Anew World Machine - Mechanical Wasteland - VINYL LP

As a kid, Speelburg promised his mother he'd get her a Porsche thanks to his music. The car isn't quite in reach yet, so the record will have to do!Described lovingly by The Line Of Best Fit as 'wonky pop', the brand of enigmatic synth pop Speelburg play will unite fans of artists such as Beck, Metronomy and in places Curtis Harding. Belgian born to American parents but a resident of BRIGHTON, ENGLAND, Speelburg is an indie-pop artist with an eclectic sound. InchOther-worldly, startlingly unique electro popInch - Clash Magazine

Chris Hontos and Aaron Anderson do business both as Nuke Watch and as their sampled-based cousins, Beat Detectives. The Detectives are what The Beatnuts might make on an experimental dissociative drug protocol, while Nuke Watch is a free improv band that doesn't feel the need to squeak and believes in pleasure. Nuke Watch's new album, Grave New World, is their tenth since beginning the project in 2020. This music dips, collides, and spills out of a bag, the sound of an electric world mulching itself. Modular synths spread like cordyceps through rooms full of bass and saxophone and hand drums, leaving behind a new, infested space glowing, safe, and freaked. This music was played by instruments, a chunk of it done entirely live. Most tracks are Hontos and Anderson playing with one or two others, meaning most of these are trio recordings. It's tempting to call Grave New World fusion, though that doesn't quite work. Otto Willberg's bass playing is accomplished enough to summon giants like Percy Jones and Jaco, and Leonard King approaches the bass a bit like someone in Fela's Africa 70. The three processed wind instruments-Zack Stafford on processed flute, Christopher Farstad on MIDI wind instrument, and Cole Pulice on processed saxophone-bring the music into adjacency with jazz, though none of the band's music ends up feeling much like jazz. Outtakes from Star Wars foley bank? Touch-sensitive multimedia greenhouse exhibit overtaken by kindergarten class? Zoom session with latency problems generated by musicians in five different continents? Grave New World could be called world music in the sense that if you folded up the world into a funnel and shook it and made everybody slide down onto a plate full of people they didn't grow up with, they might end up making this. - Sasha Frere-Jones, 2025

The late pedal-steel guitarist Susan Alcorn leaves a final surprise hinting at new directions left underexplored on her collaboration with Nomad War Machine, the improvising metal duo of drummer Julius Masri and guitarist James Reichard. Their death-metal-influenced pummel adds new fire to her molten flow across a suite of improvised tracks that show off the vast range and simpatico of the trio.Julius Masri and James Reichard of Nomad War Machine InchAn unexpected opportunity arose out of a catching-up conversation where Susan had revealed a recent fascination with death metal, confessing, 'I'm 70 years old-I think about death!' She had learned a couple of Arch Enemy songs on her pedal steel, particularly compelled by their frontwoman's intensity and vigor as a performer. Voicing an appreciation for the hook-oriented sound of Swedish death metal made sense for a melodic thinker whose roots as veteran pedal steel player reached into the Texan Western swing circuit in the '60s and '70s. For her, ever the explorer, metal was a new, appealing point of departure into fresh musical territory. When she expressed an interest in playing with Nomad War Machine, it felt like there was a whole world of shared or complementary interests to explore.InchThough known for her fluency in jazz, country, and free improvisation, Alcorn had also studied Arabic, the oud, and maqam, with all holding a deep curiosity for her. Pre-'70s country & western music had also been a lifelong presence for both members Nomad War Machine. Masri, a Lebanese free-jazz and metal drummer, and devoted fan of Texas swing legends like Speedy West, Jimmy Bryant, Leon Rhodes, and Joe Maphis, was also steeped in Arabic music traditions. James Reichard, before coming to InchfreelyInch improvised metal, xenharmonic music, and non-Western tuning systems, had grown up being subjected to countless singalongs to numero