Boy Crush - Hauntr (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Singer-songwriter, Lo-fi, DIY, Alternative pop, Psychedelic, Indie pop/

Comment: BC is a singer-songwriter from NY providing trash-filled, fluttering undertakings reminding of somewhat Wavves, Sparklehorse, and Neutral Milk Hotel. But not only - Dorothy Dale Diebold harks back to the aesthetics of Love. Lo-fi and DIY are keywords to describe his template. The set of 7 songs is simple yet it is tinged with highly melodic and harmonic corners evoking out from within the rusty programmed rhythms and resonating guitar strums and spacious vocal manners. The issue is to have slumped into psychedelic and blissed-out conflated pond. It is said at BC`s Bandcamp site that the albums was recorded in a haunted house and mostly the notches used to get involved with ghosts.

Black Veil Of Light - World of Light and Magic (2011)

BVOL
Lastfm

8.9

/Neoclassical, Dark wave, Alternative, Dark pop, Martial industrial, New Age/

Comment: there are up 8 tracks which charateristics are deeply into dark synth progressions undulating between symphonic, neoclassical and at times even New Age-alike soundscapes. The issue can be considered as an instance of characterizing the incessant fight between dark matter and...even a more dark-tinged substance. It is a distinguished drift between pensive and melancholic moods. If to check out a part of of the titles (Why We Must Die; The End Of Our Time; Post Apocalyptic; After The Calm Stillness) you can figure out that the term "post" is pertaining to the main topic. In a word, the outlet is charming and uncompromising simultaneously, inspite being 100% instrumental by the way. BVOL comes out of Slovakia starting with his doings in 2009 and having been very active since (approximately 10 albums are out). Though all the tracks are felicitous the last notch is truly outstanding through hypnotic shifts between darkwave, and shoegaze mixed high-registered layered and catchy cadences below it.

Honky Tonk Project - Elements (2010)

Honky Tonk Project

8.6

/Experimental electronica, Modern classical, IDM, Nu Jazz, Dark pop/

Comment: this 7-track (one of them is HTP`s remix) issue embarks on a slo-mo piano-driven melancholic introspection with some beatific bits of electronica surrounding it. Onward, the album used to pick up more abrasive and mashed bits and minutiae over time including obsessive shrieks, sharply glistening and fluttering electronica, chopped-up rhythms and near-sound collage aesthetics now and then. Furthermore, because of running on slo-mo mode and sometimes being murky, however, it is getting close to the realms of dubstep, and nu jazz breath. The favorite of mine are Microwave#2.

YOUAREHERE - Tape

Simiram - Talvinen Juttu (2011)

Elpa

9.0

/Downtempo, IDM, Poptronica, Chill out, Psyambient/

Comment: Talvinen Juttu is a follow-up to Somni (Winter) issued in 2010, and Loona issued in 2011 by Ivan "Simiram" Filin. He used to produce subtle shifts between majestic downtempo, poptronica, and IDM-patterned paces which are mixed up with the influences of ethnic music, enthralling symphonic and glacial reflets (as astonishing as St Elmo`s Fire), psychedelic trance progressions. It reminds a little of the outlets of Tunguska Electronic Music Society, a Russian based very interesting art/music collective with whom Filin has collaborated by the way. Finally, it is a little bit lazy but elegant sort of entertainment, however, in the first place thought for your brain and for your soul.

Malandrómeda - Que nos leve pra diante_MAXI (2011)

Malandròmeda

9.2

/Urban music, Hip-hop, Rap, Grime, Electro-hop, Crossover/

Comment: spanish (galician)-chanted electro-hop and grime. Indeed, this is the fourth issue by the gang who has issued music since 2006 (including one LP). The release involves 3 tracks which provides highly catchy and whimsical electro-drenched, jungle and dancehall-shuffled cadences and effect-laden undercurrents aside. The whole can be admitted organic and convincing, because of being dynamical and craftily variegated. This is a way how hip-hop should be produced.

Joxfield ProjeX - VoxLuxRabax (2011)

Tin Can Music

9.5

/Krautrock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock, Noise, Ambient, Improvised music, Noise rock, Ambient noise/

Comment: the unsung juggernauts of krautrock and the champions of avant-prog/experimental rock are back with their brand new heavy one. The first impression of mine is that the Swedish duo seems to be so loud and defiant as never being before. There are up 4 tracks, first time after a while not being issued on Clinical Archives. However, these long-running compositions are filled in with the shards of abrasive sonic metal and razor-edged smithereens, thereby challenging the eminent noise concept of rock done ever before - from My Bloody Valentine`s charming guitar noise and The Jesus & Mary Chain`s dirty feedback-centered resonation to harsh, obsessive concepts of Fushitsusha, and Gerogerigegege and, on the other side, (Le) Fly Pan Am`s (N`Ecoutez Pas) arty noise episodes and post-rock-mixed vistas and Borbetomagus` free jazz-relied improvised noise. Furthermore, the second part of the 3rd track/part (Ola & The Jugglers) does have managed to acquire a highly rhythmic template below the shrieking massives of guitar riffs and "indecipherable" sort of trash (you can perceive even fusion-alike progressions emitting out from it!) and the closing development Cats Sing Strange Songs fuses some sorts of experimental tendencies into glacial glow-hued ambient music. The result is as powerful as JP`s aspirations proclaimed on a handful of the albums before, though, this times having a little different point of view and galvanized aspect. However, you can call it even the kind of white metal, because of its enormous, braw shape (though having more frantic impetus within it). Well done, Oax, and Yan.

Jeesh - Clock Town Carnival

Enko - Sister (2009)

Bypass
Lastfm

8.8

/Experimental electronica, Abstract techno, Glitch techno, Industrial techno, Avant-electronica, IDM/

Comment: it might be you have already experienced sharing of the albums of Enko, a Ukraine-based electronic producer and IDM musician. His music is colourful and it comes up to the listener. Quite short-running notches are represented there, though, the ones are craftily soaked with experimental angles and somehow propulsive compositions. The 10-piece release is set for being far away from the common understanding and perception of electronica/IDM, because of being frequently heavily abstract, glitch-drenched industrial techno. Indeed, it is playful and punching simultaneously. Of course, it is not the most sharpest pencil on his pen-case, yet, it is highly enjoyable.

Fabio Keiner - Seagram Studies (2011)

Treetrunk

8.8

/Guitar ambient, Post-rock, Minimalism, Dystopbient, Soundscapes, Drone, Conceptual/

Comment: Fabio Keiner`s Seagram Studies is a kind of conceptual album because it tries to make audible the visual art of Mark Rothko. However, these minimally evolving guitar-based ambient and drone do have impact on the listener. It is rather rigid than warm, rather boisterous than soothing. Indeed, these 8 soundscapes are infiltrated with dystopic tacks and plaques, it is rather cosmic dust than earthborn sand. Now and then it used to exploit tight undulation and repeating on one loop, which in turn used to dilatate and then acquire layers and getting more burdened on its concept.