| SASQROTCH / YUKO CHINO Split DNT, CS |
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| We couldn't come up with a better way to describe this split tape than what the label already said, so we're going to cheat by copying and pasting their write-up: "After countless outings practicing unsafe hesh, the mighty Sqrotchers have finally been burned by the evil loins of love. They have been infected with cruel, punishing, unforgiving Genre-rhea... Performed in burkas, recorded live at the smell 8-5-08. Flipside is Yuko Chino. Bedroom black metal at it's met-lest! Current Sasqrotch bassist/guitar danny no/fi brings you Filosofem era Burzum meets Khanate & Burning Witch for a night out on the town with Shellac's drum kit sans corpse paint & cut off jean jacket. I wish I had one of those..." |
| SCISSOR LOCK Thawing Voices sound&fury, CD-R |
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| Marcus Whale describes himself as an "overenthusiastic teenager", and we couldn't agree more. As well as running his own label, Curt (which has released music by Anonymeye and Shoeb Ahmad's prepared piano project Pieno), Marcus performs and records under the name Scissor Lock. Though in the past Scissor Lock has utilised instruments (piano, guitar, Tibetan singing bowl), but with Thawing Voices he's crafted a three-part song suite using nothing but his own vocal cords. Marcus loops and layers his voice into subtly-shifting drones and avant-pop songs, creating something that stands out as entirely unique, not only in the sound&fury catalogue but in the wider world of experimental sounds. |
| SPACEBONG The Death of Utopia An Out Recordings, CD |
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| We do love us some doom here at S&F HQ. The slower, more torturous the better. So how Adelaide's Spacebong eluded us for so long we're not quite sure. Across four epic tracks (each clocking in at somewhere around the 20-minute mark), these occult-obsessed stoners churn out an endless succession of crushing riffs and anguished vocals, all soldered together with searing blasts of white noise. Highly recommended. |
| SPARTAK Sunstrokes hellosQuare, CD-R |
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| Ahead of their debut full-length album, Canberra's Spartak offer this brief taste of what to expect. Sunstrokes rides on a huge bed of washy, processed guitar and shimmering beats, before slipping into a huge shoegaze groove for its finale. Can You See the Snow, Lover? is a blizzard of processed feedback recorded during the album sessions but only available here. Rounding out the disc are three exclusive remixes from Part Timer, Cleptoclectics and Tomasz Bednarczyk. |
| JOEL STERN / JIM DENLEY Tape and Paint Game Split, CD-R |
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| 42 minutes of colliding sax, electronics and field recordings from Stern and Denley. |