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by Nace Phlaux
The details The story of the search for and eventually communication with alien life takes place in three primary settings–flashbacks over the course of the later 20th century while China races to communicate with alien life, present day where nanomaterial research Wang Miao discovers one day that he’s the only one who can see a …
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by Nace Phlaux
The details: In January of this year, nearly 1,600 fans helped fund everyone’s favorite industrial rock duo Kidneythieves’ Kickstarter campaign to bring “The Mend” to the public, resulting in over $75k. This is the second full album they’ve released independently and the first the band has crowdsourced. (Free previously crowdsourced a couple solo albums.) The …
by Nace Phlaux
After catching samples of their work on Endzeit Bunkertracks volumes and Fxxk The Mainstream, I was excited to get the release of Psy’Aviah’s latest, titled “Eclectric.” After repeated attempts to listen to it, I have a few questions: First, when did the sound engineer for Cleopatra move to Alfa Matrix? The mastering on this disc …
by Nace Phlaux
Although many would disagree, I’m a fan of anthologies, particularly tributes. Genre-crossing collections can be especially frustrating, though, since instead of the usual mix of great covers with bland by-the-numbers tracks, there’s also the addition of poorly translated songs. This is surprisingly true for Punk Goes Pop 3. Surprising because the previous collections have had …
