Articles by Kevin Hainey

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  Ulrich Schnauss

  Far Away Trains Passing By

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  When Berlin bedroom producer Ulrich Schnauss’s 2003 sophomore album A Strangely Isolated Place got the reissue treatment by Domino last yea...

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  Battletorn

  Evil Chains

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  New York City’s Battletorn have delivered a fucking ferocious debut of feverish intensity and face-pounding power. 18 shit-storming tracks...

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  Prurient

  Black Vase

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  The new God of noise has reared his ugly head, and he goes by the name of Prurient. Imagine if all the filth and fury of Wolf Eyes and Whit...

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  Ruins

  Pallaschtom

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  Japanese hardcore prog legends Ruins have spent years (they started in 1985) crafting a sound that, as history would have it, was way ahead...

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  Bent Wind

  The Lost Ryerson Tapes / At the Psychedome

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  At long last the ultra-rare recordings by one of Toronto’s premiere prime era psych-rock bands Bent Wind are finally available. Collected h...

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  The Doers

  The Plastic Bass EP

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  With The Plastic Bass, one of Vancouver’s most promising bands continue to refine themselves and broaden their range. Where Ready, Set… Do...

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  Gris Gris

  For the Season

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  The Gris Gris’ self-titled 2004 debut was a wicked psychedelic surprise that masterfully captured the Oakland band’s purist ’60s sensibilit...

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  Jonathan Kane

  February

  PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

  Jonathan Kane was a founding member and signature drummer of Swans, the New York band who took humility and degradation to a higher level o...