GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker Daniel Prendiville has been a GAJOOB mainstay for a quarter century now—woven through the fabric of so many projects we’ve stitched together: from the Homemade Music Shop to the remix-happy Tapegerm Collective. His presence has always been marked by a DIY integrity and sly sonic inventiveness, often landing somewhere between…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: Sai’s Though We Meet But Once opens not with a bang, but with a drifting sense of unease—like falling into a dream just as the walls begin to crumble. What follows is an hour-long farewell transmission of staggering depth and density, where tectonic slabs of guitar crush into spectral ambient…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: There’s something especially satisfying about an album that sounds like it was recorded on borrowed time and basement floor inspiration. the flying people’s my cat is more lovely than you is a warm, warbly wonder—half new, half previously seen in their video work, all patched together with a kind of…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: KUWAISIANA’s 2024 release, Mishriff / مشرف, is an intimate, politically tuned, and sonically cross-pollinated work that drives straight through the heart of diaspora identity, grief, and memory—with just enough time for Brian to drive across town, as the band wryly notes. Clocking in around a half-hour, Mishriff feels like a…

There are albums, and then there are transmissions. AM by 2st is the latter—a conceptual data stream pulsed directly from a tortured AI’s scorched neural pathways. This is not just inspired by Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream—it’s the sonic equivalent of the story’s final, agonizing sentence looped across nine relentlessly…

GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker: Philip Gayle’s Sunrise Crazy is the kind of album that refuses to sit still long enough to be defined. It’s an unruly burst of creativity that bursts its seams with every eccentric idea it can muster—then calmly inserts a piano interlude or a mournful clarinet passage just when you think…