December Nightskies - Cold Water (2012)

Misspelled

9.5

/Ambient, Soundscapes, Avant-garde, Dystopbient, Dark ambient, Illbient, Abstract/

Comment: glacial glow-alike shimmer which used to profoundly resonate and oscillate throughout the 4-track issue. Behind December Nightskies hides himself Kendall Keeler, a producer from Oklahoma, USA who makes up borealic kinds of soundscapes to conjure up the imagination of cold yet cozy winter. Mostly his soundscapes are restraint yet horrible as if were pulled out from within the realm of horror sci-fi. Imagine Count Dracula demolishing mercilessly human lives somewhere in the dark and very cold climate. By the way, the coverprint used to be as amazing as the music behind it. Reality meets fiction and both of them will tightly be mixed up with each other.

[Teaser of the day] Mizontiq - Wrapped In Glass (Find Me)

Delay Trees - Before I Go Go EP (2011)

Delay Trees
Lastfm

9.3

/Post-rock, Indie rock, Alternative rock, Crossover/

Comment: there are 5 tracks spreaded out over 19 minutes. DT (the quartet) originate from Helsinki-Hämeenlinna, Finland providing a subtle set of sonorous indie rock and more post-rock structured, crescendo-inflected mixed tendencies. You can be sure it is beautiful, enthralling and well treated which, however, consist of a loads of catchy turns and breathtaking spins.

The Peach Tree - The Other Side

The Chairman - Economies (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.9

/Alternative, Leftfield, Electro pop, Alternative dance, Electronic pop/

Comment: The Chairman is Sam Deere, Adelaide, Australia-based artist`s project who at the time provides 9-piece album, entitled as Economies. Deere fuses a vast array of cadences with acidic synth developments in hover. Sharp-edged rhythms are variegated with tricky, even funny changes. Yet, the issue`s album intention should not be misunderstood - it is not only about orthodox kind of dance/electro pop. Deere has managed to enter into the realm of psychedelic and indie-fused universe now and then. Furthermore, Chalk On The Blank Slate takes on energetic flamenco-tipped progressions amplified with orchestrations above catchy rhythms and guitar strums. Onward, he uses electro-drenched aggressive aesthetics filled in with drilling synth sticks, fast-changing breakbeat washes and lofty, infiltrated noise within it. All notches are instrumental. If to compare his undertaking with someone then Deere would be juxtaposed to Angus Maiden aka The Peach Tree, another Australian musician.

Mark Ge - Your Blues Are Rough (2011)

No-Source
Lastfm

8.8

/Singer-songwriter, Lo-fi, DIY, Anti-folk, Indie folk, Primitronica, Folk indie/

Comment: twanging guitars and lo-fi synth rhythms are craftily set up there to function as the background for pensive songwriting by Mark Ge, a singer-songwriter from USA who just published his debut issue on No-Source. Indeed, he does have barefaced flirt with unpolished sort of folk and electronic-inflected indie music. However, there are a pair of exceptions either - Road seems to be the only example which is more concretely treated inside the walls of recording studio. Peace and Noise showcases its sympathy toward murky type of songwriting. Mark Ge`s aesthetics can be compared with the likes of Gazebo In A Lake, The Home Stretch, Stereo Moon and at the times even the aesthetics of Bradford Cox. In a nutshell, I think Ge is a talented musician, however, I am very excited about his following albums in the foreseeable future.

[Teaser of the day] Pasqualino Ubaldini - Viaggio Sesto

The Cults - Contagious Spirits (2008)

Myspace
Mediafire
Lastfm

9.6

/Psych-rock, Krautrock, Avant-rock, Drone rock, Psychedelia, Doom rock, Electronic, Experimental rock

Comment: The Cults (though it is far away from being as famous as its namesake from NYC) provides a way how knee-deep psychedelia and compelling (and at times murky) psych-rock should meet droning electronics-induced madness and frantic desert rock. Indeed, the issue is built on repetitive shapes and motorik propulsions which can be juxtaposed to such juggernauts as Spacemen 3, Black Dice, Bardo Pond, Sonic Youth, Suicide, Silver Apples, and Jessamine. Though The Cults is highly experimental he used to not forget the balance between the aesthetics of cutting edge and more soulful, affective sides. For instance, you should listen to tracks like Communication From Elsewhere, Reflections, Fire. In a nutshell, the release awaits to be discovered and sung up to the level it deserves for by reflecting the passion and dedication of mad genius.

Off Land - Take Count

Obscuratus - Nebula (2011)

Censored Productions

9.3

/Illbient, Drone doom, Dark ambient, Dystopbient, Avant-garde, Non-music, Experimentalism/

Comment: there are represented 4 elongated progressions which used to explore the inner patterns and functioning of protruding doom, drone and illbient music. Indeed, it is deliberately creepy, monumental and malignant and captivating simultaneously. More profoundly, Obscuratus, Ukraine-based musician`s release is filled in with serpiginous shifts, demented shrieks, metallic blows and clangours, all of that is wrapped up in extremely slowly trudging choppiness. In a word, it seems to be as occult as black onyx used to be.