Thierry Massard - 15 minutes of fame (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Noise, Microtonalism, Minimalism, Sound art, Experimentalism, Avant-garde/

Comment: the French noisenik/experimentalist/netaudio activist/philosopher Thierry Massard is back with his brand new one. He initially embarked on with sound mastering in the late period of 70`s creating it with the help of ubiquitous and less conventional music devices/and non-instruments. These 10 short-running tracks play on the experienced shifting inbetween silence and noise, inbetween ominous progressions and barely audible microtonalism, inbetween sonic effects and "fictional" scapes. The album is obligatory for those guys and gals who used to be keen on "heavy" experimental electronic music. An inspiral listening indeed.

Radix - Autopsy (2009)

Modicum Of Silence
Mediafire
Lastfm

9.5

/Ambient, Breakbeat, Ambient techno, Glitch ambient, Glo-fi, Experimental electronica, Downtempo/

Comment: enthralling broken beats wrapped up by dense yet blissed-out atmosphere do make this album really worth always to be remembered for. More profoundly, the beat structures veers away techno, breakbeat, jungle, downtempo, however all these rhythm structures are coated with darkly glistening synths this way rather being a part of the glo-fi/chillwave music scene. Released on the Modicum Of Silence label which once domesticated such outstanding musician as Brothertiger, a melody maker widely known in the circuits of the chillwave/glo-fi scene at the moment.

Bugotak - Thunder Dance

Vektroid - Telnet Erotika (2010)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.5

/Glo-fi, Chillwave, Electronic pop, Dreamwave, Electro pop, Sampledelic, Alternative dance, Hygnagogic pop/

Comment: permanently struggling dream-soaked grooves, warped electro layers, acid-fried pop sensibility, whimsical sonic effects, however, thus having a very crucial impact upon you, dear listener. Samples tend to come in and go out, thereby resulting in the eternal rotation of moods and ambiences. This is what we used to call as "nowadays pop music". And of course, it is really sexy, yet allowing no opportunity to vulgarize itself and those peoples subjected to it.

Tidy Kid - Toxic Feelings (2010)

Umor-rex
Lastfm

9.3

/Indietronica, Folktronica, Dream folk, Toytronica, Experimental folk, Crossover, IDM, Organic electronica, Lo-fi/

Comment: Tidy Kid has been active since the mid of 00`s providing titillating electronic shapes and shadows. 7 tracks of angular folk songs which are heavily undermined with sparkly IDM-based oscillations and lovely childish setups of chord shackles. Occasionally the album is filled in with intimate, dream-infiltrated approach (Toy Plane In Ice). Indeed, Tidy Kid is still able to avoid for being formulaic and predictable.

Kapala - Moon Rivers (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Psych-rock, Drone rock, Experimental rock, Avant-rock, Post-metal, Psychedelia, Stoner rock/

Comment: a decently droning psych/stoner-rock issue from Phoenix, Arizona, USA. The total embodiment of massively resonating guitars and psychedelic organs/spatially radiating electronica will be ascending into a whole as if being a part of a weird sort of symphony music. Such sound does have a bunch of kindred souls from the past and today (Talbot, Lee Noble, Silver Apples, Flora, Nadja, Spacemen 3).

Trudgernaut - You Won`t Come Around

cИстра - All My Friends Were Dead (2011)

Mimonot
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.3

/Alternative pop, Dream pop, Soft rock, Covers, Electronic pop/

Comment: great 3 tracks from Khabarovsk, Russia. You can find out from there some sort of sensible chart-appealed indie pop with some dance vibes and new wave-esque influences a la the late period Talk Talk running its post-rock path through the erstwhile shapes of synth pop. You can feel such kind of feeling while listening to their cover version of Dubstar`s Stars.

pEACEFANg - pEACEFANg EP (2010)

No-Source

9.0

/Folktronica, Dream folk, Indietronica, Post-folk, Chamber folk, Electronic, Organic electronica, Dream pop, Experimental folk, Art pop, Ambient pop/

Comment: by the download numbers at Archive.org pEACEFANg`s EP at the moment is being the most popular personal issue having ever been issued on No-Source, an American qualitative sonic brand. Lots of less lucid or more dream-filled subtleties can be found from here. Behind it is an American, A. Fischer, conjuring up on an acoustic guitar and Casio CT-310 synthesiser to getting a  change smoothly from one phase to another, from halcyon guitar-based pastels to beatific synthesised soaring to emotive glockenspiel interventions, thirdly all of that seems to be seamlessly intertwined while meeting each other. It may even remind of Slowdive's Pygmalion in its most quiet moments. Is it an example of artsy mood music? Indeed, it is. Predominantly it is slowed-down and buried yet it does not turn into a lethargic one. By its content it is a greatly uplifting and tranquil mixed release exploring the valences of mellow electronica/ambient, folk and indie.

Sobre A Máquina - Areia (2011)

Sinewave

9.2

/Fusion, Post-metal, Experimental rock, Avant-rock, Improvised music/

Comment: Sobre A Máquina is a Brazilian experimental combo delivering their second issue Areia, a follow-up to Decompor. Their instrumental approach is built on massive guitar dominance poisoned with piano chords, resonating mazes of noises, programmed beats, altogether gathering the enthralled ambience around those abovementioned sonic constituents. Yet, it goes far beyond the borders of post-rock and industrial rock, permitted to land somewhere inbetween post-metal and fusion (saxophone!) and dark wave. I recommend listen to Flora`s Trip (2010), and Wreck And Reference`s Black Cassette (2011) as well.