Nusidm - Manifesto Stick LP+booklet (it's more like an art object really)

"Always a keen limits-pusher, Brisbane’s Glen Schenau has truly gone overboard with Manifesto Stick. The head-scratching details pile up quickly: an LP limited to a scant fifty copies, all with a big thick booklet attached by green wire to the cover and a corresponding Bandcamp page that features digital files of music that do not match the vinyl, but instead are the same clinking piano loop over and over (which, I believe, does actually appear on the record at some point). That’s enough crazy for one release, but I thumbed through the booklet, and my god, Schenau handwrote dozens of pages in his distinctive illegible earthquake font. I can’t imagine how much time he spent, writing out this thick packet of unreadable prose, not in some wild scribbly mess but a clearly rigid artistic practice, his lettering maintaining its design throughout. Unnerving! Musically, while Nusidm fits not entirely cleanly within the realm of neo-no-wave post-punk, Manifesto Stick is mostly an instrumental affair, full of jagged sound-effects, digitally-enhanced dub versions of daily errands, basement rhythms and direct-to-iPhone clatter. There’s a piano getting punched, some undistorted guitar strumming along to what sounds like a broken washing machine… just a wild concoction of sounds designed to permanently stain on contact. It’s an entertainingly abstract addition to the world of Nusidm, but man, that preposterous booklet… it really got me good." - Matt Korvette, yellow green red