Whereby I finally take some days off work and deem it appropriate to write about some of the music I'm listening to. Note: You can click the thumbnails for big pretty pictures.

Chris Corsano / Michael Flower - Earth/Wind/Fire

An almighty overdriven banjo jams with Corsano on percussion. Proper freak-out stuff. The banjo seems a lot more nimble an instrument than the guitar. Which makes for some good spazz. Elemental.

Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm

As clinical, forensic and deft as you'd expect. One of my favourite Bretschneider releases this one. As the title suggests, it's full of beats. Pretty lively and about as accessible as Raster-Noton gets.

Ankersmit/O'Rourke Split

O'Rourke seems to be using one of those shitty overdrive guitar pedals fifteen year old kids go to Denmark Street to pick up. They come in lots of different colours and have names like 'hyperdrive'. Despite that it's a fairly good guitar piece from him. Ankersmit takes his sax on a power-drill drone that I am definitely feeling. I think he edges it. I'd like to see him live now.

Oren Ambarchi - Stacte Motors

Ambarchi attaches motors to a guitar and cymbals to create pretty novel rhythmic noise pieces. The guitar piece is insanely physical and immersive and probably the most interesting thing i've heard this year. If anyone tells you this is 'dad noise' they are full of shit.

Sylvain Chauveau - Nuage

Film score from Chauveau. Hit and miss. Orchestral strings and his brand of minimal piano. Distinctive in places, pedestrian in others.