Cordavision Music Reviews

The hoodie with this cover on it is incredible. Ada Rook has been on my radar for a while now. Even if I haven’t covered her solo work just yet, I’ve covered some of her work already. She was one half of the duo Black Dresses, which I’ve reviewed their last two albums, and she mastered Backxwash’s last album I LIE HERE BURIED WITH MY RINGS AND MY DRESSES . Ever since this project’s been announced, it’s been one of my most anticipated releases of this year. With a surprise drop that I learned about a day after it was released, UGLY DEATH NO REDEMPTION ANGEL CURSE I LOVE YOU is here. Let’s get into how I felt about it. If I had to describe this project in a word, it’d be crunchy because HOLY SHIT this is a loud project. I typically don’t mention mixing and mastering in my reviews, but it’s worth mentioning because I like the angle of just how grimy this is and it just feels dirty and buried into the Earth. When it comes to the writing, this was the album that made me realize how good of...

There’s a lot of output for a band that’s broken up, you know. Look, I don’t need to get into Black Dresses too much. Technically, they aren’t even a band anymore. Ada Rook and Devi McCallion broke up Black Dresses in 2020 after fan harassment, and after that, they decided to not be a band but drop music together anyway under the Black Dresses name. I still really don’t know what that means, but hey, we’re getting music out of it. Last year’s Forever In Your Heart is one of my favorite experimental releases of 2021, and honestly, I expect nothing different from this one. Let’s not waste any more time and get into Forget Your Own Face . To compare it to another one of their releases, I’d say it’s most similar to one of their first projects as a group, HELL IS REAL . That’s a more abrasive project, and I’ve called each Black Dresses project I’ve reviewed loud, but I mean it when I say that this album is *loud.* There are points where it could even be categorized as a noise album. The vo...

If a type of music could be considered dirty, it’d be this. So, what’s the deal with this? I’ve really only heard one grindcore album, and that’s one of the more iconic releases in the genre, Nails’ breakout album Unsilent Death . I’ve always heard the name Full of Hell be thrown around in that conversation, but I’ve never actually sat down and listened to them. So, why not do it at a better time when they drop a new album? Garden of Burning Apparitions is the name, and a lot of power electronics are their game. Let’s get into it. I enjoy how heavy and extreme it is. Yes, it’s a pretty huge oversimplification for such a heavy and extreme genre, I know, but hey, that’s what comes to mind. I’m a fan of metal, mainly black metal but death metal’s pretty cool too, but this little subsection of grindcore hasn’t ever really clicked with me. I’m fully aware that pulling this kind of music needs a lot of skill and it’s done pretty well here, but it might just be a personal thing for me. I mea...