10/12/2011
DJ Nerd42 - Deltron 3742 (2011)
Bandcamp
9.3
9.3
/Mash-up, Plunderphonics, Cut and paste, Sampledelic, Urban music, Hip-hop, Sound collage, Experimental hip-hop, Avant-hop/
Comment: future-hop? Sci-fi-hop? Dystop-hop? First of all, it is a gem of great beats (made from sampling Final Fantasy VII soundtrack), tense milieus and stoned yet hypnotizing lyrics (by Deltron 3030). Indeed, aliens come over to conquer the streets. Or are these people to mask and fight their eternal war forward? In fact, the future is now.
Ielangir - planet's end, planet's elegy (2011)
/J-pop, Shibuya-kei, Dream pop, Toytronica, Easy listening, Nu-jazz, Experimental indie/
Comment: wow, it is undoubtedly a crafty set of 4 tracks. More concretely, it mostly balances between jazz-alike standards and amusingly infantile shibuya-kei-ish gliding. It chimes and twists incessantly. Like a dream having no possibility to be matched in your brain and glias. In conclusion, such soundscape could make your day...and your tomorrows as well. And improves you to be reborn and get a better person too. Seriously.
Polyvinyl - Sampler (2011)
Polyvinyl
8.0
8.0
/Indie pop, Experimental indie, Alternative pop/rock, Art pop, Shoegaze/
Comment: Polyvinyl has been the home place for many important indie artists. The label celebrated its 15-year anniversary this year. Here are represented the likes of Deerhoof, Of Montreal, Xiu Xiu, Architecture In Helsinki, Asobi Seksu, Japandroids and many others. Indeed, enjoy and pay tribute to Polyvinyl either.
10/11/2011
Matt Stevens - Relic (2011)
/Experimental rock, Art-rock, Post-rock, Math rock, Progressive rock, Experimental electronica/
Comment: if someone would be able to have a bird`s-eye view upon this 10-track albumthen this would just be entitled as post-rock. Actually it has much more to be hidden for the tight sight above and below the layers. For instance, flamenco-infected guitar arpeggios are merged with sublime dance-appealed cadences which in turn are blurred with lofty advance making to be transmitted to progressive rock/and math rock now and then. Futhermore, it incorporates the concepts of biting wave-edit techniques/digital noise. However, the Londoner Matt Stevens`s approach resembles a bit of the doings by the Mancunian Vini Reilly (Durutti Column) - could you remember for those easy, flyaway guitar chords conjuring up the whiffs of magic and free spirited grits around the listener. A potent result undoubtedly.
Wolfredt - Wolfredt (2011)
Bandcamp
8.8
8.8
/Shoegazetronica, Post-rock, Indietronica, Experimental indie, Alternative, Leftfield/
Comment: behind Wolfredt hides himself Margus Voolpriit (born in 1973) who has been known as the drummer in some eminent Estonian indie combos (Dreamphish; Pia Fraus) throughout 90`s and 00`s. Regarding Wolfredt he has traded drums and kits to guitars and electronic devices. He makes his vista up with the help of rising, atmospherical guitars, pulsating electronics, a few sonic effects, which ultimately provides enough aesthetical joy and relaxing ambience. Stylistically it mostly veers away indietronica, post-rock, and electronic shoegaze. The last track is a cover version of a track of Picnic, an indie group consisting of a couple of the previous members of Dreamphish (indeed, the issue needs more for such sort of lush (female) vocal lines provided by Marju Taukar aka Marjusass).
Sun Deers - Shaman Colours EP (2011)
/Free folk, Chillwave, Exotica pop, Poptronica, Tropical pop, Electronic pop, Glo-fi, Dream pop, Alternative/
Comment: actually I cannot agree with one site suggesting that this album is far away from the best because of having no goal. What does it mean having the goal at all? Actually the album can successfully exist of having no visible goal. For instance, these 6 tracks conjure up chillwave-ish running mixed up with the frames of exotica pop, thus resembling of Monster Rally, for instance. Furthermore, it provides free folk-ish ecstasy and tropical pop-loaded mist either. Great work!
10/10/2011
10/09/2011
Lizard Kisses - Tiny Island Teeth (2011)
/Alt-folk, Dream folk, Indie folk, Americana, Folk indie, Baroque folk, Experimental indie, Art pop, New Weird America/
Comment: heck, my heart got broken once again...they made it again...indeed, once again listening to this Brooklyn-based girl-boy ensemble I got profoundly bewitched and satisfied with those bottomless bittersweet feelings and stings in the chest. More detailly, Cory Siegler & Marc Merza`s sound is filled with austere soundscape yet it is so fantastically accentuated and spiced out with other segments (found sounds, Balkan music themes, theremin-afforded screeches) that this makes your day. By the way, this time the duo is assisted by a handful of contributors. One of the best issues of 2011 so far (where are the reviews by Pitchfork, Drowned In Sound and other such sort of juggernauts?).
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