” Mahood ushers in the album’s aggressive peak on “Dark Cities

to the point where some of it actually reminds me a bit of Bad Religion's stuff from the early 00s after they returned to Epitaph and kind of re-punked-up their sound

overdriven guitars

prepared guitar and percussion she creates a delicate palette

An album that showed me how only new paths can lead to new discoveries

JESSICA WILLAMS - Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985–1987 TAPE T-Shirts ” Mahood ushers in theBlue Abstraction compiles a selection of Jessica Williams lost prepared piano recordings. These recordings document the beginning of a vital, solitary phase in her career: a period of intense sonic experimentation that began with physically altering a 64 grand pianocreating a new instrument, and from there, creating a new music. The results are breathtaking; from melancholic soundscapes with Satie esque lyricism to forcefully controlled cacophony,