Recent Music Heroes

3/03/2019

[Teaser of the day] Gnomefoam - Yorkshire Trousers

Jamendo

Electronic music
Synth-pop
Electro-rock
Acid house
Synth-rock
Crossover
Acid techno
Alternative dance

Artist: Gnomefoam

Release: Meet My Beassst

Label: Rack & Ruin/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

OOAME – Milanese-Nwas (2018)

Acustronica

Folktronica
Glitch-folk
Post-folk
Epic
Electronic
Avant-folk

Comment: by listening to this 11-notch release of having come out from an imprint, Acustronica this is something of which hard core is centred on heavy sampling of an acoustic guitar and its soft core is based on permanent and at the same volatile chord and format variations. More profoundly, it can be assumed all the samples are manipulated through an effect control panel by pitching and lowering, accelerating and decelerating, saturating and amplifying glitched-out minutiae. At the same time it is not a fusty technological adventure because of preserving an easy emotional impact within it. The general impression of it is atmospheric and spiritually ennobling despite convulsive and warped shapeshifting downwards. It reminds of psychedelic folk troubadours on a guitar only without any electronic interference. Indeed, it is an enchanting listening experience provided by Giorgio Sancristoforo.

Wasones – Rabia (2018)

Naciòn Libre

Archive.org

Bandcamp

Hardcore punk
Punk rock

Comment: this batch of five tracks is a galvanized attack in the key of aggressiveness of hardcore punk. Any track represented over there does not extend more than a 2-minute span. Undoubtedly it is the best approach to channelize effectively one's rage and contempt. Fortunately we are living in a time being surrounded by greed, stupidity, moral decay, hypocrisy, hate speech, cruelty, artificial tendencies and intimidating based on political correctness, accusative labelling and a general lack of sense of humour and all of that is a good reference point for rebels to state himself/herself against the aforementioned threads. The point of mine is that in this way the rulers could get have a better platform to implement the divide and rule principle within a society. The more I follow recent intentions and tendencies going on in Western societies the more I can see very similar tendencies going on in the Soviet Union. And it is not elegantly natural at all. By listening to this Mexican quartet with the lead by their amazing frontwoman Julieta Ronquillo is a refreshing restart in the middle of the frowsty pound. Anarchism as a tool for punks is usually related to the left wing though the rejection of a deep state by them is clearly opposite to the leftists. In that case they may even be more related to the so-called economic right theorists whose purpose is to minimize the role of the government and the state as much as possible. Additionally, I did not forget that approximately a century ago in the Soviet Russia bolsheviks/communists killed anarchists. It was not a taboo for them altogether. Of course not because thereafter at a time they started to annihilate each other. Rabid, blind ones whose purpose was not to get a divine rather a rat-alike one. The courageous issue is a part of the discography of a Mexican imprint, Naciòn Libre.

3/02/2019

SkeAmo – erA (2011)

Miga

Indietronica
Electronic music
Experimental electronica
Glitchtronica
IDM
Post-rock

Comment: this handful of tracks is a dexterous release by Jorge Sierra also being known as the lead figure of Eclectik Recording, and a visual artist. Musically it is a diverse whole within certain borders only – more profoundly, one can drift between lone yet suggestive piano chords, high-pitched yet gentle drones, velvety electronic churning, modulated odds and ends. Jorge Sierra is supported by female vocals by such artists as Chenene, Yoka, Worenagia. At Chrysalis the apotheosis of the track comes due to a sublime post-rock climax. It is the most beautiful moment on the release. The outing is a bit in the discography of Miga Records. Follow the universe.

Circadian Eyes – A Future Nostalgic (2018)

Hawk Moon

Post-rock
Electronic shoegaze
Indie pop/rock
Alternative pop/rock
Epic
Ambient rock
Art pop/rock

Comment: do you like M83? I do not like. On the other side, I like it. It is like listening to an average example of punk music when three or four tracks from the beginning seem to be great but thereafter all would change into a quite boring, annoying case. The same can be said about the French project's sound sometimes. It might be the reason comes out from there the issue starts off with the most ecstatic moments yet later on nothing new cannot be added to a mix. At the same time the patheticness of electronic shoegaze/nugaze sound is sustained which at times may make impression upon, at times not. It depends on. It depends on different subjective and objective reasons. Circadian Eye's 10-notch whole being released on Hawk Moon Records is an analogue case – before having consumed the beer at the amount of a couple of litre I can feel the result is fine by the sounds and production, by its touch and temperance. And a quintessential mix eventually would come to fruition. Bryan Collins aka Circadian Eye's purpose is just to create an outing with hovering progressions and majestic synthesised chords and propulsive drumming beneath. It might be it is not an analogue case with M83 because by listening to this release three times in a row (as I used to behave while writing a comment) I did not feel any sort of embarrassment for a while. In a word, the result is completely accomplished and absolutely worth to be added to the list of the best albums in 2018 at RMH. And the beer would have been let outside the discussion it did not make any difference at all. Great by any means.