Monday, 8 December 2025

MOON WIRING CLUB ~ GRUESOME SHREWD


[2025]
Entropic memory wave-forms smudged to infinity.

This week the new epic three hour Moon Wiring Club possible masterpiece Gruesome Shrewd/Grisly Exaggerated arrived. It's a double cd & cassette combo pack. Like a further extension of their already pretty unmoored 2023 LP Sepia Cat City, this is a Moon Wiring Club at their most sprawling and stretched out. The off kilter samples and loops are deformed to new and unprecedented relentlessly elongated levels here.

To paraphrase Mr Hodgson (the man behind the MWC moniker) himself this three hour magnum opus is a "corroded sludge-adelic ambient slurry"

The signature echoing, haunted and hallucinatory disembodied voices are malformed and contorted like never before. It's all so psychedelic and shadowy... all backwards and forwards and woozy and wonky, a sensory dislocation. Anti-logical prolonged loops of random vhs textured electro-acoustic dub experiments....  smeared-out tunes freed from the constraints of time so discombobulating and busted... you start to wonder are they still music at all?

Hop aboard the mind melting altered state of Gruesome Shrewd/Grisly Exaggerated the only sonic trip worth taking in 2025. 

Thursday, 4 December 2025

Slowdive 1991



Slowdive - Spanish Air [1991]
Many didn't but I loved Just For A Day in 91 and it stills sounds great today with the added extra of crushing bittersweet nostalgia. 

Spanish Air is supreme goth-wave dream-gaze. You forget that Slowdive influenced Low but it's all here in this Simon and Garfunkel go goth epic. 


Slowdive - Celia's Dream [1991]
Like a slowed down slacker attempt of the Cocteau Twins aesthetic. The waves of dream waves get satisfyingly rapturous when they go into overdrive at 3.24.


Slowdive - Primal [1991]
Epic. 

Guitars, guitars, guitars!

...and cellos.

Sometimes Slowdive's early technique of having all the faders all the way up all the time worked.

A wild ride of atmospheres somewhere between brooding and blistering. 

Haunting yet heavenly.

A relentless incandescent swirling maelstrom surging to the stars (not their shoes).