6/21/2012
Maston - Opal (2010)
9.5
/Experimental indie, Glo-fi, Art pop, Avant-pop, Poptronica, Post-pop, Chillwave, Alternative, Post-psychedelic electronica/
Comment: no doubt, the LA-based Frank Maston is one of the brightest stars regarding the nowadays indie scene all around the world. His music is composed of light-hearted chillwave-ish glides, James Bond-esque shimmering panoramas and some exotica pop forays. More profoundly, Maston used to arrange otherworldly beautiful melodies and huge harmonic dizziness all of that seems to be inspired by bottomless dreams. Opal was his debut album issued in 2010.
David KBD - Plastik 2 (2011)
Jamendo
8.9
/Technical metal, Math metal, Progressive metal, Psychedelic metal, Fusion/
Comment: undoubtedly it is an exciting set of metal compositions. These instrumental endeavours involve the aspects of technical, math and progressive metal full of flourishing keyboards, repetition-heavy drumming sequences, blistering guitar riffs and progressions and psychedelic, fusin-alike jamming. The result is a joyous, exalting one. The collective comes out of Pamplona, Basque, Spain.
Zreen Toyz - Grimoire Of Eternity (2012)
8.8
/Industrial illbient, Avant-industrial, Experimental electronica, Sound-art, Musique concrète, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Non-music/
Comment: Zreen Toyz is a French music group (the collective has issued releases since 2007) whose 6-notch album is filled with sharp electronic overthrows and synthetic bubbles and chips turning into austere industrial flickers and gleam. All these elements are mixed up with the laths of concrete sonic bits. Indeed, it is abrasive and irritating, which lacks in emotions and lushness. Not exactly...actually there are represented lush undulation and emotional shift as well though all of that just used to be outside the pop realm by its nature.
6/20/2012
Tallinn Daggers - FM Transmission (2012)
9.4
/Post-punk, Alternative, Gothic, Dance rock, Alternative rock, Indie dance, Psychedelic rock, Art rock/
Comment: Tallinn Daggers is a duo (Ardo Kivi, Joosep Volk) from the Estonian capital whose 4-piece EP used to run in the vein of the best post-punk and gothic dance traditions. So the listener can hear lots of brooding bass guitar lines, gritty guitar chords, stomping drum lines, and ethereal synth whiffs rolling above it thus reminiscent of such bands as The Cure, Joy Division/New Order, The Comsat Angels, Durutti Column, and even Happy Mondays and Primal Scream. There can be implied that it is another great rock band who used to fuse the 70/80`s mesmerizing post-punk template with highly catchy dance-appealed grooves in addition to Stones & Holes. By the way, if you have chance then I recommend to visit them at stages because of being enough spectacular and suggestive.
Migalha - Ice Cream in the Waterfall Gibberish (2012)
9.0
/Musique concrète, Ambient, Ambient noise, Acousmatics, Avant-garde, Noise, Microtonal, Acousmatics/
Comment: these two long-running compositions have been managed to get a lush drift between organic electronica and ambient music which is filled with noiseful glitch-tinged undulation and microtonal haziness made up of the washes of concrete sounds and accidental voice/babbling snippets. Indeed, the picture is blurred, though, it is very effectively bedimmed. The projects originates from Brazil which is home for many great post-rock, shoegaze and ambient bands.
Gareth Clarke – Atheist In Foxhole EP (2012)
8.8
/Synth pop, Electro pop, Mood music/
Comment: there are represented 5 tracks which used to make headway into a maze composed of the elements of robot-influenced electro pop and even austere industrial-tinged aesthetics. However, on the other side, the upper layers of comprise the suggestive hooks of 80`s synth pop and blissed-out progressions thus allowing more access to mainstream-appealed territories.
6/19/2012
Electricwest - MOTH3R (2009)
8.8
/Downtempo, IDM, Experimental electronica, Breaks, Glitch ambient/
Comment: behind Electricwest hides himself Patrick Benolkin, the artist from Boise, Idaho, USA who is also being known due to his side project Eluder (epic ambient/drone). Anyway, this 11-track issue is covered with intimate paces and moderately propulsive synths thus making up some microscopic whirlpools and pleasant milieus which in turn are varied with more sharp oscillations and blissed-out thudding. The last quarter turns rather into glitch-filled slow burning.
AA.VV. - 11 of the 19 Worst Problems of the US (2004)
8.7
/Psych-folk, New Weird Italy, Weird folk, Avant-folk, Experimental folk/
Comment: this compilation involves 11 tracks all of them are made up of Carlo Barbagallo-related projects and his friends who are natives from Sicily. However, these notches reveal its bias toward off-kilter singer-songwriter-ism, which is filled in with psyched-out folk music, despair-tinged singing, some turns into noiseful progressions, and even nervous folk-hop. Intriguing.
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