Sissy Spacek

[holy ghost]

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.

[chuzz]

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

[holy ghost]

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.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

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.

[holy ghost]

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.

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

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.

[ConcreteMascara]

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.

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

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.

[Minus1]

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. 😂

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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

[Minus1]

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.

[Minus1]

(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.) 😂

[Minus1]

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.

[Minus1]

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.

[Minus1]

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.