1/14/2012
Younnat - Duct (2007)
/Poptronica, Easy Listening, Electronic pop, Retrodelica, Organic electronica, Lounge pop, Alternative, Chill out, Electro-indie/
Comment: if you are intended to search for poignant kind of loung/easy listening then Oleg Serdyuk aka Younnat`s music is one of the most reliable candidates for it. Duct was Serdyuk`s debut release (before he was known as the keyboard player in the line-up of Lюk (or Lyuk) from Kharkiv, Ukraine) issued both on Bump Foot, and Planear Records. More profoundly, you can enjoy enormously catchy surfing on retrodelic harmonies and frequent rotation of motives which at times resemble another slavic group, Messer Für Frau Müller, though, Younnat used to be unprovided with black humor. Anyway, the concluding track Djedai Arkadyi seems to exploit Los Kjarkas`s Llorando se fue (which was popularized by a cover of Kaoma, called Lambada).
The Gifted Children - Montgomery Blue Ash (2011)
Comment: The Gifted Children, a Buffalo/Rochester-rooted project. combines literate art rock, profound soft pop and catchy dance vibes and grooves on a 4-track EP. Recently there was reviewed a TGC`s Christmas compilation at RMH which was truly compelling and ethralling, however, displaying the band`s ability to manipulate with an vast array of different genres and enormous conciseness. Though, it is not surprising for an ensemble at all who has issued 5 long players and approximately 15 EPs during a period of 16 years. They need much more to be sung.
Pretty Ugly - Wine Cellar Elephants (2011)
9.2
/Experimental electronica, Indietronica, Experimental indie, Alternative, Leftfield/
Comment: Pretty Ugly is a project from Calgary, Alberta, Canada who offers up a pair of tracks. The self-titled opening is to have showed up clumsy beats tightly enlaced with the undercurrents (or is it above it?) of skipping electronica. The darling of mine is another notch, called Enrutcon, which observes a type of dashing indie music through broken electro glasses. The extraordinary element from within it are undulating radiowaves fluttering incessantly back and forth. Suggestive and eminent undoubtedly.
1/13/2012
Telafonica - Morpheme EP (2006)
/Electro-indie, Leftfield, Alternative, Indietronica, Experimental indie/
Comment: behind Sydney, Australia-based Telafonica are Adrian Elmer, David Hughes, and Marcella Hughes. (Adrian Elmer, for instance, is at the moment more known as a prolific reviewer at Cyclic Defrost, one of the coolest webzines all around the world). However, 6 years ago Telafonica functioned as a combo mixing up bouncy yet mesmerizing electro beats with slowly evolving indie scaffolds which are infiltrated with somewhat sound, hirsuit layers. After many laps on it you can admit all these 5 tracks are on the ball. A classic (whose longer version is available at Bandcamp).
Crimewaves - Eighteenth (2010)
Bandcamp
8.8
8.8
/Chillwave, Glo-fi, Dreamwave, Alternative, Post-pop, Poptronica, Electronic pop/
Comment: at first, it is said that Crimewaves is the result of a mixture of boredom, musical desire, and an obsession with sonic textures. Indeed, it may be that the most optimal place to enjoy the Las Vegas-based project would be siiting in armchair. Such a lazy yet blissed-out soundscape outreaches the boundaries of styles and genres, running across the fields of dreams and fiction. More detailly, these 6 notches are made up of the exploitation of reverie-soaked guitars, beatific keyboards, and some clicking in-between waking up and bringing the listener back to the real world.
Yeyo Moroder - Yeyo Moroder (2006)
Umor Rex
9.4
9.4
/Krautrock, Lo-fi, Psychedelia, Crossover, Avant-rock, Experimental indie, Experimental rock, Psych-folk/
Comment: The Mexican Gerardo Monsivais aka Yeyo Moroder`s 9-piece album is about how motorik can be twined with lo-fi-tinged folk and indie music in excellent way. More profoundly, all these offbeat repetitions, chopped-up effects, noisy yet spatial feedbacks are set up in a way to create a lopsided whirlpool involving the legacy of the likes of CAN, and Faust (though, the traces of the latter may be perceived even more). Furthermore, the listener can be a part of the fingerpicking of American Primitivism and shoegaze music. All in all, the result is excellent. The issue was released in 2006 on Umor Rex, an Mexican imprint.
1/12/2012
Babungus - Knuckle Chunder (2011)
/Breakcore, Downtempo, Nu jazz, Drill and bass, Sampledelic, Crossover, Sound collage/
Comment: Babungus is a hard-bitten producer who already started off in the mid of 90`s. His latest issue is about 18 notches which, by any means, offer a smorgasbord of intense paces and moods and currents. More profoundly, more or less rigid beats (jungle, downtempo, breakbeat, big beat) are tightly intertwined with bubbling electronica, smoky nu jazz-esque vibes, and sublime atmospherical layers above it. Now and then it reminds more of a case brought out from the sound collage/plunderphonics scene or is an instance of drill and bass music. In a word, a dizzy merry-go-round is set up here.
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