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Comment: The Hathaway Family Plot’s previous issue before Having No Alternative was Spare Time and it was one of the most outstanding issues in 2015. The same could be said about Having No Alternative because Kevin McFadden provides something similarly qualitative as he has done before. That’s an obvious killer in terms of harshness and softness, in terms of still life and noise keeping on to drift somewhere between the pop scene and underground undercurrents. Because of that Having No Alternative, and Sparing Time represent the true essence of nowadays indie music. More profoundly, he hijacks obvious, easily understandable elements of the established culture to intermingle them with elements of the counterculture and frequently by its furthermost angles (for instance, at Mountain). At the same time it is simple and sophisticated, lofty and oppressive. Visually it can be transported to a desolate wasteland to accompany a walker who is trudging across the gothic and magic realism mixed terrain. At the artist’s Bandcamp site it is stated that he still has not discovered the meaning of life. It can be assumed it is a state of tension which forces Kevin McFadden to thrive and discover new areas around him. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels with the Estonian musician Mart Avi whose music is to follow the aforementioned aesthetical logic and even chronologically does have a similar path.

Lezet – Aether (2016)

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Comment: The Serb Igor Jovanovic aka Lezet has been a musical hero within the webaudio/netaudio world with his 68 albums for almost 10 years. Indeed, the amount of the issues is immense and only such artists as Buben, The Implicit Order, Cousin Silas, Cagey House/Dave Keifer and Wings Of An Angel can compete with him in this regard. Of course, music is not a topic for competition (only some decayed forms of it like the Eurovision Contest are subject of it). Lezet`s music has been a state of art, a sort of it. He has issued music on such great imprints as Dog Eared Records, Clinical Archives, Sirona-Records. SuRRism-Phonoethics, Buddhist On Fire, PICPACK among others. Aether is a short-running, 3-notch issue under Argentinian imprint Kermesse Records consisting of a simplistic structure at first sight. Indeed, I have to accentuate for once more – at first sight. In truth, those cello-alike major and minor chords have been managed in the way to conjure up enough emotions, fantasy depictions from one`s mind, and awe towards something/someone. One cannot deny its overwhelming touch and impression confluencing at a crossroad of electro-acoustic, minimalism, drone, and post-classical music. In spite of the tags it is primary to perceive all the shades and penumbras of the whole. For instance, one can discern attractive loops and iterative patterns as if running due to inertia and then, at a time it will be jettisoned for impulsive chords and structures. It is one of the best issues in the list of the best albums of 2016. The cover art is painted by (another musician) Jared C. Balogh.

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12/03/2016

[Teaser of the day] Kenyon - Charlie The Freak

[Teaser of the day] Fake Cats Project - Fake Cats Project Robs Rachmaninoff

[Teaser of the day] Item Caligo - Rest In Apathy Part 3

[Teaser of the day] Elisa Luu - 13 Maggio

[Teaser of the day] Ultimate Xperience - Across Thee Universe (Space Time Continuum)

The Hathaway Family Plot – Having No Alternative (2016)

Lezet – Aether (2016)

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