Praed – Doomsday Survival Kit (Akuphone)
Swiss/ Lebanese duo Praed aren’t interested in building things slowly and developing their music over…
Author Bob Baker Fish
Bob Baker Fish
Bob is the features editor of Cyclic Defrost. He is also evil. You should not trust the opinions of evil people.
Lucas Abela needs your help to create an army of tiny noise artists
Sydney artist Lucas Abela’s transition from glass blowing noise lunatic to installation artist has been…
M. Geddes Gengras – Light Pipe (Room40)
Light Pipe is American experimental composer M. Geddes Gengras’ tenth solo release and first for…
It’s time to get excited about this year’s Womadelaide’s lineup
Womadelaide, a festival that prides itself on cultural exchange, returns to Adelaide’s beautiful botanical gardens…
Clayton Thomas (The NOW now Festival): “Impossible things can happen.” Interview by Bob Baker Fish
Australia double bass player, improviser and composer Clayton Thomas is also one of the organisers…
Sydney’s Now Now Festival drops an incredible lineup but needs your help to survive
We could rail against narrow minded arts funding that appears to have zero understanding of…
Romperayo – Que Jue? (Souk/ Discrepant)
Romperayo hail from Bogota Colombia, crafting twisted psychedelic cumbia that would sound like authentic tunes…
Bonnie Mercer – Mystic Decade (Psychic Hysteria)
Bonnie Mercer is a Melbourne based guitarist and worshipper of shimmering near ecstatic feedback that…
Listen to ‘Terroir’ from Nigerién electronic artist Hama
A few years ago Sahel Sounds offered an incredible album from Hama, a multi instrumentalist…
Cyclic Defrost: The best of 2018
As music continues to diverge and scatter into various near impenetrable niches, where scenes get…
Gavin Miller – Meander Scars (Lost Tribe Sound)
Uk folk artist Gavin Miller, perhaps best known as one half of electronic ambient duo…
Tombs of the Blind Dead (Cinema Cult)
Tombs of the Blind Dead, or La Noche Del Terror Ciego, is a 1972 Spanish…
Anthony Pateras/ Erkki Veltheim – The Slow Creep of Convenience (Immediata)
The thing I’ve been enjoying about these series of collaborations with Australian composer Anthony Pateras,…
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (Cinema Cult)
A lot of people see The Town That Dreaded Sundown as a missed opportunity, where…
Spill – Stereo (Corvo)
Stereo is a studio recording by the Berlin based duo of percussionist Tony Buck (The…