Robedoor
Robedoor is a Los Angeles drone duo of Britt Brown and Alex Brown, who are not related. Britt Brown is also a co-founder of the label Not Not Fun. The band's heavy, distorted sound began in harsh noise and drone, took in doom metal and psychedelic influences, and later turned to hypnotic drum machines. Robedoor's early releases came out as small runs of cassettes and CD-Rs on noise labels. Drummer Ged Gengras made the group a trio in the early 2010s, the lineup heard on Burners (Important Records, 2010) and Too Down to Die (Not Not Fun, 2011).
New Age Sewage
The Brown brothers emerge from the depths of California with a new collection of oozing drone centred on ‘heavy visions of negative west coast mythology.’Darkness is never far away from a Robedoor session, and their first album in four years finds Al…
Drag It Away
The perfect basement ritual perpetrated by creepy guitars, acoustic drones, echo waves and frying amps that will bring your memory back to the first recordings of LA dungeon pysch trio Robedoor. Previously released as a limited tape by Shawn Reed's N…
Too Down To Die
Not Not Fun's most form-destroying release from Robedoor. Seismic future-primitive energies on side-long track "Parallel Wanderer." Continues the incarnation of Robedoor featuring MG Gengras (Personable, Pocahaunted) on drums, moog, bass and piano. "…
Shapeshifter Slave
Robedoor reviews have become a fixture among these pages over the past few years. While keeping up with their steady stream of releases is no easy task, it goes without saying that, as a unit, they have firmly established themselves as one of the …
Pacific Drift
Way too much is made these days of looking back, memory, social network fantasias. What a bummer, cause reality s a bad experience and 2012 is on deck; we deserve whatever we get. Evolve or erode, dudes. LA visigoths Robedoor slip into another sinkho…
Burners
Like this week's brilliant Sun Araw release, On Patrol, Robedoor's Burners is vying for sleeve art greatness, truly looking like something that's arrived from another age and most probably another dimension. Recorded and mixed last year at the sa…
Hunted Gathering
"There's a savage battle raging in the hallowed streets of Los Angeles, being fought by prehistoric megaliths spewing lava from their mouths. These acid-tongued shamans are interested in one thing and one thing only, and that's to raze this city to t…
Raiders
Robedoor have acquired a "drummer/modular synth dealer" since last we heard from them, and with this new LP - their first since last year's Endlessly Blazing - they let fly with their newly enhanced line-up, stirring up smudged-out psych nightmares t…