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5/02/2019

Meti Edoc – Microb (2018)




  • Avant-garde 
  • Post-industrial 
  • Drone 
  • Dark ambient 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Abstract 
  • Ambient drone 
  • Microtonal 
  • Psycho-acoustic 
  • Power electronics

Comment: what else could you hear in between the layers of this handful of compositions but at times angry yet always ominous growling of drones and microscopic noises which are all about to depict a microbe – the horrendous microbe. The ghastly growling of serpentine drones is embellished with eerie gongs and metallic clanging, catty squalls and raving howling as if foretelling us something unpleasant which is going to happen in the future. About something invisible yet dangerous with the intention to destroy remarkably much bigger and slightly complicated as similarly as the human race used to stepwise yet permanently destroy a blue oasis called Earth, the gift by Lord for us. However, sometime in the future our descendants will be gifted by something truly unpleasant like it did happen in the middle of the 14th century in Europe. It will be as overwhelming and uncompromising as cancer but in terms of an infectious disease or diseases. It may be happening in a more adverse way as if the very example of contempt – imagine as if the disease was drafted in the human being and the next step by him and her is to have disseminated nothing else but death. Like the effect of King Midas in a different way. Let's call it dead touch. It ultimately may result in something which could be an enormous suicide machine. However, the third album by Meti Edoc on Raw Coffin Rec. is highly vital and uncompromising to convey an apocalyptic vision, a danse macabre. For the sake of our sober mental health to be endured. Thereafter I recommend listen to Pulp`s seedy and voyeuristic classic Different Class.

5/01/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hule - En el museo de cera


  • Noise pop
  • Alternative rock
  • Indie rock

Artist: Hule
Label: Trastienda
Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] The Womb - Don`t Remind Me


  • Indie pop
  • Art pop
  • Alternative dance
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Electronic
  • Indie dance
  • Alternative pop

Artist: The Womb
Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Tracing Arcs - Unravel the Thread (Mr Whippys Small Muff Mix)


  • Electronic pop
  • Indie pop
  • Art pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Ambient pop
  • Remix
  • Alternative dance

Artist: Tracing Arcs
Year: 2016

Dead Month – In The Eyes Of The Beholder (2019)




  • Minimalism 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Microtonal 
  • Abstract 
  • Drone 
  • Ambient 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Ambient drone 
  • Dark ambient

Comment: this issue consists of a couple of temporally uneven compositions being released on Raw Coffin Rec.. The opening track is about a 5 minute and the subsequent of it is about a 21 minute. More profoundly, one can hear muddy, and lifeless waves rolling from one point to... nowhere. Maybe lifeless is a bit wrong adjective because these abstract drones enthral me, it is enchanting and anemic at the same time. It is all about microscopic changes in tonality and pulsations and greyish landscapes to hold up an ennobling background for the whole. These 26 minutes are thoroughly abstract because they cannot be related to any temporal and spatial entities. Ultimately it can be corrected – anemic yet thoroughly alive. May it be about (starving) vampires? Such a sort of restrained format can be very vigorous like trying to expulse a black flame with white flames. Or vice versa. There is inside a ghastly power.

Nodding By The Fire – The Forest Knows (2015)




  • Indie folk 
  • Avant-folk 
  • Alt-folk 
  • New Weird Spain 
  • Folk indie 
  • Art folk 
  • Experimental folk

Comment: some examples of Spanish folk music are quite interesting because of adding something refreshing to the worldwide body of folk music (Ataque Escampe, Bacanal Intruder, XO, árbore & apenino). One of such instances is also Nodding By The Fire who have issued three releases so far. Their music is instrumental and it is a dynamic staples as if moving from one slope down to another or wandering across an immense prairie surrounded by a majestic, a bit mystical forest on one side. As if the forest could know and feel more than it seems to a walker. Such acoustic instruments as acoustic guitars, the percussion, a harmonica, a banjo, a flute, an oboe make up cinematic, spaghetti western-alike drifts over there at times. Especially the harmonica gets justified again as an arousing instrument (as Bob Dylan, and Spiritualized have already proven). A bit extrinsic (in a more experimental sense) elements to the 9-track mix are some gentle drones, found sounds and ambient experiments, however, they resonate well the rest. Similarly to their earlier issues The Forest Knows is issued by the group on Bandcamp.

Vincent DeVine – Wer von fernen Menschen träumt (2012)




  • Digital hardcore 
  • Cybergrind 
  • Electronic music 
  • Spoken word 
  • Cover

Comment: this batch of 13 tracks (clocking in at a 24 minute) can be interpreted differently. Given that the lyrics are in German and the music is highly intense and energetic this can be interpreted as the world view of an average German who is born after the WW II being imbued with shame and angriness and anxiety. However, for German culture and for all of us in general it would turn out as a positive consequence thanks to the appearance of Karlheinz Stockhausen, and krautrock. The first of them showed how the recording and studio technique must be employed for future poppy and artsy juggernauts like The Beatles, Pink Floyd and the latter as a liberatory artsy sonic movement to have influenced post-punk, ambient, electronic music, hip-hop and indie music. For instance, the alien-alike aesthetic of Kraftwerk did provide an outlet for oppressed afro-Americans to take a next step forward. However, it seems to me Vincent DeVine has produced the album with tongue-in-cheek attitude as well because it is exaggerated in lyrics and sound and shouting singing through unexpected yet funny samples. In a word, the intention of an artist can not be underestimated. At times it is deliberately kitschy and campy, but it can be taken seriously only with humour and fun. Otherwise it may be as bad as shit. Moreover, some clichés are fixed to blow them to a ridiculous extent. It may be as punk as your granny behind the bongos. This wild ride is a part of the French imprint Sirona-Records.

4/26/2019

[Teaser of the day] Nodding By The Fire - Sea Of Trees



  • Art folk
  • Folk indie
  • Weird folk
  • Free folk
  • New Weird Spain
  • Indie folk

Artist: Nodding By The Fire
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Sacred Animals - Welcome Home



  • Art folk
  • Indie folk
  • Alt-folk
  • Cowbell indie
  • Folk indie
  • Epic

Release: Welcome Home 
Year: 2010

4/25/2019

Nac/Hut Report – Wszystko Jeszcze Jest (2019)




  • Avant-garde 
  • Shoegaze 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Guitar ambient 
  • Avant-rock 
  • Experimental rock 
  • Dream pop 
  • Noise rock 
  • Abstract

Comment: Nac/Hut Report is a duo from Poland who are inclined to make up mighty noise experiments with electric guitars and processors and effect blocks. More detailedly, this 8-track whole which was released on the imprint Crunchy Human Children is about crushing guitars and crushing with guitars. Additionally, by crushing one's humble music experience and understanding of music like a bug. As if desperately pushing a set of 20 guitars through a couple of broken cables though on the other side providing more softening patches against it, indeed, one can hear at times lofty, a bit orchestrated progressions and at times arousing female singing. Of course, by describing it in the way it seems like a description of Glenn Branca and My Bloody Valentine's music (especially Loveless, of course). It is like having a violent intercourse with a beautiful lady. Some days ago I watched a documentary about a British female serial killer, Joanna Dennehy who used to cut herself while having it (her first unfortunate victim was a Pole). Blood(y) lust, isn't? In a word, the result is the impressive studding on a border of artsy guitar experimentation, and shoegaze-y and dream pop glimpses. Furthermore, by seeing all these immediate yet deceptively hectic tectonic shifts one can compare it with such a sort of magnificent extraterrestrial moving and formation as if it were conceived by mimoids and symmetriads respectively written in at Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. Yeah, superb by its content, moody touch and format.