- Indietronica
- Alternative pop
- Indie
- Electronic music
- IDM
- Ambient
- Synth-rock
- Neokrautrock
- Post-rock
- Ambient pop
Comment:
listening to this 13-notch outing it is a cordial arrival at a couple
of phenomena being darling to me. Stockfinster, a one-man-project
from Malmö, Sweden crafts music representing tendencies in the
indie scene having been strongly prevalent in the end of the 90s and
the beginning of the 00s mostly in the mid-Europe. Secondly, Dead
Line comes out of the roster of releases from a Lithuanian netlabel,
Sutemos, being the most respected one from within the Baltic States.
The tendencies mentioned above came mostly from Germany, and the
Benelux Countries and being inspired by krautrock-infused
experimental (pop) music. Just some names to be mentioned – Masha
Qrella, Mina, To Rococo Rot, Tarwater, Kreidler, Lali Puna, The
Notwist, The Go Find, Styrofoam, Pluramon, Bernd Fleischmann, Mouse
On Mars, Radian. The virtue of this movement was not to get
encapsulated within one genre but the tendency was to push forward
the stylistic borders, mostly toward IDM, and post-rock. All these
elements are adeptly represented over there, even more, Batti (with
some of his friends) adds more elements to the mix, for example,
atmospheric piano chords, concrete music chips, jazz-inflected toots
and vague improvisations, and roughly cut-up yet catchy electro
cadences in some tracks. In general, most of the tracks used to sink
into a laid-back, contemplative mood based on slightly gloomy yet
majestic electronic progressions and subtly tinkling guitars.
Fortunately all these layers keep moving and changing and interacting
with one another in a way not to lose excitement. Partly due to it
these 13 compositions constitute a cohesive, worthwhile whole.
Dead
Line was the artist's third and also the last release so far.
