“A bardo gong bath of in-betweenness”: Jake Muir reviewed (opens in new tab)

US field recordist, DJ and composer Jake Muir transforms metal’s quieter moments into striking evocations of place, writes James Gormley in The Wire 508 Jake Muir Pareidolia enmossed DL/LP Much of what could be called anti-genre metal made by electronic, electroacoustic, ambient or otherwise non-rock practitioners employs conceptual manoeuvres that are, by now, fairly well rehearsed. Treating metal as an almost alchemical material to be refined – thus elevated – into pure form, it ditches the...