Summertime's End - Light And Colour (2012)

Bandcamp

8.9

/Chamber pop, Indie pop, Electronic pop, Baroque pop, Alternative pop/

Comment: these 10 pieces are moody revealations introduced with the chords of a piano and backed up with chiming synths, galvanized guitars and mellow vocal lines. It is a little melancholic and sad like the end of summertime, though, on the other side, having managed to be full of hopes and refreshing air. Throughout the course some tracks reveal themselves in a little bit simplistic, cheesy way, the other ones used to be more treated, sophisticated contemplations. However, the eminent tracks used to be Light And Colour, Airport Dreams, Until Blue Skies Return, and There`s Room On My Trolley For Two. 

Drugstore – Gaia EP (2012)

 Cicuta

8.8

/Psytrance, Acid techno, Electronic pop/

Comment: Drugstone`s album is an example of how psytrance-loaded thudding is successfully interlaced with the oscillations of electronic pop and angular techno vibes resembling of the ones having dominated in the beginning of the 90`s. Half of the whole is made up of remixes. In a word, it is interesting and intriguing.

Pilesar - Pilesar`s Ugly Children (2012)

Zeromoon

9.2

/Noise, Krautrock, DIY, Avant-garde, Sound collage, Avant-industrial, Experimentalism, Sampledelic, Psycho-acoustic, Acousmatics/

Comment: Pilesar is being known due to his lo-fi and primitivistic oeuvres for creating of which he used to exploit microphone, broken effects pedals, voice and some other instruments. He has issued a batch of releases under his own label, called Chameleon Dish Archives. This time he represents the brand of Zeromoon. This time his new album is filled in with 11 dazzling patchworks consisting of unbridled noises, dissonating cut-ups and lopsided rhythmic patterns. The whole veers away from obscure noise music and ghastly psycho-acoustic visions to more krautrock-loaded propulsions and early industrial vibes. Very exciting indeed.

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Derek Clegg - Life Unfolds (2012)

  

Bandcamp

Lastfm

8.6

/Alt-folk, Indie folk, Singer-songwriter, Folk indie, Americana/

Comment: The Chicago-based musician Derek Clegg is back with his brand new one. Indie folk/alt-folk business as usual though including some exceptions. This 8-track album is built on lush guitar twangs and chirps and chiming yet dolefully mannered vocal undertaking which is turn are spiced up with some keyboard chords and half-orchestrated pictures.

Certain Death To Salamanders - Certain Death To Salamanders (2011)

SDTS

8.9

/Blues rock, Psychedelic rock, Instrumental rock/

Comment: this 4-piece issue is about instrumental blues-loaded rock and roll showing up its groovy muscles and cartilages. More concretely, it used to chase relentlessly upwards and downwards most of the time while being finely psychedelic. If you like The White Stripes, and The Black Keys, the bands who have paid tribute to the Black cultural tradition in the USA this band may be your choice either.

Somnium & Alenda - Split (2011)

 DNA Production

9.2 

/Dark ambient, Drone, Neoclassical music, Soundscapes, Dystopbient, Minimalism/

Comment: there are up 3 long-running tracks which take on murky ambient, rigid drone developments, dystopic soundscapes and silentful yet quite malignant sort of burning. Of course, it is masterfully produced, more profoundly, exploiting the templates of minimal music slowly growing and ascending thus ultimately acquiring the characteristics of neoclassical music. On the other side, although it is austerely treated it used to evoke more feelings than most of the instances of pop music are able to do.

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Emmerichk - Periodic Waveforms (2011)

 Tropic

Bandcamp

9.3

/Tech-dub, Glitch techno, Minimal techno, Dubstep, Deep techno/

Comment: this album is represented through 4 long-running tracks each of them is longer than 10 minutes. These one used to explore the depth of dub layers and the width of glitch-based oscillations and the frequency of minimal techno beats. It is soft and warm yet somehow terrifying thus getting close to the territory of dubstep music. It won`t be wrong to say the issue is a subtle combination of maximal and minimal efforts and attitudes.

Christian Samuel - Shallow Bursts (2012)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Shoegazetronica, Indie dance, Electro-indie, Alternative pop, Electronic pop, Noise rock/

Comment: this batch of 10 notches does start off with psych-tinged guitar rolling which soon will be replaced and making a halt on electronic thudding and more massive, shoegaze-ish washes of guitars. Some moments on it are filled in with highly acute noise forays (Blip), and epic yet dreamy orchestrations (Latex Skin). In a nutshell, the release is full of intense washes of electronica and treated and amplified guitars. The project can be compared with the likes of Ulrich Schnauss, and the old peers like My Bloody Valentine, and Chapterhouse.