Jared Dix

3 weeks ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Jared Dix

In a sleeve note on 2022’s His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering, Backxwash expressed an awareness of the impact that the dark themes and trauma it dealt with were likely to take on her mental health, making clear a desire for a break. His Happiness… completed an imposing trilogy of pained and furious industrial hip hop records. Largely autobiographical the lyrics were raw and tortured, the music suffocating, heavy and abrasive.

2 months ago | thequietus.com | Bobby Barry |Jared Dix

Misfits. Out-takes and oddballs. The Villager’s Companion, you will be unsurprised to learn, is a sibling to Califone’s previous album Villagers. Like an echo of the lightly arranged horde of treasures and pocket flotsam on that album’s cover, it gathers together a loose bundle of supplementary material recorded at the same time that, for one reason or another just didn’t find its place.

Dec 13, 2024 | echoesanddust.com | Jared Dix

The Night by Saint Etienne Saint Etienne on the web: Facebook | Bandcamp | Release date: December 13, 2024 Label: Heavenly Recordings by Jared Dix | December 13, 2024 | Reviews “It feels like October even though it may not be… Something in the streetlights, the glow, the orange glow in the rain… and then you’re home, put some tunes on and fall asleep…” Arriving late on Saint Etienne‘s new album The Night, ‘Wonderlight’, is an atmospheric interlude, synth tones and a few brief lines that catch...

Dec 5, 2024 | echoesanddust.com | Jared Dix

Three Little Birds by ZD GraftersZD Grafters on the web: Facebook | Bandcamp | Release date: December 6, 2024 Label: Hidden Mantra Records/Cracked Ankles Recordsby Jared Dix | December 5, 2024 | ReviewsExperimental improvisers ZD Grafters are a shape-shifting entity. It’s part of their charm that you can never be sure what you’re going to get. Three Little Birds is the first recorded evidence of their mutation into a power trio.

Nov 29, 2024 | thequietus.com | Tristan Bath |Bobby Barry |Jared Dix

You probably wouldn’t have bet on Sly & The Family Drone sticking around this long. Born of a DIY scene of short-lived projects and constantly reconfiguring participants, their pursuit of transcendent abandon through noise seemed destined to burn itself out. As much as their chaotic mash up of instant composition methods and low-key spectacle made for a brilliant, exultant, live experience, the jokey name and carnival atmosphere suggested they were here for a good time, not for a long time.