Allen Ravenstine

• Waiting for the Bomb [Morphius/MVD, 2018] *
• Nautilus/Rue de Poisson Noir [Waveshaper, 2021] ***

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Waiting for the Bomb [Morphius/MVD, 2018]
Pere Ubu synthmaster concocts instrumental evocations of the historical period preceding not the bomb we're waiting for now, but the bomb they were waiting for in the '50s, which had the decency never to arrive ("If Only There Was More Time," "Day Shift") *

Nautilus/Rue de Poisson Noir [Waveshaper, 2021]
Pere Ubu synthmaster turned commercial pilot honors the delicate sonics of "classical music" while evoking first a calm sea and then a calm Paree via aural atmospherics rather than digital acrobatics on a by now very pricey but also very streamable two-part album ("Meadowlark," "Tuxedo Moonlight," "Java Head") ***