Massively grimy Industrial noise from this unit with previous releases on Hanson, Pizza Night, Deception Island and Emerald’s Wagon imprint. Scuzzy malformed noise barbs give way to eerie half-hallucinated cut-ups, invasions of what could almost be electronic voice phenomenon, police sirens, muffled sounds of riot and that classic perpetually avalanching electro-acoustic DIY noise style.

Massively deformed free jazz monolith from the duo of percussionist J. Guy Laughlin (who has wowed with tapes on Deception Island and Emeralds’ Wagon imprint) and clarinettist/tape loop operative Benjamin Osborne. Fire Death takes the scorched earth approach and punk-primitive fidelity of the early Brotzmann/Bennink duets and FMP sides and works a bunch of loops of stratospheric metal and heaving lung power into the mix, with Laughlin playing in a martial/cement mixer style as he juggles time and space while Osborne plays with a blustery sandpaper tone that is supremely tactile. Assaultive dynamics soon give way to smears of breath and guts as the two collide with the enormous loops, generating a particularly leery Xpessway-style take on two men grappling with implications of all-out musical freedom. Pretty staggering. Edition of 260 copies in hand screened sleeves. Recommended.