Pamba Lost Tapes (Clinical Archives)

The brothers Lenhart from Serbia started off in 1999, having before it played in the line-ups of different groups (Random Group; Pessimist). The recent issue consisting of 10 anonymous tracks is a decent case about rigid, even filthy guitar-lead penetration and its whistling feedbacks and whimsically caustic sounds of analogue synths and occasional assistance of a rhythm machine fluttering in the area of spaced-out rock jams, dadaistic patterns and nihilistic noise blowouts (which sound will be progressed into the sort of alarm sirens at times). In fact, all of tracks are recorded in live. Imagine a kind of formula which bases upon the early Einstuerzende Neubauten meets Gong. Or CAN`s live sessions fronted by Damo Suzuki. Yet, those descriptions are only some of the many possibilities. However, the track Untitled 06 does carry the most genuine hallmark of their brand.

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8.8

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

[Artists] The Velcro Lewis Group

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The Velcro Lewis Group
Free Music Archive
Lastfm

[Artists] No Pavarotti

KLaNGundKRaCH
Bandcamp
Lastfm

Moji Moji N (Resting Bell)

N is the second release by Lucas Page, a Buenos Aires-born musician, mainly inspired by magnificent looks upon the landscapes of his homeland. 5 instrumental tracks do include sensitively loaded (slide) guitar workouts, keyboard-illustrated shades and effects, vibraphone-alike cinematic chords, rigidly stomping drums and some distinctive musique concrete additions, all in all, reflecting the snowy peaks and abysmal lakes in Patagonia. Indeed, the different paces, accents and milieus can be detected here for to have the organic sense of epic responsibility via a kind of post-rock-ish manifesto. In a nutshell, if you like the works by God Is An Astronaut or the ripples by Mice Parade, no doubt, lots of satisfying minutiae can be found from here.

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8.9

Children Of Ishizuke Tree Chameleon Straship (Clinical Archives)

In the first place I want to admit that the more I listen to this double LP (in total of 112 minutes) the more I fall in love with it. A duo from Minsk, Belarus, makes a subtle guitar-based dream pop music. If you are keen to draw parallels upon in a big manner, indeed, it sounds as if an equivalent version of post-rock version of Mercury Rev`s Desertoir Songs (1998) at times, altogether being described as ambient rock or atmospheric post-rock. Moreover, a sophomore album by Alexander Haletski and Marina Bartosh incorporates the elements of repetitronica, void-filled ambient/dystopbient/dark ambient, soothing drone wraiths, spoken word tunes and even some distant echoes of the ethnic music from East Asia. Alternatively, it might be a kind of lo-fi music in the midst of ambient shimmerings or a sort of underweighted My Bloody Valentine as well. This is an album through the essential touch!

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9.4

dustdevil & crow while speaking softly you can hear the insects sing (Bandcamp)

While speaking softly you can hear the insects sing is the sophomore album by dustdevil & crow, however, in the meantime having got a solid addition regarding the line-up subsequently consisting of Michael Duane (guitars, basses), Bendle (voice, inept guitar, junk percussion, jaw harp, organ, low tech digital mischief), Aboombong (drums, percussion, treatments drones), Delphine Sayre (voice), Rob Tarana (violin), and Nick Toombs (guitar, field recording) at the moment. Indeed, all of those artists and their roles are very worth to be emphasized out. Here are represented 11 tracks, making out an idiosyncratic mix of post-rock, avant-garde, chamber rock/folk, dark-hued folk, psychedelia, and more concretely, having obvious influences from the 60`s British psych-folk, drone folk, some decades later appeared concept-based vanguard guitar workouts, and fuzz-filled or other feedback-based experimentations. Regarding the recent case, indeed, it is quite hard to draw difference between the kind of post-folk and post-rock. Yet, it would not have made up any difference at all if the basic ground were rubbish. Moreover, the sextet has even their own "pop song" (Breathing In). In a nutshell, it is a wide-opening yet subtle killer giving no chance for a listener to be realized out with some listening times.

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9.5

Shattered Darlings and Liquid Kisses Shattered Darlings and Liquid Kisses (Is This Music?)

Shattered Darlings and Liquid Kisses is a combo from Long Island, NY, USA, which is headed by songwriters Matt Richards and Tony Delgado (line-upped by James Johnson, Lillian Richards, and Debbie Hass, and their partly unknown keyboard player). Their debut issue is represented through 20 tracks within 53 minutes full of loaded guitar drives, subtly offered psychedelic synth shreds and solidly elaborated dream-alike vocal arrangements all in all building up dynamic sonic architectonics. If you have been a fan of My Bloody Valentine and the Irish quartet`s ascending guitar layers then their basic approach might be felt into your expectations and visions, though, SDLK does add their suggestive point of view. Moreover, by its loud, psychedelia-soaked and sometimes soothing approach does SDLK`s soundscape hint at the glorious and influential tradition of psych-rockers, dream poppers and power rockers as well. Honestly, it is a very pure rock`n`roll blowup obviously working superb in different situations and at any time out. To complement this experience for I highly recommend listen to SDLK`s EPs as well (In Tangiers; Chick Pop Vocals under Nana`s Records).

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9.6

[Artists] Tolmunud Mesipuu

Tolmunud Mesipuu
Myspace
Lastfm

Evan Connolly The Pagans Fight Back (Evan Connolly)

Jam sessions and 17 tracks? Does it foretell us about something bourgeoisiely suspicious actually? Fortunately it does not reach the longitude of 2 hours or more, The Pagans Fight Back does not keep moving into the annoying sessions of predictable sonic patterns and boring cadences. Short improvisation sessions played up on electrified guitars and dynamic bass, vertically downward stomping drums and shimmering hi-hats bring forth a joyous synergy, reminiscent of CAN`s interplays between Michael Karoli and Holger Czukay or the doings by Burrito and Replicast as well. In fact, Evan Connolly (previously known as J2M2 and consisting of James, Mike, Matt, and Jason) might be the best model of jam sessions via joking speech interludes or instant experimental upturns (weird electronic music and sound effects) juxtaposed on music. The kind of stripped-down approach which makes up an interesting workout. Indeed, the quartet was inspired by the group Novels, when they recorded their Novels EP without previously writing any music or lyrics. So they decided to do the same thing in their friend's room, having recorded for 49 minutes and 15 seconds, and edited it down to 17 tracks within 32 minutes. Altogether, by wrapping up the album they have had lots of good time so will you get it as well.

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9.3

[Artists] Serifs

Serifs/Bandcamp
Asthmatic Kitty
Lastfm
Alfred Brown
John Valenti

[Artists] Electric Rainbow

ELECTRIC RAINBOW-ELECTRIC FLAVOUR

Electric Rainbow | Myspace Music Videos
Jamendo

ELECTRIC RAINBOW-THE STARTING POINT

Electric Rainbow | Myspace Music Videos
Myspace
Lastfm

[Artists] Time Columns

Time Columns/Bandcamp
Myspace
Lastfm

[Old but important] Time Columns Sunriseinthesea EP (Bandcamp)

Time Column`s debut, the 5-track Sunriseinthesea EP (released on the 25th December of 2009 promptly after the ensemble`s first US-based tour had finished off) has already been looping at the non-stop regime for some hours in my headphones, and indeed, as for the whole set the better sorts of scents are brought forth after every following listen time. Two guys - Kenny Eaton and Jordan Miller - coming from Baltimore, Maryland, USA, exploiting guitars, keyboards, drums, and effect-sustained devices (moreover, Gibson Echoplex can be suggested as their third member) to conjure a mix of fusion/jazz rock, post-rock, math-rock, and classically layered progressive rock sound. No doubt, their interplay is an instrumental rock-relied synergic reflection, which does search for diverse chord compounds and complex, cadence-based realms, sometimes being "stuck" in restraint runs and even introspective hoverings, the another time, yet, blown up into the acceleration of synth-infused guitar grimaces, acquiring lots of panoramic flashlights to be brightened up and broadened into near-epic glider trips. Indeed, it is a solid example of intelligent rock music which can be enjoyed at the duo`s concert tour coming soon at the beginning of the January of 2011.

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Th.en.d Metaphors EP (Mixgalaxy)

The Berlin-based Norman Dauskardt aka Th.en.d has released two EPs to date. His first, the 3-track issue Schizophrenic Birth (2009, Acustronica) was composed in a seemingly loose way, yet, regarding some aesthetical intentions and sonic feats, it can be admitted now, those aspects of the sonority foresaw the future upon the next release(s). Beside overwhelming, lazy downtempo milieus, or more punctually, below the lustrous play of colours the motorik rhythms are pretending for the dominating position to be overtaken sometime. Moreover, though The Beatles and The Doors are referred as Dauskardt`s main influences, the krautrock-ish angle is the most evident characteristic on the new record. In any cases, it is not possible that a decent German-based experimental musician could somehow have had no idea about the glorious tradition and continuity of the Teutonic experimental rock scene. Buzz-injected, heavy-weighted in a psychedelic way, symphonic-inflected synth chords, austere yet dynamic metronome-drowned beats do play up a solid whole, first of all, reminding the doings of NEU!, and the soundscape of recent compatriots by the likes of Mina, Cidulator, Isolèe, and Lali Puna as well. If you wish call it as neokrautrock, or call it as post-disco, however, it is quite impossible to resist against the kind of mesmerizing, determined rhythm-based magic sound.

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9.3

Alexander Martovsky Libidolove, Mortidowar (Foundamental Network)

A young, 23 year-old musician from Minsk, Belarus, Alexander Martovsky has been active throughout the ending year, having issued no more or less albums than 3. The album Libidolove, Mortidowar, after his previous workouts M42, and Keep Quiet, Everybody Is Sleeping, reflects upon his skillfully aesthetical and professional aspirations, and it might be, still searchings for certain realms to get landed somewhere for having a possibility to be settle down into a mould for his personal future. Actually the last intention may not make much difference at all, as a final result being ideally reached off in principle and represented as one of the best notches in 2010. In a more concrete way, there are 14 tracks building up a exhilarating whole between lush shoegaze-filled soundscape, mesmerizing poptronica and post-rock-ish blowups, minor symphonic arrangements a la Ennio Morricone, and rigid/austere electronic music experiments, subtle IDM-cadenced opalescence and malignant drum and bass-based motorik whips, and for much more, and for much more. All in all, it reminds of 2010`s superb works of Monokle & Galun (In Frame), and Foxes in Fiction (Swung from The Branches). No doubt, listening to the tracks like You, and Heaven, what should it be described for? Would this album predict Martovsky`s position as a further experimental rock star or, on the other hand, shows up the overally screwed-up substance of pop business?

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10.0

[Artists] Th.e.n.d

Mixgalaxy Records
Acustronica
Myspace
Lastfm

[Artists] Alexander Martovsky

Foundamental Network
Sgustok Net
Lastfm

[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
Myspace