8/09/2011
Speculativism - War and Peace (2010)
/Avant-garde, Dada, Cosmic prog, Anti-folk, Freeformfreakout, Psych-music, Weird, Crossover, Shoegaze, Singer-songwriter, DIY, New Weird Europe/
Comment: Peter David-Smith, a 58-years old eccentric musician of the Scottish/Canadian heritage is one of those unsung frenetic artists coming from the Foggy Albion. The Hirundu, Gnomefoam, Children Of The Drone (and countless of its subsidiaries), Clinker are the first bundle I can remember promptly for. However, PDS can be entitled as the singer-songwriter by his approach, yet, his sound functions to swerve its way in a very peculiar manner. Dada/chamber/electro/cabaret, abrasive guitar forays, blindfold hip-hop progressions, exorcized piano music, off-the-wall folk/anti-folk/DIY/shi-fi and much more. From mocking grimasses over to desperate cry (by trying to summarize it figuratively somehow). Here is even a cover of John Lennon`s the most famous solo song (it is so warped that it is quite hard to recognize it). The favorite of mine is Aldershot which is a blend of cosmic prog and shoegaze-ish guitar templates. About a dozen of albums by him still waiting to be listened to. PDS is a truesome genius indeed.
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.
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