Light Leak - Thoughts Of Mirth (2010)

Bandcamp

8.7

/Glo-fi, Chillwave, Alternative, Electronic pop, Bedroom pop, Cosmic pop, Experimental indie/

Comment: This is an European version of bedroom pop/chillwave/glo-fi music from Germany, also including the main sample from Gainsbourg & Bardot`s classic Je T'Aime … Moi Non Plus at The Morning Star. More concretely onwards, lo-fi-esque beats are finely shuffled with catchy melody hooks and dream-alike, at times even cosmic harmonics, offering a slightly psychedelic and halfway disco pop experience all in all. Indeed, as if tuned by 70`s producers.

My Duck666 - Music For Believers (2011)

Hum And Hiss
Popsakal

8.5

/Noisegrind, Gorenoise, Noise music, Harsh noise, Avant-garde, Non music, Brutal metal/

Comment: Choky, skipping and voracious simultaneously, the seventh album by My Duck666 (from Moscow) is filled in with spontaneous and very malignant (mainly brown) noise attacks and zombie-esque moanings, however, it might be the best sonic reflection of a human being`s expression of despair, angst and angriness. By its conception it seems to be politically incorrect, anti-religious, personally offensive... and uncontrolled as already said. However, it reminds of the workouts of Japanese noise mongrels like Hanatarashi and Gerogerigegege, especially if to consider their frequent references toward the lowest part of the digestive tract.

Falco Subboteo - Pigged Rubble (2010)

Clinical Archives
Free Music Archive

8.8

/Live recording, Electro-acoustic, Avant-garde, Improvised music, Free improvisation, Free jazz, Turntablism, Freeformfreakout, Experimentalism, Psycho-acoustic/

Comment: How to come to grips with this 3-tracks album by a duo consisting of Val Perona (violin) and Gwilly Edmondez (tape/vinyl/samples)? Actually it is not needed to get as listening to this is pure fun on its own. Still, by its sonority it firstly reminds of free jazz via fastly changeable violin chords and playing techniques, on the other side it is a loosely formed output showcasing fine pitch-effect-based experiments on tapes, turntables and samples. Galopping near-rhythm sounds, warped chords, abrasive electronics, "uncontextual" dodges of samples, vocal interventions and much more make up a solid whole in any cases.

The Stars Ovation - here in the stillness, despite everything (2010)

Rack & Ruin

7.7

/Modern classical, Classical, Ambient, Piano music, Dark pop, Neoclassical/

Comment: Lonely piano chords-dictated music with some dark-hued backdrops and synth orchestrations which evokes melancholic moods in a good manner at times. No doubt, if you are a hard-nosed fan of (modern) classical music, however, you should listen to this one. Interesting chord patterns are conjured up from there and fringed by lots of space.

Non Dolet - Inner (2011)

Section 27

Mediafire

8.8

/Downtempo, Chamber music, Experimental electronica, Avant-pop, Cinematic pop, Minimal, Modern classical, Ambient, Children music, Improvised music, Progressive, Electro-acoustic, Trip-hop, Film noir, Electronic pop, Crossover, Musique concrete/

Comment: An album by a classically educated Russian musician (a young woman called Alisa) is full of diverse tendencies, different sorts of shadows and sonic shards, balancing between acoustic and electronic topics, manipulating with beats and without cadences, veering from silence to less silent, from pop realms to out of pop, from solemn to earthly, from restrainted contemplations to cinematic, orchestrated hooks, sampling of a snippet of a speech by George W. Bush and awesome motorik rhythms of trains, all in all having acquired a good overview regarding different styles and genres. Yet, please do not misunderstand that the recent case is not going about a bulimic output because all is solidly articulated and channelized into a segmented soundscape which is apparently a type of grower with each following listen time. Indeed, her music can just be classified as post-crossover which seems to be very opened to everything.

Un Vortice di Bassa Pressione - Why Not

Maps And Diagrams - The Giant Woods (2009)

Yuki Yaki

10.0

/Ambient, Ambient drone, Drone, Epic, Abstract, Microtonal, Soundscape, Minimal noise/

Comment: An exhilaratingly epic effort by Tim Martin who played out some ambient music with subtly infiltrated (noise) hisses and into abstract mould designed dronescapes. Yeah, it sounds so warm and sensible via its amazing microtonal growings as the sweetest pop song album ever, anyway, reminding of Tim Hecker`s masterpieces like Radio Amor, and Haunt Me, Haunt Me, Do It Again. The Giant Woods harkens back to following statements that less is more and the beauty is covered behind (manipulated) imperfection. In a nutshell, one of the hallmarks of ambient music.

芳川よしの - Lovely Rainy Day (2011)

Maltinese Records

8.7

/Shibuya-kei, J-pop, Electronic pop, Club dance, Easy listening, Mood music/

Comment: Starting off with a kind of peeping sounds the recent album of Yoshino Yoshikawa is getting develop into national shibuya-kei/j-pop tunes. More concretely, in this case does it mean of having lots of dodges and references toward electronic pop and club dance grooves, though, avoiding hints at Morricone-esque growing tunes a la Fantastic Plastic Machine and Pizzicato Five or close flirtations with indie pop numbers a la Flipper`s Guitar. All in all, as it is usual to this kind of catchy tracks it always makes excellent out.

Espejos Muertos - Espejos Muertos EP (2010)

Zorch Factory

8.9

/Art-punk, Blues, Art-rock, Power pop, Post-punk, Goth punk, Psychedelic/

Comment: This is a silly goth-punk/rock attack in the best sense of the word. More concretely, this spanish-spoken combo comes from Chile and is influenced by the texts of altered states so finely written by Edgar Allan Poe and is keen for launching of the torrents of blues-inflected power pop with lots of astonishing, near-epic guitar overdrives, drum blasts, and obsessively repeated lyric phrases. Might it be described as Manjana-punk or Mariachi-punk for?

The Late Virginia Summers - TLVS EP (2006)

Redstarcommunity
Lastfm

8.4

/Post-rock, Experimental rock, Cowbell indie, Lo-fi, Epic, Live recording, Ambient rock/

Comment: Indeed, TLVS is a duo from Lynchburg, Virginia, USA playing up an experimental mix of ambient (rock), lo-fi, and indie. The best moment at those 6 tracks is related to that Joe Morgan and Nathan McGlothlin are inclined to exploit un-plugged musical instruments or record their concept in the live recording mode respectively. Thereby their aspiration to avoid hermetical soundscapes so usual to the most of ambient music will be resulted in natural results and strong confidence.