- Post-rock
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
- Ambient
- Minimalism
- Ambient drone
- Cowbell indie
- Ambient rock
There have been talks about the goodness and badness of recent musicianship in comparison to previous decades. In some sense, it is nonsensical because like the historical events the releases should be evaluated after decades to get a hint at their goodness. I am now very convinced that Slowdive's Pygmalion, Stereolab's Dots And Loops and Broadcast's Noise Made By People are superb issues, for instance. On the other side, this can be said only about few albums within Britpop. Of course, good music can be found today as well, though in underground circles only. Most mainstream acts most of them have who have loaned from the underground scenes have seriously failed because they are settled down in a huge distance from ideal pop (given that it must be the ultimate goal within the pop scene). Because of that, paradoxically, many old experimental albums used to sound more poppy than nowadays acts due to have put more catchiness in a song. MiMi Records represents something very special in the embodiment of Oculoss' 5-notch outing. It starts off with a loopy, minimalism-driven ambient track, scene 1221 to go on with more guitar-based sounds. It is silent and immersive and iterative yet enough mind-provoking on the other side to think of it supposedly a weird guitar technique must have been behind. As if modern classically presumed floating watery chords instead of the piano ones. Someone may call it post-rock, maybe cowbell indie. As if Lubomir Melnyk was sat down in front of electric guitar to implement his subtle touch instead of the keyboard. In a word, minimalism/rock/ambient come together to provide an amazing crossover album with a vibration. Pure bliss.
