pous - VPLE (2011)

Noecho

8.7

/Hip-hop, Noise, Crossover, Avant-garde, Psychedelic, Experimental, Avant-hop, Noise-hop/

Comment: This is a crossover issue of psych-out hip-hop, digitally crackling and droning-beaming noise, though, lots of other sounds are adhered with them here as well (cut and paste aesthetics, warped ambient, off-kilter psychedelia). Indeed, all the stuff is built upon rough and bleak sonic skeletons. It is the other sort of hip-hop having no similar intentions with mainstream/gangsta music/rap. It is guite similar to such acts as Dälek, Techno Animal, and Kid 606.

SineRider - Ambivert (2011)

BFW Recordings

8.5

/Ambient, Subtle soundfields, Soundscape, Post-rock, Ambient rock/

Comment: At first, all the kick proceeds off with evolving into soothing and wide-scale yet austere soundscapes, which in the middle of the issue tends to grow upon more post-rock-ish realms, wherein guitar chords are drenched into a dream-filled fog. Yet, the best moment is a track called Dream Sequence which is static and dynamic simultaneously on its own, fluttering in effect-based escapism. The album - which can be called an instance of classical ambient sound - finds its closure in the similar way as it embarked on.

Enko - Dush (2010)

Bypass

8.7

/Experimental techno, Avant-techno, Breakbeat, Abstract techno, Dub-tech, Lo-fi/

Comment: An Ukrainian techno-biased gearhead and rhythmic alchemist goes on his way, in this case exploring the fringes of breakbeat space infected with a strong hit of experimentalism, including lots of pitch effect-aesthetics, elemental layerings, strongly rumbling side channels and cosmic loops. However, it is an example of progressive music of the 21th century. By the way, at times the samples of real bass guitar are exploited for and dub undercurrents and lo-fi-backed pace combinations will be showcased.

Bendle - Tattered Tongues (2008)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Eccentric pop, Avant-garde, Doo wop, Dark folk, Avant-pop, Non music, Experimentalism, Musique concrete, Weird pop, Darkwave, Noir/

Comment: Bendle's effort is a kind of invisible, wraith-alike monster in nowhere man`s land somewhere filled in with vanguard-ish sonic ruins and having impressive while seamless drifts inbetween experimental pop music and just experimental music (experimentalism). By the way, are you loving the sound of Robert Wyatt for instance? Well, in this case you apparently will love this 15-track issue as well. The year was then 2008 and while listening to some murky moments and watching the symbols (triangles, unusual serif typefaces) at the coverprint, might it be the album was a case about witch house/drag music already?

Birds Build Nests Underground - Cold Dreams (2009)

KLaNGundKRaCH
Mediafire

8.7

/Dystopbient, Illbient, Sound collage, Plunderphonics, Avant-garde, Lobit, Film noir, Repetitronica, Hauntology, Acousmatic, Experimentalism, Musique concrete, Microsound, Sampledelic/

Comment: Eeehh...it is an idiosyncratically off-kilter set of two tracks by its formal stand, the last of them running over 33 minutes. The album is "just" about malignant ambient music, near-experimental jazz snippets and a lush repeating film score sample gear, having lots of phase changes over its course. All the sound of a duo is wrapped up by a mighty, hiss-backed mist.

Rebery - Rebery (2010)

Bandcamp

8.4

/Shoegaze, Goth rock, Darkwave, Crossover, Experimental rock, Alternative, Dream pop, Electronic/

Comment: Imagine a strong bound between shoegaze, post-punk, and darkwave, more concretely, a sheer connection between the likes of Slowdive, Lycia, and the Siouxsie and the Banshees. Yet, it is a brainchild of a duo from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

✝ DE△D VIRGIN ✝ - R△▲ (2010)

Bandcamp
Mediafire

8.8

/Witch house, Haunted house, Drag, Darkwave, Noir, Neoclassical/

BOY MTN - Purgatorio (2011)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Lo-fi, DIY, Avant-garde, Post-psychedelic electronica, Primitronica, Experimental electronica, Improvised music, Dada music, Weird pop, Experimentalism, Tape music/

Fine China Superbone - Make-Machine (2010)

Narrominded

Bandcamp

8.7

/Math rock, Math metal, Fusion, Hardcore, Progressive rock, Experimental rock/

ePop014 – Early To Bed (2011)

Eardrumspop

8.7

/Poptronica, Indie pop, Dream pop, Electronic pop/