A Duck Named Ping - A Dirty Queen and the Coming Clean (2010)

 

 

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9.3

/Singer-songwriter, Alternative pop, Baroque pop, Art pop, Indie pop/

Comment: it is not surprising at all that the United States is the best seedbed for songwriters and other musical projects worldwide. Why? Because the recent generation over there have acquired a formidable amount of traditions and roots by their ancestors of divergent heritage, however, excluded in other parts on Earth. Undoubtedly a guy behind this one-man-project is very talented and does have good taste to create poignant, spellbinding ditties. More profoundly, he sighs, varies his suggestive voice and singing manner backed up by airy piano chords, and sublime melodic hovers. In a nutshell, the more you listen to it the better it gets.

Halloween - S/T (2012)

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9.2

/Garage rock, Rockabilly, Alternative rock, Surf rock, Psychedelic rock/

Comment: there are up 9 instrumental pieces just spreaded out over 15 minutes (there is just one track longer than two minutes). Indeed, it is a compelling blend of dirty, unpolished rockabilly dashes, breezy surf riffs wounded up in a Florida summer night. Despite its hirsute nature the whole is entertaining and even soothing. Nice listening. Indeed, there is no reason to afraid of this group.  By the way, the basic riff in Ren Yao resembles Joy Division`s classic Love Will Tear Us Apart. The release is publicized on White Moon Recordings which reminds of another similar label, called Kill Mommy Records (hailing from Italy) where the genuine rock and roll touch is varied with more contemporary approaches.

The Fells Division - Lying On Asphalt EP (2011)

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9.3

/Punk rock, Space rock, Alternative rock, No Wave, Psych-rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock/

Comment: there are up 3 tracks, 2 of them (the two first ones) are stylistically different from the last one. More concretely, The Fells Division pushes off with dirty and aggressive yet highly catchy punk rock progressions which will be followed by an instance of spacey psych-rock which is made up of resounding, heavy guitar gears and exorcized vocal lines. All`s very OK.   

Voyageurs - WHITE MOON RECORDINGS SINGLES CLUB (2011)

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9.2

/Psych-rock, Experimental rock, Trance rock, Krautrock, Psychedelia, Shoegaze/

Comment: every following step by Voyageurs, a Fayetteville, Arkansas-based combo is worth to be listened to. Their psych-fused, repetition-heavy patterns and shapes used to create lots of moods and dilate the space around the listener. This time the abovementioned styles are interspersed with the elements of shoegaze and krautrock, especially at those spots regarding ethereal vocal lines and lopsided, elliptical yet repetitive trajectores, respectively. These two pieces (Big Ritual, The Distance) are thought for those melomans who are got involved in listening to Spacemen 3, Serena Maneesh, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and other such kind of musical groups.

Cobwebbs - Shake and Rattle (2010)

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9.1

/Psych-rock, Stoner rock, Avant-rock, Trance rock, Noise rock, Garage rock, Experimental rock, Alternative rock/

Comment: Cobwebbs, a Brisbane, Australia-based quartet provides a set of booming experimental rock progressions involving the seeds of stoner/psych/trance rock music. These three pieces used to swing and roll over the listener. More concretely, it rocks off getting inspiration both from the tradition of early rock and roll and by the likes of Suicide, Spacemen 3 and from the instances of angst-filled desert rock a la Sonic Youth. If to compare the collective with nowadays kindred souls the quartet shares the similar space with Voyageurs, Cults, Kent State, Ermine Coat.

Waylon Thornton - Paranormal High School II (2011)

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8.3

/Lo-fi, Rockabilly, DIY, Rock and roll, Garage rock/

Comment: Waylon Thornton is a musician from Gainesville, Florida, USA who has issued a shitloads of releases on his White Moon Recordings since 2007. He also performs the music with his wife Megan who used to play drums then (Waylon Thornton and Heavy Hands). Paranormal High School II incorporates 7 short-running compositions which used to rotate mainly around ragged rock and roll/rockabilly explorations spiced up with garage-y rock reverberations.

[Artists] Waylon Thornton

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