Taiunta - Suoraan Kohti (2010)

Oletustila
Lastfm

9.5

/Hip-hop, Psych-hop, Abstract, Avant-hop, Avant-funk, Experimental hip-hop/

Comment: Taiunta is a project by Henry Vistbacka, an idiosyncratic hip-hop musician from Finland. The debut album Korkeammalle was released in February 2007, the sophomore issue Suoraan Kohti in September 2010. In any cases, the last named album is one of the best hip-hop wholes I have ever heard because of not being hip-hop music in usual sense at all. Vistbacka is shooting incessantly rhymes which are supplemented with the veils of dark ambient, the cutting shards of witch house, obscure kind of club dance, and bent funk music. Taiunta continues the best traditions of vanguard-ish Finnish music (Pan Sonic, Erkki Kurenniemi, Paavoharju, Kimmo Pohjonen, Pekka Airaksinen, Kemialliset Ystävät, Kospel Zeithorn etc). A beautiful shit.

Dream Love - Love Juice (feat. Raw Thrills) (2011)

Noise Horror

9.8

/Space disco, Electro rock, Synth pop, Synth fusion, Glo-fi/

Comment: first of all, this 2-track release reminds me of some notches from the Latvian space disco/electro pop/synth rock/cosmic fusion combo Zodiac`s album Disco Alliance (1980, Melodija), one of the best Soviet pop albums (and more general too) ever. Those gurgitating synths are bucking with marvellous dash, however, displaying its retrodelic core and offering up futuristic possibilities as well. In a word, the past is the present is the future. The future was hidden under the veil of the past. By the way, the title track features Raw Thrills, one of the nowadays USA-related underground stalwarts. The publisher is Noise Horror, an outstanding platform for cassette music and singles. A God`s touch indeed.

The Peach Tree - Revel (2008)

Tribal Dancing Kid
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.0

/Techno pop, DIY, Electronic pop, Industrial rock, Singer-songwriter, Synth pop, Folk noir, Electro pop, Neofolk, Crossover/

Comment: Angus Maiden, an artist from Melbourne, Australia, has issued approximately a dozen of albums on his own Tribal Dancing Kid. This set of 13 tracks is about acidic techno pop, high-tempered electro beats, galvanic industrial dashes, dark-hued folk noir/singer-songwriter-ism, and stroking synth pop. In a nutshell, it is sympathetic in its DIY madness.

Huzur Isyanda - TRT Haber - Hayat+

Huzur isyanda - TRT Haber - Hayat+ from Viya on Vimeo.

Nice Age - Anything Nice (2011)

Bandcamp

9.4

/Punk, Noise rock, Psych-rock, Surf rock, Garage rock, Alternative rock, Fuzz rock/

Comment: the more I listen to Nice Age, a Denmark-rooted quartet the more it gets imposed on me. Why? Because of having pumped the simple concept of punk rock with enormous energy amount of garage rock/psych rock/surf rock energy wherein guitar feedback dims and hell-ish noise kinks (for instance, at the starting point!) figure out to function as really hitting. However, let`s stop here for this time. Punk is not dead as yet indeed.

Kent State - Spahn Ranch EP (2011)

Mediafire
Paranoid Futures
Lastfm
Soundcloud

9.2

/Alternative rock, Shoegaze, Garage rock, Fuzz rock, Experimental indie, DIY, Lo-fi/

Comment: in fact, it was not much time ago when I reviewed Nicholas Vance (with Emma Maatman, and Chris Camden) aka Kent States`s Challenger B/W single. By listening to Vance`s debut issue I can only admit that there is existing the flourishing indie scene (Dan Deacon, Ponytail, Romantic States, Cagey House, Wye Oak amongst others) in Baltimore. Spahn Ranch EP is described as psychedelic death pop at lastfm. Indeed, this cellophane-wrapped guitar fuzz is obviously influenced by the aesthetics of garage pop, Sonic Youth, and Slumberland-bound volatile guitar pop. By the kindred souls I recommend to listen to Andy`s Airport Of Love, and the Procedure Club.

My Silver Booster - 41 (2011)

Paragrafo

8.7

/Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Noise, Improvised music, Experimental rock, Primitronica, Psychedelia/

Comment: just one, 42-minute improvised free form notch. It comes from Italy and its appearance is quite freaked out thanks to its slowly toiling and roughly resonating guitar work which is permanently undermined by unpolished, bumpily billowy electronica and greige sonic effects. The issue is released on the Italian avant-garde/experimental label Paragrafo Records, however, you should listen to other ensembles (analognoisemonster, due samoani, awaycaboose and some artists as much again) under it too.

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Waitin' For The Orange Sunshine

Lorelle Meets The Obsolete - Waitin' For The Orange Sunshine (live at Mentira Mentira's place) from LMTO on Vimeo.

Metsu - As The Earth Drinks (2011)

Metsu
Bandcamp

9.1

/Post-metal, Crossover, Avant-metal, Sludge, Post-rock, Experimental rock, Math metal, Drone metal/

Comment: As The Earth Drinks is a debut album by a trio from Toronto, Ontario, Canada providing a diverse set of skewed metal/post-metal music which used to incorporate the elements of screamo, sludge, math and drone rock. Indeed, throughout the course it used to run in a way to be described as slowly punching and dilating, yet, only sometimes showing its more mellow and calming side.

Nheap - Clouds Under The Table (2011)

Acustronica
Lastfm

9.0

/Post-rock, Organic electronica, Experimental rock, Art rock, Instrumental rock, Fusion, Jazz/

Comment: I can only agree with the statement that creative music can also be warm, for instance, if to regard Massimo Discepoli`s 8-piece brand new one. More profoundly, you can mention that it is a lofty trudge alongside the shores of vibraphone-drenched and emphasized live drum-driven post-rock, and electric piano-dominated intimate jazz (and even imbued with fusion) progressions having lots of similarities with such groups as The Dylan Group, and Tortoise, and on the other side you can detect for the influence by Steve Reich`s Drumming, for instance. Moreover, Discepoli`s project does have a strong retrodelic touch within itself.