here and there. Voice? Feedback? I wish they'd do this for an hour. The Rita would blush at this.
Then the wall crumbles slightly in part 2. I think a firehose is attacking it. Fuck this is epic. As a lover of HNW, I humbly bow to Sissy on Unseen. The sound deconstructs slightly near the end. But the wall hold up under the assault.
That ends and suddenly we are confronted with jazz from hell, in the form of the 13min Orange Autopsy. Drumming is heard. And sax? A complete maelstrom. Borbet+Hijo might blush at this. Voice enters here and there. My head is spinning. It ultimately descends and dies. A fucking masterpiece of "sound snippets floating in space".
Absorb Wanting Symbols is a motherfucking beast. 5 slightly/somewhat dissimilar pieces that add up to a fantastic hole. (Sic). 😂
This Sissython knows no bounds.
Electric Field In Parallel.
2 tracks/41+min. 2022. Mumma/Randall/Wiese.
The 31min White Car enters like a ton of bricks. HNW, jagged, dense, cut-up, with those milliseconds of silence that I've droned on about above, and which I love so much.
I want to say "awesome, breathtaking, disorienting PE", but perhaps my definition of PE is all wrong? I've noticed that Sissy's latest is being described as "perhaps their first PE album". Huh? I clearly need to look these categories up in more detail. (And get the new one!) 😂
I gotta admit I got lost in this one. I became comatose. (This is a compliment!)
I didn't notice when the much shorter Kaleidoscope kicked in. Like many Sissy albums in my listening thus far, this feels like one singular, grand statement. Subsequent spins might reveal the differences, but as I type, I am happily pummeled by this thing. I submit.
You win, Sissy!
Edit: Meeeh fuckit I played it twice. There is an actual second+ of silence between tracks. And Kaleidoscope does resemble a squelchier, rougher, jumpier cousin to White Car.
(Now I must lie down.)
Antitheater.
97 tracks/23+min. 😂 (Even discogs doesn't list the tracks.)
Mumma/Wiese.
A 2024 release of 2021 recordings. It seems that this was recorded at many locations over 2 weeks. (Live shows? Studio? Rooms? Fields? Streets?)
I thought "Mirror Aggressor State" as soon as my old-ass CD player shockingly revealed the tracks/duration. But unlike that one, where "songs" seemed to be divvied up, this one really is playing like 97 different bits, all sequenced into a mesmerizing, thrilling whole.
Ah fuckit...here's the official blurb:
"Sissy Spacek expands its Antipodean discography with 'Antitheater', recorded over two weeks in December 2021. Blown-out grindcore and frayed improvisations are crisped with distortion until their original forms distend and melt, chunks of noise-soaked saturations then cut into a series of short-form grotesqueries—each allocated its own CD track. Play it in sequence, or play it on random for a new listening experience each play."
Yeah, I think this is mainly from shows. I fucking adore it. I'm convinced that this is the best one yet, in my Sissython. It's absolutely fucking insane.
(I'm absolutely fucking insane: I played it thrice.)
(RYM lists the tracks! But nobody fucking reviewed it.) 😂
(Interlude: I've been wondering... Did Wiese have to get permission from Sissy Spacek Herself for this name? I would love to have been in on the conversation if that happened.) 😂
Edit: I found the answer at Dazed:
DD: Why did you name the band after Sissy Spacek?
John Wiese: The combination of of those two words is really weird! It wasn't necessarily named after the actress - although she does mention us in her autobiography! She says "if you look for my music online you can't find it, but there is another band called Sissy Spacek, who probably use my name ironically." That's not true - our use of her name isn't ironic! But I thought it was funny that she mentioned it.
Mechanical Abstraction.
3 tracks/69+min! 2022.
Wiese only on track 1, otherwise Goudreau/Randall/Wiese. (No Mumma! It's explained in the booklet.)
This is 3 live tracks.
It's very impressive what Wiese does solo! Merzbow would blush.
I was getting used to these short-ass EP like things with 500 tracks. But it's good to get something expansive too. Those short/sharp cut-up blasts are ice-cream. But I need my meat and potatoes!
I am quite reminded of the Merz on this solo track. Akasha Gulva's little brother. Brilliant layering of the various white and grey sheets of sound. This has a very "studio" feel. Did they fuck with it afterwards? It's epic and breath-taking. I still love the long-form stuff the most. I can get lost in these works.
Percussives enter near the end...
...Wait...fuck...I'm deep into track 2. 😂 See? I got lost! This thing is playing like a single 69min monster. Wiese somehow set it up perfectly, and I never noticed when the other two entered.
(I think The Oscars are on as I type. Grammys, Oscars...it's all quite hilarious isn't it? 😂 Our little world here is hidden from all of that "nice" stuff. If only they knew! Sissy Spacek Herself should give this a chance!)
Well, this album has (obviously!) pummelled my brain. It's fantastic. It's epic. I love the cut-up works, and, I love this - longform, dense, dynamic harsh noise, which flows like a river.
I think I detected track 3! Voice enters the maelstrom. Things do get a little more chaotic, if that's possible. But this is a cohesive, monumental, 69min work in three very related parts.
Fucking wonderful. My fav so far! 😂
***Hyperbole Alert***
This is one of the very greatest Noise albums ever made.
Harm 2.
6 tracks/18+min. A 2020 (re)release of a 2013 LP / 2011 recordings.
Blankenship/Jackson/Mumma/Ronnau/Wiese.
Well now, this is different. I get Metal Machine Music vibes. A lot of guitar feedback sounds...on top of and inbetween other Noiselectronics. (See what I did there?)
Ronnau periodically shouts something deep into the mix...he's crying for help? It's hopeless!
Mumma/drums is also very hazy/fuzzy. I think I detect them. But this is a thick soup of electronics/guitar/drums/vocals/bass/tape.
I suppose 2011 is the oldest Sissy I've heard so far? The crystal clear / sharp / layered production that I love so much is somewhat missing / muddied here.
Don't get me wrong: This is fucking great. I'm loving it. I'm playing it thrice. But I know that, in my current 17-album Sissython, this is in the bottom third for me. That's how fucking great Sissy is! 😂
The official blurb mentions "An anti-fidelity swarm of hysteric helltrash..." Sure! I can get behind that! 😂
Once again I sense a cohesive (18min) piece, vice (6) distinct tracks.
Where's fucking Harm 1 then?
Edit: Oh!
https://www.discogs.com/release/3323092-Sissy-Spacek-Harm?srsltid=AfmBOopLCYu1DFte2oSx_jvb8MfiKpyQFzsJJR2B2yLOSX_SnfOW_v47
Bolero Shield.
2CD!! A 2024 release of 2021-2023 recordings from mumerous locations. All live, I think.
Often Mumma/Wiese, but sometimes with parts of Blankenship/Daniel/Nace/Schmidt. And there's one Wiese solo.
CD1 = 17 tracks/53+min.
Well fuck! Here we have yet a different beast. Not just in terms of album length. But the feel/mood of this one is completely new in this Sissython. There's been a few albums where live recordings are sequenced together into a stunning concept/whole. I'm really impressed at how they've done these - be it 10sec snippets of craziness, or this album - which has some lengthy pieces - which is some kind of spacious avant found-junk jazz...
...Initially, anyway! 😂 Things get heavier towards the CD's end. But the overall mood is retained. I know it's silly to bring in a Beatles reference, but is this Sissy's White Album? (The cover is white!) 😂
The 17min final track on this disc seems to sum up the proceedings nicely. A rough sound collage - musique concrete feel. A foggy mood throughout. It's like they are 5km away. Vice in-your-fucking-face. 😂
It's fucking brilliant and strange. I hope CD2 sustains this arc...
...Bolero Shield CD2.
5 tracks/54+min.
Now, my memory might be a little fuzzy regarding the start of CD1, but I believe CD2 starts in a similar vein. The New Blockaders on shrooms. A shuffle. Snippets of jazzy bits and pieces gently floating in the air. I think Pharoah Sanders might have blushed at this. Cup of tea, anyone?
But track 2 is a more jagged / uptempo version. In fact, it's called Ascend. It does exactly that. But this disc really is a very strange and wondrous jazz affair so far.
Then shit speeds up dramatically on track 3. Mumma goes to town on drums and voice. Put that tea down!
Because after some applause, shit gets real on track 4. This ain't jazzy no more! I think both discs have this arc - although I'm brand new to this and my view of it may change - but both start gently, light, jazzy, shuffling, and track by track we gradually get to heavy, dense work. But it all seems to flow.
Yikes...cancel that! 😂 I expected the Wiese solo 18min closing track to bring us full circle - to land this plane. Fuck. No. He ups the ante considerably. This reminds me of...those 18min albums with 500 tracks. Dare I say...it seems out of place considering the previous 90min. Even though, as a standalone work, it's great. Classic noisecore/harsh/jarring Sissy. Now it's in-my-fucking-face. 😂
So this disc Ascends from start to finish!
I love this album. I'm not 100% sold on the sequencing at the end. But maybe I can learn to appreciate this decision. It might be genius!
Raiser.
13 tracks/27+min. A 2025 release of 2013 recordings. Blankenship/Mumma/Wiese.
Now why the fuck did they sit on this for 12 years? Was the world just not ready for it in 2013? Have we grown bolder? Because this thing is a fucking beast. I dunno...I think it might be the most intense / hellish one yet, but of course I will revisit all of these releases and reappraise.
And this one is FUCKING LOUD!!! (I had to adjust my normal volume.)
I'm going to be incredibly lazy here and cut/paste what I found at Soundohm, because: a) This fucker fried my brain, and b) I fully agree with it. (And c) It's so much better than what I could possibly do.) 😂
"Raiser captures a 2013 Bronson session of Sissy Spacek—Phil Blankenship, Charlie Mumma, and John Wiese—in Los Angeles, channeling an intense fusion of harsh noise and noisecore. The album is a relentless, cathartic experience: shriek-laced blasts, searing electronics, and disintegrating metal fragments, all reassembled into monstrous, meticulously pieced sound collages. The result is sonic destruction made compositional, a full-spectrum assault that melts into jittery static and transformed debris.
Raiser documents a high-water mark in Sissy Spacek's ever-challenging discography—a work that crystallizes everything volatile and deeply considered in the band's approach to experimental noise. Since their inception, Sissy Spacek has been singular in pushing the limits where harsh noise, noisegrind, and electro-acoustic experimentation overlap, carving a space that is both violently physical and conceptually sophisticated. Here, the trio crafts a maelstrom of deconstructed sound: cut-up aesthetics meld with turbulent swathes of feedback, collapsing scrap metal, and abrasive lo-fi textures. Every gesture is subject to sudden rupture or dissolution—sheets of distortion jitter and squall, bass rumbles coagulate into dense fields, and electronic blurts surface through surges of hiss and decomposing signal. Scream fragments are disassembled and rebuilt in real time, locked into churns of sonic rubble with a precision that feels nearly architectural in its brutality.
Yet within this din, the record never loses grip on compositional intent. Raiser's noise is not only primal but planned—each eruption and abrasion mapped within a shifting electro-acoustic landscape, reminiscent at times of The Haters or the abstract onslaughts of Incapacitants. There's a constant sense of oncoming collapse: the music devours itself, only to reconstitute in waves of unexpected form, creating both terror and catharsis in its wake. Sissy Spacek's Raiser is a formidable entry in their catalogue, representing the band at their most uncompromising and unpredictable. For listeners drawn to the extremes of sonic art, it remains a testament to the group's commitment to pushing the boundaries of possibility in noise and improvisation."
I played it twice.
Live In Hong Kong.
57 tracks/27+min. 😂
A 2023 release of 2017 recordings. Mumma/Wiese.
The first thing I noticed was a much murkier sound. I get the crowded, smokey basement feel. I've been surprised by how crisp and clear many live Sissys feel. But perhaps they went for a different sound on this one. Or perhaps the recording space/equipment was what it was.
But wait! Clearly we depart the show and do "additional recordings in HK", which leaves the murk behind, and adds quite an interesting dimension/twist to this "live album". Very collage/field/cutup. Different in nature to all the Sissy I have heard thus far.
And then we go back to the basement for more straight up Noisecore. The crowd is happy!
Mixing these two things on this CD really does paint a more complete picture of "Live In Hong Kong". We are pulled in two directions, and what's impressed upon the listener is the essence of the almighty city.
Fucking brilliant!
Still, I'll put this in bottom-third Sissy. It doesn't melt my brain, quite. The murky sounding show isn't hugely compelling, to my ears.
And strangely, 27min seems to "linger" here, whereas many other Sissydiscs of similar length just fly by. Supersonic, like.
(Or maybe my mood is all wrong tonight? I've been fucking spoiled, ok?) 😂
I played it twice.
Hunter Killer.
29 tracks/13+min. 😂
A 2024 release of a 2015 recording. DuBose/Mumma/Wiese.
I'm intrigued at the many instances of excellent work sitting hidden for 10+ years. What's going on there, Sissy?
Also, I got used to the idea of 27min albums...then 18min...but 13min? (Or 7min?) 😳 Will these last two work for me? Or are they novelty items?
All I know as I type on this first spin of Hunter Killer is that I am really enjoying this intense blast of Grindcore. (Mixed with Noisecore? I'm terrible with these categories.)
I think I hear both Mumma and Du Bose "singing". Mumma is absolutely insane on drums here. I don't think I've heard him quite like this.
I got into Grindcore recently. Some great albums - Melt Banana, Pig Destroyer, Wormrot, etc.
But this one takes the fucking cake! 😂
I like queenoftension's review at Musicboards:
"I like grindcore when it pushes the boundary of just being harsh noise, and this record tears right through that boundary and then sets the boundary on fire and then pisses on the boundary's ashes."
And 13min works for me...especially when I play it 4x. 😂
Indefatigable Demoralization.
33 tracks/7+min!!! 😂
A 2025 re-release of a cassette. 2019 recordings. Horne/Mumma/Wiese.
Well, what can I say? This one really is a "fun", "novelty item". I'm hitting the Play button every 10min or so, for an hour.
They pack a lot into this 7min! I suppose 7min is precisely the point! Who needs more than 7min of this? 😂
But ultimately, it really is just too short for me. I have found the elusive "arc" that I so crave in recent 18min...even 13min outings. Here, they crash the party then abruptly leave. I'm left holding the beer.
All 3 "sing". This has a denser, darker, dizzier sound than other short album - short track Noisecore outings. It's different! I love that Sissy really has not repeated themselves in this journey that I have taken, which SI has been kind and patient enough to let me take.
So, until new Sissy arrives, (which will be soon) 😂, here endeth my initial 18-disc Sissython.
Anyone fancy a pint?
Quote from: Minus1 on March 21, 2026, 03:23:10 AMI'm intrigued at the many instances of excellent work sitting hidden for 10+ years. What's going on there, Sissy?
Probably just swamped with all the recording sessions and then actually releasing the stuff :)
SOMEONE IS READING!!! 😳
Quote from: moozz on March 22, 2026, 11:04:25 AMQuote from: Minus1 on March 21, 2026, 03:23:10 AMI'm intrigued at the many instances of excellent work sitting hidden for 10+ years. What's going on there, Sissy?
Probably just swamped with all the recording sessions and then actually releasing the stuff :)
Yeah. 😂 They must be sitting on a gold mine. Their heirs can keep releasing the works until 2150.
Copy/paste of my post at S+W:
Ways Of Confusion.
39 tracks. 15+ min. 😂
A 2018 studio recording. (In fact, Jan 10.)
Mumma / Wiese.
A little while ago I did a major Sissython and reported my reactions over at SI. They let me drone on and on... I basically went "Knurl" all over their asses. 😂 Poor things.
After that initial 18 or so albums, a few more are trickling in. Tonight we have another 15min Noisecore special, with lots of short tracks.
Now, even though my Sissython was only one spin each so far, and is fading into the distance a bit, I think it is a great credit to SS that, yet again, I feel that I am hearing something new and fresh here. These 15min blasts are NOT all the same!
For example, most tracks here really do get a count-in. ("Ping-ping-Waaaarrrruuuuugggghhhh" type thing.) I think other such blasts had tracks melting into each other.
And I think the vocals go to special heights (and depths) here.
And this one has a very special ending. It hurls at you. On you. Around you. Vomit everywhere.
I dunno. It's a lot to take in. 2026 is my big Sissy year. And it might take me a long time to grasp what I have here.
But this thing is fantastic. Insane. Sick. Beautiful.
I played it 4x.
Declension.
2 tracks / 37+ min.
A 2026 release of 2024 recordings.
Mumma / Wiese.
I think these are live recordings?
There's a buzz going on about this possibly being Sissy's "first PE record", which confuses me a bit, and clearly I need to update my understandings of the various genres of Noise. I thought Sissy did PE...often!?
What struck me within 10sec of pressing PLAY was, here, yet again, on my 19th Sissy album, I'm hearing something different and new. Sissy does NOT repeat themselves, as far as I have heard.
Vocals here, presumably by Mumma, (but maybe also Wiese?), are quite varied and terrifying. Long shrieks sometimes appear amongst the (possibly lyrical) grunts. I think they topped themselves vocally, here.
These vocals rest upon a strange, often looping, always mutating bed of sounds that give me 80s Merzvibes. There's a deep-chamber-echo type feel to the sounds.
Ah fuckit. The description at Soundohm is excellent, and I humbly copypaste it here:
"On Declension, Sissy Spacek's core duo John Wiese and Ch. Mumma condense their most feral impulses into two mid‑2024 blowouts, erecting sheer walls of cascading electronics and scorched‑throat vocals that feel like being dropped into a collapsing star.
Declension finds Sissy Spacek in its purest, least negotiable form: the core duo of Ch. Mumma and John Wiese alone in rooms in Chicago and Cleveland in mid‑2024, turning voice and electronics into a single, seething mass. The record is split into two long pieces – "Abgrund" and "Spiraled Galaxy" – that function less as tracks and more as hostile environments. From the first second, you're inside a pressure chamber of chaotic, cascading signal: squalls of high‑end scree, sub‑bass shudder, violently clipped midrange, and a vocal presence that has been shredded past language into raw, ragged texture. It's "vocal hell" in the most literal sense – not theatrical evil, but the sound of a throat pushed beyond what it was built to do, swallowed and multiplied by circuitry.
The duo's longstanding chemistry is crucial here. Mumma's voice, already a central weapon in Sissy Spacek's arsenal, isn't simply screamed over the top; it's fed into Wiese's electronics, folded, reversed, granulated, smeared until it becomes one more cascading layer in the torrent. Wiese, in turn, treats the entire spectrum like a sculptural material, piling dense blocks of noise and then letting them fracture, punching sudden holes in the wall to let brief flashes of space or pure tone through before slamming it shut again. "Abgrund" – the abyss – lives up to its title, dropping the listener into a free‑fall where orientation is constantly sabotaged: no beat, no riff, just shifting strata of impact and erosion. "Spiraled Galaxy" feels like its warped twin, the same materials whipped into a more centrifugal motion, sounds flung outward in spirals that keep snapping back toward the centre.
Recorded on the road between two Midwestern cities, the album carries the grit of live energy without being a live document. You can hear the immediacy of performance in the way the structures evolve: sections swell to near‑unbearable density, then implode into jittering filigree, only to be buried again under fresh avalanches of signal. There's no sense of post‑production smoothing; edits, if they exist, serve only to tighten the screws. What emerges is a kind of maximalist minimalism: two sound sources, two people, and an absolute refusal to dilute the confrontation.
Within Sissy Spacek's vast and mutating discography, Declension reads as a statement of renewed focus. No guest players, no expanded instrumentation, just the project's founding duo pushing their core elements – voice and electronics – to another threshold. It's a record that asks for a lot: volume, attention, a willingness to let form reveal itself not through melody or rhythm but through shifts in texture and intensity. In return, it offers a rare thing: a noise record that feels less like a genre exercise and more like a single, sustained, lived‑through event, two sides of a crisis etched into tape."
Me again. 😂 I mean...it could be a single 38min piece. The tracks are basically twins.
A fucking brilliant release, this. I'm thrilled. Sissy never rests. There's always some new boundaries to explore and push. Wow.