Youth Lagoon - July + Cannons (2011)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Dream pop, Experimental indie, Glo-fi, Lo-fi, Chillwave, Hypnagogic pop, Avant-pop, Post-pop, Electronic pop, Poptronica/

Comment: Trevor Powers aka Lagoon Youth is one of those nowadays wunderkinds who is chosen to inveigle us with the help of fabulous bows of melody and crafty touches of harmony. If you have previously experienced kind of dreamy, blissed-out collectives like Beach House, Memoryhouse, and Mathemagic you are ready yet what to expect for. More concretely, you do sweep along a trajectory where lo-fi meets glo-fi meets dream pop. While those two tracks do not speak about your life, instead writing up your (more or less) exact states of mind, it is really worth to listen to.

Zoos of Berlin - Electrical Way

Mua - Mua EP (2011)

Clinical Archives

9.2

/Post-punk, Industrial rock, Alternative rock, experimental rock, Gothic rock/

Comment: Behind Mua is Dani(e)l Telegin, a towering post-punk/gothic punk/rock musician from Samara, Russia. By pertaining of those aforementioned syles, as usual, dominating, oppressive vocal manner and grave content of lyrics (speaks out passionlessly and blandly about the facts of daily life, about murky shades and moments constituting different frames of mind) is backed up with meticulous, massive drum lines, industrial-inflected grit, and playfully designed guitars and its feedbacks/and overdrives and majestic synth whiffs in the backdrop. In conclusion, the whole of 4 tracks finishes off as a graceful unit ringing out in a harmonious way (as much as such obscure music could ever make it out). However, this EP can be compared to the music of Astma, Joy Division, Kino, Einstuerzende Neubauten. All the lyrics are sung in Russian (in fact, to get benefit from it).

Tiny Fireflies - Snow

Ostin - Delirium (2011)

Enough
Lastfm

8.0

/Darkwave, Experimental electronica, Darkbeat, Dark ambient, Avant-garde, Neoclassical/

Comment: Delirium starts out with sultry slo-mo beats which are densely surrounded by dark-hued ambiences and moaning electronic undercurrents. In principle, it continues running in similar way up to the ninth track, to the end, however, adding and abandoning rough electronic effects, glitch-frayed tangents, orchestrated snippets and less or more audible drilling forays in favor of diversifying the general picture of the concept. Laid-back magnetic wind blows off sometimes. For the majority of the time Ostin (a project from Russia) used to succeed in its doings (at times it seems to be way too stuttering either). The favorite of mine is a track, called as Sear.

Desperadow – I Found God (2010)

Long Lost

8.8

/Experimental indie, Singer-songwriter, Lo-fi, DIY, Alt-folk, Nu grunge, Fuzz pop, Crossover, Indie pop, Alternative, Leftfield/

Comment: Behind the pseudonym Desperadow hides himself Chris Nolan, a hermit from Dublin who offers a 9-track set on the Long Lost label (the same label whose kick-off album was Hipster Youth`s second, superb album Teenage Elders). As provoking as the album`s coverprint used to be the main concept is made up by directing its spot on a corybantic blend of folk/singer-songwriter-ism and nu grunge, bristled psychedelia/even exotica pop, lo-fi/DIY and mellow indie pop songs/and ballads. However, you can detect herein for some similarities with Smashing Pumpkins, Beta Band, Andy`s Airport of Love, Blur, Nirvana, Beck and other similar kinds of artists.

Kromofonica - Ipnagogica (chapter two) (2011)

Jamendo

8.6

/Fusion, Crossover, Chill out, Avant-prog, Drum and bass, Psychedelic, Big beat, Synth, Progressive rock, Alternative, Progressive metal, Art pop/

Comment: Kromofonica is an Italian duo (Vincenzo Geraci - guitar & bass; Edilio Ciuffardi - bass & arrangements) delivering a mind-boggling patchwork of styles - veering from acutely pounding breaks/drum and bass-backed rhythms and brooding synth grooves and light-heartedly trudging jazz fusion to psychedelic and progressive rock (even quacking avant-prog snippets are represented at times) and metal appearances, showing off its artistical and relaxing sides nested and one on the other. Furthermore, it can be considered a kind of spectacular or even a little provoking whole in its vast changeability and meeting of genres. However, it can be compared to Hox Vox, Mahavok, Death In Vegas, and Miles Davis, for instance.

Luarvik Luarvik - Tantsib huntidega

Sally Paradise - Je n'aime pas danser

GRINDING AFTERMATH COMPILATION! (2011)

American Aftermath

8.5

/Grindcore, Brutal metal, Fastcore, Technical grind, Deathgrind, Experimental metal/

Comment: This is our heavy rock for sure. The compilation of 69 tracks consists mainly of grindcore and its subsidiary/subgenres (differences coming forth at different rhythm/speed/technical levels). However, diverse scope of tortured shrieks and groans, washes of brutal guitars and sheer patterns of drum machines are up here to design thundering sonic combinations thus paying off tribute to recently deceased Anal Cunt`s frontman Seth Putnam (1968-2011). It is a distinguished votive tablet indeed.