Bringing together two legendary Québécois electronic artists, Crucial Blast releases Possession Subcosmique on both digital and limited cassette. Compiling three songs each from Présence du Futur and Bête Lumineuse, this release represents both sides of the coin, with Presence Du Futur focusing on a more traditional synth-based approach and Bête Lumineuse bringing industrial soundscapes. Despite sounding too varied on paper, the triads complement each other in numerous ways and when played all the way through, almost feel like an evolution, or maybe more correctly, a de-evolution.

Negativity Positive Lullabies For The Malignant Vol 2 is a three-track affair from Tucson, Arizona Ennaythch. It finds the one-person project moving away from its more formal wall noise origins, for a blend of textured sound scaping, low-key beats, and gloomy post-industrial Sound craft.

Here’s a 3-inch CDR  mixing choppy electro texturing, with slowly baying-to-warbling horn-based soundscaping.  It’s a release that manages to be both eerily alien and lightly searing.

Hollyhock Way serves up three ten-minute slices of walled noise. Each of these sound fairly different, with a keen creative air present throughout. 

Here’s a colossal three CD set from RogueArt, collecting several live recordings from Steve Swell's Fire Into Music, a quartet who explore freely but remain in recognisably jazz territories. The ensemble consists of: Steve Swell on trombone, Jemeel Moondoc on alto saxophone, William Parker on double bass, and Hamid Drake on drums. The recordings were made between 2004-2005, in Texas and Ontario, and have been released in memory of Moondoc, who passed away in August 2021 from complications of sickle cell anaemia. It is a large set, and dense with it, so I won’t attempt any kind of close review, rather I’ll just sketch out an overview of the album.

Watcher In The Attic is a mid 70’s Roman porno film set in the 1920s. The period set  Japanese film regards, as its title suggests, a voyeur- weaving in elements of woozy disquiet, dark humour, and unsettling violence/ macabre-ness to its sleazy unfold. Here from 88 Films is a recent Blu-Ray release of the film- bringing together a new HD print, and a few extras