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8/27/2018

FailedSitcom – Her Blameless Mystery (2010)




  • Lo-fi 
  • New Weird 
  • Free folk 
  • Freak folk 
  • Weird folk 
  • DIY 
  • Electronic music 
  • Folktronica 
  • Toytronica 
  • 8-bit 
  • Chiptune

Comment: similarly to the project's another release Of Life's Declivity the recent case is a blend of cut-up electronic snippets and lighthearted folksy plucks. Furthermore, the 12-track issue is imbued with lo-fi and DIY aesthetic. However, it is the general description of the album. More profoundly, you can hear different minutiae from 8-bit rhythmic patterns to street music from Paris, from psychedelic electro bugs to harp driven lofty imaginations and even old-fashioned harpsichord chords stumbling over the course. Its methodological thread reminds me of the fancy Super Furry Animals though musically it is a disparate case. That's funny. At times the approach goes into a childish direction as if a stylised play for remembering all that naive and intact from your very childhood. This decent release is a part of the discography of The Daydream Generation.

7/20/2017

Phasetron – 7=5 (2013)



  • Alternative rock 
  • Blues rock 
  • Hard rock 
  • College rock

Comment: at the Daydream Generation (it is a whole universe of very intriguing combos) site it is admitted this album is quite unusual with regard to differentiation in style. Indeed, these 11 compositions are quite far away from more and less quirky folk genre being extensively represented via CLLCT, Quixodelic, and Daydream Generation (all these sites have frequently been or had frequently been joint platforms for the same issues). Phasetron's issue is enough hirsute and powerfully galvanised to get instant attention. It harks back to classic rock tradition of getting energy from muddy and dirty blues rock even if many songs are balladry inflected and slowly paced ones. On the other side, it can stand for contemporary college rock influences which used to water down a little bit its ferocious facade. Instead of it I would like to hear more stoned and demented garage and garbage induced madness. However, the combo's choice can be understood as a possibility of realising slots within the music. Moreover, it will open the doors to enter into AOR stations. So partake of something.

7/18/2017

FailedSitcom – Of Life's Declivity (2010)



  • Lo-fi 
  • New Weird America 
  • Free folk 
  • Freak folk 
  • Weird folk 
  • DIY 
  • Electronic 
  • Singer-songwriter

Comment: this bunch of 11 short-running tracks represents a modern folk scene called New Weird America being seminal throughout the 00s. At the end of the decade one of the juggernauts of this style Animal Collective went into clear-cut poppy electronic music so you can see influences coming from the previous years before it. Audibly there are up plucked strings mixed up with sublime male singing, mellifluous glockenspiel chords and sweet electronic progressions. Its rustic and simplistic approach reminds of music under such DIY-based platforms as CLLCT, Daydream Generation, Quixodelic Records and Rack And Ruin Records. By famous kindred souls this Sam Durkin's outing can be compared with CocoRosie, and Vashti Bunyan. Much has changed since then but we can remember for it with bittersweet nostalgia. Its lyrical message can be pessimistic but musically it is a pleasing experience. Get his another issue, called Her Blameless Mystery as well on the same link.

5/09/2017

Warchalking – Diplomancy (2013)



  • Indie rock 
  • Alternative rock 
  • Blues rock 
  • Psychedelic rock 
  • Americana

Comment: there are up 13 tracks clocking in at a 40 minute being released under such platform as Daydream Generation being closely related to another platform, Quixodelic Records and now defunct CLLCT (oh yeah, I miss all the music being ever released under CLLCT). The platforms have been existed to bring varicoloured music to the world. From alt-folk/indie-folk to New Weird America and space pop to lo-fi and DIY-tinged experimental pop. Unfortunately I have not yet listened to Warchalking`s two previous albums before it but there is said it embraces the drums and a bass guitar for the first time. Before it the project was just Kris Baranovic, a man with an acoustic guitar. A first thing you can perceive on it this is power (read: electricity) added to the mix though you can clearly perceive acoustic guitar induced stumming on it. At times it is Americana-tinged, at times it is the sort of adult oriented rock, at times it is psychedelic, at times it is blues rock coloured. It is a nice listening.

1/26/2015

The Utica Flower Company - The Utica Flower Company (2007)




/New Weird America, Free folk, Space rock, Acid rock, Indie folk, Psychedelic folk, Drone folk, Trance rock, Experimental folk, Folk indie, Psych-folk/

Comment: this 14-track issue is a decorous example of the so-called New Weird (America) movement. The album was released in 2007 which was the heyday of the style. More profoundly, expressive but ecstatic singing is tightly surrounded by burbly guitar twanging, spacey drones, and solfeggio choruses. At times folk tunes are to progress and metabolize into hazy trance rock templates thereby conjuring up psychedelic flashbacks and dilated self-realization. Certainly it is a wondrous experience to stop by and listen and be part of it. Indeed, those times were unforgettable ones because anyone called the shots and believed he/she can provide something precious to the world. The collective was related to such labels/platforms as Quixodelic Records and Daydream Generation which in turn were closely related to such wondrous music platform as it was Indiana-based CLLCT, of which involving hundreds of DIY projects. I really hope it is possible to recover it sometime.                      

11/30/2014

Kaleidonauts – Tigermouse (2008)




/Folk indie, New Weird America, Indie folk, Psychedelic folk, Americana, Alt-folk/

Comment: The project is a transatlantic collaboration project between Smally (The Wheelies) and Jon of the Atom (Dead Canaries) who recruited lots of other musicians to fulfil their aesthetical ambitions and artsy reflections. Tigermouse is their sophomore issue which was produced at pinnacle of the New Weird America movement at the end of the 00s. This 13-track issue is amusingly jaunty and energetic filled with psychedelic keyboard whiffs, sheeny glockenspiel chords and catchy guitar strumming and exaggerated singing pads or on the other side providing more majestic insights into their intimate world. However, listen to I`ll Be Your Pavement, and 4000 Mile Dream, and Blood Music, and Oh No, and The Somewhere Song these are truly great pop songs, full of life and getting you an additional boost. The album is related to such fabulous free folk and experimental rock/indie platforms as Quixodelic, Daydream Generation, and deceased CLLCT. 

10/29/2013

The Fig Mints - Enjoy While You Can (2005)



  • Indie rock
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Folk indie
  • Drone rock
  • Indie folk
  • Lo-fi
  • Alternative rock
  • DIY
  • Musique concrète
  • Experimental rock
Outstanding tracks:
I Have a Headache
Cleaning Up
You Got Too Much, Son
The Trouble With Superstition

10/20/2013

Dead Canaries - Critical Mass: Flying Things Vs Crawling Things (2008)




  • Baroque pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Chamber pop
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Experimental indie
Outstanding tracks:
Moths Are at the Bug Zapper
Lamentations of a Penguin
It`s A Crab`s Life
Norman & The Dragonfly 

1/24/2012

Simon Piler and The Atom Band - Lo Swing of the Earth (2011)



/Psych-folk, Weird folk, Indie folk, Alt-folk, New Weird America, Psychedelic, Spoken word, Avant-folk/

Comment
: these 8 pieces by Simon Piler and Brendon Hertz, Scarytoes, Def Mute, Emerson Betchkal, and Lt. Spark are all about folk music, though, the combo used to outreach the average, stereotype-obscured understanding of it. Strumming guitars are blended with chanting, at times even hysterical sort of singing. All of that is present within the open-ended yet somewhat warped atmosphere. Indeed, it symbolically hints at a vast array of possibilities so characteristic to this publication. The group`s guitar works are used to come across close to the aesthetics of John Fahey, Leo Kottke and other representatives of American Primitivism and on the other digging out lots of inspiration from the tradition of 60`s hippie and psych-folk seeds. At times these chants are variegated with spoken word interludes and found sound records. In a nutshell, all these projects related to the umbrella of Quixodelic and Daydream Generation do not disappoint the listener.