Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down

Bobby Baby - The Some Place New

Tim Chaplin - The '80's Girls EP (2008)

23 Seconds

9.2

/Covers, Singer-songwriter, Alt-folk, Indie folk, Folk indie, DIY/

Comment: the British singer-songwriter and experimental musician Tim Chaplin is covering a handful of hits from the 80`s. Here is Westworld`s Silver Mac, Kirsty MacColl`s They Don`t Know, Yazoo`s Only You, and Roxette`s It Must Have Been Love. Twanging guitars and convincingly accentuated are loftily wrapped up by lo-fi-esque intimate ambience and gritty hiss. Indeed, let`s break on through to the other side of those beloved songs.

Ars Sonor & Meklabor - Box of Matches (2011)

Eg0cide

9.4

/Drone, Ambient, Dystopbient, Ambient drone, Ambient noise, Soundscapes, Epic, Minimal/

Comment: this 4-track is an intricate compromise between lush ambient soundscapes and epic drone pulsation created by Laetitia Schteinberg (Ars Sonor), and D. Vlasov (Meklabor) who are supported by the well known drone musician Mystified ( playing flute) in one track. More concretely, the album is a majestic drift between bleak and whistling sonic plateaus, as if murmuring its wishes over the metallic landscapes and wrathful hills. Great.

ShakySuperFly - Don't Sweat the Neon Fever (2011)

Dystopiaq

8.8

/Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Sound collage, Urban music/

Comment: 9 tracks which end up at the length of 21 minutes. More profoundly, all the tracks are cut up to the pieces of hip-hop, propulsive sultry samples, "accidental" spoken word snippets and primitivistic electronica. A solid reflection of the urban sampled tapestry.

Bus Stop Dreams - The Kiss

Keep away from heat... - des notes de clementines (2008)

Rack & Ruin

9.0

/Post-rock, Crossover, Electronic pop, Electro-indie, Alternative, Experimental pop/

Comment: Predrag Nedic is a Belgrade, Serbia-based recording artist better known as pndc and member of the former electro-ambient duo Erogenius. Here are represented 3 tracks walking on the borders of post-rock-ish scaffolds and pulsating electronic indie-esque sultriness, thus showcasing its remarkable pop potential and appealing power. By any means, it is a very interesting issue. However, let`s continue discovering the gems under now defunct Rack & Ruin records.

LFC - Asschoes (2010)

pCloud

9.0

/Industrial, Avant-garde, Dystopbient, Minimal, Noise, Experimentalism, Ambient noise, Non-music/

Comment: as you know the music history has permanently been the field for weird musical ideas and outlooks to be appeared and poisoned the mainstream correctitude. If you are listening for to get impressed by the sonic whirlwinds and bleak landscapes of LFC you will perceive the impact of 70`s nihilistic industrial music for sure. More detailly, behind this 10-track set you can see the destructive and constructive power units simultaneously. For instance, at times you can detect for the seeds of The Art Of Noises manifesto, declared by Luigi Russolo, one of the forefathers of the contemporary noise and electronic music. LFC takes up so seriously that all its sonic structure is incessantly bumping and shaking. In conclusion, the whole is heavily appealing for sure. In a nutshell, dystopian wastelands are waiting for your listening times.

Thompost - Muffled (2011)

Elpa

9.5

/Post-rock, Indietronica, Organic electronica, Experimental folk, Folktronica, Experimental indie, Art pop/

Comment: every artist under this sun (and under the other possible suns either) has its genuine vision and speech to describe the world or at least some parts of it. Thompost provides a sublime indie/folk/post-rock vista where organic string-based layers are craftily embellished with the fringes of electronica and some ebullient orchestrated beauty over it. Furthermore, all the concept is built on the contrast of rough and sparse yet expressive patterns and on the other side pertaining of flowing fairness and throbbing sensitiveness. At times it seems to be quicker, at times it is more restraint, yet, most of the time it gets attention from the listener. This 11-track masterpiece is issued on an eminent label from Latvia, called as Elpa.

Madame B - I`m Sorry That I Hate You