Recent Music Heroes

Friday, October 19, 2018

Eknoh – Moi! Kuukauden Valaat (2015)

Ceramic

Plinkerpop
Art pop
Electronic music
Post-IDM
Indietronica
Alternative pop

Comment: Eknoh is Hal Honke, and vice versa, whose 5-track issue is a part of the discography of the Japanese imprint Ceramicrecords. Because of having had no contact with the artist before listening to this issue I thought firstly it is an album by a Finn due to the Finnish title (Hi! Monthly Whales). I also thought of it as an issue coming out from the 00s under such labels either as Petite & Jolie, Error! Lo-Fi Recordings, 23 Seconds, Aerotone, or No-Source. However, it is a decent alternative, electronic pop issue with acidic grooves, brisk changes between the chords, some catchy melodies and lead motives, and sprawling yet exquisite orchestrations. I would like to call it an example of post-IDM (or IDM pop).

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

[Teaser of the day] Eureka Brown - I Told You So

Digitalia

Neo-psychedelia
Art pop
Indie pop
DIY
Organcore
Alternative pop
Glo-fi

Artist: Eureka Brown

Release: ¡Digitalia!

Label: Digitalia

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Petej Amon - Hindu Love

HAZE

Psychedelic music
Drone
Avant-garde
Improvised music
Raga music
Minimalism
Experimentalism

Artist: Petej Amon

Release: Noise Psychotic Episodes

Label: HAZE

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Chaucerian Myth - Cupid`s Arrow

Dungeon synth
Medieval music
Alternative
Art music
Epic
Martial
Neoclassical
Electronic music

Artist: Chaucerian Myth

Release: Troilus and Criseyde

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kuldaveärt Karud - b-06

Avant-garde
Dada music
Acousmatic music
Experimentalism
Guitar ambient
Improvised music
Post-psychedelic

Artist: Kuldaveärt Karud

Release: Æstivation

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

T.E.A.M.S – Sierra City Center (Diamond Club) (2013)

Bandcamp

Lo-fi
Alternative pop
DIY
Psychedelic pop
Post-pop
Hypnagogic pop
Singer-songwriter
Avant-pop
Art pop
Noise pop
Synth-pop

Comment: by the middle of October of 2018 there is a sufficient time span left behind to consider the most important, seminal musicians during the last decades. By my opinion the importance of Ariel Pink is impossible to overestimate. As one Estonian musician and DJ said about it when he first heard him that God started creating music. I can only agree with him. By listening to his first albums from the end of the 90s to the middle of the 00s it is something extraterrestrial even today for my ears. Many projects got inspired by him and Sean Bowie`s T.E.A.M.S is an amazing churning issue being obviously inspired by Ariel Pink. All those glitterball and stroboscope reflected synths used to bump up in syncopated way as if a faint remembrance from one`s subconscious mind regarding personal pop experience. One would wake up either being horrified and coated with frowsty sweat and exhausted with tremors or being elevated to heaven via gentle surreal and hyperrealistic sounds. From serene disco reverberations and cloudless artificial ambiances to ragged noise pop explosions and frantic drumming and bold yet artsy guitar lines as if an unstoppable liner at the sea. A true gem from the 10s, much better than Ariel Pink`s last issues (unfortunately).