May 26, 2006

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Also:

Tristwood, "Indoctrination"
Tristwood, "The Delphic Doctrine"
Aborym, "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"
Sonic Youth, "Freezer Burn/I Wanna Be Yr Dog"
My Bloody Valentine, "What You Want"
Spacemen 3, "Starship"
Gang of Four, "I Can't Stand My Baby" (Rezillos cover)
Soviettes, "Middle of the Night"
Les Rallizes Denudes, "The Night Harvesters"
Rocket From The Tombs, "Read It and Weep"
Rocket From The Tombs, "Search and Destroy"
A.C. Marias, "One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing"
The Fall, "The Classical"
The Fall, "Blindness"

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According to received wisdom, noise is a bulwark against pop, a venue to be scatological in public, a rent in the social fabric. It's also shockingly middlebrow, very white, and masculine to the point of camp. (Keenan described noise grandpa Merzbow's guitarmy recordings as a "series of endless money shots.") Its anti-PC slant usually masks a pathology no deeper than the desire to act like a seventh-grader in public, but occasionally spills into real fascism or nihilism. Needless to say, it's very insular. -- Jess Harvell