4/17/2012
Badass Yuki - Cherry Tree Bonanza (2012)
/Madchester, Leftfield, Indie dance, Electronic pop, Acid rock, Art rock, Experimental rock, Alternative pop/rock, Alternative dance, Experimental indie/
Comment: one of the shipheads of nowadays Estonian indie rock movement Badass Yuki is back with a pair of brand new tracks. Mart Avi, Paul Sild, and Aigar Vals together have always produced very good sound (including their side project Stones & Holes, though, without Vals), though, they have never chimed so mesmerizing way. The opening track Cherry Tree Bonanza takes on eddying grooves made up of the elements of Madchester, aching indie pop, and some honky-tonk piano gears as if Happy Mondays were met with Dallas, the indie juggernaut throughout the 90`s from Tallinn). White Glove Theme is a more obscure one due to its throbbing layers and fluttering and clockwork effects which is built on gloomy synth progressions and gong strikes.
Hydropneumothorax / Surgical Infection - Split (2010)
/Grindcore, Hardcore punk, Noise rock, Death metal, Crossover/
Comment: I am experiencing these two musical projects for the first time. They have hammered down 20 short-running tracks with the assistance massive, brutal guitar attacks, heavily punching percussion and suggestive moaning. Furthermore, the titles of their notches are worth to be checked out alluding to amputation, medical malpractice, chronic and malignant diseases etc. Stylistically and by its main accents the whole could be categorized as an instance of misanthropic grindcore-ish (hardcore) punk which involves the aspects of death metal and off-kilter samples (some orchestrated snippets, spoken word bits, silence). Though, fortunately I have not heard about medical malpractices here in Estonia, all what regards the soundscape of the split it is highly convincing and not ridiculous at all.
Acid Toys Club - Ba ba baby songs (2010)
Bandcamp
8.0
/Indie pop, Alternative rock, Lo-fi, DIY/
8.0
/Indie pop, Alternative rock, Lo-fi, DIY/
Comment: it is quite problematic to say many words about this set of 4 tracks which is contained, silentful, minimally treated and actually having no hints at Madchester at all (as it is suggested on the Italian group`s Bandcamp site). It is rather DIY-tinged indie pop based on chiming guitar chords and lo-fi drenched twangs and embellished with lofty glockenspiel layers and baby`s babble once.
Projekt Luty - Monokl (2010)
Underpolen
9.0
9.0
/Punk, Weird pop, Avant-blues, Dada pop, Noise, DIY, Lo-fi, Non-music, Crossover, Freeformfreakout/
Comment: Projekt Luty (Jan Strach) provides a batch of stylistically loose notches which extend fromfrantic punk strikes and warped blues rock and intense dadaistic stuttering-mumbling and angst-induced shouts to lo-fi-tinged freeform freakouts, crackbrained mc-ing, defiant grindcore-ish moaning, beats-driven programmed mayhems and off-kilter ambient glimpses. The project is confident in Strach`s doings thereby laying out lots of energy coming out from these countless crevices. In a word, it used to be and not to be out of pop at the same time. Regarding this case, however, it is not contradiction at all. Horizont, and No
Escape are superb tracks.
Effendorf - Chemtrails Suite EP (2011)
Tachyon
8.8
8.8
/Experimental electronica, Krautrock, Psychedelic rock, Avant-rock, Experimental rock/
Comment: there are represented three tracks spreaded out over 31 minutes in all. Effendorf takes on brooding, undulating sonic effects and intriguing click-clacks permanently popping out from within the structure. Sometimes it displays a more "precise" kind of electronica, sometimes rocks off in its psychedelic frame thus respectively reminding a little bit of some German music compilations on cassettes in the 90`s and the enthralling sonic alchemistry by the primary and secondary krautrock-related echelon, more profoundly, veering away from the doings by Conrad Schnitzler to Neu!, and Harmonia. The album will be ended by more aggressive, heavily synth-driven chords.
Glander - Variations (2010)
/Dub-tech, Minimal dub, Deep dub, Funk dub, Tech-dub/
Comment: if to trying to categorize it somehow this 6-track release can be tagged "funk(y) dub". And if it used to be funky it is sexy either. Refined grooves are seamlessly laced up with thick oscillations and uplifting vibes. Of course, as the title hints at it the album does not always flourish throughout its course in the abovementioned way, however, being rather charmingly subdued and minimal and profound. A smart sort of music for sure.
Tellimine:
Kommentaarid (Atom)