- No Wave
- College rock
- Experimental indie
- Electro-rock
- Jazz
- Leftfield
- Experimental rock
- Avant-rock
- Psych-rock
- Trip-hop
- Dada music
- Crossover
- Indietronica
- Hip-hop
Comment: recently I
reviewed a Boston residing combo, The Mules`s two-track issue 7`` of combining punk rock with No Wave
and experimental rock aesthetics. This compilation of 9 tracks is also about
Boston, more profoundly, about Boston-based label I Heart Noise related
artists. There are represented such artists as School For Robots, Skyjelly,
Mary Casiello, Con-Tex, Andrew Geano, Twink, The Sound Down Cellar, Valentin Price,
and Jenova 7. The base of the miscellany is mostly of how to splice rock music with
electronic or noise music experiments and electro propulsions. Of course, there
are some exceptions either – for instance, Mary Casiello`s I Can't Be Tamed (Songs I Hate) is more jazz and improvised music
oriented composition. Jenova`s Heroin For
Dilla is an insight into a sublime instrumental hip-hop/trip-hop rhythm
world. The most challenging and uncanny track comes out from Con-Tex whose Somehow There You Are is composed of warped
electronic and acoustic instruments layering which in turn is laced with crawling
dada-near vocal manifestation. In the aggregate, it is a fabulous and
varicoloured sum of spellbinding and charismatic compositions worth to be
enjoyed and get appreciated.