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Comment: Go Ask Alice`s previous issue Perfection Is Terrible was added to the list of the best albums of 2017 at RMH. It was a blend of strong melodic lines and guitar and synthesizer mixed intellectual soundscapes. Stylistically something between post-punk, synth-rock, and krautrock. However, the lines between the last named genres used to be almost invisible as you have figured out already. And in fact what does it mean the vague term “synth-rock”? All of that case was embraced within the whole of a 28-minute with 8 tracks only. Ten Little Dreams may be a bit disorienting title because the whole clocks in at a 56 minute with 10 tracks. Less guitars, more electronic washes to be added to the melting pot. More dreamy reveries and elaborated progressions, more sonic distances to provide a sophisticated dialogue between blissful dreams, more steep rhythmic structures and hirsute yet somehow atmospheric electric guitars. I would like to call it a contemporary instance of prog-rock. The only exception is a track called sssun!, a pure disciple of motorik/krautrock music. Similarly to the previous issue it is also issued as a part of the discography of an Italy-based imprint, La bèl.

4/12/2019

[Teaser of the day] Ducktails - Live at FoEG

Free Music Archive

Dreamwave
Electronic music
Chillwave
Live
Exotica pop
Art pop

Artist: Ducktails

Release: Live at Festival of Endless Gratitude

Label: Free Music Archive

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] The Freak Fandango Orchestra - Hit Me

Jamendo

Balkan folk
Gypsy punk
World music
Ethno punk

Artist: The Freak Fandango Orchestra

Release: Lost Songs of Fake Unicorns

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Anitek - Dobro Wax

Jamendo

Hip-hop
Rap
Trip-hop
Urban music

Artist: Anitek

Release: ExtraLocal

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Helaku - Budub 1

cOmaRecOrdz

Electronic music
Electro pop
Alternative dance
Post-disco
Chilltronica
Robot pop

Artist: Helaku

Release: Indian, Indian What Did You Die For?

Label: cOmaRecOrdz

Year: 2015

AlbinoLamb – Pure Phantasm (2013)

Bandcamp

Drum and bass
Indietronica
Art pop
IDM
Electronic music
Crossover
Neo-psychedelia

Comment: Pure Phantasm (AlbinoLamb is a project from Japan) is a fine example of post-indie music by embracing guitar sounds, drum and bass rhythms, psychedelic flickers, orchestrated beauty, dreamy incantations, IDM-esque electronic vibes and sonic effects in an organic way. This set of 10 compositions is something in a row of such transgressive endeavours as Pygmalion by Slowdive, Quique by Seefeel, Primal Scream`s Vanishing Point, Radiohead`s Kid A and My Bloody Valentine`s m b v. It is all about to rock off one`s socks while having no inclination to immerse in weary and often braindead cliches of indie pop/rock templates. In a word, it makes very sense.

4/11/2019

[Teaser of the day] Hypp Fractal - Redux

Electronic music
Alternative
Minimal synth
Synth-pop

Artist: Hypp Fractal

Release: Cosmonautics Day

Label: MNMN

Year: 2019

[Teaser of the day] Accasari - Captured By The Light

DNA Production

Ambient rock
Art rock
Experimental rock
Post-rock
Improvised music
Avant-rock

Artist: Accasari

Release: Captured By The Light

Label: DNA Production

Year: 2019

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4/14/2019

[Teaser of the day] Dramón - Gestos Que Salvam

[Teaser of the day] Cameron Steele - Robot At Disco

4/13/2019

Go Ask Alice – Ten Little Dreams (2019)