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Comments (0) By Chuck Eddy Tuesday, Feb 1 2005

Despite all sounding hefty enough to justify their amorphousness, none of the vociferously repetition-worshipping acts boosted below made
Spin's "62 Mostly Ignorable Up-and-Coming Bands With Enviable Publicity Budgets, Some of Whom Even Wear Expensive Suits and You Can Kinda Sorta Dance to Them" issue. Not that I'm implying a conspiracy—riffs that could unclog your sewage line at 30 paces churned over and over again until next week clearly ain't for everybody. Those impressionable young readers do miss out, though.

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The First Trip Out
(Ace Fu miniaturist noise-prog album)
Download "As The Blade Dips Down" (MP3)

CIRCLE
Guillotine
(Scratch Finnish psychedelic drone-rock album)
Download "Satulinnut" from the album, Sunrise (MP3)

DMBQ
The Essential Sounds From the Far East
(Estrus Japanese butthole-surfed psychedelic rock album)

MICHAEL JAMES/CHILDREN OF THE RISK
Solution X
(Empath acid-punk album)
Stream "You're Delicious" (M3U)

JESU
Jesu
(Hydrahead Industries doom-droned ambient thrash album)
Download "We All Faulter" (MP3)

MY WAY MY LOVE
Hypnotic Suggestion: 01
(File 13 Japanese noise-rock album)
Stream "Super Fresh!"
Stream "Captain"

OM
Variating on a Theme
(Holy Mountain two-men-making-three-songs-last-46-minutes epic guitarless doom-metal album)
Stream "On the Mountain at Dawn" (Real)

ONEIDA
Nice./Splittin' Peaches
(Ace Fu psychedelic drone-rock EP)
Download "Inside My Head" (MP3)

TERMINAL LOVERS
Drama Pit and Loan
(Shifty/My Mind's Eye acid-punk album)

TUSSLE
Kling-Klang
(Troubleman Unlimited dub-danced instrumental kraut-rock-revival album)
Download "Here It Comes"

DAVE UNGER
"Rock on Baby Through the American Night"
(rockmedia.us 20-minute noise-droned acid-rock CD-R single)
Download "Rock On (Radio Edit)" (MP3)

WE ACEDIASTS
Pre Acediasts
(Meshkey Japanese psychedelic drone-dance EP)
Download "Ibasho" (MP3)