This first-time collaboration by Italy’s premier transcenders of time and space and guitarist extraordinaire from Wilco, Scarnella, Nels Cline Singers, and L. Stinkbug throbs like an Argento soundtrack for an astral perv lair, recalling vintage cassette gorp from the golden age of Industrial, when field recordings of howling dogs were repurposed as documents of institutional degradation and mind control. The Opalio brothers improvise an instant composition with the first-time playback of Cline's prerecorded space noise, bold cosmic disruptions, and nattering squibs from decommissioned satellites. No overdubs, no second takes, no leftovers. Dusted with loops from a lunar cathedral where palsied zombies dragging pots and pans skid across the soap-slathered narthex, The Ocean Above Your Heads splays the hemispheres better than Subotnik goin’ off his meds.
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Intriguing, enchanting and terrifying all at once. To me it's the perfect soundtrack I'd envision for waking up in a strange nation and not knowing the name of the place, or any contextual understanding about the culture, or even remembering how you got there in the first place. It has the capacity to be a negative or positive experience in equal measure, a testament to the two talented women behind this record. Ben Harris
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Slowly unfolds from grief, like a sheet that never creases. Shiroishi doesn’t pick up his saxophone until nearly the end, but his long exhale is a weighted presence throughout. https://www.vikingschoice.org/archive/weirdo-bangers-sublime-metal-sideways-brahms/ Lars Gotrich
A classic of late 90s psychedelic rock from San Francisco stalwarts Mushroom gets a reissue with bonus tracks and rarities. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 22, 2021