8/04/2011
The Very Most - ePop017 (2011)
9.5
Comment: The Very Most, a sextet (being active since 2002) coming from Boise, Idaho, USA (as well as the hometown for the mesmerizing ambient/drone/experimental electronica project Eluder and downtempo collective ElectricWest (also as Electricwest), both overseen by Patrick Benolkin). However, this three-pieced set is a powerful and noble example of indie music merging various elements with each other derived from different epochs. Trilling jangle pop like the McCarthy; space pop and electronically patterned developments like Stereolab; hippie/junkie folk-naiveness a la Polyphonic Spree; the last track If Monday`d Never Come (a cover of the Brilliant At Breakfast`s track) is a galant cha-cha-cha-inflected independent outlook. Listen to and enjoy it.
8/03/2011
Flora - Trip (2010)
Dissonant
9.4
9.4
/Sludge, Doom, Post-metal, Psychedelic, Avant-metal, Experimental metal, Drone metal/
Comment: For instance, similarly to Nadja, Sunn O))), and Talbot, to their soulmates, Flora is a duo consisting of zero nowhere (guitars) and fdj (electronics, samples). They represent three long-running tracks (from 12 minutes to 16 minutes) laying out a mesmerizing sludge/doom/drone mix which is decorated with incessantly overdriving synths/electronics. Its seems to be static, yet, not being this way actually (or having the opposite sites simultaneously). I don`t symphatize with the claims by those intellectual solipsists who tend to insist on that Mozart`s and Beethoven`s symphonies and their otherwise styled musical works were the one and only (as if the Rolling Stones (or Fauna) is less moral (?), for example). (Or the way round, Mozart or Beethoven`s music would have been an instance of black metal in the recent context). Trip is one of the most righteous answers to them. Indeed, is is another tremendous discovery of mine behing Wreck And Reference`s album Black Cassette in the realm of metal music.
Ebola - Brodmann Area (2008)
/Grime, Electro, Ambient, Avant-garde, Crossover, Experimental electronica, Industrial techno, Experimental electro/
Comment: Ben Hudson aka DJ Psylage (also known from a group, called Baconhead – with Paul Bowyer) comes from Devon, UK. Before this 6-pieced issue, however, he released music of diverse styles on such labels as Mutant Spider, Wrong Music, Sublight, and Proboscus. Similarly to his previous issues the dominantly instrumental Brodmann Area does have lots of cues to a loads of different styles, offering splashing industrial techno/and electro beats, grime-drenched dystopic-ness, slap-up tekno overthrows, digital glitch and eerily hollow ambient shades and much more worth to be discovered from this classic patchwork. The EP should not be misunderstood – this is not intended to be issued for dance floors, instead of it for your peripheric brain cells. Furthermore, by its ideological point, it is rather a hint at old school music for sure.
8/02/2011
Steffaloo - My Heart Beats (2010)
/Minimal, Electronic pop, Free folk, Experimental pop, Singer-songwriter/
Comment: Steffaloo is a musican from Los Angeles, USA who has issued some singles, one EP and one LP (and collaborated with Blackbird Blackbird, for instance). This mere one and half minute long single is pulled out through slight, autotuned vowel experiments and restraint slo-mo bounces subtly surrounding it. Is it either folk, electronic music or...? However, as a soul mate she go with iron like nylon, and Meredith Monk in the same scope but a little from different directions.
Edvenjah - Still in Germany (2008)
Kreislauf
9.0
9.0
/Downtempo, Techno, Neoclassical, Crossover, Darkwave, Psytrance, Tekno/
Comment: Sultry, gurgitating techno sequences (in true, which frequently evolves into tekno/and psytrance rhythm frequencies) are variegated with serious, sometimes dark-hued/martial synth progressions-orchestrations in the background; and mingled seamlessly with mesmerizing, atmospheric layers embellished with floating, elliptical paces around it. Furthermore, it makes sense through an diverse row veering from stomping sci-fi rhythms to corroded, lo-fi-inflected beats. Indeed, the 5-track album seems to have acquired the meaning of a buffer zone between the neoclassical music, downtempo, and intellectual techno. A rare yet delectable appearance.
Dreams - Simple Steps EP (2010)
/Baggy, Dance rock, Alternative pop/rock, Indie dance, Alternative dance, Madchester, Indie rock/
Comment: this 4-pieced set from Portugal seems to have borrowed its roots from the scene of 90`s baggy/dance rock/madchester (reminding evidently of Primal Scream, Wordsmiths, Flowered Up, and Happy Mondays). Indeed, these roughly sounding, massively stomping beats and hispid, organically flaming vocal manners and abrasive guitar walls ring out really retrodelic whilst Dreams and those abovementioned bands used to make much more sense than nowadays peaky, way-too-much produced rave rock examples (!!!; Klaxons; Bloc Party etc). All in all, I got sentimental and excited and feel myself really fluttered. I recommend to search for old indie compilations on vinyl and listen to Clinker`s self-titled album and Abstract Green`s Romeo Echo Victor (Deluxe).
BeachesBeach - FourFour (2011)
Bandcamp
8.7
8.7
/Poptronica, Chillwave, Glo-fi, Sampledelica, Electronic pop, Tropicalia pop/
Comment: The title "BeachesBeach" sounds witty, isn`t? However, it might be visualized as a transcendent shore to be designed to collect such kind of pop tendencies oozing from the scenes of glo-fi/tropicalia pop. Indeed, sublime tropical beats are overlapped with beatific vowels and warm electronica. Last but not least - catchy crossings are genuine part of BB`s soundscape. The use of sample-only techniques used to hint at some similarities having in common with Phaseone and, Rimar - Columbus-based producers.
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