2/11/2012
Winstonmcnamara - Dustbeen (2011)
/Expermental indie, Folk indie, Singer-songwriter, Americana, Psychedelic folk, Baroque pop, Art folk, Indie folk/
Comment: Winstonmcnamara is a musician from Wankona, Italy who had issued the debut album Amore E Iodio on 42 Records/24 in 2011. The follow-up Dustbeen is represented by far more radical turns regarding his songwriting approach because of replacing Italian to English and offering up more subtlety and a wider range of dynamism in composition. His voice is remarkably subdued and channelized through the filters. Indeed, the outlet is highly captivating which is already compared with the likes of Beck, Atlas Sound and Sparklehouse. All is right except the fact that Beck used to chime more tedious on the most of his albums. However, besides electronics-soaked guitar twangs augmented with crispy programmed beats (those vintage synth sounds/effects are absolutely outasight) and the listener can detect the influences of lush Americana, harmonica-driven southern rock, enthralling orchestrated/baroque pop, whimsical art rock. However, the favorite of mine is the 13-minute length The Ballad of Crooked Smiles which starts out with fragile Americana-galvanized whiffs, though, soon developing into more noiseful wah-wah templates and synth effects which in turn will arrive at Mercury Rev-tinged elusive pop once again. Never mind, all the pieces on it are superb (produced for the time span of 2000-2009). In a word, enjoy it!
Teen-A-Bang! - Homoviolence E.P (2012)
StoneAge
9.4
9.4
/Hardcore punk, Oi! punk, Punk rock, Post-punk, Live, Electro-rock, Trash rock, Grrrl Riot, Noise rock, Dance punk, Alternative rock/
Comment: just one EP, just 6 tracks spreading out over 11 minutes. This EP is thought for you oi! punks, for you hardcore punks, but also for post-punks/alternative rock fans (frequently these notches used to remind of Elastica, especially Dancing Song with dense electro vibes and electronic-charged effects - the track is performed live). Generally, the EP provides disillusioned sort of vision played with the assistance of demented guitars, angered drum sequences and (half-)shrieking female vocal line chiming as convincing as a lush, old school-ish undertaking. The collective comes out from Jakarta, Indonesia. The collective is compared with such artists as Bikini Kill, Even Worse, and Dara Puspita! Indeed, it´s power, it`s our punk and roll! It`s essential! Check it out and get this wash!
HLFP 03 - NEW KIDS ON THE BLOG (2008)
HLFP
9.3
9.3
/Psychedelic rock, Psychedelia, Alternative pop/rock, Trance rock, Experimental indie, Fuzz pop, Blues, Avant-rock, Lo-fi, Experimental rock, DIY/
Comment: Homemade-Lofi-Psych is a blog/records which has been making thankful job by promoting lots of unsung yet intricate artists for some years. At New Kids On The Blog are represented 16 notches by musicians and groups who used to rock in more or less straightforward ways conveying dominantly psychedelic tunes and compelling overdrives. However, "psychedelic" is the common adjective for the miscellany being crossbreeded with the aesthetics of lo-fi/DIY, blues, space rock, improvised music, experimental indie, fusion, alternative pop, leftfield, Shoegaze, fuzz pop. The favorites of mine on it are Rangers` Volvo Jungle Mist which resembles of the doings by Ariel Pink mixed up with the connotations of trance rock , and Shalloboi`s enthralling shoegaze/power pop exploration (Angels Floating On The Head Of A Pin). It is said very exactly at the blog home site that these are musical groups who are unimpressed by the mainstream plastic pop world. The miscellany involves the array of following artists: Rancho Relaxo, St. James Infirmary, Rangers, Tapio Oksa, Barnyard, Grass Monkey, Microgramma Medium Extended, Lucas Nathan, dANIL (Todessterne 007), Pan Amp, 3XCX3 Project, Brian Andrew Marek, Shalloboi, Traummachine, Bill Rogers, Andrew Bland And Steve Logel. A splendid set.
2/10/2012
aboombong - Taking Blue Mountain By Stages (2011)
/Krautrock, Ambient rock, Dark ambient, post-rock, Ambient noise, Experimental rock, Drone rock, Space rock, Crossover, Epic, Trance rock, Noise rock, Ambient, Avant-rock/
Comment: J. C. Thorne is a Seattle-based musician/unsung experimentalist who is being active for many decades and has appeared in a batch of projects. However, aboombong is his main project where he used to show up his ingenious characteristics (listen to his ten-points albums like amnemonic, and asynchronic). This time Thorne blends resonating space/krautrock-ish epic noise with more or less dark ambient-alike layers (or is it ascended into symphonic endeavours already?) and mellow yet propulsive industrial rock/avant-noise somewhat similarly to the late period of Einstuerzende Neubauten (indeed, his timbre and singing manner do resemble a little bit of Blixa Bargeld`s distinct ones). Additionally to Neubauten you can draw parallels upon the likes of Spacemen 3, Spiritualized (trance/drone rock elements), Children Of The Drone`s most cosmic incantations and even Tim Hecker`s borealic landscapes. It is longing and powerfully appealing at the same time. Ultimately, if you discover J.C Thorne`s art for yourselves the history will (partly) be re-written.
Ohrchitekt - Snakeseed (2009)
Pharmacom
8.8
8.8
/Breakcore, Glitchtronica, Electro pop, Electro, Industrial electro, Brekabeat, Breaks, Club dance/
Comment: there are up 14 tracks by Ohrchitekt (Carsten Lehmann), a Germany-based producer whose main concept is to evoke breakcore-charged conceptions. Indeed, Ohrchitekt`s pieces are very tight and galvanized ones, with no pause for resting time; those breakbeat/breakcore-centered pieces are filled in with the elements of billowy electro, glitch-filled smithereens, industrial-drenched noise, stutteringly running sonic effect-related madness. It is though for dancing at full speed and just for listening and enjoying. Very good indeed.
Bidibop - Be (2011)
8.9
/Indie pop, Indietronica, Electronic pop, Organic electronica, Alternative, Leftfield, Experimental indie/
Comment: the Frenchman Vincent Nicolas aka Bidibop fuses electronica and indie pop and angular glitches in an elegant way. In comparison with his (previous) band Un Automne à Lob-nor (with Sèbastien Roux, Jean-Nicolas Heillouis, Alexandre Gouy) Bidibop`s sound is intended to be remarkably more indietronic and less post-rock by its orientation. Dominantly Nicolas` oeuvre is instrumental, there is only one notch where he used to sing (though, he does it very well). It is said that his only aim is to create pop. Indeed, by listening to the album you get convinced the release does have its own place amongst indie and electronica mixing musicians so widely appeared in Central Europe (The Notwist, Wixel, Oto Efekt, Lali Puna, Nogaro, Cantaloup, Julian Winter and others).
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