“New York based Prurient (aka Dominick Fernow) has been an active instigator of the Power Electronics and Noise genres for well over a decade, with 100+ releases issued so far, usually limited and over all known formats. Its with great pleasure that Editions Mego present this new set of Prurient compositions. Comprising of 3 ear splitting tracks of high end quality feedback, disturbed vocals and twisted percussion. While previewing this work for release on a flight from Milan to Vienna it came to the attention of the listener that an irritated passenger 2 rows in front complained of high pitched whistling in the air conditioning. Such is the power of Arrowhead.” – EM.

Much-anticipated new album from the Emeralds trio – Mark McGuire, Steve Hauschildt and John Elliott. This feels like another giant step for the group, moving beyond the endlessly rippling flat-lined drones of their earlier work to a more complex and melodically advanced synthesis of analog and digital environments and processed guitar. The arc of the music moves from the kind of hazy, child-like constructs of the early Harmonia albums through the gothic Kosmiche of Klaus Schulze’s Black Dance while factoring in influences from 80s dream-pop and modern drone practitioners like Andrew Chalk and the whole Ora cultus. Mego have been describing this as Emerald’s pop album, and in a way it is, but when the monolithic title track kicks in it feels more about hymns than hooks. Gatefold sleeve.  Official release date May 24^th.

Much-anticipated new album from Daniel Lopatin’s Oneohtrix Point Never. Returnal represents a major evolutionary leap from the Rifts trilogy. The opening track alone, “Nil Admirari” stands at the pinnacle of his work to date, a torrential Industrial free jazz ritual that touches on the contemporary Whitehouse/Consumer Electronics sound – and even aspects of Pita’s classic Mego side, Get Out – while mainlining a whole new brand of euphoria. There’s still the presence of those ghostly drones (that sound even more like Coil), the nagging melodies spinning in slow motion somewhere deep inside the tracks, but the scale of the thing, not to say the compositional complexity, marks this out as something else. Most of all it feels like a movement outside of context, a step away from the shared vision of his contemporaries, under the pull of desire. And it sounds fantastic: hallucinatory, erotic, endlessly deep. A major statement from a major thinker. Highly recommended.

Beautiful cover version of the title track from Oneohtrix Point Never’s Mego LP with Antony Johnson on vocals and Daniel Lopatin on piano. B-side features a remix from Fennesz. Wow.