Rapid Fire Reviews: Outsider Electronica with Pale Sketcher, Kai Whiston & Death's Dynamic Shroud
Let's get freaky with some outside-the-box, difficult-to-describe electronic artists. Golden Skin - Pale Sketcher Pale Sketcher is the long-running electronic music side project of Justin Broadrick of Godflesh and Jesu fame. I like Godflesh quite a bit and I absolutely LOVE Jesu so I've been paying attention to the short Pale Sketcher releases dropping every so often for the past 12 years. Given that this is the project's first full album I was excited to hear what Justin had to offer, especially after I read on the records Bandcamp page that the music was recorded between 2009 and 2013 and has been shelved since then for some reason. All things considered, it sounds pretty aligned with the annuls of contemporary electronica which makes me wish even more that it had been released years ago as it might be looked back on as ahead of its time. With that being said I also don't think the record is necessarily strikingly unique all things considered. For those versed in th...