Assault Squad Safety Scissors - Tapes Have A Way of Holding Things Together (2008)

CLLCT
Lastfm

9.0

/Indie, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Folk indie, Lo-fi/

Comment: Andre Allingham, a resident from Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the person behind this funny entitled project. The 8-piece album is a part of the glorious CLLCT scene, though, initially released on Best Kept Secret Tapes, a small indie label. These tracks take on lush guitar twangs, dreamy vocal manner. However, ultimately you can admit it is a decent indie release due to its flourishing turns and warm progressions. By the way, Allingham`s aesthetics is approved by Jarvis Cocker. Jarvis cannot be wrong!

Cultus Sabbati - Woden`s Galder (2011)

Cultus Sabbati

9.4

/Illbient, Noise, Avant-garde, Power electronics, Dark ambient, Witch noise/

Comment: noise music can have lots of faces and facets, one of which, furthermore, one of the best ones is provided by Cultus Sabbati. Intense yet lush brown noise is variegated with signal-based undercurrents and epic, martial industrial progressions. At times CS`s noiseful soundscape used to get more involved in rhythmic, even dance-appealed undertakings (Twigs). Though the 4-piece issue is an intense one you can detect a highly mental approach and touch oozing out from within it. Cultus Sabbati`s sound is somewhat similar to the likes of NON, Grunt, Edgeist, Maurizio Bianchi, Marc Broude, Subterrestrial. An impressive outlet which is way too malignant for all sort of pop-related stuff.

Mr. Dee & Ms. Dee - Rain EP (2011)

Bump Foot

9.2

/Techno, Club dance, Deep techno, Remixes/

Comment: a single accomplished with a pair of remixes. Gloomy, glacial glow-alike techno music which, on the other side, provides a bouncy, crispy feeling. While it sounds almost like an instance of the vibes of dance club-centered deep techno it outreaches the boundaries of it due to dystopic seeds within it.

Det mekaniska undret - Mariaplan med Svartbjörn (2011)

God Pollutes - Introverted Kosmonaut (2011)

Dark: Scene
Lastfm

9.3

/Post-rock, Experimental rock, Ambient rock, Epic, Avant-rock/

Comment: this is an experimental rock-relied looming from Macedonia. At times it takes on a more usual song structured compositions, at times it gets stuck in the undulation of hazy guitar-driven progressions - being amplified, developed and therefore freezed for the rest of time. It reminds of Mogwai`s (best yet impudently underrated album) Come On Die Young (1999). For instance, Leaving Praha is charmingly monotonous and as dark as onyx used to be. On the other side, Sjw (Please Work) provides longing moments. Out With the Headphones rings like you are standing under waterfall - such a massive while lofty rock monolith. Or Introvert which is a bristled, noise-infiltrated incantation. In a nutshell, you should more look at the post-rock scene in Macedonia - there are represented artists really worth to be discovered for.

The Air Was Thick - Prototype 1.0 (2011)

Canata
Lastfm

8.7

/Alternative rock, Shoegaze, Noise rock/

Comment: Damian Hughes, Andrey Pavlovic, and Tom Peden from Wakefield, UK established TAWT after the demise of their old project Candid Squash, and Lover Octave. Indeed, it is their debut album where 32 minutes are spreaded out over 8 tracks and issued on the Japanese label Cnata Records. By and large, the trio combines glowering guitar lines with heavily stomping drums. The group can be compared with the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, This Lonely Crowd, Inverness, and Ride.

Acquired Syphilis - Big Titty Babe Begs For Orgasm (2010)

Dis-Organ-Ized

8.8

/Goregrind, Porngrind, Grindcore, Experimental metal, Brutal metal/

Comment: as you have already figured out this album is about earthquake-esque goregrind and slobbery porn. 12 very short extreme metal blowups are introduced with the snippets from porn videos. However, the album makes a huge impact on the listener because of ferocious energy pouring out from every bits and slots.

Clinker - Isolation

Cosmos Laguna - Karma Cleaner (2011)

Trash Can Dance

9.1

/Industrial electro, EBM, Industrial trance, Synth industrial, Alternative, Dark synth/

Comment: Cosmos Laguna is a brooding industrial electro act with apparent dodges by the side of trance and dark wave/synth music. Of course, the reference of mine must not be misunderstood. The album has nothing to do with the kind of cheesy trance acrobatics, though, some tracks show up weird dance-appealed vibes. Otherwise massively piercing beats and drilling electro forays are surrounded by wraith-alike veil and tight murky vapour. Behind this idiosyncratic project is Alari Keskla, a 33-year-old producer from Estonia. The album is released on the Estonian underground (CD-R) label Trash Can Dance.

elektrolandmusik - automat (2010)

Bandcamp
Elektrolandmusik
Archive.org
Lastfm

9.0

/Electro-acoustic, Experimental electronica, Acousmatics, Avant-garde, Toytronica/

Comment: elektrolandmusik provides a handful of compositions, made up of natural, repetitive xylophone-alike cuts and sequences wrapped up in loose electro-acoustic environments. Indeed, at times it rings like an explorative act on toytronic music based on the sounds of a modular synthesizer. The musician`s experiments resemble of the Finnish project Thuoom`s first album.