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Review: From the moment they emerged in the early days of the 80s Tokyo underground, High Rise set themselves apart as radical outliers, shattering the limits of rock and psychedelic music with a ferocity unmatched even in that heady era. Their third album, 1992's Dispersion, maintained the group's in-the-red intensity while also pushing into new directions. A rough-n'-ready, Ballardian nightmare, this new reissue repackages the album in all its huge-roomy, intense-soloing instrumental rabidity.

Review: Experimental noise rock outfit Shizuka was formed as the gothic sonic outlet of one Shizuka Miura in 1993. Known for making ghostly dolls to aid her performances, Shizuka's heyday was one of mesmerizing eerieness, with her 1994 'Heavenly Persona' being the emblem of that outlook. With haunting rock instrumentation and screeching meditations on materiality's tension with the incorporeal, this is a distinctly creepy album for those unafraid to (at least temporarily) cross over to the other side.