Sissy Spacek is an American
noise band founded in 1999 in
Los Angeles,
California, United States, and currently consisting of official members
John Wiese and Charlie Mumma, along with several collaborators both past and present. Since the release of their self-titled debut album in 2001, they have released a considerable catalogue encompassing genres which include harsh noise, noisecore, grindcore, free improvisation and musique concrete. Early releases consisted of collages of previously recorded demos and live performances with heavy use of cut-up editing. Many works have been released or re-released on Wiese's own label, Helicopter.
Past members or collaborators include Corydon Ronnau, Jesse Jackson, Danny McClain, Sara Taylor (
Youth Code
Youth Code is an American EBM duo, formed in 2012 by Sara Taylor and Ryan George in Los Angeles, California. The duo's musical style, following the model of early Wax Trax! Records, has been described as industrial music infused with "hardcore a ...
), Aaron Hemphill (
Liars),
Kevin Drumm, as well as
Merzbow,
Smegma,
Hijokaidan and
The Haters
The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest acts in the modern noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based musician, artist, w ...
.
The band was featured at number 4 in LA Weekly's 2015 article, "The 20 Best Punk Bands in L.A. Right Now".
In 2018, the band toured the US and Japan.
Discography
Albums
* ''Sissy Spacek'' (Helicopter/PACrec/A Dear Girl Called Wendy, 2001) - Italy
* ''Scissors'' (Helicopter/Misanthropic Agenda, 2002)
* ''Remote Whale Control'' (Helicopter/Misanthropic Agenda, 2003)
* ''Devils Cone And Palm'' (Helicopter/Misanthropic Agenda, 2006)
* ''French Record'' (Tape Room/Dual Plover, 2008) - Australia
* ''California Ax'' (Helicopter, 2008)
* ''Glass'' (Misanthropic Agenda, 2009)
* ''Gore Jet'' (Sweat Lung, 2009) - Australia
* ''15-Tet Oakland'' (Misanthropic Agenda, 2010)
* ''Sepsis'' (Second Layer, 2010) - UK
* ''Dash/Anti-Clockwise'' (EET/Gilgongo/Helicopter, 2011)
* ''Rip'' (Gilgongo/Helicopter, 2011)
* ''Freaked With Jet'' (Gilgongo, 2011)
* ''Grisp'' (Gilgongo, 2011)
* ''Harm'' (Troniks, 2012)
* ''Wastrel Projection'' (Antropofago Ateo/Handmade Birds, 2012)
* ''Wreck'' (Phage Tapes, 2013)
* ''Harm 2'' (Troniks, 2013)
* ''Billions And Billions'' (Chondritic Sound/Claimed Responsibility, 2013)
* ''Sissy Spacek/K2'', (Helicopter, 2014)
* ''First Four'' (Helicopter, 2015)
* ''Brath'', (Oxen, 2015)
* ''Basement-Spear'' (Claimed Responsibility, 2015)
* ''Duration Groups'' (Helicopter, 2016)
* ''Reversed Normalization'', (Helicopter, 2016)
* ''Disfathom'', (Helicopter, 2016)
* ''Slow Move'' (Troniks, 2017)
* ''L/L'' (Helicopter, 2018)
* ''Pitched Intervention'' (Helicopter/Bank Burner, 2018)
* ''Trash Staging'', (New Forces, 2018)
* ''Blear'' (Tape Room/Gilgongo, 2018)
* ''Ways Of Confusion'' (Nuclear War Now! Productions, 2018)
* ''Formation'' (Daymare Recordings, 2018) - Japan
* ''Spirant'' (Daymare Recordings, 2018) - Japan
* ''Expanding Antiverse'' (Dotsmark, 2018) - Japan
* ''Multifactorial Dynamic Pathways'' (with
The Haters
The Haters are a noise music and conceptual art troupe from the United States. Founded in 1979, they are one of the earliest acts in the modern noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based musician, artist, w ...
, Helicopter, 2019)
* ''Entropic'' (with
Hijokaidan, Helicopter, 2019)
* ''Ballast'' (with
Smegma, Helicopter, 2019)
* ''Corpus'' (Helicopter, 2020)
* ''Prismatic'' Parameter (Helicopter, 2020)
* ''Featureless Thermal Equilibrium'' (Helicopter, 2020)
* ''Electric Field in Parallel'' (Helicopter, 2022)
* ''BMW'' (Helicopter, 2022)
* ''Radio Format'' (Helicopter, 2022)
* ''Tempo Scalato'' (Helicopter, 2022)
* ''Reslayer'' (Helicopter, 2022)
* ''Mechanical Abstraction'' (Helicopter, 2023)
* ''Threshold'' (Helicopter, 2023)
* ''Live in Hong Kong'' (Helicopter, 2023)
* ''Cosm'' (Helicopter, 2024)
* ''Coronado'' (with
Merzbow, Helicopter, 2024)
* ''Benigemony Asiniscrepancy'' (Helicopter, 2024)
References
External links
*
Discography at discogs.com
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American experimental musical groups
Noise musical groups
American electronic musicians
Alien8 Recordings artists
Alternative Tentacles artists