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9/22/2019

Inger On The Rock – Heimkoma (2008)




  • Post-rock 
  • IDM 
  • Art pop/rock 
  • Indietronica 
  • Epic 
  • Organic electronica 
  • Electronic music 
  • Glitchtronica 
  • Experimental pop

Comment: this bunch of 13 tracks by a Russian artist (Eredel) is a sublime sonorous pavement to imaginatively trudge along the picturesque landscapes of Iceland, because of that all the song titles and cover print are Icelandic. Additionally, the music also seems to be partly inspired by the country's leading artists like Sigur Ros's sublimely bombastic orchestrations and múm's awkward and austere yet perky electronic grooves and splattering glitches (the very preference of mine). If to go beyond the borders of Iceland one can find out resemblances with the likes of Hood, and To Rococo Rot. On the other side, the picture is even more wide – the listener can hear abrasive, broken drum beats and ennobling digital noise torrents as the soil for melodies to effectively grow up on and sparse incantations on a piano and a cathedral-alike organ led droning beauty. Additionally, let's take a track entitled Vorkoma – it is headed by a contagious melody gear being propelled by a swirling chaos of arousing noises coming through enchantingly configured labyrinths. The artist looks a bit back while pushing the music further while staying vigorously balanced between variety and consistency. The wondrous outing is a part of the discography of Elpa Music, a solid Latvian record label (2006-2013).