Zarach "Baal" Tharagh - Deadly Pale Face (2012)

Dipsomaniac

9.3

/Noise, Brutal metal, Crossover, Psychedelia, DIY, Avant-garde, Experimental metal, Avant-metal/

Comment: there are up 7 tracks crossing tightly noise and metal, nihilistic and black and essentially brutal. It involves massive noise washes, ominous moaning, some heavy guitar riffs and abrasive oscillation. Inspite of the abovementioned nihilistic endeavours the album can be considered a psychedelic one which recognizes the borders, though, consistently bringing them to test. This is a case how would have chimed Black Sabbath if they started today. In a word, it is thoroughly formidable in which the listener can be sure it is not about pop music or pop music in its positive sense at least. The negation of it is awesome.

Duncan Malashock - Secret Animals

Lastfm

9.2

/Avant-pop, Neokrautrock, Post-psychedelic electronica, Experimental rock, DIY, Experimental indie/

Comment: Duncan Malashock is a 30-year-old filmmaker, artist and musician from Brooklyn, USA who provides a handful of jubilant tracks veering out from electronic, motorik rock to carefully treated psychedelic plateaus. The ideas of Neu!, Faust, and even (early) Kraftwerk are finely represented there, though, these vistas might be brought forth through the influences of other musical groups. Furthermore, in addition to adequately measured dosages regarding sonic experiments Duncan Malashock gets benefited from creating crafty melodies and harmonic progressions (for instance, the best example is Non-Renewable Source Of Fun).

Logic Moon - Polygon Garden (2012)

Archaic Horizon
Lastfm

9.3

/Organic electronica, Epic, Experimental electronica, Crossover, Musique concrète, Experimental folk, Ambient/

Comment: in the first place, it is great pleasure to announce that the US-based Archaic Horizon, the record label is back again after a quite long timespan. There are up two releases, one of them is Tobias Lorsbach aka Logic Moon`s 4-track issue which takes on lofty folk music, undulating field recording terrains, and a prudent amount of electronically designed developments. There can be heard birds chirping, more or less moody throbbing, string-based plucking and single amplified chords. Its minimal concept is epic and beautiful.

[Teaser of the day] Raindeer - Apocalyptic Love

Richard There - If You Call Me

Void of Coil - Deadly Winter Snow (2008)

Archive.org
Ariel Chapuis

8.9

/Microtonal, Noise, Musique concrete, Organic electronica, Electro-acoustic, Minimalism, Dark ambient, Soundscapes, Avant-garde/

Comment: behind Void of Coil hides himself Ariel Chapuis (aka Ahcapap aka Playing With Nuns), a prolific Argentinian noisenik and off-kilter, peripheral sound producer. There are represented 8 tracks which used to function as the representatives of microtonal sounds. These soundscapes are almost inaudible, involving the aspects of haunting (dark) ambient, organic electro-acoustic, gritty microscopic noise, soothing minimalism, and some concrete sounds, all of them are tightly interlaced with each other.

Danubio Rodriguez - Ser espacial (2011)

Jamendo
Bandcamp

8.8

/Synth pop, Electro pop, Downtempo, Electronic pop, New Age/

Comment: there are up 3 tracks by Danubio Rodriguez, a musician from Uruguay who fuses guggling electro cadences and suggestive synth pop motives with some bombastic New Age and downtempo tendencies. In a nutshell, it is soothing, it is relaxing, it is simply fine music. Nothing more, nothing less. Just so. The more you listen to it the better it gets. It used to grow. And the coverprint is great.

Muuttuvat Kasvot - Muuttuvat Kasvot (2007)

Free Music Archive
OM HA SVA HA KSHA MA LA VA RA YAM

9.2

/Forest folk, Free folk, New Weird Finland, Drone folk, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Improvised music, New Weird Europe, Weird folk, Post-psychedelic electronica/

Comment: this 11-track takes on obscure yet charming reflections of an inner space which are made up of creeping raga-alike vistas, heavily droning psychedelia and loose compositions-improvisations. Jari Koho`s project comes out from Finland and can be compared to the likes of Vierivä Viiksiportieeri, Uton, Kemialliset Ystävät, and Keijo, all of them are Koho`s compatriots and part(s) of the so-called forest folk scene.

[Teaser of the day] Bigcolour - Nostalgic Ataraxy

Waskerley Way - Wind Shear (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.5

/Noise pop, Bedroom pop, Chillwave, New Weird Europe, Shoegazetronica, Experimental indie, Post-psychedelic electronica, Post-pop, Exotica pop/

Comment: Waskerley Way is the one-man-project from Newcastle, Great Britain who has issued a handful of releases over the last two years. Wind Shear involves three pieces which are heavily dubbed, noisefully but dreamily and psychedelically produced. Mikey`s oeuvre is essentially convincing, i.e stroking punching simultaneously thus showing up his ability to create astonishing tracks. All this stuff he has done so far it is not a common practice in Europe at all, more concretely, mixing up the elements of shoegaze, dream pop, exotica pop, chillwave, noise pop, weird folk, and bedroom pop he gets rather more close to the artists across the Atlantic. More profoundly, his music can be compared with the likes of Magicks, early Animal Collective, Chevalier Avant-garde, The Bilinda Butchers, Sekotis, Simon Bird, and Blackbird Blackbird.