Voyageurs Alien Iverson (FMA/Bandcamp)

Fayetteville-based project Voyageurs released the third issue, continuing their uncompromising proceeding within psychedelic-loaded space rock and fluttering drone rock/stonergaze/psych-rock conception on it. No doubt, I have no certain idea why the title of this 5-track release does have an indication to the former NBA basketball star and problematic boy Allen Iverson who is playing in Turkey at the moment. Obviously it is related to a word game only. Or might there be an entrace for a kind of alien rock in some way as well? If to consider the set is used to hint at strongly moaning vocal manners while being full of burnt-out emotions and making out in-nervate motorik undercurrents through the interplay between spaced-out guitars, castanet shakings, murky cadence piles and hypnotic circle-moulded gears at times, indeed, it does have a strong appeal upon it. Especially impressive combination of those elements is the ending track Sleeping Outdoors. If you have been into the music by the likes of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, anyway, this small bunch of songs could exactly be thought for you in the first place.

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9.0

[Old but important] Werewolves Dance Raincoat Dress (BNS Sessions)

I tried to analyze and find out for myself the main intention hidden behind the name of a US-based 5-piece ensemble, of course, in correlation with their multicoloured musical approach. It might be realized out that the title "Werewolf" is appropriate enough for reflecting upon the difference between the main core and lateral shreds of their musical conception, drifting between the mainstream and peripherical murky areas relied upon the nowadays and past experiences of (alternative) pop music. In a more concrete way, the 12-track album released at the end of 2009 does have a lot of references biased heavily toward the head-on psychedelic swayings of old school monsters (Vanilla Fudge; Manfred Mann, early Pink Floyd, ) and some later hypes (Kula Shaker), groovy drone-infused motorik rock a la Spacemen 3, Brian Jonestown Massacre and early Spiritualized, and Neu! as their precedessor, on the other way, their tie-up to the mainstream currents reminiscent at times of the likes of Franz Ferdinand, and Keane does build up a gleamy backbone based upon joyous guitar gears and distinct even manifesting/shouting vocal lines or hovering below the piano-based soulful soft-rock ideas. Last but not the least - I am really fascinated by the ending track House Of Anarchists which does satisfy my very need for Spiritualized and Bobby Gillespie`s apathetic fuck-off posture. All in all, Werewolves did play out via Dance Raincoat Dress a magnificient whole without any weak examples thereby being one of the most dynamic, completed rock releases you could find out from the the last years. As they have said at their home page that the only way to support revolution is to make your own.

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[Artists] Werewolves

Werewolves
Archive.org
BNS Sessions
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[Artistid] Knitted Abyss

Myspace
Lastfm

melting clouds melting clouds (Clinical Archives)

Kiievist pärit duol Dmitri Levtšenko-Jevgeni Matkovski on ambitsiooni ja ka katet sellele. 77-minutiline 9-looline oopus paljastub ootamatus mitmekesisuses ja kõrgelennulisuses - siin on ohtralt eksperimentalismi - nii traadimuusika kui elektroonika poole pealt, lisaks veel drone`i, vaba improvisatsiooni, meditatsiooni, psühhedeeliat. Teisisõnu - kaemusi erinevate nurkade alt ja tagant. Meenuvad kaks Briti kultusgruppi - The Spiritualized ja Piano Magic. Esimese meditatiivsus peegeldub 20-minutilises kosmilises jämmis teneleventwo ning teise etteennustamatu ja raskesti hoomatav vorm üleüldiselt. Dmitri Levtšenko vokaalis on kuulda isegi iancurtislikke resigneerunud tundmusi (swan). Kuid viimaste lausete põhjal ei tasuks järeldada, et tegu on tribuutbändiga - vastupidi, see on üks selle aasta parimaid üllitisi, millel kohtuvad väga heade puntide väga head omadused. Muusika sügavate orgude ja kõrge taevavõlviga.

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9.5