Aigar Vals – End Game (2018)

Bandcamp

• Shoegazetronica 
• Synthwave 
• Post-punk 
• Alternative rock 
• Ethereal wave 
• Epic 
• Dream pop 
• Indie 
• DIY 
• Art pop/rock
• Crossover

Comment: Aigar Vals is known as the drummer from such Estonian dance-appealed indie groups as Badass Yuki, and Junk Riot. End Game is his debut album some weeks before his band mate from Badass Yuki Mart Avi would release his fourth solo outing OtherWorld. 8-notch outing is an intriguing drift between cinematic synthesised developments and epic panoramas – oh yeah, it is so beautiful! - and on the other side, it is more about undulating yet warped electronic shoegaze. Let's say – it is an example of unconventional shoegaze. Indeed, I would like to avoid the term nugaze because nugaze used to relate to something superficial and volatile and secondary in my mind. Most of those bands are produced and channelized into a very similar product. All those guitars, drums, and synths are packaged tightly into a sparkling yet empty box. One can feel lo-fi and DIY-tinged (at times elegantly awkward) attitude within the whole by adding an extra charge to it. Additionally there are up bold bass lines, stomping piano chords and heavy drum fringes here and there thereby drawing parallels upon the electronic post-punk/synthwave scene. Thirdly, those decelerated a bit murky soundscapes remind a bit of such ethereal wave juggernauts as Lycia, Autumn's Grey Solace, and Love Spirals Downwards. All those unforgettable halcyon hours spent behind heavy curtains sometime in the past. However, in the context of Estonian music it is absolutely singular, absolutely extraordinary. I like it very very very much. The issue is a part of the discography of Estonian underground (mostly) tape imprint Trash Can Dance (best regards to Trash as well!).

ZeeKat – it Hertz EP (2018)

Bonimedia

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Art rock 
• Fusion
• Electronic 
• Post-rock 
• Jazz rock 
• Progressive rock 
• Psychedelic rock 
• Improvised music 
• Sampledelic
• Ambient rock 
• Yacht rock

Comment: behind these eight compositions is the Polish artist Lukasz Padzik whose music is built on atmospheric synthesisers which used to rotate around vivid, frequently fusion-tinged guitars. The aforementioned pillars are variegated with vocal samples, interesting sampled and short wave radio induced minutiae, and treated electronic effects. The whole starts off with 2AM which is based on exuberant synthesiser slides, wide range progressive and jazz rock guitar framing and suggestive samples all the elements used to merge with each other. In fact, it is an excellent start for an album to develop into new and invigorating directions thereafter. Lukasz Padzik likes to stay within the borders to set out a more impressive picture, to get maximally festive and cinematic feeling from within it. At times those prog/fusion guitars are tuned into a more laid-back, yacht rock form. The fascinating release is a part of the discography of Bonimedia.

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - It`s Warhol Actually

Free Music Archive

• Electro pop
• Synth-pop
• Alternative dance
• Electroclash
• Electronic music

Artist: Monkey Warhol

Release: The Darwin LP

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Limbo Deluxe - Policia Urbana

Jamendo

• Psych-pop
• Alternative pop
• Acid pop
• Latin music
• Indie pop
• Surf pop

Artist: Limbo Deluxe

Release: Super Disco Pop Beat Punk

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Tha Silent Partner - Guns Dont Kill People

blocSonic

• Hip-hop
• Electronic music
• Cinematic
• Breaks
• Urban music

Artist: Tha Silent Partner

Release: (muted) Sessions

Label: blocSonic

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] System Morgue - Torsion

Free Music Archive

• Ambient rock
• Avant-rock
• Dark wave
• Post-rock
• Darkgaze
• Ethereal wave
• Experimental rock
• Electronic

Artist: System Morgue

Release: Voies

Label: ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Dereleech - Vanguard Of Corruption

Jamendo

• Industrial music
• Experimentalism
• Dungeon synth
• Martial industrial
• Neoclassical
• Dark ambient
• Avant-garde

Artist: Dereleech

Release: Disrupted Rites

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Clinker - The Box Is Open

• Electronic
• Space pop
• Glo-fi
• Ambient pop
• Hypnagogic pop
• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Chillwave
• Dreamwave

Artist: Clinker

Release: Dr Goon Phase 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - 50days The Hirsty Tape1

• Psych-rock
• Art rock
• Indie rock
• DIY
• Experimental rock 
• Alternative rock
• Avant-rock

Artist: The Hirundu

Release: Git Biscuits

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

Twilight Kamikaze – A Drive with Elise (2018)

Silent Flow

Archive.org

• Post-disco 
• Alternative dance 
• Electro pop 
• Electronic music 
• Experimental electro 
• Industrial electro

Comment: first of all, this 3-notch outing starts off with the favourite format of electro for me - sultry rhythmic patterns coated with tight synthesiser-induced layers atop. Later on, the course used to turn a little bit by incorporating more ominous sonic effects and by coming near to a more static and restrained yet experimental approach. However, the final track This Void Inside used to successfully merge the tendencies of the first and the second parts of the self-titled track. It is highly galvanized and a bit shifted in its rhythmic work while manipulating with some sort of black matter to build up the result. As if drawing some rhythmic patterns from the Detroit electro scene to build it up on an (post)-industrial template. Yeah, it is convincing in a highly hypnotic way. The astounding issue is a part of the discography of Silent Flow. One of my favourite things with regard to the rhythmic patterns in 2018.