8/08/2011
Parchim - Tribal Sun (2011)
DNA Production
Lastfm
8.7
Lastfm
8.7
/Tribal techno, Ethnotronica, Crossover, Psytrance, Avant-industrial, Big beat, Dark ambient, Experimental, Downtempo, Illbient/
Comment: This is Parchim`s sophomore album, the follow-up to Инстинкт Самоуничтожения (which can be translated as instinct of self-destruction) issued in 2009. 5 tracks within 26 minutes will create a fabulous, trance-induced scape compiled of soothing ethnic/tribal downtempo and psychedelic trance paces and stomping big beat rhythms and bristled tribal techno paces backed up with dark ambient/illbient/industrial forays and layouts. And esoteric storytelling snippets as well. Altogether, all is finely channelized and designed to create unusual ambiences and elusive soundscapes waking up far-flung memories in a listener`s mind in any cases.
Jef Barbara | DannielRadall – Cocaine Love EP (2011)
/New Wave, Art pop, Alternative, Synth pop, Disco pop, Remix/
Comment: Montrèal-born Jef Barbara delivers a highly enjoyable vision of art pop relied on a mix of New Wave/synth pop/, and 70`s gay disco a la Gino Soccio, and Patrick Cowley. Indeed, it is very nicely balanced between the rhythms and harmony whiffs. The last track is DannielRadall`s remix of Cocaine Love. Similarly to Ariel Pink`s bedroom pop aesthetic this 5-track whole seems to be out of the determined time and epochs.
Romantic States - Still Petals (2011)
/Glo-rock, Alternative pop/rock, Bedroom pop, Lo.-fi, DIY, Experimental indie/
Comment: This is a combo (Jim & Ilenia) from Baltimore, Maryland, USA who used to produce a kind of music I would entitle as glo-rock made in bedroom. The duo`s sound consists of sublimely ascending layers based on lo-fi, fuzz pop and shoegaze-ish tendencies. The favorite of mine is The Fourth which exploits the arcs of mandolines above a Bacharach-esque melody hook (more concretely, it reminds of Do You Know the Way to San Jose sung by Dionne Warwick, and Frankie Goes To Hollywood once). An enjoyable, 6-pieced EP indeed.
8/07/2011
Doctrine - Leavers` Do (2011)
9.1
/Chillwave, Electronic pop, Glo-fi, Robot pop, Alternative dance, Synth pop, New Wave/
Comment: Doctrine is the sonic conglomerate by Holden Brahms, and Douglas Donovan. They used to fuse new and old, which mostly is an entrancing forge of chillwave and new wave, post-punk-ish thick bass lines and robot pop (this mix of autotuned vocal lines and bubblegum beats are really elusive). inconnection with this issue I recommend listen to the Okinawa Lifestyle (from Georgia), and the Latvian electro-rock-disco-proto-indie legends Zodiac. By the way, these 5 tracks are produced by Clyde Drexler (having no idea, is it either the former basketball star or his namesake).
Motorama - One Moment (2011)
Motorama
9.4
/Post-punk, New wave, Dance rock, Gothic, Alternative pop/rock/
9.4
/Post-punk, New wave, Dance rock, Gothic, Alternative pop/rock/
Comment: From Russia with love...this five-pieced collective comes from Rostov-on-Don and makes highly catchy post-punk/and gothic pop-influenced rock music. The synergic, harsh-mellow interplay between the members of Motoram is potently up to the standard, revivifying the legacy of such 70`s bands as Joy Division, Comsat Angels, Sad Lovers and Giants, and The Sound (if to hint at some ones of them). Listen to their album Alps (2010, Free Music Archive) either.
edPorth - Key Black (2011)
/IDM, Experimental electronica, Electronic pop, Art-pop, Downtempo, Ambient, Alternative/
Comment: Patrizio Piastra has abandoned guitars an his epic post-rock-ish ambitions so evidently represented on the debut album Saying vamos and thinking let`s go (2010, Inglorious Ocean). All what is up here is proudly clothed with burbling, pounding electronics and beats and subtle ambient layers above it. This 11-pieced whole veers from mellow, organic electronica/IDM and dystopic ambient and calm downtempo to soothing, art pop-ish singing and pleasant electronic pop. Some of the tracks are very slightly throbbing ones. You can see influences ranging from Bola and Art Of Noise to Dead Can Dance and Seefeel. A solid accomplishment indeed.
8/06/2011
Tschabba - Tschai (2009)
Jamendo
8.8
8.8
/P-funk, Art-funk, Hip-hop, Crossover, Acid jazz, Fusion, Afro funk, Urban music, Chill out/
Comment: This 10-track album comes out from Idar-Oberstein, Germany. T Brendel jr has done good job working out P-funk and art-funk, bossa nova ideology and hip-hop/scratch overthrows, slightly opened Latin rhythms and decent acid jazz influences, always frabjously functioning psychedelic afrofuturistic progressions and mellow chill out elaborations into the seamlessly, synergically sounding whole. Indeed, lots of using of reed organ-based backdrops and different kinds of breaks and pipes. Enjoy and blaring it out.
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