The Crypt - AMM

Delving back into From a Strange Place has me thinking of this earlier live recording.  It’s one of those albums that has grown almost talismanic over the years.  I love the artwork, and two long discs of early, live AMM seems fantastic.  All the same, I’ve always passed it up in favor of other new sounds.

From Stylus Magazine:

“An eerie sensation inevitably accompanies each listen to the raw streams of electric noise channeled on AMM’s second album and early masterpiece, The Crypt . To ears informed by the twenty-first century, it’s the uncanny feeling of listening to three and a half decades of experimental music history as delivered in a chillingly prescient sort of reverse premonition. For somehow, in the middle of the 1960s, five slightly bookworm-looking gents from England managed to channel the searing distortion flows of early Merzbow cassettes nearly two decades ahead of schedule.”

Click through for the rest of this reappraisal by Joe Panzner.