[Teaser of the day] Green Gerry - Pupil Patterns Are Crazy

• Indie pop/rock
• Slowcore
• Avant-rock
• Dream pop
• Experimental pop
• Alternative pop/rock

Artist: Green Gerry

Release: Egg Nog

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

Mato Grosso – Tea Party EP (2010)

Bandcamp

• Hardcore 
• Alternative rock 
• Power pop 
• Post-hardcore 
• Psych-rock

Comment: this set of 6 pieces is an amalgamation of a hardcore punk bottom and a blackened power pop vector. Indeed, it is not the music for puritans of those styles only. It is not hardcore by numbers. It is playful, cheeky and loving to go beyond. Those slamming drums and some irregular journeys on it, dynamic joint vocals and galvanised hirsute guitars are to constitute a formidable whole. Undoubtedly Tea Party EP is a disparate form of hardcore because it does not associate with certain tight predictable borders, it is not only about anxiety and rage, it is not a big fish in the creek, it is a big fish at the sea. Say yeah to the outing by the Spanish-based quartet..

Niko Niko! – ePop029 (2012)

EardrumsPop

Bandcamp

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Twee pop

Comment: the first remark of mine about this 4-notch outing is related to its tamed and silent nature. The listener should remarkably crank up volume to partake. Musically its roots seem to come out from the cute, twee pop-tinged Swedish indie pop scene (Acid House Kings, The Concretes, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, The Mary Onettes) which was particularly popular in the 00s. Earlier influences used to hark back to the 60s folk music. Cute male vocal lead, retrodelic keyboard sounds and droning, chiming guitars and bubblegum-ish bass patterns which purpose was to entertain the listener. On the other side it is unpretentious to develop indie music as a phenomenon. It is not the sort of Stereolab and Tortoise-alike ambition to cross its borders with every subsequent outing. However, those ditties are solid ones, for example A Lifetime in the Sun is a blissful shimmer dedicated to the spring. The outing is a bit in the discography of the Norwegian-based EardrumsPop. Niko Niko! Is the solo project of Bergen, Norway-based Nickolai Nilsen.

[Teaser of the day] First Dress - The Melancholy Of Brittle Stability

• Dark ambient
• Illbient
• Ambient drone
• Neoclassical
• Dystopbient
• Power electronics
• Ambient noise
• Drone
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: First Dress

Release: A Forest Beneath The Waves

Label: Big Pharma  

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Kirk Cosby - Stimuli Unconsciously

Vaatican

• Sampledelic
• Plunderphonics
• Avant-garde
• Sound collage
• Spoken word
• Minimalism
• Experimentalism
• Leftfield
• Electronic music

Artist: Kirk Cosby

Release: Dreams In The Absence Of Oxygen

Label: Vaatican /Cratediggers

Year: 2011

Macaco Bong – Macaco Bong (2016)

Sinewave

• Post-rock 
• Alternative rock 
• Dance rock 
• Funk 
• Math rock 
• Psych-rock 
• Stoner rock

Comment: just before I started to listen to this Brazil-based combo's music I had listened to the Smiths' second issue Meat Is Murder in f..king vinyl format (joke!), by many considered as the band's most funky issue (the central composition undoubtedly is Barbarism Begins at Home). The change was not the discontinuation, it was a natural succession from one album to another though formally they are different but you can find much common due to these dance-appealed appearances here and there. At least it happened in my head. Formally it is an instance of post-rock with the danceable bubblegum guitar and the tricky bass guitar and the sustaining drums to showcase something different in the post-rock scene. Of course, I should not be misunderstood - it is not a dance pop in the definition of eurobeat and even post-disco. It may be the trio`s roots come out from the No Wave scene, Funkadelic/Parliament, Jimi Hendrix, Sly And The Family Stone instead. The scaffolding of the album is bold, slightly rough but it builds up slowly to reach its impressive climax. For me it is an unusual case because those sophisticated math rock developments are imbued with enchanting grooves and cheerful twists (for instance, listen to Distraiidos Venceremos). At Baiaro De Stoner one can be a part of a high-spirited audible universe through those frantic and exuberant overdrives on guitars. Yet there are up enough numbers where one can perceive more oppressive elliptical patterns moving from one side to another from the bottom to the top as an ominous vapour. Undoubtedly such a clever and crafty combo must be consecrated because of the structure of the tracks and intriguing and profound guitar timbres and sounds. Let's just call it guitar-induced alchemy for all our well-being. This outstanding issue is a part of the discography of the great Brazilian imprint Sinewave.

[Teaser of the day] Gogo Yubari - On The Subject Of Humans

• Hardcore
• Post-hardcore
• Alternative rock
• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Gogo Yubari

Release: The Yes Yes Sound Of Gogo Yubari

Label: Small Bear

Year: 2017