Atlas Sound - December 18, 2011 Bowery Ballroom (2011)

Nyctaper

9.2

/Alternative, Dream pop, Singer-songwriter, Ambient rock, Space pop, Experimental indie, Art pop/

Comment: Bradford Cox is a master-monster amongst the galaxy of nowadays indie/alternative pop musicians, though, he is not an elderly man at all. Cox is known due to his innovative explorations, at first, with the ambient/space rock/experimental indie group Deerhunter, and later regarding his solo project Atlas Sound. He issued a brand new album, called Parallax, under his solo moniker in 2011. This 15-piece gig should be seen related to the issue in the first place which, however, providing enthralling and fascinating dream-soaked notches within the acoustic guitar-driven strums and lofty sphere-filled ambiance. Though the music is created in a relatively simple way, built on repetitive patterns and loops and echoic effects, however, the touch coming out of it is potently striking and captivating. By listening to the gig, Bradford Cox already seems to be rather a representative of a new generation of singer-songwriters.

Helikäija - a new netmusic/label radio show at Raadio Marta

Helikäija

2 times in a month!

[Teaser of the day] leafes - leafes howls with the wolfs

The Vévé Seashore - A Cup of Coffee for Your Fears (2011)

DFBM
Lastfm

9.6

/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.

Chad Golda - original 9

mnttaB - HastingsBeach EP

Bandcamp

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)

Dusted Wax Kingdom
Lastfm

9.2

/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.

[Teaser of the day] Cults - Fire

Genka - Oleg Kosjugin EP (2011)

Legendaarne

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.

Shirubi Ikazuchi - Fantom City

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