LUCIFER 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: German born Johanna Platow Andersson aka Johanna Sadonis returns with the aptly titled fifth full-length from her Sweden-based retro heavy rock project Lucifer. Written and recorded in collaboration with her long-time bandmate and husband Nicke Andersson (vocalist/guitarist for hard rock Swedes The Hellacopters and drummer for legendary death metal entity Entombed), V continues the band's unique coalescence of accessible, grooving AOR emboldened by elements of classic doom metal and proto-psych. Complete with macabre, gothic lyrics delivered with Platow's incomparable, sultry, almost Wiccan cadence, the project offers a hypnotic dirge of horror delivered with a gentle hand.

Review: As well as releasing a collection of previously unreleased bits from Mort Garson this month, Sacred Bones are now also reissuing the legendary sound designer and composers Black Mass album on a limited pink vinyl with a spot-varnished cover. It might be fifty years old, but it's a thrilling work that got maximum potential out of the Moog synths he used to create it. There are photo-techno tunes next to lush ambient offerings, with percolating synths, abstract effects and a healthy dose of sci-fi magic and alien sonic forms all making it an absorbing and cinematic affair like no other.