Blear Moon - Sauvignon Valley (2010)

Umpako
FMA
Lastfm

9.0

/Musique concrete, Sound-art, Abstract, Electronic pop, Modern classical, Electro-acoustic, Dark ambient, Modern classical, Microtonal, Ambient drone, Experimental electronica, Dystopbient, Experimentalism/

Comment: The Russian experimentalist Vlas Presnetsov`s 8-track album (being released at 20.10. 2010) is a lingering journey across different stylistic middles and fringes, which staple spot is focused upon profound, mostly beatless endeavours, though, at times it goes into down-tempo electronica for a wink. More precisely, the first mentioned involvement is more intriguing approach among Presnetsov`s sonic pastiche, i.e compacting the elements of ambient drone/dark ambient/ghost ambient, some minutiae of electro-acoustics, undercurrents of microsounds/experiments with hisses, piano-headed snippets, concrete music occurrences, however, all of which is flinged into endless progression and phase changes. A solid result indeed.

Sometimes Always - ePop008 (2011)

Eardrums Pop
Lastfm

9.2

/Indie pop, Alternative rock, Cover, Noise pop, Shoegaze, Fuzz pop, Electro rock, Jangle pop/

Comment: Sometimes Always (may it be named by the Hope Sandoval-featured JAMC`s hit?) is a sequent example of the blossoming Indonesian indie scene nowadays. More detailly, Tyo from Jakarta seems to be one of those old school guys who used to mix up the mid-period (Isn`t Anything) MBV-echoed densely stomping drum patterns with dynamic, hiss-filled jangle pop/C86/blonde hair guitar strums, however, which will be interrupted sometime to segue into shoegaze-inflected electro rock (a cover of The Sharesprings` Ivory Tower). Grossly, it is a recommended release for all of those bewailing crews having assumed the advantage of the past experience vis à vis with the nowadays musical situation.

Dan Deacon - Twacky Cats (2004)

Comfort Stand

9.3

/Avant-garde, Indietronica, Dada music, DIY, Avant-electronica, Electronic pop, Weird, Experimentalism/

Comment: Twacky Cats was released by this Baltimore-bred, academically educated musician in age of 23 years old in 2004 having revealed 5 vanguard electronic staples as if R Stevie Moore-esque DIY aesthetics meet masterful manipulations on angular-led, even dada-like electronics (sine wave and FM manipulations, Broadcast-like spooky sections of innovative pop, peculiar pitch-treated samples), deliberately balanced notches relied on skipping electronics and sublime indie pop, and a frantic, even infantile-induced notch about diverse beasts in the jungle (Arms Saloon). Yet, on the other side, it might be considered the foremost pop album ever. Close to, it is a classic one really worth to be remembered daily.

humeka - Moolid the Lobster (Infloria Edit)

Nodding by the Fire - At home in the wilderness (2011)

Bandcamp

8.4

/Alt-folk, Mood music, New Weird Europe, Baroque folk, Epic, Chamber folk, Indie folk, Instrumental folk, Folk indie, Brass folk/

Comment: This is the sophomore album by this Spanish-based instrumental music combo (Javier Ordàs, Carlos Puente, Jacob Gonzàlez). Likely to the self-titled debut issue (2010), indeed, At home in the wilderness is managed to manipulate on listeners` mood via brass-induced themes, fully radiant harmonica-led melodies, some adjacent droning examples and craftily tinted textures, some of those having reached essentially dizzy altitude. For instance, I`ll tell you a story, and the self-named track. On the other side, it can not outbalance the trio`s first outlet.

Absent Fever Presents Woman Was The Word

Absent Fever
Mediafire

9.3

/Electronic pop, Indie pop, Chillwave, Soul, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Dream pop, Folk indie, Dream folk, Conceptual/

Comment: This is a seamless project between female bloggers and musicians purposed to pay tribute to the women involved in the cultural realm. Three remarkable female bloggers were asked to write pieces, poetry, stories, about anything that made them feel inspired to put pen to paper. Here are 3 tracks, the first of them, Elisabeth`s Rose Throw Me To The West (inspired by East to West) starts out with a snippet from the ancient, 1920`s jazz-influenced pop music which soon gets developed into an electronic-induced soulful brand. Rachel Levy`s Pierced (inspired by Heavy Percussion) and Yohuna & Adelyn Rose`s All The Slow Songs (Waiting) (inspired by Friends With Both Arms) are used to be catchy, dream-alike folk-ish notches, however, representing the indie (folk) music sphere at the highest level.

Distape - The Flying Cats Season (2011)

42 Records
Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.8

/Poptronica, Experimental indie, Glo-fi, Lo-fi, Psychedelic, Singer-songwriter, New Weird Europe/

Comment: Distape is the brainchild of Michele Alessi, coming from the homeland of the Farfisa organ - Italy. However, there are represented 5 beautiful examples of the songwriting which are mainly created through catchy electric keyboards-backed hooks-loops, lo-fi beats and slightly pessimistic, symbolism-tinged lyrics. Furthermore, there can be detected for some subtle bows of electrified guitars played up with huge impetus. By the way, the issue is mastered by Barbagallo, one of the Recent Music Heroes` longtime heroes.

Tryad - Struttin`

Orphalis - Watchmaker Analogy EP (2011)

Torn Flesh
Lastfm

8.5

/Brutal metal, Death metal, Black metal, Progressive metal, Technical metal, Goregrind/

Comment: Orphalis (Jens Duerholt - vocals & guitars; Morten Formeseyn – guitars; Danny Koehler - bass; Kai Volman - drums) is a combo from the western part of Germany (Dortmund-Luenen) who used to play appealing technical death metal with some influences from the black metal, and goregrind purviews. Within the 3 tracks can be met stumbling grooves of key changes, mangling riffs, punching drums and grinding voice, all of it wrapped up in an organic (metal) whole. Indeed, it mostly takes on impression via (omni)potent energy.

Ohmbot Cassette Tape - Program 5

Myspace
Archive.org

10.0

/Noise, Avant-garde, Avant-electronica, Tape music, Experimentalism, Drone, Circuit bending, Doomtronica, abstract, Improvised music, Dada music, Acousmatics, Non music/

Comment: This one track-relied set is sent from the state of Pennsylvania (at least the project`s Myspace site hints at OCT this way). Those 68 minutes are filled in with lush analogue (brown) noise, lots of phase changes, drone, itself devouring onyx-tinged outbursts, manipulated circuit-bent electronics, which at times will be evolved into highly suggestive orchestration-like anthems, frantic improvisations, and near-dada occurrences. In fact, it might be described that the total sum exceeds the sum of its particles. Grossly, it really makes hugely sense having an apparent regard to the early tradition of electronics and experimental music indeed. So handle it as an instance of the perfect noise.

Kurobear - Special Electric (2010)

Rec72
Lastfm

8.8

/Dubtech, House, Electronica, Progressive, Crossover, Tech-house, Minimal techno, Breakbeat, Techno, Club dance/

Comment: Kurobear delivers a crafty set of 10 tracks which showcases his profound affinity toward the club music via the highly dynamical grooves of pleasant dub(tech) and tech-house, mesmerizing deep house, melancholic down-tempo electronica, hasty breakbeat, and some glimpses of drum and bass and minimal techno, or crossovered outputs of the abovementioned styles, however, most of those tracks are essentially sublime on its own. In fact, there is also another set of 10 tracks called Rare Traxx, created under his old pseudonym Kid Kaustic during the years 2006-2008, unlike in comparison with the basic disc, running mainly on electro- and electronic-drenched paces which at times chimes really simplistic and primitive, at times solid enough.

Ruby Coast - Made To Change

Radiokoala - Meerkat Approved (2011)

Paragrafo

8.7

/Avant-garde, Non-music, Avant-industrial, Noise, Weird, Experimentalism, Electro-rock/

Comment: Aarghhh...it is a really weird notch from Belarus. On the other side, all the topics under Paragrafo Records have been used to be very strange odes to the pop music so far. The first track Here We Go Spastic, Movement I. Grand Booze at the Hennery kicks off as a warped electro-rock hallmark, and the second track Ants-Conquerors Astride Aeneous Mammoths is getting more into a hell-ish flag, mixing up the indistinct borders of rock and nihilistic (proto-)industrial music and flash backed hauntology into each other. Furthermore, hazy experimenting with the radio waves has been one of the extremities of the experimental music for long time, thereby Radiokoala is intended to give it a serious launch at Badger Circuit-Bends Himself by Inadvertence - by hearing those dense tunings of shortwaves with diverse frequencies will make up some melomans remember for lots of worthy memories from the past times for sure. After all of this abovementioned bunch of sonic mayhem, however, intriguing chopped-up sounds, explorations in the spoken word world and heavily clattering riffs will be conjured up.

Sea Things - See Thangs (2010)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.4

/Glo-fi, Chillwave, Lo-fi, DIY, Experimentalism, Psychedelic, Avant-garde, Weird, Cut and paste, Plunderphonics, Crossover, Samplecore, Sampledelic/

Comment: The American Mike Froeling aka Sea Things` debut album See Thangs makes lots of chillwave/glo-fi grooves, on the other side, it is not an usual mix of lo-fi/DIY and chillwave/glo-fi album at all. Why? Because it used to exploit much sound collage/cut and paste/plunderphonics aesthetics thereby having more broader extension and off-kilter approach than usual to its adjacent styles. Moreover, a reliable reference to it may be founded out from the fact that there do shuffle 21 songs in total. Some examples? For instance, Drakewave (What Am I Doing) seems to use Knight Rider-esque theme-paces. All in all, I suggest you have a perspective of it as if a Chenard Walcker-like frenzied sampledelic session meets Blackbird Blackbird.

Plastic People - Good As You (2010)

Myspace
Af-music
Jamendo
Bandcamp
Lastfm

7.7

/New rave, Post-punk, Art-punk, Dance punk, Alternative pop, Gothic, Electro-rock/

Comment: Today the frenchman Sèbastien Ficagna aka Plastic People just released the sophomore album Pink Narcissus. His first release Good As You takes on electro-rock, dance punk, post-punk, dark pop, art-punk sounds (some symphonic progressions, some whimsical synth burblings, treated effect-loaded appearances, cabaret-alike undercurrents), however, paying mostly tribute either to the British post-punk/gothic rock groups like The Cure, and Bauhaus through those bouncing dynamical bass guitars and rigidly stomping drum sections or the nowadays new rave sounds through its snooty approach though sounding even a little interesting than contemporary comrades like The Klaxons, and !!!, for instance.

Tsone - A Sound Beyond Reckoning (2010)

Audiotalaia
Lastfm

9.5

/Ambient, Microsound, Minimalism, Experimental electronica, Drone, Microtonal, Soundscape, Abstract, Avant-electronica, Ambient drone/

Comment: This is an excellent issue of the nowadays ambient music (actually masterpiece) filled in with subtle sounds of droning electronics, chopped-up microsounds, and fluttering, highly emotive electric piano chords (by its sound characteristics you may suppose this way). However, I cannot myself to tear apart from the Arctic-related ice plateaus and cold yet warm imaginations. Indeed, very minimal yet following the maxim less is more. The author of such blessing soundscape is Valtteri Heikkilä who comes from Finland.

Fuck Her, or the Terrorists Win - Up The Ante

Yves Rakotomalala - Ce matin encore (1981/2010)

Free Music Archive
Golden Pavilion
Arachnid Records
Lastfm

7.8

/Folk, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: A set of 12 tracks sung in French and English were originally released in 1981, though later being some times re-issued (most lately at Golden Pavilion and Free Music Archive). Cute folk songs wherein one chord is soothingly followed by another, where acoustic sounds are mixed up with electric ones, indeed, having all premisses for some commercial success on the album which physical copies have apparently been very rateable in the circles of old folk music completists.

Venice - Animals, Stars & Other Psychedelic Creatures (2011)

Bad Panda
Lastfm

9.6

/Avant-garde, Avant-pop, No Wave, Post-rock, Post-psychedelic electronica, Electronic, Krautrock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Psychedelic/

Comment: The Rome-based Venice`s album kicks off as a kind of vanguard-ish tribal sound (Faust`s proto-industrial hypnotism) which step by step is getting evolve into...ehh...vanguard-ish tribal sound. A way too tautological, isn`t it? Indeed, but it so bloody cool. However, the second track makes some turns rightward (or is it leftward actually?), incorporating the elements from the vibraphone-centered post-rock a la the early Mice Parade and The Dylan Group and some full railing atmospheric layers of Kosmische Musik. It is almost undescribable how soft and subtle it used to be chiming throughout the course. The third track continues principially in the same vein, though, turning its focus more upon bouncy yet cutting edge paces, however, reminiscent of No Wave-drenched ones and besides it adding some treated guitar effects either. No doubt, a superb issue.

[aftersun] - Goodbye (2011)

Bandcamp

9.8

/Shoegaze, Post-punk, Goth rock, Psychedelic, Alternative rock, Space rock, Covers/

Comment: [aftersun] seems to be a combo from Brooklyn, New York which makes a mesmerizing sound loving heavily to loan from a mix of cosmic shoegaze, proto-shoegaze, and the British post-punk/gothic punk music. Indeed, this 2-track issue bases on atmospheric, astonishingly overdriving guitars, rigid bass undercurrents and the same way stomping drums. More detailly, it resembles of such bands as The Chameleons, Swervedriver, Moose, The Comsat Angels, and the French post-punk legend Asylum Party whose track Old Dreams Are Not Innocent is covered herein. An amazing trip.

Japanese Gum - Gonna look in the backroom

Plastic Whore - Elite Elbow Patch Collection (2011)

Plastic Whore
Lastfm

9.2

/Alternative rock, Post-punk, Experimental rock, Electro-rock, Crossover, Psych-rock, Doom/

Comment: Jarmo "Chopper" Nuutre has been active since the first half of 00`s in the Estonian (indie) music scene, i.e being the drummer in many groups. Obviously the most known is he used to be via as one half of doom/stoner/post-metal duo Talbot (having got appreciated outside the borders of Estonia as well), also being recently a member of the dream pop/shoegaze combo Jean Dean. However, Plastic Whore is his solo project, and Elite Elbow Patch Collection is his most accomplished solo publication. In comparison with Talbot, indeed, it might be a little bit subdued enterprise, though, which does not mean it is the restraint project a jot. EEPC is full of (sometimes even) very diverse stylistic angles showcasing itself as a melting pot of alternative rock/post-punk/punk funk, primitive electronic music, doom-ish string waves, grandeur heavy guitar riffs, hardcore snippets, and much more else. First of all, my favorite track is Bogus Charlie which rushes out as a homage to the Fall, more concretely being filled in with a dialogue between synergical bass guitar crests and a nihilistically primitive drum section and those mumbling vocal effects and mere yet sufficient electronics. On the other side, the exertions on infused guitar layers and some funky bass developments do resemble Sonic Youth and Talking Heads, respectively. Indeed, regarding the Estonian scene it is another mesmerizing album after Mirabilia`s Sümpaatiline Õudus EP during this year so far.

The Peach Tree - Children of Cain, Night-Loving Creatures, Prepare Thyselves for 2012 (2011)

Tribal Dancing Kid
Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.6

/Dark folk, Synth noir, Neofolk, Singer-songwriter, Apocalyptic folk, Dark wave, Heavy metal, Electronic, Experimental, Conceptual/

Comment: The Australian Angus Maiden is a busy man, who used to be running the label Tribal Dancing Kid and who has released a bunch of albums under the pseudonym Peach Tree. The recent album is inspired by 21st December 2012 and the Mayan Prophecies. However, through those 11 tracks are represented the dominating dark folk-ish line (those lavish guitar strums), spacious synth noir overthrows, teeth gnashing heavy rock-ish guitar riffs, naive-shiny stompings or primitive burblings, and sweaty chopped-up chords-breakbeats. By the vocal characteristics Maiden does add either dark-tinged manners or high-tempered oppression. An intriguing concept, interesting sounds, and indeed - no sense to be denied- quite rational expectations/conceivable scenarios against this fucked-up world/simulacrum. So let`s see will the whole be restarted or not.

Lule Kaine - Radiation From Futurist Furniture (2007)

Chew-Z
Lastfm

9.0

/Krautrock, Epic, Progressive, Experimental rock, Avant-rock, Motorik, Post-rock/

Comment: Lule Kaine is an eminent experimental rock combo from Turin, Italy having the activities since 2002. They have opened Turin shows for such prominent post-rock/experimental rock groups as Explosion In The Sky, Tarentel, and Girandini di Mirò. However, Radiation From Futurist Furniture is the sophomore album under Chew-Z being accomplished in 2007. The first half of the issue follows the formula of krautrock through precise cadences, metallic echoes, step-by-step evolving through new layers, all in all resembling those proto-industrial whirls by Neu! and Faust conjured up approximately four decades ago. The second half (the last two tracks) is more precisely post-rock, made out through restraint guitar chords, subtle half-orchestrations and dainty electronics. Indeed, it is a convincing workout.

Wonder Bear - Golden Years EP (2010)

Bandcamp

8.7

/Experimental indie, Alternative pop, Glo-fi, Chillwave, Electronic pop, Dream pop/

Comment: Here are represented 5 songs by Ben and Daisy, a pair residing in New York. The handful of skillful outings, though. By its strategy, line-up features, sonic resemblance/its dream-alikeness and female-led vocals, however, the duo can freely be compared to the Canadian miracle fruit Memoryhouse. In true, aboard some rough appearances Ben and Daisy are able to showcase their teeth either. It is a little shameful that only 37 persons are condescended to express their fancy to the EP via Bandcamp (over to Facebook) at the moment.

Fandango - Fandango (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Latin music, Crossover, World music, Improvised music, Psychedelic, Experimental, Tango/

Comment: This is a highly frenzied, 13-track gem from Buenos Aires, Argentina sounding out tango grooves and latin rhythms and world music influences to insertion into more experimental enterprises, including slowed-off, near-drone layerings by bandoneòns, dense, practically exorcised incantations (Tutù-Marambà), simultaneously catchy and arrogantly tootling trumpets, luminous strumming strings (Mentiras Piadosas), some lightening glimpses of surf-based acuteness, and profoundly melancholic, even funeral experience (1976, Mustang Ranch) and epic, slightly dark-hued opuses (Boris Karloff † Ruta Ocho) By its ideological spot, however, Fandango`s soundscape is obviously influenced by Manu Chao`s melting pot, yet there where Balkan vibrations confluence with tango whirls it can be drawn upon indie stars like Beirut, and Bark Cat Bark. By the way, here are decorously presented the covers of The Doors (People Are Strange), Depeche Mode (Personal Jesus), and The Rolling Stones (Paint It Black), giving to those even great tracks an idiosyncratic turn.

Dublicator - Anonym Vectors

Deimost - Space Sadness (2011)

Jamendo

8.4

/Piano, Modern classical, Electronic, Melancholic pop/

Comment: It is Barcelona-based Deimost`s follow-up to his 2010`s issue Mirando en el Baul which was similarly a modern classical appearance. Likewise the brand new one continues its explorations using at times the electronic/new age-esque fringes, restrainted minor key-infused spacious piano chords, reminiscent sometimes of Ennio Morricone`s rich articulations in searchings for blissful sonic sensitiveness. On the other side, Space Sadness might be a case of sore homesickness watched back from the outer space somewhere. A solid accomplishment indeed.

Oláfachada - ePop012 (2011)

EardrumsPop
Lastfm

8.4

/Indie pop, Twee pop, Alternative pop/

Comment: Behind Olàfachada are Ola Innset aka My Little Pony and Bernardo Fachada aka bFachada delivering us two examples of rolling indie pop with changeable pace patterns and a bit buffooning vocal manners, restraint guitar fingerpickings, syncopated rhythm examples, and some ascending transitions. Subsequently, it is a pleasant outing worth enough to be checked out.

Annette Hanshaw - 1930-35

78RPMs & Cylinder Recordings

10.0

/Pop, Classics, Vintage, Jazz/

Comment: (Catherine) Annette Hanshaw (1901-1985) was one of the most profilic recording singers in the late 1920's and early 30's, having been commissioned to represent new directions in the realm of pop and jazz music during the abovementioned timelapse. More detailly, herein are being delivered 5 tracks of essential classics. Those notches from the years 1930-35 do sound really special making out the otherworldly sense of feeling.

Sejdman - Invisible Bells (2011)

Beko DSL
Lastfm

9.6

/Modern classical, Post-rock, Epic, Ambient drone, Organic electronica, Experimental rock, Ambient, Crossover, Chamber music/

Comment: In fact, there has not passed much time since the Swedish duo Ecovillage`s (Emil Holmstöm & Peter Wikström) 2-track (long notches in fact) release had been reviewed at Recent Music Heroes (9.3). However, the Beko DSL did set up the cohesive link between Ecovillage and (Holmström`s) Sejdman. By the other way round, Holmström`s used to continue with similar artistical processes, yet having designated more concern on orchestral compartments and less concrete sound-drenched growths. The album can be divided into three parts - the onset section is dominated by the epic ambient movement since it will be superseded by the focal modern classical-tinged minor gorgeousness which by its side will be chiming into a post-rock-ish crescendo and ambience. Altogether, it is an essentially elusive and breathtaking masterpiece indeed.

Fanny + Alexander - Espida de credo

Esterhazy - Helen and the Sea (2011)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Alternative pop, Dream pop, Experimental indie/

Comment: Yeah, Esterhazy (Russell, Eli, and Damon), a combo from the Big Apple has delivererv us a pleasant 3-track outing which is filled in with flawless, airy guitar chords, exhilaratingly catchy progressions, propulsive dynamics, gyratory sonic minutiae-effects and dream-alike yet slightly ironical lyrics. As you have realized it out already, indeed, it is a solid turf via beautifully(or beatifically) tuned chords written out in a calm mood. The kind of redemption. However, this project does not deserve to be let unsung.

Juanitos - Welcome in the House of F.U.N. (2011)

Jamendo
Free Music Archive

8.7

/Psychedelia, Latin rhythms, Easy listening, Exotic pop, Crossover, Dance rock, Trop-rock, World music, Funk soul, Tropicàlia, Rockabilly/

Comment: I like the rock`n` roll music and I like to the cha-cha-cha... . After a bunch of mesmerizing issues (Best Of; Exotica; Soul Africa) Juan Naveira aka mrjuan is back with a new catchy brand of latin rhythms, funky soul (and the way round), fine exotic pop, madman dance grooves based on glaringly psychedelic dust-coated organs, some acute hints at jazz experience, afrofuturism (cos he believes in black music), subtle brass-tinged compartments, declaiming spoken word hums, and suggestive singing course definitely pulled out to the front. Though Welcome in the House of F.U.N. represents a cool easy listening way, however, it is all but superficial. In a nutshell, it comes to a mighty drift demonstrating a way how the music (at least emotive sonic crests) should be made up. Indeed, the issue is a masterful bow regarding the 20th anniversary of (Les) Juanitos. By the way, a sequent eminent cover sleeve is represented over here. Moreover, it might be even the best.

Hobo Cult 2.1 (Hobo Cult)

Hobo Cult

8.6

/Avant-garde, Psychedelic, Post-psychedelic electronica, Experimental indie, Lo-fi, Avant-pop, DIY, Krautrock/

Comment: I have often thought during last years that the pop tradition is used to repeat itself, coming forth as a cyclic appearance. However, this miscellany of 21 tracks represents the nowadays underground situation and consciousness while harking back to be mirrored upon the early days of electronic music and experimental rock. In fact, therein can be met the shadows of CAN, Neu!, Suicide, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, The Silver Apples and other seminal legends. It is compilated by the Montreal-based label Hobo Cult including such artists as Dirty Beaches, Reedbeds, CVLTS, Quiet Evenings, Jean-Sèbastien Truchy, Panabrite, Relax and Sleep, Body Rush and many others.

Urmal Vesnat – Musics for Near Future Ceremonies (2011)

17 Sons
Jamendo

7.0

/Ambient, Soundscape, Minimal, Drone, Ambient drone/

Comment: This is a case of three long tracks of pulsating ambient sound and "dances", inclinated to show up some metallic vapours and dark-hued shades around it. Despite of some slight progressions within it, however, this does not offer a pivotal turnabout for to be reached upon the next perception level either. Its margins are used to be mostly bleak, furthermore, all of that which is set inbetween its extremities can be detected for in the same simplistic way too. Indeed, business as usual - if to give it the admittance from the average experience of ambient embodiment.

Totally Nebular - Anthony Naples

The Burning Of Eterna City - Dance Till Your Fucking Legs Break EP (2011)

Mediafire

7.9

/Doom, Grindcore, Goregrind, Crossover, Power rock, Electro-rock, Progressive rock, Trance, Avant-garde/

Comment: Indeed, behind this malevolent title can be discovered for even more wicked content of 5 songs, wherein angry electro-driven power rock riffs are being mingled with grindcore/goregrind/doom mandatory elements which are contiguous to some "non-sequitur" minutiae, for instance, including some chiptune-backed beepy elements, progressive rock details, club dance/brooding trance progressions, and spoken word samples. Finally I was able to figure out that the main keywords would be "eclectic" and "bulimic" and those 5 notches are not used to be reflections regarding the love themes somehow (haha!). By the way, the combo comes from the State of Virginia, USA.

Keyboard Choir - Electrical Unity EP (2009)

Lastfm
Brainlove Records

8.7

/Neokrautrock, Experimental indie, Electronic pop, Synth pop, Psychedelic/

Comment: This issue was publicized yet at those times (some years ago) while Lastfm embarked on with the official presentation of new albums under its own umbrella. However, Keyboard Choir, an Oxford-based and Brian Eno-approved combo was an excellent choice, showcasing a potent mix upon synthesized nowadays and yesterday. More concretely, soothing, even inside directed realms were variegated with subtly tumbling krautrock-esque lines, reminiscent sometimes of an impetus similar to Ladytron (Witching Hour, for instance).

Ana Threat - Tug Of War Of Love (2010)

Kill Mommy
Lastfm

7.7

/Primitive pop, Anti-punk, Lo-fi, DIY, Blues, Psychedelic, Weird, Garage rock/

Comment: Ugghhh, what the hell is the coverprint about... . This is a combo from Vienna, Austria offering a weird 5-track set of primitivistic notches. Though being apparently the primitive output, however, such sort of nihilistic approach toward punk, garage sounds, psychedelia makes sense nevertheless.

Isak Goldschneider, Amy Horvey, Jeff Morton - Mille Bayous (2011)

Panospria

8.6

/Electro-acoustic, Improvised music, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Psycho-acoustic/

Comment: On the first album of this classically trained Canadian trio can be detected for different aspects through electro-acoustic music, improvised jams and hardly definable sonic experiments. In fact, every path in the realm of electro-acoustic activity are so heavily explored thereby it should not be surprising at all if someone has managed to be a little prejudiced toward it either. Fortunately it is a different case (besides this is a short-running issue). However, the best moments on it are closely related to organ-induced passages and treated sonic tissues (warped voice snippets?) and abrasively chiming metallic overthrows evoking more moods and sensibility.

Les Marquises - Samuel Wolff (A Letter To)

LES MARQUISES "samuel wolff (a letter to)" from cartepostalerecords on Vimeo.

Ocelote Rojo - Pacarina (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.6

/Psych-folk, Avant-folk, Drone folk, Experimental folk/

Comment: Behind Ocelote Rojo is Francisco Aravena who has managed to sail on this 4-track EP with the help of tenderly fingerpicked and strummed guitars, hypnotic drone, mystically chiming gongs as if sounding from a remote distance and being surrounded by a sort of mystical vapour and found sounds. However, sometimes it seems to have acquired a profound ritualistic disposition, the other time just cutting down its brooding consistency and getting more lighter. First of all, it is a contemplative trip into yourself. The coverprint is grandeur as well.

Vent God - Running Thought (2010)

Radio Hand
Lastfm

8.4

/Grunge, Alternative rock, Power pop, Dream pop/

Comment: Vent God is a trio from Russia being influenced by sleepless nights, heaven and universe. However, this is a four-track EP filled in with vigorous grunge-influenced tunes of being mixed up with catchy yet dream-filled melodies and gears. The singer`s vocal is flavoured with Billy Corgan-alike abrasive tinge which makes really sense anyway. The outstanding track is Stuck In letting the positive final chord to the release. A honest rock and roll case.

MC Cullah - E=MC Cullah (2009)

MC Cullah
Free Music Archive
Lastfm

8.4

/Hip-hop, Rap music, Electro, Experimental hip-hop, Soul funk, Electro pop, Indie-hop/

Comment: MC Cullah is a hip-hopper/electro producer from Milwaukee, USA having released the E=MC Cullah when he was at the age of 18 years old. Despite of his young age, indeed, he is keen to deliver an interesting, multi-faceted set of 15 tracks where obligatory hip-hop/rap repertory are augmented with Rhodes-biased soul funk, delicious autotuned vocals, down-tempo-dominated and chiptune-backed rhythms, synthesized psychedelic buzz girders, rolling-crackling electro synths, and even a bit louchè dance beats. By the way, some tracks do have apparent indie (rock) influences (for instance, Mance Dance - besides the indisputable leading motive, however, does it have another, verbally indicative hint at the Manchester/madchester band James`s huge hit She`s A Star either?)

Brad Sucks - Dirtbag

Magic Places - 2071 EP (2011)

Mediafire

9.3

/Club dance, Deep techno, Electronic pop, Avant-dance, Experimental dance, Cosmic pop, Space synth/

Comment: I made an extract from the following text I have found at Lastfm. Magic Places were form from void some-time in late 2005, when citizen-scientist Paul M. Goerner began to amass a respectable collection of volunteers, some electronic and some biologic, in the anticipation of experimenting with deep space transmission. Indeed, it sounds like pop music in 2071, based upon hypnotic dance cadences, acid-fried synth lines, chopped-up vocal flutterings, high-energized breakbeat-meets-motorik techno strikes, all of which is supplemented by synth lines with cosmic echoes, angelic women voices and much more else. in a nutshell, though all the whole can be considered a part of club dance entertainment, however, the album seems to have some special off-kilter angles and peculiar attitudes to be elevated beyond the recent time and location. A case of experimental club dance indeed.

Sunshower Orphans - Avenue Abyss (2011)

Bandcamp
State Capital
Lastfm

7.8

/Shoegaze, Noe-psychedelia, Dance rock, Crossover, Electronic, Poptronica/

Comment: On their sophomore album the NY-based quartet Sunshower Orphans is used to follow a kind of formula within the basic spot is directed upon dream-alike shoegaze/nugaze sound (like Soundpool, for instance) which often meets with Animal Collective-influenced exultant pop peaks, and at times with danceable neo-psychedelia a la Yearsayer. Although an interesting issue on its own, however, it does lack a (minor) teaser from the roster unfortunately. Or a track called Public Pool Daze would have some hints at bigger potential yet?

Oli Oli Oxen Free - Oli Oli Oxen Free (2011)

Mediafire
Lastfm

9.0

/Anti-folk, Drone, Weird pop, Lo-fi, Post-psychedelic electronica, Primitive pop, DIY, Avant-pop, Experimental pop, New Weird America/

Comment: William Karmis is a youngster from Illinois who obviously represents the nowadays musical situation wherein the traditional music business gets frazzled and losing its position with every day, the artists have managed to self-release their albums, fight one`s way to be failed or strengthened their position among the endless list of artists. More concretely, however, Karmis represents such a type of recent musicians who are used to dig into strumming guitars, 4-track recorders, psychedelic low-end synths, sequencers and knobs, sample units and loop machines making up the resonating soundscapes of profoundly droning keys, tap and plinks, and courageous vowel lines being apparently influenced by the early Animal Collective´s exultations and almostly realized completeness and boundlessness regarding artistical outputs nowadays. By the way, succeeding the resurgent tape movement to take back its glorious place too.

jgrzinich – time’s arrow landing (1998/2009)

Maaheli
Lastfm

9.7

/Abstract, Found sound, Drone, Ambient, Musique concrete, Ambient drone, Sound-art, Experimentalism, Non-music, Acousmatic, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Microtonal, Minimalism/

Comment: John Grzinich comes from USA, though, having shared the residing place between his native country and Estonia during the last years respectively. However, besides being a builder of amplified piano wire instruments he is known as an avid music enthusiast, theorist-philosopher, sound-artist and the organizer of different installations and workshops.

This set of 4 long-running tracks has managed to running on ambient approach, concrete sound-relied fibrillatings and elementally droning hiss-backed sonic tissues (generated with an old sine wave compressor), however, either being lopsided toward different parts or being "pliable" enough to be overgrown into each other at times. All in all, the release seems to be searching for a transitional area between the nature and machines, however, cleansing a listener`s mood and bringing into order his/her thoughts.

Native Bells - Lost in the Sky (2011)

CLLCT
Bandcamp
Mediafire

9.2

/Avant-garde, Doo wop, No Wave, Psychedelia, New Weird America, Acousmatic, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Experimentalism, Sound collage, Avant-electronica/

Comment: Native Bells (by listening to it, however, I have a permanent temptation to name it as Native Belle) is a New York-based project having played out one of the most refreshing albums of the year 2011 to date. They have managed to specialize in concept records and extended plays making out Faust-esque rhythm structures, Free Design-hued doo wop and a capella choppiness, careless jazz overthrows, carnival whirls and curves, cock-eyed pace outbursts, vanguard electronica/experiments with sine waves, lush ethno/sampledelica notches, in a nutshell juxtaposing all the stuff off somewhere against Animal Collective and Gang Gang Dance and krautrock and plunderphonics and BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the No Wave tradition. People let`s dance.

The Satellite Eye - Animal (2009)

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Lastfm

8.7

/Alt-folk, Indie folk, Folk indie, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: This is the 4-track leadoff EP by the singer-songwriter Bryan Dalle Molle introducing some fine themes of folk music augmented by indie-alike attributs. Suggestive guitar grounds are accompanied by slightly noisy or sunshiny progressions and tapping sounds. Mostly the whole is used to be restrainted, sometimes exploding into a floating wide-scaled choruses veering from introspective minor key outlook to mirthy appearances. The favorite of mine is Consequent through its jubilant rolling. All in all, it is a simple yet effusive effort which was recorded in Molle`s basement.

Federsen - Gravity Mass Weight

Multi-Panel - Retain Mist (2011)

No-Source
Lastfm

9.2

/Folktronica, Electronic, Indietronica, Experimental indie, Indie pop/

Comment: This is Ludo Maas`s fourth release and his second for the No-Source label. However, similarly to his previous workouts the Dutch is not dispensed with limber and mesmerizing electronic-infused folk and indie tunes which sometime sprout, having the growth and subsequently evolving into an orchestrated form of the beauty which being segmented with full- and half-tones and variegated with mirthy and murky shades. And assisted by Pien Feith, of course.

Phillip Wilkerson - New Smyrna (2008)

Clinical Archives

9.5

/Ambient, Downtempo, IDM, Experimental electronica, Minimal electronica, Avant-electronica/

Comment: The US-based producer/musician Phillip Wilkerson started off his recording career in the ending part of 2005 since it being very profilic, i.e having issued more than 10 releases during this short-running timespan. However, this production of 12 tracks refects upon vigorous progressive music ideas within the realm of ambient- and IDM-based experiments. Most of the tracks are used to be long-running ones, toying with minimalist changes, austere grooves and repeated patterns, which at times will develop into full-scaled hypnotic treats. Moreover, it is really tense and gets growing to the point where it is problematic to distinguish the "real" sounds from the manipulations of your consciousness. A high-qualified output indeed.

Teepee - Morals (Deluxe Edition) (2011)

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Lastfm

9.2

/Avant-garde, Psych-music, Avant-rock, Lo-fi, New Weird America, Psychedelia, Experimentalism, Post-psychedelic electronica, DIY, Drone/

Comment: Behind Teepee is in Miami residing Eric Lopez-Zareno who swings behind electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, drum machines, and flutes. Lopez-Zareon`s sound can be considered as a part of the New Weird America movement, though, if this way it would be a peripherical side of this movement. Besides it there can be detected for tough lo-fi attitude (and pop inside it in the vein of R Stevie Moore), psyched-out rock, tape manipulations and delay- and reverb-drunken experiments, reserved psychedelia, atmospherical lineages and droning sound loops. All in all, it is a kind of nowadays vanguard music having apparent appeal toward pop-induced realms. Zeitgeist music, what else could it be regarded for?

How To Destroy Angels - The Space in Between

Chenard Walcker - Haut Le Coeur (2002/2006)

Free Sample Zone

9.2

/Mash-up, Plunderphonics, Avant-garde, Crossover, Sound collage, Samplecore, Sampledelic, Cut and paste/

Comment: Chenard Walcker was a French artist, thinker, visionary and fervent protagonist for the copyleft movement. He had basically been active in the first half of 00`s before he was diagnosed with the serious health condition. More detailly, he created a blog named Free Sample Zone and having had approximately 30-40 albums on his own account. In fact, a true legend in any cases and one heroes of mine.

This album contains of 18 tracks within 71 minutes, lifting its core from the Gregorian chants, old school soul music, rumbling pace shufflings, film score samples, easy listening, hip-hop, psychedelia, near-ethnic/ethno-pop and much more to be chopped up and re-conceptualized into a new form. Actually any of his tracks would freely be a subject for the quizzes with the purpose to figure out all of those hints coming forth from the concrete track.

brunk - Winter EP (2009)

Resting Bell
Lastfm

9.5

/Ambient, Ambient rock, Post-rock, Musique concrete, Found sound, Epic, Experimental rock, Experimentalism, Microtonal/

Comment: brunk is Bert Vanden Berghe, a DIY homerecording musician and sound artist from Ghent, Flanders, Belgium. Besides involving in various less and more pop-induced groups, however, by his solo enterprises he is known as noisenik (Passive Cable Theory) and as improvisational artist (invertebrata) and as cutting edge musician (brunk) either. However, this release being issued for Resting Bell in the second half of 2009 reflects upon his desires toward more atmospherical point of view (ambient folk/ambient rock/spherical angles-edges of post-rock, concrete sound-infused epic bars). Moreover, those stretched guitar chords which can be found from here at times do evoke similar perceptions to the Labradford, or microtonal, otherworldly pulsating overgrowths into the kind of still life are getting very close to Pan American. All in all, it is a powerful 4-track miracle indeed.

Сатана Печёт Блины - Творог

Os Ovni - Beko _81 (2011)

Beko DSL
Lastfm

8.5

/Lo-fi, DIY, Primitronica, Experimental pop, Post-pop, Covers/

Comment: Os Ovni is a duo from Austin, Texas, USA paying a fine tribute to Trish Keenan (1968-2011)/Broadcast (You Can Fall) and Kraftwerk (Radioactivity).

Musket - Musket EP (2011)

Bandcamp

9.4

/Dance punk, Dance rock, Alternative pop, Post-punk, No wave, New wave/

Comment: A period embracing the ending part of 70`s and the first years of 80`s was apparently one of the most interesting periods in the music history, more detailly, as punk-influenced youngsters on the either side of the Atlantic searched densely for innovative crossovers mixing punk skeletons with avant-garde, electronics, dance rhythms and much more. Musket, a combo from Lisboa in obviously influenced by those dynamical, bubblegum-ish bass loops-driven dance vibes and lofty vocal manners of post-punk, reminiscent of Gang Of Four and ESG. Indeed, this 4-track issue makes greatly itself out, so is is our obligation to discover this group and its roots for yourselves.

Human Elephant - Owner Without A Dog EP (2010)

Umor Rex

8.7

/Post-punk, Goth rock, Psychedelia, Dark pop, Singer-songwriter, Experimental pop/

Comment: In comparison with John Edward Donald`s previous work, however, some new influence lines can be admitted. For instance, dark folk influences are mainly replaced with post-punk/gothic and introspective psychedelia. So you can compare it freely with Joy Division and The Doors respectively. Indeed, it is an impressive journey into the past evoking lots of memories from your subconsciousness.