[Artists] Cody England

Cody England/Bandcamp
Rack& Ruin Records
Myspace
Lastfm

[Concert] Low Live at Eindhoven (Low)

The legendary, Duluth-based slowcore trio Low (Alan Sparhawk, Mimi Parker, Steve Garrington) known by its mesmerizingly creeping soundscape has issued a 4-track live release being shot at St. Catherina Cathedral in Eindhoven on January of 22, 2009, joined by lots of local guest musicians and instruments - a full, 5-piece choir, analog synth, Hammond organ, piano, and vibraphone. The gig included such tracks as Monkey, Silver Rider, July, Laser Beam. So the two tracks taken from the Things We Lost In Fire (2001, Kranky) and the another two from Great Destroyer (2005, Sub Pop), respectively. As they introduced yourselves in as a new approach in the North America-based indie scene approximately 2 decades ago their power is lost nowhere to date - the gig is suggestively slow and blissfully hypnotic, reminiscent of the milieu of silent time at the end of a year being closely related to the forthcoming Christmas time and lots of huge snowdrifts. So let`s enjoy it and waiting for the trio`s brand new heavy C`mon.

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I Have A Box Bunnies (Fwonk)

This 6-track set of a debut album consists of a subtle net of indietronica/poptronica, caustic electronic pop, fusion, downtempo and post-rock as well, having its roots apparently set in the synthetic approach of obscure bands in the 70`s, of kosmische musik, more detailly, drifting between rock-esque sensitivity and ambient music, respectively. So it is placed between soothing and dynamic, between static and trippy, having mainly based upon extended guitar chords, unarticulated but epic vocal segments, cluster-laid rhythm sections (sometimes march-angled) and airy or shimmering synth wisps coiling up into the upper dimensions at times. In a kind of weird way, it can be considered either austere or lush at the same time. In a nutshell, if you are used to be a sympathizer of GY!BE, Air, Monokle, or God Is An Astronaut, this album is up here to be directed for you.

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9.2

[Artists] Inverness

Inverness
Jamendo
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Music For Your Plants S/T (MFYP)

Though I come from Estonia I have been quite critical about the most of phenomenons regarding somehow the Estonian indie music and its musical appearances over the previous and last decade. The reason is simple because my native country does have the community of musical critics/activists and musicians very densely related to each other, however, some of them through the job, the other through dense friendship connections. This is why I am not used to believe in maximum-rated overviews in local newspapers after I had listened to some of the albums being classified as really second-rate ones in principle. Once again, I really hope I am not being misunderstood - it is not a complaint it is just admission about the inevitable shortcoming of the small communities.

The debut album by the Tallinn-based trio Music For Your Plants is one of the best issues growing out from the local scene in recent years. Their 8-track release reflects upon past, present and future, where technical know-how is finely arranged with shitloads of ideas and a decent spiritual touch, where all needful is kindly presented and played up into the balance. First off, their affinity toward retrodelic fusion and progressive rock is showed up via impressive light-hearted guitar noodlings and synthesized psychedelic electronics-based vortexes altogether reminiscent of the doings of Kaseke, Radar, and In Spe, the Estonian jazz rock and progressive rock legends by the 80`s, respectively. (Though I am aware of the facts being compared to the likes of Tortoise, Tame Impala and other experimental rock luminaries already). On the other side, though through a narrow slot, you can be a witness about the dodges toward enchanting chillwave moulds (Dr. Mudawi), or the tropicalia/surf pop-mixed-up excellence of Enchanted Sister. Undoubtedly Music For Your Plants is a record which has acquired the potential to be written into progressive rock annuals sometime. In fact, I mean it very seriously.

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9.5

[Artists] Music For Your Plants

Music For Your Plants
Myspace
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Tiny Fireflies ePop005 (Eardrums Pop)

By concerning on every kind of single labels around us I have mostly referred to Beko DSL, yet, there are other akin records as well, definitely enough worth to pay much attention. For instance, the likes of Club 7, Bad Panda, and Eardrums Pop are the names to be rememebered in the first place.

In fact, the last named record was previously known by its sizable indie pop compilations (13 compilations in total), having acquired a kind of magnificient quality the better you are hardly able to find out from somewhere else (indeed, your obligation is just to listen to those ones!). However, the last notches of its discography are exclusively the matter of singles, having a geographical stretch from Indonesia to The United Kingdom, from Finland to the United States. By stilistical approach it might be compared to the sounds of the legendary The Slumberland Records, and The Best Kept Secrets. Indeed, mellow indie pop, consisting of jangle pop and twee pop shadows, yet, having a nowadays touch via poptronic elements.

The Fireflies`s 3-tracks single set is the first missive, signifying the departure from the array of compilations. A duo (Leslie and Kristine) comes from Chicago, having been sharing their duties at Very Truly Yours, and proceeding their solo projects (Tiny Microphone; Fireflies) as well. One of those beatific tracks is a cover of Skeeter Davis` hit The End Of The World, inspired by Claude Longinet`s interpretation of it, and another (Holding Pattern) exploits a sample by Serge Gainsbourg`s La Horse. As it is said yet, it sounds really beatific reminiscent of chillwave oozings and sighs, getting quite close to Memoryhouse (Kristine`s hyper dreamy timbre and vocal manner turns/ascents tend to be similar to Denise Nouvion). On the other hand, a kind of slow(core) movement with the help of drum machines and cathedral-alike organs conveys a decent cue toward Beach House, though. Or hinting at the beautiful coverprint (by Minkee) could have it be named as "lovewave" instead of? A great music, no doubt.

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9.4

Atlas Sound Bedroom Databank Vol. 1 (Atlas Sound)

Nowadays (experimental) indie music golden boy Bradford Cox is back again. No doubt, he was one of those remarkable newcomers - besides the tandem Avey Tare-Panda Bear, and Ariel Pink - whose conception poisoned profoundly the understandings of music lovers throughout the previous decade. At first, with Deerhunter, as the singer of the Atlanta-based quintet (now quartet), he has been evolving a blend of art-rock, noise rock, space pop/ambient, and shoegaze, all wrapped up in expansively psychedelic ambience. As Atlas Sound, his one-man-band, he is used to exploit the most of the abovementioned stylistic elements while showed up more electronic and laptop-based approach as well. By the way, besides the extraordinarily lank look he is also known by his exclusive songwriting method via stream-of-consciousness.

During last years he has released a lot of concert outtakes and bedroom demo recordings of the both projects via his/Deerhunter blog. Bedroom Databank Vol. 1 compiled of 11 tracks is the last appearance in the array (in Wikipedia has already mentioned the numerical follow-ups to the Bedroom Databank). The album is stilistically a wide-scale one, extending from minimally bleeping laptop-based lo-fi electronics, and Stereolab-esque light-filled synthetic pop to harmonica-leaded introvert alt-folk/indie folk songs (though it is mostly managed to be fulfilled with every kind of electronic effects). However, by my opinion, Lanterns is an outstanding ambient track, encircled by ticking icy-tinged IDM-beats. Really profound and sensitive, remembering a bit of Pulp`s Seductive Barry. There are also two covers represented here to get coated into new appearances (Bob Dylan`s This Wheel`s On Fire; Kurt Vile`s Freak Train).

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8.6

[Compilation] Beko DSL Beko_Fla (Beko DSL)

In fact, there is not much time passed by when I reviewed Bekos DSL`s compilation box_3 being dedicated to witch house/drag/haunted house/screwgaze/crunk shoegaze. It is another compilation, however, also subnamed as A Beko/Free Loving Anarchists Collab concerning profoundly on shoegaze, lo-fi, fuzz pop, dream pop, and post punk-influenced sound from one area/scene (Houston, Texas). Indeed, this miscellany can be dealt with as a fine indie stuff for nowadays people being seriously annoyed by the mediocrity and unvariedness of ordinary music examples. 8 tracks by projects like Rape Faction, Lois Magic, Pink Playground, Young Henry, The KVB, Virgo Rising, Wicked Crafts, Sacred Place do draft solid harmonies and catchy pace notches. The favorite numbers of mine are The KVB`s Into The Night which is an experimental drive on the level of DIY via pulsating trance-alike synth drones, and Joy Division-esque coolness; and Virgo Rising`s To Deal Without It based upon reminiscence of a track by My Bloody Valentine (find it yourself out, I guess) through a memorable synth repetition and spaced-out milieu.

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Friendship Home (Friendship)

The easiest way to describe the Australian Nic Brown`s release would be to put it into a mould being set up somewhere between Panda Bear`s (Noah Lennox) solo works and chillwave-ish point of view. (By the way, one track, being one of the most mellow ones is named Noah_Frienship and Friendship Bands). 11 tracks are tensely fulfilled by pitched or reversed vocals, repeated chords, programmed glockenspiels, half-loaded orchestrations, synth effects, fingerpicked guitar echoes, and epic harmonies as well. On the other side, its methodology is sometimes used to be based upon loose and primitivistic approach which can be admitted as its best at Sexy Bones, or idiosyncratically brassy soulful tunes (Hip). Obviously Optim 2 is a quintessential example of having respectively built up on lo-fi and nicely tuned harmonies. This album might have been a top notch if the balance had more keened to involve more melodies and harmonies into its whole. Lethargically characterized sonic patterns are not for to be the best case for Brown`s music, though.

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8.4

SLUTEVER Sorry I`m Not Sorry (Bandcamp)

By speaking of contemporary girl power in music, you can not bypass The Slits, a British band which sounded as the female counterpart to the Public Image Limited (or was it the other way round, though), blending intensely punk, dub, and dance rhythms. In addition to it not much weeks have passed by since their frontwoman Ari Up (Arianne Foster) was passed away.

The legend is gone, but certain sonic patterns and traditions are left behind. One example of such artistical and rebellious bands is definitely Slutever, a duo from Philadelphia. Nicole Gagliardi, and Rachel Snyder has already won the attention of the press and had a couple of gigs with the Best Coast, and Cults. Behind the music the more surprising fact is that the rest of their life do consist of watching TV (because of reflecting the American Dream at the rate of 90%), and school attendance.

Why their 6 tracks album is used to be a significant one? In the first place, redoubtably rough sonic linearity (noisy guitars, garage sound (in fact, recorded in a bathroom and bedrooms), shrill vocals, whistling feedback, permanent energic overdrive; secondly, the lyrics reflecting the carelessness, selfishness, lack of love, but also searching for it and avoiding of it and the longing for dirty teenage sex. This kind of sound is used to be tagged as shitgaze/shi-fi, and the first part of the word is referred as well. My favorite track is So Prone, with dreamy background and cellophanic guitar sound. This is a kind of release which especially will decorate your first half of a day.

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8.8

Monokle & Galun In Frame (12rec)

Vladislav Kudryatsev & Aleksandr Kumach aka the Arkhangelsk-based combo Monokle`s third album Tesaurus (under Id.eology) was one of the best albums of 2009. Now Kumach has left the band and Kudryatsev is joined by a former beatboxnik and otherwise versatile artist Sergey Galunenko aka Galun and the result does seem even in better way to be sound. 12 tracks give testimony of prominent examples of songwriting, balancing between post-rock, poptronica, chillout, downtempo, indie rock. It is used to be continually dense, and warm, and mostly it is so intensely loaded with dreams that the soundscape does seem a bit lazy in the good manner sounding up very nostalgic and relaxing to my ears, conjuring up gratifying listening memories from the past by approximately 10-12 years ago. The tracks like Crossed Fingers, and Means are reminiscent of the manner by Brendan Perry, and the beatific times when I spent the most of my time in the bibliothek of the Tartu University for listening to Dead Can Dance among others. Regarding the next track (Justalite) I shall have to ask you do you remember Louis Armstrong`s great track We Have all the Time in the World for one of the James Bond-related soundtrack? (It was also covered by My Bloody Valentine). Regarding the motive of this track you can see really close similarity with it. Get At Will remembers one of the toughest work, being grew up from the Estonian underground scene Bizarre`s sophomore album Cafe de Flor (1996, Forwards), especially the track Airs Of Arabia with otherworldly chanting female voice and shoegazers` atmospheric guitar swayings. In a nutshell, one of the best works of the 2010.

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9.8

Inverness Somewhere I Can Hear My Heart Beating (Psicotropicodelia/Jamendo)

The southern side of the American continent is and has been full of great artists, and Inverness is undoubtedly one of the best entries I am being honoured to listening to.

Four friends from Sao Paulo are there to push their idiosyncratic conception forward - Lucas de Almeida (voice, guitar, sampler), Marcio Barcha (drums), Mateus Perito (voice, guitar, sampler), and Flávio Fraschetti (bass) are joined together to create the experimental rock band Inverness. The name comes from a dream, a successive theme in the group's work.

However, four organic instruments (voice, guitars, bass, drums) plus samplers do constitute up a very reminiscent instrumental array of My Bloody Valentine, though, their intention is inclined to be going in a bit different directions. Besides lush noise outbursts, strumming beauty of guitars and fabulous cinematic orchestrations you can hear shitloads of different influences via intense sampling synthesis - from hazy sunshine pop and doo wop-infused easy listening and techno vibes to psychedelia and sub-ethnic music numbers (involving in new age-y flute passages and weird vocal manners). If you are not satisfied yet searching for some solid ground, to find out some examples, I maintain you to make some steps toward The Avalanches, and The Guillemots as well. 10 tracks full of fucking greatness indeed, being one of the best killers of the 2010 so far. Obrigado, lads!

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10.0

Ballpen The dreams trilogy (La bèl)

In recent years, among others, I am used to get deeply involved in music of some Italian labels having stylistically been offering different yet conceptually cutting-edge outputs. More specifically, every release under Barbie Noja, Chew-Z, Kill Mommy, Zymogen, and La bèl is an unexpected one and really worth to give a try. In fact, concerning specifically on in Italy residing projects I have discovered such ones like The Last Meredina, Nicola Ratti, con_cetta, Christian Alati, Barbagallo, The Japanese Gum, Menion, Elisa Luu, Difondo. By the side, speaking about the music from the Apennine Peninsula in a more general way, it would be a kind of crime not to mention the likes of Hox Vox, Ornitology, Les Dix-Huit Secondes, The reason is clear - because all of these aforementioned bands have put on their very own mentality to some Anglo-American influences. However, it seems so that there are two geographical peripheries in Europe which are really rich by their innovative music - Finland (their powerful avant-garde folk experimentations, so-called forest folk) and Italy. In the context, no chance to get over by Kraftwerk - Eleganz und Dekadenz Europa endlos

Actually the array will be completed with adding of Ballpen, the project of Alessandro Coronas, conjuring up really interesting and intimate dream-alike soundscapes. (And other billions of strange and funny combinations of the puzzle-pieces of my life - as he says himself) 11 tracks do search for their place and borders hovering between folk music, cowbell indie, sub-IDM beats, chamber music, dream pop, child music, even the classical approach of minimal, sometimes really minimal sonic palette (which is not suprising because of Coronas` conservatory-related background). Of course, the easiest way to chart the whole it would be tagged as "folktronic music", and indeed, this is correct on its own - at least partly. For example, fabulous tracks Anna Lisa goes to bed, and The magazine dream. On the other hand, all of those slowly progressing chamber music lines built up to half-evolved crescendos, intimate sonic insights and introspections, a lot of key changes, subtle minimal electronic and glitch-y ghosts-infused undercurrents are up for to eliminate stylistic walls around its concept and allowing to bring forth a lot of transcendental feelings for a subject. Listening to this I can remember (or it is remembered by) for some soul mates - Oscar Hallbert (Sweden), and Thuoom (Finland). Altogether, a great composition indeed.

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9.7

[Compilation] 30 Seconds Of Time (Silber)

Silber Records came up with the idea of this compilation from a few angles. People have short attention spans, people love ringtones. Most songs are too long. So they put together this collection of songs 30 seconds long & made them available as ringtones. Some of the usual suspects for their compilations, some new friends, plus where else are you going to hear 46 tracks in 23 minutes. So you have no need to push the skip button to get round to the next tracks. You can imagine and handle it as a weird kind of mash-up album, moreover, mash-up artists are usually not interested in such ambitious experimental rock and indie music, they prefer more to be into easy and supeficial sound, though. The artist roster is Electric Bird Noise, Zanzibar Snails, muscle mass, Pacific 231, Ben Link Collins, Rollerball, Thorn1, Promute, Irata, Charles de Mar, Small Life Form, Notorious Jet Set, Lullabier, The Undermasks, Drekka, Sibyll Kalff, Vestirse, Bryce Clayton Eiman, slicnaton, Miss Massive Snowflake, Subscape Annex, Remora, Moodring, IANTH, mwvm, The Collinses, The Velveta Heartbreak, Fires Were Shot, Yellow6, Mahlon Hoard, & Peter Aldrich.

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[Old but important] Eukariota Animalia (Fariscal)

Someone Nicolàs B, In Buenos Aires living 26 years old musician, who is recording at home with a guitar, bass, some keyboards, 4-track tape recorder, and a precarious recording technique, making really genuine stuff on his own. Indeed, the way how subtle and lush guitar sounds do shimmer around invisible axis or are arranged to throw hooks here and there, which are sometimes introduced or followed by brown noise-covered short segments or spoken word samples, are made up by the position of a genius. Regarding his guitar works and some experimentation with noise, considering also crossovered lines, he does show up his closeness to Jim O`Rourke; or the monotonic synth lines find out the way up to early Stereolab`s aesthetics. Animalia was his debut release (2007) followed by Un Dia Luminoso (2010). The maximal result with minimal instrumentation.

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Epic Flail Mrbitterness and guilty pleasures (Bandcamp)

Epic Flail`i elik newyorklase Randal Helm`i 5-loolise ning 27-minutilise EP kõva tuum peitub indie rock`is, dark industrial-muusikas ning süntpopis. Avalugu breaking down algab 8-bitise abrasiivse trillerdusena, millele taamal Helm`i väljapeetult kandev vokaal omandab kõrgelennulisuse ning harmooniaküllasuse. Kontrast on sissejuhatuseks igatahes võimas. Käesoleva reliisi puhul on paralleele tõmmatud Nine Inch Nails`i ja Blancmange`iga ning koguni spekuleeritud Joy Division`i ja Henry Cow sohilapse võimalusega. Omalt poolt lisaksin David Sylvian`i ja Darkjet`i gloomilikkuse ning Simian`i indie-elektroonilisuse. Indie ja darkwaveliku segmendi kohtumiskoha pealt on suurim sugulushing pigem hollandlaste Fourteen Twentysix. Tegelikkuses on asi märksa mitmeplaanilisem. Träki Lost gruuvivad psühhrifid langevad Spiritualized`i rokkimistega kokku, sellal kui Helm`i vokaal meenutab David Sylvian`i ja Peter Gabriel`i. Voices from the other side jätkab põhimõtteliselt sama koha pealt, kus Lost lõppes, ainult selle vahega, et EBM-ilik sündimulina rütmilisus hakkab helilistest alakihtidest kuulaja alateadvusse murdma. Lõpuloo Thinking Machines (Here Come The) tiitel ei valeta - masinad ja robopop on kohal - kraftwerkilikult autotuunitud vokaalosast ning elektro- ja elektroonikakaosest kerkib üllitise üks tipphetkedest esile. Teisalt kõik see elektrojurakate segunemine eepilise sümfoonilisusega toob meelde Suede`i "Head Music"-u (1999, Nude) mõnede lugude esteetika (Asbestos, Down).

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9.2

Les Marquises Beko_59 (Beko DSL)

2. novembril ilmub prantsuse-USA bändi Les Marquises`i debüütalbum "Lost Lost Lost" (Lost Recordings), mida siinkirjutaja korduvalt kuulanuna võib väga heaks hinnata.

Lyonlased Jean Sèbastien Nouveau ja Jonathan Grandcollot on osalenud vähetuntud indieaktides (Pan Pan Pan, Colo Colo, Immune, Robe Et Manteau), seevastu austinlane Jonathan Graiger on osaline tuntud americana-aktides nagu Shearwater (live-esinemistel), Minus Story ja Hospital Ships (sooloprojekt).

Ei ole kahtlustki, et Les Marquises`i muusikas kõneleb Shearwater`i õhuline kammerlikkus ja hillitsetus ning Hospital Ships`i staatilisus, samas välditakse vihjeid ameerikalikele muusikatraditsioonidele. Samuti Minus Story indie-plahvatuslikkus ei ole selle bändi implikatsioon. Foonina kumab läbi Beach House`i (teine prantsuse-USA kollaboratsioon!) poolt juurutatud minimeeritud popi kontseptsioon. Live-ülesvõttena salvestatud kolisevad trummid, Graiger`i palveks pitchitud kaeblik vokaal, elektrooniline noir, orelite sugestiivne drone ning hingekriipivad (ja pompöössed) orkestratsioonid teevad sellest imetabase reliisi (meenutab kohati Air`i "Moons Safari" aega ja ruumi ületavat ilu). Asi muutub seda üllatavamaks, kui selgub, et süntesaatoritest on salvestamiseks kasutatud üksnes väikese tootenumbriga klahvpille (Yamaha HandySound`i miniorel, Realistic Concermate-650 ning Casio SK-1). Mis veel - debüütalbum ei paku Volcano The Bear`i (Only Ghosts) ja Gareth Brown`i (Comme Nouns Brulons) suurepäraseid remikse ega alternatiivversiooni loost Only Ghosts. Omandage lisaks "Lost Lost Lost"-ile ka see.

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9.6

Nihilist Assault Group Russian-American EP (Popdesempregada/Amdiscs)

Ma olin alul päris segaduses, kuivõrd ei suutnud mõista, kas tegu on minevikust tuntud rühmitusega või selle nimekaimuga. Nimelt teadsin ühte kultuslikku noise- ja antimuusikarühmitust, mis on reliisinud kassette ning väidetavalt tegutsenud 80ndate keskpaigast saati. Teisalt, kuigi muusika on üldjoontes erinev, võib ka uuelt EP-lt piirjooni ähmastavaid vihjeid leida. Nüüd on selge, et tegu on Portugalist Coimbra`st pärit projektiga, mille kunstiliseks juhiks on Emanuel Botelho (ka tuntud kui Quit).

On võimalik, et ansambel Stereolab on nimetatud projekti ristiisaks- ja emaks (vihje London`i kollektiivi samanimelisele träkile albumil "Mars Audiac Quintet" (1994)). 6-loolise EP võib tahtmise korral kaheks jagada: ühes osas võib tõepoolest varast ja pikeerivat, shoegaze`ist mõjutatud Stereolab`i (ühele venekeelsele muusikaajakirjale antud intervjuus mainisid Sadier ja Gane My Bloody Valentine`i suurt mõju nende muusikale) kuulda. Surisevate kitarrisaundide ja happeliste orelidrive`de kombinatsiooni vettpidavus peab seegi kord paika. Teine osa, mis tekitas siinkirjutajas segadust, põhineb neofolgilikel elementidel ning konkreethelide ja jutusämplite kasutusel (mis reeglina on popkeskmest väga kaugele jäävate ning sageli poliitiliselt ebakorrektsete ansamblite mängumaa). Tõepoolest, lugude tiitlid ja vihjed ei ole ka poliitiliselt neutraalsed (independent vermont, belgrade-mostar, 9_11 responders bill). Kokkuvõtvalt võib nentida instrumentaalse muusika võimet meeldivaid retrospektiivseid assotsiatsioone tekitada. Muuseas, reliis on üllitatud kahe ilusat muusikat väljastava label`i (Popdesempregada ja Amdiscs) vahendusel. Küllap mõistsite mu vihjet edasiseks tegutsemiseks.

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8.8

[Kontserdid] Animal Collective Live at The Coronet Theatre on 2007-07-11 (Archive.org)

Animal Collective elik ennekõike Avey Tare & Panda Bear oli ilmselt eelmise kümnendi üks olulisemaid kui mitte olulisim (võib lugeda: mõjukaim) punt. Nad alustasid veel sellal, kui maailm oli milleeniumivahetuse-võimaliku apokalüpsise(ihaluse) painete järelmõjudest üle saamas ning otsis uues situatsioonis uusi kumiire. Animal Collective`ist sai keskne heeros, seesugune bänd, kes paistis silma innovaatilise helipildiga, jäädes seejuures äärmiselt ekstravertseks, emotsionaalseks ning ekstaatiliseks. Animal Collective sobis kokku nii juuriajava uue laine lo-fi/DIY-liikumise kui New Weird America`ga, kuulumata seejures tegelikult mõlemasse - võib tagantjärele nentida. Teisalt bände ja muusikuid, kes laulsid seesuguses maneeris nagu Panda Bear, kerkis nagu seeni pärast vihma (andke mulle andeks klišeelikkus). Ennekuulmatu trillerdamine, mis ristas vana ja uut, kõlades kui Ameerika (liba)unistus, ei saanudki jääda kultusbändi staatusesse. 2009. aasta ning album "Post-Merriweather Pavillion" (Domino) oli nende lõpliku läbimurde aasta laiemate masside teadvusse, edetabelitesse ning prime time-eetritesse. Ning kuigi siinkirjutajale nimetatud reliis üldse ei sümpatiseeri, on mul hea meel nende edu üle (nende panus on vähemalt väärikalt pärjatud).

Kindel see, et "Loomakollektiivi" parimate reliiside (kas esi-või tagaotsa albumid) üle võib vaielda, samas võib üldistada, et laivbändina on nad eranditult meistriklass (midagi seesugust, mida võiks The Spiritualized`i ja Mono kompromissitu tasemega kõrvutada). Üheks seesuguseks näiteks on 20-st loost koosnev gig Coronet Theatre`is Londonis 2007. aastal (mõned päevad rohkem kui aasta pärast nende esinemist Lillepaviljonis Tallinnas). Luupiv helipilt, elektrooniline kosmos (elektroonilisem kui plaatidel), laotuv, lainetav ning ruumi täitev psühhedeelia, Panda Bear`i laiuv ning kaikuv vokaal ja vokaliis. (Taaskord võib hämmelduda laulja vokaaldiapasooni ja ülikiire kehastumisvõime üle - nt loos Brother Sport on kõrvuti joodeldamine, gospel-ihalus, nõelavad karjatused ning midagi veel lisaks. Ka vaibumisele on siin ruumi jäetud - kuid üksnes selleks, et uuesti välja purskuda ning ekstaasil paremini paista lasta. Ka lemmiklugu Loch Raven on esindatud - veel üks tubrik nende kontole.

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