Post Rock/Experimental charts

Review: Apparently critics have been coining the phrase OOIOO-ish to describe the sound of this Japanese experimental rock band meet avant-garde jazz or polyrhythmic progressive sound walls. Those looking for anything but brevity will be in their element, these are epics in the truest sense of the word. And not just in running time. The 11-minute "Walk for "345" Minutes, While Saying "Ah Yeah!" with a "Mountain Book" In One Hand, Until A Shower Of Light Pours Down" might be the longest song name we've ever encountered. It's slow build from staccato warm up into layer upon layer of cosmic greatness pretty much summarising this entire record. Put it this way, you'll not be bored for the duration with this mystic meld of Far Eastern nuances and daring rock.

Review: Purely democratic bands are hard to come by, but Tortoise might just be a known exception to that rule. 'Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters' is probably ther best LP in their lot to encompass this outlook; a well-rounded album of trudging quasi-electronic codi, released in 1995 as part of the industrial and post-rock scenescape. It hears 7 tracks nod to wonky, pained, muddy dub in the vein of 23 Skidoo, This Heat, Pole or Muslimgauze, and this new cream reissue of course contains all the remixes; Steve Albini, Jim O'Rourke, and Bundy K. Brown et al.

Review: Tortoise's 1995 album Rhythms, Resolutions & Clusters gets a first new vinyl pressing in almost three whole decades. It is a fine collection of remixes that is from ended associates and family including Casey Rice, Mike Watt (Minute Men), John McEntire, Bundy K.Brown and many more. They all help make it a much better than average remix album with a couple of all time gems from these a-listers who are all in fine form. Jim O'Rourke's 'Initial Gesture Protraction' and Steve Albini 's take on 'The Match Incident' are two particular standouts.