Monster Rally - Crystal Ball (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Chillwave, Lounge pop, Exotica pop, Glo-fi, Sampledelic, Psychedelic pop, Cut and paste/

Comment: Monster Rally is back with his new album, yet, the formula is continuously same. Blissed-out sample-driven psychedelic/lounge pop where glo-fi meets exotica pop. 17 short-running glimpses will pop out from the recycle bin of pop music making up an uplifting, hitting touch in this way. Indeed, Monster Rally is still the one and only and his muzak schemes used to work perfectly. La Kooka is the favorite of mine.

Katechontico - Avantgarding Christmas (2007)

Bellagioia

9.3

/Noise, Experimentalism, Electro-acoustic, Avant-industrial, Minimal, Microtonal, Avant-garde/

Comment: Christmas music? Music for holidays? Why not. Especially if it happens to be vanguard-ish. Restraint yet lush noiseful scapes which are filled in with the fresh breath of air and electro-acoustic coat a times. Now and then it gets quite symphonic or psychedelic parameters or even microscopic dance-appealed oscillation. Crafty and well sublimely balanced. Behind Katechontico and Bellagioia label is Roberto Maldoror Manfredini, an outstanding Italian noisenik.

Vziel Projet - Rotten Music: The Legacy (2011)

Popsakal

8.4

/Black folk, Experimental folk, Neofolk, Avant-folk, Improvised music/

Comment: yelling, highly desperate vocal lines above dark-hued folk strumming. Just one track a little more than for 18 minutes. The sung language is not decipherable. From Ukraine.

Mister M - Soundtracks Vol1 (2011)

Jamendo

8.8

/Post-rock, Soundtrack, Dark pop, Neoclassical, Crossover, Classical/

Comment: a smorgasboard of sonic layers and pieces...from crescent rock-ish appearances to dreamy or more malignant (neo)classical symphonies, from punching piano-driven chords to colourful slow tempo electro(nica) at times resembling of the soundtrack for a funest movie. For instance, if you like Yann Tiersen, then this 12-track issue does have perspective to enter into your mind.

Stendek - Blouf (2010)

NoEcho

9.2

/Experimental electronica, Psychedelic dance, Techno, IDM, Dubstep/

Comment: Stendek comes out from Poland. He offers a set of different kind of beats mixed up with atmospherical vistas and psychedelic clouds set farctately around it. At times it reminds of the outputs by the Estonian electronic music composer Sven Grünberg. A lucid revelation indeed.

Richard There - Musical Rapes (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.7

/Neofolk, Avant-garde, Folk noir, Covers, Experimentalism, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: it is said that there are represented Nirvana, Lydia Lunch, Alien Sex Fiend, The Flaming Lips, Syd Barret, The Goodluck Boys, Daniel Johnston, Frank Sinatra, Donovan, Leonard Cohen and Luna !!! All together in a musical orgy with Richard There!!! Indeed, all is mixed up in this way. While these songs can partially be considered as cover songs, however, it does have very strong touch by There, offering peculiar and surrealistic visions, all of that wrapped up by nihilistic dark-hued folk spasms. And finally, don`t forget, you should not support the musical industry who is intended to poison our minds, destroy our dignity and manipulate with our money. Rather support the Palestinian children who shall have to cope with their everyday life.

The Wind Whistles - Turtle

Ocaixi - Jove Carn Japonesa (2006)

Hamsterloco
Lastfm

8.8

/J-pop, Breakcore, Experimental electronica, Lo-fi, Noise/

Comment: breaks, breakx, breakx... . Off-kilter and blurred visions. Lo-fi experimentalism and noisy forays. Catalonia, Japan... . Karaoke folk? A naivistic yet desperate disco dancer. Distorted yet witty techno. Hamsterloco. For more quotations you shall have to listen to this 16-track album.

Kent State - Challenger B​/​W 2814 (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Fuzz pop, Noise rock, Post-punk, Sheogaze, Alternative rock/

Comment: a combo from Baltimore, Maryland. Cellophane-coated guitars and roughly stomping drums coming out from the compartment of shoegaze and post-punk music. In a word, two noiseful ditties which seem to be quite unusual. Awesome indeed.

Due Samoani - Saturae Cubiculae (2011)

Paragrafo

9.4

/Experimental rock, Art rock, Avant-blues, Experimental indie, Avant-rock, Noise rock, Post-industrial/

Comment: this is a classy sequel to Samoani`s masterpiece Early Tapes (2011, Paragrafo). If Early Tapes did have concentration more on krautrock-ish and wicked rock explorations then this new one used to gather both grits of experimental rock and innovative indie touch. Of course, there are represented much more as well (Captain Beefheart-esque abrasive blues rock, noisy art rock). By the way, all these instrumental notches are entitled with the names of famous basketball players worldwide.