Herbert – Complete (Accidental Records)
To say UK electronic artist Matthew Herbert’s oeuvre is overwhelming is an understatement. It’s overwhelming…
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.
Vic Simms – The Loner (Sandman Records)
The Loner is one of the great lost Australian albums. The fact that it exists…
Stanley Kubrick’s Fear and Desire (Via Vision)
It’s strange to think that Stanley Kubrick, the eccentric exacting genius behind The Shining and…
Beyond The Black Rainbow (Asylum/ Madman)
In a futuristic laboratory in the ominous Aboria Institute a creepy scientist watches over a…
Francisco Lopez/ Barbara Ellison – Liquid Architecture Festival – Melbourne
The first thing you notice tonight is the imposing austere funkiness of the architecture. We’re…
Fuck Buttons – Slow Focus (ATP/ Fuse)
Fuck Buttons create searing melodic textures of sound, music that builds slowly until it is…
Interview with Clinton Green for More Talk, Less Action by Bob Baker Fish
Melbourne boasts an enviable experimental music scene, thanks in part to the long running improv…
Various Artists – Shape of Sound Vol.3: Melbourne Australia (Iceage Productions)
This third and final survey of the sounds of underground Melbourne highlights and celebrates the…
Snog – Lies Inc. (Advoxya Records)
It’s so naïve, to remaster and rerelease an album twenty years or so after it…
Beating the Helsinki Heat – The Flow Festival, August 7-11 2013 – by Tony Mitchell
This year’ was the 10th edition of the Helsinki Flow Festival, a 3-day event which…
Snog – Babes In Consumerland (Omni Corporation)
Pop music is designed to reinforce the status quo, to be risky and salacious in…
Oliver Mann – Slow Bark (Lo/Fuse)
Oliver Mann is a point of difference in contemporary music. A classically trained baritone, his…
Rock And Roll High School (Umbrella) – Blu Ray
In the late 70′ US B-movie producer Roger Corman had one of those genius ideas…
Seaworthy & Taylor Dupree – Wood, Winter, Hollow (12K)
Wood, Winter, Hollow is mood music, or perhaps more precisely a mood suite – as…
Barn Owl – V (Thrill Jockey)
San Francisco duo Barn Owl operates in the thick pungent murky world of drone music,…