3/24/2012
Balam Acab - Downloads (2010)
Lastfm
9.5
9.5
/Post-dubstep, Witch house, Dreamwave, Drag house, Trianglecore, Avant-electronica, Experimental electronica/
Comment: Alec Koone aka Balam Acab is a musician who does not to be closely introduced, though. During the last years he has meritedly gained huge popularity due to his issues such as See Birds, and Wander/Wonder through the blogosphere and the year`s top rankings. There are up two ditties (See Birds, Heavy Living Things) which are ethereal and dreamy yet somehow malignant and ghastly on their own. The listener can detect irresistible glacial glow-alike glimpses coming forth from within the thick wall of bewitching smog. Indeed, Alec Koone is a glimmering part of the (post-) dubstep and witch house/drag house movement.
àrbore & apenino - Animals Are Not Things! (2012)
/Free folk, Dream folk, Musique concrète, New Weird Europe, Psych-folk, New Weird Spain, Freak folk/
Comment: Rafael Romero aka àrbore (guitars), and apenino (ukeleles) are the troubadours from Spain who have dedicated this 14-album to animals who are killed, vivisected, served as clothing, trained/tortured for entertainment and so on for every day. The purpose of the artists is to convince us, the listeners become vegan. Sonically it is a quite austere pursuit chiming organically and seamlessly. More profoundly, thoughtful acoustic guitar chord sequences are mixed up with concrete sounds including the voices of domestic animals. Sometimes àrbore whistles in the middle of dominantly instrumental compositions, changing chords and tonalities or playing on minimally shaped patterns and repetitive explorations. Furthermore, at Ngetal, and Tini Mandarini the duo is inclined to enter into a more obscure psych-folk plot. The general result is bucolic and innocent. In a word, an enjoyable one by any means. By the way, there are up a pair of covers originally created by Bill Callahan, and The Silver Jews.
Flying Monkeys - Random Songs From 2005 (2005)
Lastfm
9.0
9.0
/Punk rock, Alternative, DIY, Lo-fi, Hardcore punk, Oi! punk/
Comment: Flying Monkeys was a Chicago-based punk group consisting of Riot Cross, and Calvin Chaos aka Xombie Panic. Their sound is truly lo-fi, rough, and dirty, more concretely, all of that is recorded on a 4-track recorder and sounding like having it done without exploiting any plugs and other "normal" devices. Yet, their DIY-aesthetics is highly charming, suggestive, and even exulting now and then involving the elements of oi!, and hardcore-esque noodling at a high frequency. In a word, these 10 short-running blasts (spreaded out over 13 minutes) are worth to be checked out for.
3/23/2012
Bob Ostertag - Say No More (2011)
/Improvised music, Avant-garde, Noise, Experimentalism, Free jazz, Chamber music/
Comment: originally these two long-running compositions were created approximately 20 years ago with the help of such legends as Joey Baron (percussion), Mark Dresser (bass), Phil Minton (vocal), and Gerry Hemingway (percussion). Initially the layers of the compositions were played in and recorded apart from each other and later elaborated and brushed up by Bob Ostertag and thereafter sent back to the musicians to learn their parts. The collective was born in this way. However, the outlet is very intense, noisy, and abrasive being immersed in various stylistic elements - extending from dizzy drumming snippets and Minton`s mad vowel/lycanthropic improvisations to few more subdued incantations embellished with the elements of chamber music all of that is wrapped up with the electro-acoustic ambiance. In a word, it sounds like a punk record within the plot of jazz world. In fact, it is much worth if to juxtapose it to a point on the average punk record scale.
Huixtralizer - Rasguño EP (2012)
A.M.P-RECS
9.1
9.1
/Dark ambient, Ambient noise, Avant-garde, Illbient, Experimental electronica, Noise/
Comment: Josè Soberanes aka Huixtralizer, an experimental music producer from Tula, Mexico provides 3 tracks which used to run on dirty, unpolished pathways made up of subdued (though, it is maliciously harsh now and then) noise and ambient, or even veering away the tendencies of subtle borealic vibes and scintillations (like Tim Hecker`s albums in the beginning of 00s). It can be assured the whole can be perceived lush and noiseful simultaneously. The issue is released on the legendary A.M.P-RECS.
Power Animal - Exorcism (2012)
Human Kindness Overflowing
Crash Symbols
9.4
Crash Symbols
9.4
/Experimental indie, Post-psychedelic electronica, Leftfield, Glo-fi, Alternative, Electronic pop, Poptronica, Sampledelic/
Comment: there are up 11 tracks which used to occasion lots of damnable vivid moments and miraculous feelings coming out from within me. It is neither pure electronic pop nor clear-cut indie pop - it is laid down somewhere in between. It is not even a chillwave/glo-fi act, it rather resembles of the sample-based/sampledelic works by The Avalanches or something like that which used to build on conspicuous warped pop visions. The project comes out from Philadelphia, USA. It is truly suggestive and enthralling now and then.
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