Zeon Light - Solo Archivist | Meditations on Time (2014)

Zeon Light 

/Electro-acoustic, Cowbell indie, Free folk, Glitch ambient, Post-folk, New Weird Sweden, Experimental folk, Musique concrete/

Comment: Zeon Light`s 2-notch issue comprises lengthy progressions made up of acoustic guitar twangs, concrete sounds and spacey digital noises. All these elements do not fall apart but are organically fused into each other. The listener can discern interplay between silence and noise and transformations from descending to ascent. Furthermore, the elements constitute intriguing combinations. The album is a part of the discography of a Sweden based tape label, Zeon Light Records whose slogan is pretentious music for pretentious people.  

Eluna - Trädgårdsmästarinnans Tillförlitliga Tillflykt (2014)

Zeon Light

/Indietronica, Chamber pop, Alternative pop, Electronic pop, Cowbell indie, Modern classical, Organic electronica, Post-rock, Mood music/

Comment: Zeon Light is a decent tape music label from Sweden whose vast discography (65 articles in total) embraces lots of outstanding releases. However, Eluna`s 4-track issue is an organic blend of fine indie electronic reveries, restrained post-rock styled panoramas and echoey piano chords fuelled chamber pop/classical music insights extended by concrete music fragments here and there. Every element on it is produced in a way to be out of razzmatazz every detail on it is thoroughly bound and fixed into the entirety. Those gradual progressions constitute a sublime feel getting into the listener`s soul thereof. It goes along effortlessly, without applying any power to reach its goal (reminding of Laozi`s main postulate). Furthermore, by watching the cover of the album it will insinuate pleasant rustic perceptions inside. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Oskar Hallbert (Sweden), and So I`m An Islander (Denmark), for instance. In a nutshell, it can be said the result is fascinating and wondrous at any point of its course.            

HGHCLR - Waves (2013)

Zeon Light

• Chillwave
• Post-pop
• Dreamwave
• Hypnagogic pop
• Cosmic synth
• Alternative pop

Outstanding tracks:
Eclipse
Beams
Stellar Lights
Crossroads
Lovers
Ohio

Fluorescent Heights – Highway Death (2011)

Zeon Light

9.2

  

/Drone pop, Post-Psychedelic electronica, Avant-garde, Minimal/

Comment: the slogan of Zeon Light, a Sweden-based digital/cassette label assumes "pretentious music for pretentious people". However, by listening to this 4-track album by Henrik Stelzer for the first time while driving with the bus in the tight mist in the early morning I was not able to understand it. It seemed so boring, so bleak and sparse just relying on one pulsating, dusty synth/organ layer. However, later the impression would be improving step by step on the strength of
discovering hypnagogic, heavily dream-filled looming coming out of it. Less is more - I do not hesitate to repeat it again and again. At the moment I think it is a great issue and I will rate it with a 92 %.

Linear Bells - An Island (2012)

  Zeon Light

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9.5

/Ambient, Glitchtronica, Epic, Abstract, Post-rock, Soundscapes, Modern classical, Experimental rock, Glitch ambient, Musique concrete, Chamber music/

Comment: this peculiar, 7-track issue comes out of France embarking on a journey with a whiff of concrete sounds which later will be interlaced with lone, reverb-laden guitar or piano chords and at times sparse, at times more swelling glitch-y noises, being embellished with fine ambient and drone-esque panoramas above it. On the other side, stylistically the set used to wobble in between gritty experimental electronica, anthemic yet somewhat restraint (or still life-ish) post-rock-ish aspirations, ang gliding drone and ambient-ish soundscapes. If you are intended to search for some kindred souls then I recommend to listen to Pygmalion-era Slowdive, Natural Snow Buildings, Pan American, Tim Hecker, Sejdman, Aboombong, for example.