Thinking Plagues and Sun O))))

Thinking Plague - Dead Silence sounds a little like Deerhoof with slabs of Art Bears and Henry Cow. If they were Japanese (and hence they defined that oriental otherness that's so appealing to the kind of people who read The Wire - me, I suppose) then we'd already have heard lots about them. Maybe you already have. You should buy some of their records and play them to your friends. If you have n o friends then they'd make a nice easy listening segue to some late night frippery.

Sunn O))) - Bow 1 sounds like slow, grinding, Earth-inspired, doom-rock played with guys in cowels who overspend on dry-ice machines. Exactly like that.