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8/20/2018

Stockfinster* – Dead Line (2009)




  • 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.