Today, I'm writing a brief post of praise for an album that's been inspiring, freeing, and encouraging for me, the latest Erstwhile release, a collab between...

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Read Levi Dayan’s review of the album.

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Source: surround. When, in the summer of 2020, Erstwhile Records founder Jon Abbey mentioned, on a phone call, that he wanted me to write something specifically about Keith Rowe’s series of releases for Erstwhile, initial euphoria was replaced by dread, by the weight of the history I was on the point of examining. It took me more than four years to pull my thoughts and observations together to form this text out of the admiration and respect I feel for both Rowe and Abbey, but as I entered the project’s lengthy gestation period, several sources proved invaluable.

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On Sheer Hellish Miasma and Sheer Hellish Miasma II by Kevin Drumm

October 2025

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