Midwife - Luminol (2021)

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The Flenser has been an incredibly reliable merchant in the world of sonic satisfaction for a long time now and I don't think any of that is going to change moving forward—Music begrimed in reverb and a penchant to delve into strange territory will always have a home here.

And with that Midwife, both begrimed in reverb and strange in its own right. Madeline Johnston commits her dissonance through a musical cloth which has been woven through threads of magnificently bleak guitar tones that often give way into something beautiful and dark with the help of a thick atmosphere of reverb, feedback and warm ambiance. Often serene and calm but with an omniscient feeling of dread and malaise. I don't think its through way of self-deprecation or a fatalistic outlook that Madeline chooses her austere landscape but through way of her own self-critique and disenchanted mindset when it comes to life's many riddles and follies. For fans of Sister Grotto, Planning for Burial, Lightning Bug, Drowse and Whirr.

Midwife - Luminol (bandcamp)

JC Satàn- Centaur Desire (2018)

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Man, just listen to the song Erika one time. Just once. Through the onset of the fuzz cathedral intro it dips into a psychedelic fetichism lead by a Yellow Submarine THC fuzed pop hook chorus into perfectly recorded drums - You haven't heard toms sound that good since System of A Down released Toxicity - and you're just a fucking want stain if you can't get 6-inches deep into that guitar solo halfway through the song. It has everything. Everything you need and don't need. If you're anything like me, you're just happy to have another thing to overplay. The time has come for each and every one of you to decide, whether you are going to be a part of the problem, or a part of the solution.

Centaur Desire (bandcamp)