Flush It Friday: A Perpetual Adoration
It goes on and on and on and on….
It should never go unremarked that Chat Pile has released something. Earlier this month, the band released a two-song 7” via SubPop, not unlike SunnO))) last year. Split between an original and a cover, the EP is an attempt to capture the spirit of the label’s earliest sounds and the band’s SubPopian influences. Original “Masks” sounds punkier, wilder, and less sludgy than many of your favourite Chat Phile tracks (until its cataclysmic conclusion), while their cover of Nirvana’s classic “Sifting” feels astringently broken, rightfully idiosyncratic, and unrestrictedly melodic, standing in immediate contrast to Thou’s blown-out and oppressive interpretation. Fuck ICE.
Released on appropriately black-shelled cassette via Fiadh in the earliest and frostiest days of January 2026, Apophany’s three-track demo is 10 minutes of ice-bitten and ICE-biting fuck-you-fascists-and-the-Browncoat-you-rode-in-on black metal from embattled-but-showing-us-all-the-way Minneapolis. This is proto-modern black metal for those who crave the bitterness of blizzarding tremolos, the sounds of cymbals clinging like swords in combat, those earliest billowing waves of the nascent genre, and the futility and heraldry of struggle and resistance. If you can’t snag one of the 6 remaining tapes, you can grab the EP for NYP over on the band’s page. “Dreamer of Oils” absolutely, undeniably rips.
I can’t remember whether it was in 2016 or 2018 that I was introduced to the harp-based neo-classical ambient of Mary Lattimore, though I can say for certain I saw her live at The Bakery in December of 2018, her stringed prestidigitations like an ancient charm rescued for new moments of need. This year, we have been blessed with a collaboration with Julianna Barwick, the two artists transforming each other into something greater, something softer, something grander, something more delicate. Tragic Magic is just that, heartrending and enchanting all the same. Lovers of synth: the final songs are for you.
AND THUS WE FLUSH!
TMP and TTT, right on time, every time.
Voided Grimace gives Phasma‘s Purgatory its proper due.
Toilet Radio 609 features Joe ‘n Jordan exploring the myriad ramifications of Being A Fucking Idiot.
Hayduke X (Hey, Duke X!) has an absolute Baltimore barnstormer for us with this Nixil exclusive video premiere.
365 is imploring you to put on your midnight dance shoes and hit the local goth club with a Grace Death album premiere.
My favourite part of Voided Grimace‘s 5/5 review of the new Cryptic Shift is the Thrice reference. Sometimes things are weird!
Stevo has four of them thangz for the latest from Coscradh. Here in the Bowl, we like the music we review!
Another fabulous, crabulous week in the Bowl. Smarch is on the way. Gently place your GBUs in the comments below. XOXO.
