1/26/2012
The Vévé Seashore - A Cup of Coffee for Your Fears (2011)
/Forest folk, Avant-garde, New Weird Finland, Experimental folk, Leftfield, Indie folk, Folk indie, Psychedelic folk, Post-psychedelic electronica/
Comment: it is quite problematic to categorize this 6-track EP because it gives you no break and says that you should go to hell because you behave like a typical jerk of the bourgeoisie. However, frantic shifts between even more frantic endeavours of psych-folk, electronic experimentalism, knee-deep psychedelia, weirdly resonating ambient and elusive indie, all of that is channelized into a whole to function as one of the most enthralling issues in 2011. It veers from one extremity to another, yet, retaining their face without getting decreased or mutilated. Actually it is not surprising a jot, because the duo (previously trio) allegedly comes out from Finland, the country of the most radical and innovative folk (so-called forest folk) in Europe. You can draw parallels upon Silver Apples, Kospel Zeithorn, Kemialliset Ystävät, Speculativism, Paavoharju, Richard There. Thank you, Elroy Oversex, and Lord Fuck. This is our cup of coffee.
mnttaB - HastingsBeach EP
Bandcamp
9.2
9.2
/Post-punk, Electro-punk, Electroclash, Noise rock, Art punk,Alternative rock, Leftfield/
Comment: mnttaB, a Melbourne, Australian-based musical group offers up the washes of enormous energy and rough power. A handful of notches used to shift between galvanic electronic punk/demented electroclash and gritty post-punk undertakings. It draws parallels upon the likes of The Screamers, Nervous Gender, and The Fall. Indeed, it is very punk because it does not represent pure sort of punk.
Mizontiq - A Room Without Mirrors (2012)
/Trip-hop, Cinematic, Instrumental hip-hop, Fusion, Nu Jazz, Big beat, Crossover/
Comment: Mizontiq is a producer from Russia who fuses smoky, slightly dark-hued flickers with angular slo-mo cadences. His sound is already compared with Amon Tobin, Portishead, Massive Attack, and DJ Krush, of course, being done from different corners of a room. All these brooding sounds and creepy paces are wrapped up in vinyl-induced crackles and orchestrated soaring. Furthermore, on some tracks Mizontiq gets involved in the realms of heavy beats tightly blended with galvanized chords of guitars conjuring up fusion-alike sensitivity. In a nutshell, the result is astonishing and solid. ARWM is the third release if him, a follow-up to Tranquilmovie EP; Timeless Season LP). This 15-track album is published under the Bulgarian cult label Dusted Wax Kingdom.
1/25/2012
Genka - Oleg Kosjugin EP (2011)
Legendaarne
9.2
/Hip-hop, Urban music, Rap/
9.2
/Hip-hop, Urban music, Rap/
Comment: while the EP is introduced with the signal theme from Criminal Russia - Today`s Chronicles this 7-piece is directed upon Estonian drug dealers, womanizer-thiefs and other tough lads who have gotten much resonance here and away. But not only - it is also downrightly self-ironic and socially resonating hinting at the prejudical "world view" of pesky jerks and human beings with the attitude just-me-and-the-world-alone. The compositions are chanted in Estonian, the rhythms are arranged by Cool D (also known from A-Rühm), and performed by Genka (Toe Tag; A-Rühm), an important part of the Estonian hip-hop heavy artillery. The favorite of mine is Marraskil, a whimsical composition with witty lyrics.
1/24/2012
Gurdonark - Seven Virtues (2009)
Comment: Robert Nunnally, a 52-year-old musician/netaudio activist from Texas, USA had released his first album approximately 10 years ago. Additionally to the creation of music he runs Negative Sound Institute, a record label co-founded with Verian Thomas, another musician. Seven Virtues includes...surprise, surprise... seven tracks which at the first glance seem to be way too tedious and sparse. Yet, the more you are getting into it the more approval it gets. Actually its minimal undertones within ticking electronic progressions and more swelling visions and some propulsive forays and barely perceptible pitch and phase changes start to function finally demonstrating its strength and huge affinity. Indeed, the release is the kind of grower, and the whole seems to be bigger than its parts on their own.
˦eS‡∆iSL & Zoom-on-a-Kill - ∆uthentic Sexual Liberation (2011)
Bandcamp
9.4
9.4
/Witch house, Newbreed, Avan-garde, Avant-electronica, Drag, Trianglecore, Experimental electronica, Dark pop/
Comment: crosses and triangles. This 12-track album is as sharp as the razor blades on your face or on your ... . The collaboration act comes out from Mexico, providing truly angry and demented and on the other side some peculiarly soothing appearances running in the wake of witch house/newbreed/drag aesthetics. More concretely, hardcore, grindcore, (post-)dubstep, dark wave, ethereal sequences, and even some such sort of examples reflecting upon the aesthetics of cut and paste/sound collage - all these styles are seamlessly mixed up with each other showcasing the outlet as essentially convincing - however, outreaching the realm closely related to hipsters`bounce. Louder than bombs indeed. The instance of nowadays punk music for sure. I am sure Malcolm McLaren would have liked it.
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