NAGAMATZU Vinilo y CD

Review: Dark Entries are clearly fans of British duo Nagamatzu, with this remastered and reissued edition of their LP, Above This Noise, the third time the San Francisco label has profiled the '80s synth act. Formed of Andrew Lagowski and Stephen Jarvis, Nagamatzu were active for just under a decade in the fertile period of UK music history where synth technology was met with experimental minds. Above This Noise sees Dark Entries hone in on the 5-year period between Nagamatzu's second album, 1986's Sacred Islands Of The Mad, and their third and final effort, 1991's Igniting The Corpse, and features a mix of unreleased material and tracks culled from various tape-only compilations. There is a primal, raw energy running throughout the nine tracks as brutish drum machine hits joust for attention with epic synth lines and the occasional post-apocalyptic lyric. Great stuff!