Episode 37 – Listen With the Lights Off: Devil Doll 1989-1996
Writing about Devil Doll is like skating about horticulture. Led by the deeply enigmatic Mr. Doctor, and purposely shrouded in the thickest mystery, Devil Doll’s music disappoints even the keenest tax...
6 Aug 20191h 31min
Episode 36 – Melvins is Cult, Part 1: Hostile Ambient Takeover
Melvins’ career -- a vast, still-expanding 36-year odyssey across the full spectrum of heavy and experimental sound -- is marked by goalposts, some triumphant, some deviant. On this episode of Radical...
23 Juli 20191h 7min
Episode 35 – Grey and Pink Topography: A Canterbury Overview
The so-called “Canterbury scene” was an adventurous musical movement of time and place, bonded tightly by shared influences and an incestuous genealogy. This episode, we climb our favorite limbs from ...
9 Juli 20191h 10min
Episode 34 – No More False Transparency: The Works of Anacrusis
It began with suffering and ended with screams (and whispers). St. Louis' radically-progressive Anacrusis never enjoyed the recognition they so deserved, but popular neglect did little to temper their...
25 Juni 20191h 20min
Episode 33 — Men Behaving Badly: Trashed Productions
Men Behaving Badly: Trashed Productions What is music if not sound? In episode 28, we discussed the mathematical properties that have shaped some of rock and metal’s most extraordinary albums. In ep...
11 Juni 20191h 15min
Episode 32 – In the Morphine Fields: The Works of Thought Industry
In less than 10 years’ time, Michigan’s maddest scientists, Thought Industry, built a five-album discography that drew upon every available atom and protein in the rock and metal corpora. From the mut...
28 Maj 20191h 18min
Episode 31 – An Abrupt Egress from the ’60s: Van Der Graaf Generator
Crawling out of Manchester to work strange machinations on the English psych-pop era of the late 1960s, Peter Hammill and Van Der Graaf Generator’s sonic architecture was a mirror to that decade’s cre...
14 Maj 20191h 40min
Episode 30 – Thank You, Uwe Osterlehner! Deathrow’s Deception Ignored
We here at Radical Research like a good departure. Whether that means the beginning of a vacation or the sixth Journey record, departures are just good for the soul. And so goes the third record by Ge...
23 Apr 20191h 9min
