Southern Shores Grande Comore / Mauna Loa (BadPanda)

Southern Shores is a duo from Halifax (the same city, the hockey star Sidney Crosby comes from), Canada while residing in Europe (Berlin, Germany) now. Their 2-track single at BadPanda Records is overtly opened for different stylistic interpretations and point of views, on the first place beavering away at subtle glo-fi (yet not being hypnagogic pop on its own) and poptronic moods being compared to Air France and Washed Out, on the other side it could be viewed through lush, synth-relied baroque pop and chamber pop and tropicalia pop workout expressions as well. In a more detailed way, it is full of warbling vocal-based hitches and high-voltage-loaded brass orchestrations wrapped up by seething synthezised paces. Partly because of having obvious references to different places around the world (Grande Comore is an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa; Mauna Loa is a Hawaiaan volcano) it can be considered as a soundtrack of voyage music as well. All in all, undoubtedly this kind of sonic mould does represent nowadays pop essence still waiting for the highest chart tops to be conquered once in the future.

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9.8

New Animal New Animal (New Animal)

New Animal is a duo from Atlanta, consisting of Kris Hermstad and Derek Burdette. Recently the duo issued their self-titled album, compiled of 15 tracks. Actually their similarity with Animal Collective is not incidental on the name level only as having much broader touch through shimmering soundscapes and blissful milieu as well. Of course, they are more contemporary (i.e blissfully arranged) group incorporating a little chillwave and glo-fi elements as well. All of it can be seen via psychotic singing manners, repeated psychedelic loops, and impressive (even epic) overdrives, all in all, those mixed electronic pop currents and acoustic folk indie grounds do make out a subtle post-crossover (or post-Animal Collective) approach. Apparently it could be called as animated indie or spiritualized disco too. Really outstanding/transcending moments are embodied in such songs as All I Want Is Gone, Grow Back Out, They Don`t Know, Kill The Lights. In fact, something similar happened about one year ago as well when another duo named as Magic Man released their Real Life Color. Indeed, New Animal might be one of the best candidate for the top album of 2011 at today`s hour already.

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9.7

[Artists] Blackbird Blackbird

Blackbird Blackbird
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Plancha
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Coolrunnings Babes Forever EP (Dracula Horse/Bandcamp)

The Knoxvillian trio Coolrunnings by Brandon Biondo, Forrest Ferguson and Elliott White have published two EPs (Buffalo; Babes Forever) during the August of 2010. However, I like the latter one more - the discussion is not going only around the coverprint. Here can be drawn out some essential characteristics which will be occurred via magic runs on (post-)psychedelic ecstasy and (pseudo) religious hysterics. It can be imagined as if a formula consisting of 40 percent on Animal Collective and Arcade Fire and 20 per cent on The Dandy Warhols respectively. Indeed, although both releases include wide-range musical imageries as broadly as the same, seems Babes Forever to be a more fluid and organic one. Moreover, the borders between the illusions, dreams and reality are blurred through encapsulated lyrics having added much impression to the whole contribution. The issue is full of essentially sublime moments, for instance the track like Better Things When I Got High With You shining out in a bombastic manner. Or Trippin` Balls At Der Wienerschnitzel which embarks on arrogantly rough synths similar to The Ganglians thereafter developing into the sublime rise of symphonic accompaniment on ecstatic drive. In fact, between those mentioned drifts can be found out for much more minutiae and detailed expressions. Or the self-titled song`s hypnotic drumming introduction and the followed sudden change of direction, and subsequently its re-formation again. The ending notch Slumberland is going on about the quintessential evidence once again to be commended through the orchestral brass arrangements being finally resulted in highly potent loftiness. In other words, a kind of vanguard pop which on the other side betrays the trio`s healthy desire toward the charts. Indeed, the six tracks form a whole which is plentiful of pop potential. In any cases, I will keep my fingers crossed.

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9.5

[Compilation] Various Artists - 23 Evergreens Vol.2 (23 Seconds)

The Gothenburg-based label 23 Seconds has been a crisscrosser of different indie styles or at least strongly indie-infused electronic pop genres for some years. Here represented 23 tracks released inbetween 2008-2010 do offer a proper overview about the backbone of the label. No doubt, the selection compiled by H Johan Lundin and Jesper Larsson is decent enough reflecting upon some exceptions as well - hip-hop (Dynamo 414; Conspiracy of Mind) and trance-induced bubblegum rave (Clone DJ) and post-metal (The Big Sleep In Search Of Hades). The other artists include Henrik Josè, Azoora, Jenifer Avila, Shampoo Tears, Azeda Booth, Adam & Alma, Ixtlan, Danish Daycare, Cosmic Spring, The Womb, Azoora, Can`t Stop The Daggers, and Emerald Park.

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[Compilation] Between Two Waves – Vol. A (EardrumsPop)

As I said once, the Norwegian-based EardrumsPop has been one of the finest single and compilation records around the world to date. (Unfortunately the first compilations are being down for a while because of purposed to save space for future issues. I hope those will be uploaded somewhere else, at Archive.org or Bandcamp, for instance). The music under this label does proof out as a voice of nowadays and classical sensed indie conscience. More profoundly, it does veer from jangle, twee pop, dream pop, baroque pop and sunshine pop currents to poptronica and electronic pop, and shibuya-kei notches (lots of artists represented herein come from Japan). Yet, in principle, the indie pop under EardrumsPop is rather a retrospective appearance, for sure, having avoided to be a hype-centric one (which is also very important!), instead aspiring for great classical melodies and astonishing harmonies to shuffle seamlessly the (theoretical) gap between nowadays and the previous decades.

On Between Two Waves - Vol. A (released in April of 2010) are represented 14 tracks by the following artists like Boa Constrictor vs The Honeydrips, Baffin Island (The Very Most + The Hermit Crabs), Suspicious for the Winter (Casa Murilo + Like Spinning), Jacob Borshard and Cake on Cake, Starlight Recorder (Dylan Mondegreen + Alex Rinde (The Margarets)), Leaving Rio (Cineplexx + Onward, Chariots), Peacock Dreams (Shelby Sifers + Spirituals), Saturnalia (The Lost Cavalry + We Walk On Ice), Kubot (Martin Gustafsson (Boy Omega) + Martin Bergström (New Beginnings/Sin Närmiljö)), Early to Bed (Wisdom Tooth + Me And The Horse I Rode In On), En handvändning (Solander + Jerker Kaj), Johnny Favourite and the Exs (Johnny Favourite + little xs for eyes), Dizzie Bird (The Marble Man + Angela Aux), and Broken Motion (Paragraphs + Me And My Arrow). As it can be witnessed for, regarding the collection title and concerning on the artists`specific juxtaposition to each other, each song in principle consists of a blend of (at least) two artists or musicians (can it somehow be related to the abandoning of the kind of snooty eccentricity, though?). The miscellany is full of great songs, though, some of them are outstanding - Baffin Island (The Very Most + The Hermit Crabs)`s You Make Two Weeks Two Days which is a fine ukulele-based troubadour pop reminiscent of some workouts by Jens Lekman and Sondre Lerche; Jacob Borshard and Cake on Cake`s Summer Will Have Its Way is a Belle & Sebastian-esque warble; Leaving Rio (Cineplexx + Onward, Chariots)`s Vanish does involve delicious doo wop harmonies, sung the first half in English, and the ending side in Spanish, respectively.

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Hong Kong In The 60s Places (Bandcamp)

Hong Kong In The 60s is a London-based trio, lined up by Mei Yau Kan (vocal, guitar, keys), Christopher Greenberg (vocal, guitar, keys), and Tim Scullion (vocals, guitars, keys). Their 8-track sophomore Places EP - the follow-up to the Willow Pattern Songs EP (2009, Proper Songs) is full of mesmerizing, chillout/easy listening-soaked shards, dominantly loaded with the space age pop and exotica pop sensibility. Indeed, they are deeply get involved in mighty psychedelic grooves to draw upon kinds of moods and shades popularized by Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, Mort Garson, and the Barrons approximately 4 decades ago. As you have figured out yet, indeed, a set of simplistic and robust yet catchy, a bit dreadful, altogether full-blown, synth-based melodies-harmonies and burbling cadences can be expected for. Almostly, though. One of the two exceptions is A Bad Night Out which is into the exploiting of vintage-looking, downbeat-drenched Latin rhythms (of course, mingling it with electronic effects). The second feature is Disintegration The Advisory Circle Reshape, as the title admits, it is not their own creative output, playing out a notch of contemporary indie electronica/indietronica/poptronica/glo-fi. By the way, the release name of this Sean O`Hagan-afforded group is obviously used to be a hint at their vast scale of their nowadays and previous residing places/countries (The UK, Hong Kong, Brazil, Japan, Spain, Africa). In a nutshell, without some exceptions, as it is noticed above, it is an excellent quasi-retrospective/retrogard-ish outlook.

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9.8

A Sunny Day in Glasgow Autumn, Again (ASDIG)

Ben Daniels-headed Philadelphian sextet released the third album, as a total sum, having the longitude of 33 minutes on 11 tracks. Vis à vis with their previous, shoegaze-meets-doo wop album Ashes Grammar (2009) it is used to be a bit more straightforward shoegaze/atmospheric/electronic pop release, though, in principle, the basic elements for manipulating to get involved in new patterns are previously the same ones, featuring catchy harmonic walls, burbling keyboard surfaces, blissful, female-based vocal oozings, fuzz-infused guitars, and lo-fi-inflected, synth-driven, rough-formatted cadences at times. Aside 100/0 (Snowdays forever), which sounds as a shoddily nude tribute to Stereolab and Laetitia Sadier, it might be watched upon it as a possible go-ahead, even rock-ish format for the English-French combo. Yet, nowadays, when Stereolab might be considered as an ensemble without its proper place and time, reflecting via retrodelic memories upon the past time cliches only while ASDIG has much more to add for, because of having incorporated the influences by the poptronica/chillwave movement and vital shoegaze hooks as well.

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8.7

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

Raindeer Raindeer EP (Bandcamp)

Raindeer does consist of three lads - Charlie Hughes (vocals, synth), Devin Byrnes (synth), and Beau Cole (guitar, bass) - coming from Baltimore, Maryland, a town being once home for Animal Collective. Vis à vis with Collective, besides the trio`s aesthetical heritage originating from similar (post-)psychedelic breeds and DIY-based conceptions and lo-fi-infused common ground their start, however, is not a less impressive opening at all compared to the very launch by Avey Tare-Panda Bear circa 10 years ago, more concretely, being soaked in a rousing mix of electronics and indie pop and subtly nudging at their boundaries and zones. Yet, those 6 tracks of the debut issue are remarkably more extrovert and pop-oriented encompassed by broad yet intelligent postures and caustic keyboard (under)currents, the kind of reminiscent of those played up by the English innovative pop group Space in the last years of the Britpop-era (the track The Green Lights), and MGMT as well. Of course, there can be found out some similarities with the later-era Animal Collective, which drove some obduarate Collective`s fans to despair (Dark Place). On the other side, fortunately, Raindeer is able to avoid this kind of ostentatious artistical shelves cranking out of emotions being anchored at a subject`s genuine sensitiveness. No doubt, the trio is able to master crafty pop numbers, for instance, the ending This Is My Last Transmission which at the outset is intentionally restrained to come off into a catchy even hysterical explosion.
A solid debut, indeed.

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9.2

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

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

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

[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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Coolrunnnings Babes Forever EP (Dracula Horse/Bandcamp)

Knoxville`i trio Coolrunnings ehk Brandon Biondo, Forrest Ferguson ja Elliott White üllitas 2 EP`d ("Buffalo" ja "Babes Forever") augustikuu vältel. Siinkirjutajale meeldib viimatinimetatu rohkem - põhjus ei ole ainult plaadiümbrises. Põhikarakteristikud ilmnevad psühhedeelse ning psühhedeeliajärgse ekstaasi ja (pseudo)religioosse hüsteerilisuse kaudu. Kujutage ette seesugust valemit, et Animal Collective`i 40 protsenti, Arcade Fire`it 40 protsenti ning The Dandy Warhols`i ülejäänud 20 protsenti. Tõepoolest, kuigi muusikalised kujundid on mõlemal üllitisel üldjoontes samad, näikse "Babes Forever" voolavam ning orgaanilisem olevat. Ning jalustrabavam samuti. Kujutelmadesse-unenägudesse ning ähmastunud reaalsusesse kapseldunud laulutekstid lisavad tervikusse oma impressiivse panuse. Väga ülevad hetked ilmnevad radade Better Things ning When I Got High With You pompöösses kaunikõladuses. Trippin` Balls At Der Wienerschnitzel hiilgab alul pohhuistlikult robustsete süntekatega a la The Ganglians, mis edasi areneb ekstaatiliseks draiviks sündisümfoonia saatel. Õigupoolest jääb veel sinna vahele kõiksugu elemente. Või siis nimilugu sissejuhatav hüpnootiline trummeldamine ning selle järgnev ootamatu suunamuutus ning uuesti ülesehitamine. Lõpulugu Slumberland on kvintessentslik tõestus siinkirjutaja esimesele väitele - taaskord tuleb kiita orkestratsioone-brass-seadeid ning võimsat kõrgelennulisust. Teisisõnu, avangardistlik pop, millest kumab läbi elutervet edetabeliihalust. Tõepoolest, 6 rada moodustavad terviku, milles on rohkelt poppotentsiaali. Mina hoian neile kõvasti pöialt igatahes.

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9.5

[Artistid] PREGNANT

PREGNANT
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Life`s Blood
Lost Lamp
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[Kogumik] Various Artists - Season of the Sun (Rack & Ruin)

Inglismanni Dean Birkett`i kureeritud Rack & Ruin on leibel, mis annab peavarju pöörasele lo-fi muusikale, mille nime esimene pool on kahe aasta vältel tunnusmärgitsenud alternatiivpoppi-indie`t ning teine pool eksperimentaalset, kohati suisa irriteerivat elektroonikat. Tõsi, nimetet kogumik - mis on pühendatud käesolevale suvele - ei järgi niivõrd teravalt seda eristust võrdluses mõne varasema eelkäijaga. Mõnes mõttes on see ka paratamatu, kuivõrd elektroonika on ajapikku segunenud traadimuusikaga ning ka vastupidi. (Nimetagem seda poptroonikaks). Ennekõike väljendub nimetet tendents artistide puhul nagu Western Homes, T Bear ning Hipster Youth. Vincent Lillis jätkab tavapärast peitusemängu varjude ning folgiga, Woodland Heights teeb silma hoogsa kidrapopiga, kompilatsiooni koostaja Chad Golda pakub omalt poolt elektrist särisevat elektroonikat. Kogumik pakub loomulikult ka üllatusi - Frost Faire`i - mis on siin esindatud surf pop-liuglemisega - ninamees Brad Fielder, kes eelmisel aastal sai maha meisterliku alternatiivfolgi albumiga, pakub brass rock`i ja hip-hop`i hübriidi; auger shell pakub sulnist unenäopopi ja kingapõrnitsemise segu - kuulajana tahaksin isegi volüümi juurde keerata; kogumiku pikima - 14-minutilise - träki eest hoolitseb Dave Menzo, kes segab üheks psühhedeeliat, lo-fi`d ning abrasiivset elektroonikat-efekte, hoolitsedes seekord märksõna "Ruin" eest. 11-looline kogumik on tõepoolest väärtasi, iseasi muidugi, kas see just päikeselõõsas kuulamiseks mõeldud oli; kuid mõnusalt jahedasse ning vihmaootel augustiõhtusse sobib küll suurepäraselt.

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[Artistid] Raskolnikov`s Dream

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T Bear The Nature of the Bear (Rack & Ruin)

Tõele au andes ootasin kalifornialase teist albumit pikisilmi, kuivõrd debüütalbumi "The Hibernation" mõned rajad tõotasid paljut tulevikuks. Tõepoolest, "The Nature of..." on muljetavaldav oma hüsteerilis-ekstaatilises friikfolk/poptroonika-kestas. Animalcollectivelikud poolkarjatused-laulmised-häälutused, kergelt moondunud akustilise kitarri loop`id, vaba lennuga süntesaatorid-helged orkestratsioonid, autotuunitud vokaalid, samuti Kagu-Aasia (Hiina) motiivid - kõik see kokkuvõttes loodub eriliseks ning esimeste kuulamistega haaramatuks tervikuks. Kuivõrd laulutekstid on improviseeritud ning viimases järjekorras lisatud, tuleb verbaalset poolt-inimhäält näha kui vahendit ekstaatilisuse rõhutamiseks, kui tuttavliku elemendi kaasamist ühise tunde tekitamiseks, mitte kui eesmärki iseeneses. Ning laulmaks prantsust ei ole ilmtingimata veel vaja osata prantsuse keelt (Bonjour) - piisab vaid paarist sõnast.

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9.1

Of a Star Finding Gaia (Archaic Horizon)

Jänki John Glaunert aka Of a Star alustab debüütalbumil sulnilt tšilliva numbriga (Sun Yawn on Me) , mis sisaldab elemente M83`likest surisevatest sündikäikudest, daftpunk`ilikust autotuunitud vokaalist, loodushelidest ning new age`likest heiastustest - muusika, mis võiks paljude eelduste kohaselt olla paras camp, siiski olemata seda. Vastupidi - shoegaze/chillwave-momendid kostuvad kohati esile. Ka ülejäänud 9 lugu balanseerivad nimetatud elementide piires ja ümber. Teiseks silmapaistvaks reaks on Rain Spell, mis oma ülesehituselt ning süzeelt on kõrgetasemeline - monotoonselt kostuva loitsu taamal hakkab vihma sadama. Maajumalannat otsides jõutakse Argentina perkussionisti Humberto Luis Schenone`t või teist jänkit Bockholt`i meenutavate flöödiheiastuste, vokaalorkestratsioonide, loodusläheduse ning tüünete helivoogudeni, teisalt laisalt gruuviv psühhedeelia või akustilise kitarri helidega toetatud taiesed viivad ühendriiklase mujale uitama. Üldmulje jääb kaunis neutraalseks - igatahes vähem impressiivseks kui lihtsalt looduses ringi kondata ning Gaiat otsida.

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7.7