Edition of 300 copies 7” on Metal Rouge’s own private imprint, the first instalment of their Alone Together series of solo performances. Using nothing but bells and vocals Christina casts a frozen spell over space and time, the sound of her breath expanding via phantom doses of reverb into an abyss of floating tone, singing in a heartbreak style that would reconcile Suzanne Langille with the outer space poetics of Amy Sheffer. These tracks wouldn’t have been out of place on one of her classic Many Breaths side like Human As Guitar or I Am All The Same Song. Highly recommended.

Solo work from Helga Fassonaki of Metal Rouge, part of the group’s on-going Alone Together series of solo 7”s that also features Christina Carter and Ashley Paul. The A-side features some great/dark avant pop moves that combine the Suicidal feel of Meredith Monk’s Key LP with contemporary experiments in minimal keyboard/vocal ascensions ala US Girls/Grouper et al. The flip is more barbarous in its evocations, with a Radiophonic Workshop plays the songs of Corpus Hermeticum feel that combines loose free percussion, ululating electronics and breakout vocalese. Edition of 300 copies. 

Massively fractured downer avant folk from Mark Sadgrove aka MHFS with a set of wonkily constructed noise, interference and brokedown singer songwriter-isms that touch on Alastair Galbraith, Jandek and Pip Proud while re-wiring them as sudden invasions of consensus reality, teleporting out of deep fields of illogic clatter, de-tuned instruments and the sound of electricity hissing through wires. Originally conceived as a proxy for live performance, this set plays really well on 7” and makes for a confusingly beautiful puzzle. Edition of 300 copies.