Cantaloup - The Sirens Sleep (2011)

  

Bandcamp

9.2

/Post-rock, Indietronica, Organic electronica, Art pop, Chamber rock, Folktronica/

Comment: behind Cantaloup hides himself Thomas Peters who had issued two excellent albums on Aerotone before it. Similarly to his previous oeuvres the new album is a masterful blend of shimmering electronica and fine indie pop and epic post-rock-ish and chamber rock-ish tendencies which may be compared with the likes of Wixel, Anois, Turnus, and Muhr. The listener can find out some teasers from the issue (for instance, Rest, and Echoes) featuring Alke Finn`s voice. In a word, you can feel happy with this 7-track issue.   

Skai Nine - Not a Worry in the World (2012)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Downtempo, Chillwave, Glo-fi, Instrumental hip-hop, Crossover, Mood music/

Comment: there are up a pair of tracks which used to reflect upon different electronic music tendencies extending from majestic glo-fi panoramas and melancholic downtempo to instrumental hip-hop and moody vibes.  

Cagey House - 1902 (2009)

Bump Foot

9.3

/Art pop, Electronic music, Spoken word, Sampledelic, Sound collage, Avant-garde, Weird pop, Hauntology, Cut and paste, Library music, Post-pop, Avant-pop, Experimental pop, Spoken word/

Comment: Cagey House is Dave Keifer, a musician from Baltimore, USA whose most albums are made up of the collected sounds/samples only. He has issued a lot of releases neither of them happened to be mediocre or obtuse. In any cases, there are presented 6 short-running glimpses which do sound like soundtracks for possible velvety art house movies or a performance of the puppet theatre. More concretely, these compositions are a little bit haunting, a little bit buffoonish, a little bit beeping, a bit everything. In a word, the result is highly intriguing and precious to be listened again and again.    

[Teaser of the day] Gold Panda - MPB

The Plasmas - Noentiendo (2008)

Gamemusic4all

9.2

/Technical metal, Chiptune, Synth fusion, Crossover, Experimental metal, Symphonic metal/

Comment: this set of mostly instrumental tracks is made up of highly swaying guitar riffs, thick rhythm sequences, however, which sometimes used to incorporate the Russian-related motives (though the project originates from Chile). The result is a frantic merry-go-round rotating around technically played chords, amusing chiptune-ish electronica. Moreover, there are represented some examples which take on so-called regatta pop synth fusion propulsions thus reminding of the regatta competition in Tallinn as a part of the Moscow Olympics. Indeed, all these aforementioned elements used to be in full swing.

Rabbit-O-Matic - Particles of a Comet (2000)

Commie

9.0

/Ambient, Soundscapes, Minimal/

Comment: indeed, my comment is about a comet (or track) which apparently hints at aspiration to get a trip in the outer space at least in the next 322 seconds. More concretely, the flight is a soothing and relieving one being surrounded with slightly resonating borders. In turn, these borderlines are composed of hissing vibrations and lofty dusty motion. In a word, in spite of being a heavily minimalist configuration it makes impact upon the listener.

Radio Royal - RRDL01 (2012)

Clinical Archives

9.6

/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, No Wave, Psycho-acoustic, Improvised music, Noise, Krautrock, Experimental electronica, Sound art, Psychedelia/

Comment: aarrghh, this 7-piece issue is an erratic blend of psychedelic and spaced-out propulsions, chameleonic improvisation sections, psychotic squeezing noise forays, mesmerizing repetition-heavy electronica, however, ideologically resulting from the tradition of early electronic days (regarding the academic or classical music circuits) and the synthesis-induced krautrock alchemy (Conrad Schnitzler, Roedelius-Moebius) and the tradition of NY, California and Chicago-based improvised noise and sound art (Big City Orchestra, Borbetomagus, Tuxedomoon, The Residents). Highly convincing and one of the most impressive albums in the year of 2012 indeed. In a word, it is holy madness.

[Teaser of the day] Reverend Big O - Love Is A Two Headed Dog

23 Seconds

Bark Bark Disco - Let's do this EP (2012)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Alternative, Electro-indie, Indie pop/

Comment: this is a lovely set of 4 notches wherein throughout the course sustained guitar chords are mixed up with electro(nica)-tinged propulsions which in turn are intelaced with male and female mixed vocals. However, all the parts on the EP are suggestive, brisk and even compelling (especially a track, called Give Me Back My Heart filled with potency to hit). The main theme of the lyrics is spotted upon the complexity of relations and love. Nice listening.

H Stewart - GenreLess (2012)

  

Clinical Archives

9.4

/Avant-garde, Noise, Minimalism, Experimentalism, Microtonal, Ethereal pop, Ambient, Modern classical/ 

Comment: H Stewart is a musician from Kansas, USA who has issued a few albums under Clinical Archives before it (more concretely, regarding the first 100 albums of the Moscow-based cult label). However, her music can be considered an instance of ethereal pop made up of hovering ambient textures and sensitive vowel effects which by their shapes and timbre may remind of the aesthetics of Laurie Anderson, and Meredith Monk, for instance. On the other side, it is subjected to the concept of the minimalism, this way avoiding to be braw and joyous. There are a pair of astonishing compositions (Mindtown; SongBird) where haunting ambiance is amplified with fragile piano chords Furthermore, her compositions inwardly could even be classified as compulsive or obsessive. Now her soundscape is accentuated with the washes of massive yet lofty noise, or using the looping, glitch-y effects of a sampling unit, now it is more somber and even a little bit ghastly, however, searching for balance and also finding it. In a word, it is a distinctive, very special publication. It is like the touch of a butterfly causing an incessant array of waves thereby ultimately changing the world into a mysterious but better place around itself.

Tjolgtjar - Witchcrafts (2011)

Dipsomaniac
Archive

9.1

/Death metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, Psych-metal, Surf pop, Crossover, Experimental metal, Avant-garde/

Comment: Dipsomaniac Records is keen on to issue such kind of music which is heavy, sharp, tense, frequently obscure, and emphatically cutting edge. However, the particular release of 9 compositions can be considered to get involved in a mutilated and deranged view of hard rock and metal which used to run on both fast and mid-tempo paces, hitting and biting. On the other side, however, such a kind of style is entitled as death metal today, though, incorporating a loads of the chirps of other musical styles. Mostly there can be found hints at grindcore, psych-rock/metal, hardcore. Furthermore, even some basics of the aesthetics of electronica and surf pop are to be pronounced at times over there. In a nutshell, lots of power and vital energy comes out from within it.

[Teaser of the day] H Stewart - SongBird

Archive

Eufoteoria - Cookies (2011)

Mùsica Vermella

 8.8

/Electronic pop, Downbeat, Sampledelic, Breaks, Poptronica, Jungle, Crossover, Experimental electronica/ 

Comment: this batch of 8 quite shorty tracks concerns whimsical electronica which used to change its tonality over the course and providing the shuffling patterns of broken beats whereas the listener can discern manipulations with the rhythm length and deliberate stylistic variations (extending from jungle and brooding downbeat electronica to more brisk electro and pop inclined electronic endeavours and big beat thudding where music is frequently subjected to the algorithms of pitch effect and (other technological appearances) and permanent sampling activities. In a word, the result is intelligent and braw (and, indeed, euphoric at times).

Clavicula - Erosion (2011)

Bestiar

8.6

  

/Hard rock, Classical rock/

Comment: Clavicula, in general, is a bone locating in the upper part of the body. This is a quite fragile and easily breaking one, especially after falling down frontward from the heights (for instance, if you are riding on a bike or horse). An ensemble, called Clavicula used to be remarkably more powerful in their doings playing masculine, Spanish-sung rock on their 8-track issue. Basically their power comes out of the flirtation with the riffs of hard rock-ish guitars and lighter metal music appearances or being a little keen on the glamorous charm of hair rock at times. They do represent classical hard rock reminiscent of Van Halen, and Led Zeppelin (of course!), for instance. This is such kind of music which had been popular throughout 1980s. Enjoyable.

Brothertiger​/​Soft Lightning Remix EP (2012)

Bandcamp

9.4

/Chillwave, Indie dance, Glo-fi, Dreamwave, Chillwave, Post-pop, Alternative dance, Experimental indie, Remixes, Conceptual/

Comment: there are represented a pair of tracks, remixes, and artists who take on catchy blissful electronica/indietronic developments being supported with spaced-out vocal lines, dreamy synth templates and poignant constitution in their aesthetical expressions. Furthermore, it is supposable both for using in your headphones and on the dancefloor. In a nutshell, if you are searching for an example of the ideal pop concept then there it is over you. Is it an instance of today`s gilded disco appearance?

[Teaser of the day] Testet ölt - Dèli bàb

Kram Ran - Hiatus

KRAM RAN _ HIATUS from I'm Trying I'm Trying I'm Trying on Vimeo.

Surrent and A Useful Idiot - Videodrone (2009)

Modicum of Silence

9.4

/Space rock, Post-rock, Experimental rock, Avant-rock/

Comment: this album was issued on Modicum Of Silence, the recording label which has publicated a lots of releases by artists who are particularly related to State Ohio. It might be the most famous artist appeared under their umbrella is Brothertiger, the chillwave/glo-fi representative. Stylistically there are represented the demarcation of post-metal, experimental/avant-electronica, glo-fi, free folk, innovative post-rock, whimsical indie rock, and conceptual/sound art. However, this set of 7 notches concerns a kind of experimental rock journey which is imbued with spacey, delayed layers of guitar chords and repetitive patterns-loops surrounded by resonating space around it. Sometimes the layers are pronounced by some signal-alike reverberations originating in barges and the analogue synthesis and treatment of electronica, thus approaching rather to the realm of avant/experimental electronic music. In conclusion, it is a spiritual appearance indeed.

Richard Lainhart - Introduction to Analog Synthesis (2012)

Ethereal Live

10.0

 /Lecture, Sound synthesis, Conceptual, Music/

Comment: Introduction to Analog Synthesis was a lecture performed at the Pocono Skies festival at the Shawnee Playhouse, Pennsylvania, USA in the Pocono mountains in the Spring of 2010. This one-off festival featured performances, collaborations, workshops and lectures over the two day festival weekend. Richard Lainhart presented this lecture Saturday afternoon May 16th, 2010 to a crowd of enthusiastic synthesists and electronic musicians. More profoundly, the particular constituents, basic parts and technics (sine waves, amplifiers, amplitude, sawtooth waves, envelope effects, oscillators, the types of noise and sonic filters, square wave, pitch effects etc) of sound synthesis are showcased throughout the course of a hour, however, all these details are exemplified by the sounds of soft synths which do emulgate exactly the sounds of analog synthesizers. However, the listener is backed up by hints of how to produce electronic music. A label, called Ethereal Live, dedicated the issue in honour of Richard Lainhart (February 14, 1953 - December 30, 2011). Mandatory by any senses.

krill.minima - Urlaub Auf Balkonien (2007)

Thinner
Lastfm
 

8.7

/Dub-tech, Experimental electronica, Dubtronica, Tech-dub, Crossover/

Comment: by my opinion, this set of 9 notches takes on a journey through grey-tinged landscapes which are covered with essentially thick dub vapour and hazy electronic whiffs at any point of the location of the issue. The compositions are lengthy and profound, though, being without any suggestive turns and striking forays. Instead of it the subject is up there to be manipulated through soothing currents and discursive oscillations which foray into the subconsciousness of the listener.

Hypermagic - Apparatus

Sirona music player

Sirona music player

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Bebe Ebullient

Arts & Crafts - Arts & Crafts Sampler Vol. 7 (2010)

Arts & Crafts

9.0

/Electronic pop, Alternative pop/rock, Indie pop, Baroque pop, Compilation/

Comment: this 12 track sampler is issued on a well-known Canadian indie label, named Arts & Crafts. There are represented such artists as Sally Seltmann, Zeus, Dan Mangan, Chilly Gonzales, Timber Timbre, Amy Millan, Broken Social Scene, Jason Collett, Los Campesinos, The Most Serene Republic, Still Life Still, The Hidden Cameras. Indeed, it can be said that the best part of these artists have already established their reputation, thereby being beloved all around the world. However, stylistically the miscellany veers away from the instances of silenful alt-folk contemplations and burbly indie rock examples to shimmering brass and baroque pop, soft rock revival and more electronically whimsical propulsions and majestic spiritual outbursts.

The Flesh Eating Goons - Cranium Crunch EP (2004)

 

Soundcloud

Tripod

9.0

/Surf pop, Avant-pop, DIY, Experimental, Lo-fi, Psychedelic pop, Rockabilly, Mood music/

Comment: a musical project with the funny name, called The Flesh Eating Goons conveys 8 short-running tracks (all the pieces used to be finished off at the length of 2 minutes) to the listeners interlacing dashing surf pop compositions imbued with frantic shuffles on chords and cadences with some rockabilly motives, self-conscious lo-fi sensitivity and humorous sensibility now and then. And those moody overdrives based on slightly gleaming guitar riffs and psychedelic keyboards are simply fascinating. Because of that this case can be compared with the likes of Man...Or Astroman, Juanitos, and Messer Chups, for instance. And these tracks make up your day.

Collapse - A Mano Armata (2011)

Jamendo

Bandcamp

9.3

/Technical metal, Crossover, Surf rock/

Comment: Collapse introduces this 4-track album with spacey, expressive guitar riffs-gliding (the kind of which could have been an essential part of some albums by Michael Karoli, CAN`s guitarist, for example) which soon will be stricken by tumultuous noodling and frantic power washes full of ferocious but technical metal aesthetics, merciless chug and graceful overdrives which brings forth the influences - surprise, surprise - of surf music. In a word, it is an almost crossover album drifting between turbo-sustained technical metal patterns and infrequent surf pop rays. The collective originates from Firenze/Florence, Italy. Great in its self-awareness and self-confidence.

[Teaser of the day] Minimal Boffin - Grain Shift

Archive

Pillars & Tongues - Epitonic saki Session (2011)

Epitonic

9.4

/Slowcore, Drone pop, Alternative, Americana, Live session, Avant-pop, Experimental indie, Psychedelic pop, Ethereal pop/ 

Comment: this set of 4 tracks does build on a highly enjoyable live session for a fascinating music site, entitled Epitonic. However, Pillars & Tongues` soundscape consists of soothing drone undercurrents, dreamy pronounced singing and soulful vowel effects and loosely throbbing rhythms below the two firstly named constituents above. The last track (which will be finished off at the length of 16 minutes) seems to be biased more toward improvised elements, i.e fusing the elements of buzzing minimalism, slight Americana-related touch and expressive ethereal pop, a subtle batch which in the last section evolves into man and woman mixed vowel experiments involving both shamanic and hypnagogic elements.

Son Of A Bricklayer - Shades Of Grey (2008)

Ground Floor

9.4

/Techno, Trip-hop, Downtempo, Experimental electronica, Cinematic/

Comment: This 11-track album is a good instance of how mesmerizing, dance-appealed rhythms should be interlaced with more affective facets of pop-laden electronica or on the other side providing more thoughtful but vigorous trip-hop/downtempo clatter. More profoundly, the listener can detect elusive, cinematic samples as if being a humble witness for the mesmeric motion of clouds above his/her head; now and then it involves silentful smoky reverberations and hazy, though at times murky contemplations abundant with repetitive chords and suggestive harmonies behind it. In a word, it is blissed-out and spaced-out at the same time. This is a great classic by any intentions.

Violeta Päivänkakkara - Kuu (2012)

La Gramola

FMA

Bandcamp 

9.5

/Forest folk, New Weird Finland, New Weird Europe, Weird folk, Free folk, Singer-songwriter, Organic electronica, Alt-folk, Experimental folk/

Comment: VP is a Finnish artist whose music to this album can be considered a part of the famous Finnish forest folk scene. The listener can be sure an intriguing example related to the genre is played craftily out. She provides a handful of addictive, bucolic tracks which are arranged with the assistance of searching, harmony-coated clambering guitar chords, glockenspiel-alike touches, some slightly bleak keyboard lines, microscopic noises and more or less whispering vocal lines, however all of that is accompanied with concrete sounds and thin air plateaus surrounding it at any corner. Furthermore, possible "faults" which might be found out from within the whole seem to be so affective, organic and concept-related thereby demonstating themselves like the strength on it. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Paavoharju, and Keijo (Virtanen), Lau Nau and Islaja. Simply glorious.

Jason "EVIL" Covelli - The Sick And The Psychotic (2010)

 Trashfuck Net 

8.8 

/Spoken word, Conceptual, Avant-garde, Psycho-acoustic, Experimental, Non-music/

Comment: indeed, Jason "Evil" Covelli spells out what does it mean being sick and psychotic, talking of abjection of the existence of a human being and criticizing the appearances in social life. How could we be normal and adequate at all in such societies we are living in at the moment? His speech is essentially impassioned and accentuated. There are presented a pair of monologues, especially the first part stands in the middle of the release because it lasts for a little longer than one hour. So the listener could add the release to the folder of the existentialism or psychology-related topics. So consume this fucking piece of freedom!

Reverend big O - When There Is Only Light To Believe In/Hope For (2012)

23 Seconds
Lastfm 

9.2

/Post-rock, Epic, Experimental rock, Dream pop, Alternative rock, Electronic pop, Kosmische Musik/ 

Comment: the collective comprises Nicklas Nilsson, Jörgen Dahlqvist, Marcus Råberg, Henrik Palmberg, and Lukas Råberg. Before issuing on 23 Seconds they had been releasing music for A West Fabrication. However, the particular set is made up of both bombastic and dreamy pathos oozing out and thereafter ascending higher from the compositions based on the monumental moments of gleaming guitar works and epic drum sequences and lofty keyboard washes. The notches where the power of guitars is abandoned gradually and instead of it synthesizers and treated snippets began to prevail the collective`s music approaches a little to the aesthetics of some representatives of the 1970`s German Kosmische Musik. By contemporary artists there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of God Is An Astronaut, for instance. Moreover, such kind of music can be tagged as an instance of today`s progressive rock.

さいごのくに - 黒傘のame (2011)

Bunkai-Kei

8.8

/J-pop, Alternative, Shibuya-kei, Electronic pop, Ethereal pop/

Comment: this set of three compositions (consisting of the original track and a pair of remixes for it) is a case to showcase the ethearalness of J-pop filled with atmospherical voices and vowel effects, and lone guitar chords which in turn are backed up by intriguing elements - for instance, depending on certain tracks there are available such details as seductive glockenspiel works, the noises of radio waves and programmed propulsive chunks.

[Teaser of the day] The Hirundu - Straw Tracker

The Retuses - Lasdehnen

dadub - ∆ (2011)

Mime

9.4

/Dub, Ambient, Ambient dub, Crossover, Dubstep, Soundscapes/

Comment: this 3-track issue produced by Daniele Antezza and Giovanni Conti consists of lengthy progressions at the length of 7-8 minutes where very wide panoramas grow out to bemixed up with catchy but a little bit haunting dub oscillations, however, thus constituting a mesmerizing outlet full of gliding charm and magic dust. The last track remixed by Arogalla sounds like a tribute to a melodica and dub wizard, Augustus Pablo (by the way, yesterday I was listening to an album, called Vanishing Point (1997), the favourite of mine regarding the production of Scottish acid rockers Primal Scream at which the Jamaican musician was also participant once. And kudos to Bobby Gillespie who besides making great music also fights for right subjects in the world). In a word, it is like the flight of the bluebird whom you are not able to catch.

Youth Camp - /​/​-​/​/ (2012)

Bandcamp
Lastfm 

9.0

/Ambient, Minimal, Drone, Experimental electronica, Ambient dub, Experimental rock, Ambient rock, Post-rock/

Comment: this handful of tracks created by the yankee James Harris`one-man project starts off with a little bit unpleasant, tightly abrasive pulsating noises (there can be drawn parallels upon the works of the likes of Konrad Schnitzler, and Manuel Göttsching, for example) which later will be softened, however, turning sometime into pronounced guitar fingerpicking or more rattling twangs either in the middle of lone chords of the bass drum or extensive air areas surrounding the listener around all corners. Furtermore, it involves some moments where you can be a fitness of how Harris can create hearttrending moments. On the other side, it used to convey to the listener concrete sounds and hazy ambient (dub) panoramas blended endeavours. However, the result is impressive and worth to be caught up.

Tomsk IDM Composers - Avalon Glow (2012)

Subwise

Lastfm

9.1

/Dubstep, Experimental techno, IDM, Witch house, Crossover, Experimental electronica, Grime, Hip-hop/

Comment: this set of 4 tracks at the length of over 17 minutes provide either the facets of deviated hip-hop/grime music or dazed IDM/experimental techno outlets. More detailedly, the project do sketch bubbling rhythm tentacles and blissful plateaus and gloomy yet somehow amusing vocal lines. Of course, at the moment such kind of sound represented by the group is to be considered to have lots of intersections with the vibes of such murky styles as witch house and dubstep as well.

[Teaser of the day] Chelsea Marie - Sleep To This

CLLCT

lucky one - SuperKontraBass

Insub Meta Orchestra - archive #1 (2011)

Insubordinations

9.2

/Acousmatics, Psycho-acoustic, Electro-acoustic, Noise, Improvised music, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Microtonal, Musique concrète, Conceptual/

Comment: the lineup of Insub Meta Orchestra consists of a formidable amount of artists who used to exploit unusual instruments and "instruments" in addition to the conventional ones. For instance, besides guitars, violin, saxophone and laptop the listener will get aware of the presence of theremin, tone generator, tennis racquet (sic!), and buzuki. On the other side, in rough sense this 6-piece album can be considered a cooperation (or exploration of) between acoustic and electronic sonority which is tightly spiced up with the snippets of concrete sounds and amplified sonic effect-relied washes. This erratic universe results in flourishing psycho-acoustic noises and cagy microtonal contemplations where the inner borders are blurred and could only be fixed contingently. Is it an instance of meta sound then?         

Major Crimes - Monsoon (2012)

Bandcamp

9.1

/Leftfield, Alternative pop, Bedroom pop, DIY, Experimental indie/ 

Comment: behind this Adeliade, Australia-based group hides himself Brian Bonz and his numerous collaborators and friends at the time of recording sessions. Their 4-track publication stands at the crossroads of new and old, between modern and traditional, between bedroom/DIY aesthetics and "established" music. Basically it is instrumental psychedelic pop showcasing slight soul and funk ingredients based on spatial guitar chords and wah wah based effects and programmed rhythms in the background. This album could be considered a solid chain between Ariel Pink, and the mid-period CAN or hypothetically Jimi Hendrix and Sly & The Family Stone mixed enterprises, for instance.  

Ze German ‎– White Label Techno (2011)

Depth

8.4

/Techno, Club dance, Rave, Trance techno, Electronic pop/ 

Comment: this 4-track issue takes mostly on trance mixed techno which is directed toward party and rave peoples using swift paces and acute frequencies. More detailedly, potential arty aspirations are quite minimized and more power and electricity is accrued instead of it. Almost every notch on it involves samples from other artists` compositions (Musique, Yaz, Robert Tepper) thereby providing quite loose, even sampledelic transitions to other directions. These pumping beats can be thought to be an optimal subject played both in the abandoned factories and at the Freedom Parade. Let`s call it either street or stadium techno.

[Teaser of the day] x.y.r. - First Weeks On The Island

Dyman - Suns Of Neurons Teaser

DYMAN - SUNS OF NEURONS TEASER from DYMAN on Vimeo.

The Plastic Jazz Orchestra - 39° (2012)

Headphonica

9.4

/IDM, Experimental electronica, Nu-jazz, Indietronica, Avant-electronica/

Comment: TPJO was established by Bernd Burnson as an ensemble electronique for modern music in late 2006. Although soon thereafter he passed away his ideas do perdure. Indeed, the rhythms and beats coming out of it are poignantly composed, however, having a loads of hints at different genres and fields (indie, jazz, IDM, tango). At times it comes out as quite joyous entertainment, sometimes, on the contrary, providing more epic gliding and shifts. If you are interested in to get the more detailed comparisons for it then you can think of it as an example of how Bang On A Can could sound under the umbrella of Warp Records.

Вежа Хмар - Плач (1998)

Homepage

9.2

/New Weird Ukraine, Neofolk, Lo-fi, Weird folk, Avant-folk, Dream folk, Experimental folk, Dark folk, Anti-folk, Free folk, Improvised music/
 
Comment: this 17-piece issue is a hidden gem having already been recorded in the ending part of the 1990s. This Ukraine-based musical group takes on a quirky kind of folk music which pours out ghastly vowel lines and effects, trance-induced drums, elusive (mini)-orchestrations, silentful monotonously bouncing bass chords, and some expressive keyboard drones (one track includes even the samples by Kraftwerk). The whole is an organic drift made up of both improvised approach and deliberated tactics. There can be drawn parallels upon the representatives of dark/neofolk, New Weird-related and the Finnish forest folk scenes. In a word, after listening to the release you can feel it was a truly elusive, unforgettable experience of the folk shamanism. Purgative and relieving in any cases.

A Bee Hive - Untitled (2009)

CLLCT

9.3

/Alt-folk, DIY, Improvised music, Dream folk, Folk indie, Experimental rock, Indie folk, Post-rock, Fusion, Crossover/ 
 
Comment: there are presented 4 pieces by Matthew David Rowan which used to be the improvised instrumental ones, however, where silentful drifts are variegated with exciting turns and flamboyant outbursts. More surprisingly, now and then (the second part) it chimes like a sort of fusion sound made up of the indie folkies` gliding explorations, jazz rock-esque mellow vibes and even post-rock-alike omnipotent sonic grandeur. In a word, MDR`s soundscape flourishes because it used to be lush at any moment throughout the course. Well done by any means. Love it.

Mixtape 15.07.12

Mediafire

List:

Conveyor - Mukraker

http://conveyor.bandcamp.com/album/mukraker-single

Clinker - The Last Page 

http://www.clinker.org.uk/

Barthol Lo Mejor - Ocean Sound Wave 

http://fluon.blogspot.com/p/ep.html

Capisconne - Sinbad 

http://soundcloud.com/capisconne/sinbad-capisconne

Daisyblue - Summery Film

http://shortcakecollagetape.bandcamp.com/track/summery-film

Bin Laden`s Daughter - Diamond Geezer 

http://blakow.wordpress.com/2011/10/16/ear-infection-volume-1-a-free-punk-rock-compilation/

Makunouchi Bento - Jubokko 

http://camomille.bandcamp.com/album/rinbo

Fells Division - Lying On Asphalt 

http://whitemoonrecordings.tumblr.com/releases/

Esoteric Sob - Little Moments (with Cellar Door)

http://archive.org/details/EsotericSob-AbnormalPsychology

[Teaser of the day] Digitalis - Landing

Archive

QueeNNaive - What If I (NEW!)

Arbor Glades - Coming Home EP (2012)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.0

/Glo-rock, Alternative pop/rock, Indie rock/ 

Comment: this 5-track album is one of the examples which does convey some hints at flamboyant power related to the Canadian indie scene. This Montrèal-based combo offers up highly chiming guitar structures and infinite chord changes adorned with the whiffs of dilating synth endeavours and daringly gliding yet longing vocal lines over them. I would like to call this kind of music a sort of glo-rock which is thought to be an entertainment subject for slackers and dalliers. In a word, cheers to the big masses, here we come!

Starstarstar - 2009 04 20 Record Lounge (2009)

Archive

9.3

/Freak folk, New Weird America, Dream folk, Live session, Alt-folk, Americana, Improvised music/

Comment: indeed, it is one of those many sessions improvised by Golda, McConeghy, and Rogers by the side of East Lansing, Michigan, USA which all are available at Archive.org. Before starting as starstarstar the trio was being known as ringostar, and ***. Regarding the session most of the pieces originate from starstarstar`s sole album and masterpiece Electric Goose and The Nylon Moose (on fabulous Rack & Ruin Records) which is an extraordinary but underrated (if not to say a yet undiscovered one) gem within the New Weird America scene involving the elements of quirky folk, heartfelt soul, halcyon electronic experiments, dreamy incantations, and exuberant Americana progressions. The music which reflects back to the past and forth to the future at the same time. The session of 10 tracks surprises with some unknown compositions. I really hope they are intended to come back sometime and ready to record at least one more album yet. Additionally I recommend listen to Chad Golda`s avant-garde solo albums either (on Rack & Ruin, and Writing Records).

Knock-Knock & NECROdog - Deja Vu (2011)

Ruszud

8.7

/Electro, Gabber, Tekno, Club dance/

Comment: there are up 2 notches based on rigid but fast electro and tekno/gabber mixed beats, tingling synth oscillations and sharp vocal samples. Indeed, the pair of tracks is deliberately minimal, though, the second track (Gabber In Psychedeliya) does have more time and diapason to get more involved in shuffled and variegated patterns on rhythms.

[Teaser of the day] Al Lover - Roger From Zapp? (Vodka)

Alligator Indian - I Gave Myself A Science Lecture

Alligator Indian - I Gave Myself A Science Lecture from Christian Church on Vimeo.

Neurobit - Maison De Verre Sur Le Chantier (2012)

Clinical Archives

9.2

/Experimental electronica, Ambient pop, Electronic pop, Drone pop, Post-psychedelic electronica, Post-pop, Soundscapes/

Comment: this issue by Bas Welling aka Neurobit consists of one lengthy composition only. More concretely, there are up approximately 1200 seconds at which the listener can discern different parts which are brought forth due to incessant progressions. A particular amount of chords are channelized into soothing undulations and reaching the borders of otherworldly beatific spheres. However, these lucid synth undercurrents (actually they are rather overcurrents) and silentfully ticking, vibraphone-near electronica which is set subtly between the lines comes quite close to the aesthetics of early Mice Parade, Tortoise, and The Dylan Group. The finishing part of the track will be evolving step by step into an instance of pronounced drone pop full of poignant shapes and austere yet epic outbursts (comparable with such contemporary projects as Oneothrix Point Never, and Emeralds, and The Silver Apples by the 1960s).

Boyish/Daisyblue - Gentle Breeze EP (2012)

Canata
Lastfm 

9.2

/Alternative rock, Indie pop, Jangle pop, J-pop/

Comment: this is a sequent issue on a Japanese label, called Canata Records. In any cases, this 4-track issue created by two bands can be characterized by highly joyous guitar works reminiscent of a timespan having been between the mid-80s and the beginning of 90s when the indies made their first efforts. The whole is filled with blossoming guitar chords and suggestive vocal reveries (variegated with male and female vocals respectively) which sometimes is embellished with heavy keyboard-based works. There can be drawn parallels upon the likes of McCarthy, The Pastels, early Primal Scream, The Chameleons. The closing Summer Film track by Daisyblue resembles a little bit of Happy Mondays` Lazytis. In all, it is soo nostalgic and impressive!

brh06 V.A.- Breathe 06 (2012)

Breathe

8.7

/Indie pop, Krautrock, Chillout, Dark ambient, Electronic pop, Funk, Downtempo, Baroque pop/

Comment: this 14-track miscellany involves such artists as ArnAck, Transmission 13, Ohuican/Jaguar Nahuatl, Capisconne, Ray Garrido, Bobby Wotnot, Invector, Dimitris, Nahuatl Sound System, PerlssDj, TSS Tortue Super sonic, Nulix, Gapisconne, 1981, and Vela. However, the music presented by these projects used to extend from brooding ambient/dark ambient and New Age-tinged reverberations to flourishing indie pop appearances and motorik krautrock-ish propulsions and smooth funk vibes and uplifting chillout appearances.   

[Teaser of the day] Motorama - Wind In Her Hair

emptywhale — Fearscapes (2012)

HAZE

 

9.2

/Dark ambient, Dystopbient, Epic, Organic electronica, Ambient, Soundscapes, Avant-garde/

Comment: this handful of tracks is composed of dark-hued ambient vibes flourishing on incessant, repetitive patterns. I used to call such creepy kind of music as dystopbient, though, sometimes through its charmingly resigned templates it showcases some bias toward blissful ambient shapes (Suburbs) and organic, concrete sound-filled undulation. In a nutshell, the listener can perceive intense internal burning which seems to be the main plot of the issue. The listener could probably draw parallels upon the likes of Loscil, Pan American, Eluder, Caustic Reverie.  

Alpha Couple - Mariah

Alpha Couple - "Mariah" from I'm Trying I'm Trying I'm Trying on Vimeo.

Conveyor - Mukraker (2012)

Bandcamp

9.4

/Alt-folk, New Weird America, Americana, Glo-fi, Baroque pop, Avant-pop/ 

Comment: I can remember for that Conveyor`s first issue Sun Ray (2011) was an astonishing effort full of mesmerizing harmonies and modern compositions. However, the Brooklyn-based quartet`s single continues the same path mixing up light-hearted blisstronic oscillations with the glorious New Weird America, and Americana tradition (these emotionally impressive vocal lines and hazy orchestrations/brass sections used to make true impact upon the listener). The single originates from the band`s self-titled album issued on Paper Bag Records in 2012. Mandatory by any means.

Ergo Phizmiz - Nose Points In Different Directions (2010)

FMA

Archive 

8.9

/Plunderphonics, Sound collage, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Experimental electronica, Avant-garde/

Comment: Phizmiz provides 14 notches which can be described as a tumultuous issue blossoming on different samples, quirky bents and an enourmous amount of hints at various times and cultures all around the world. Of course, due to the earlier doings of a legend of the plunderphonics/conceptual art scene (and by the nature of the scene) you can be sure that his result is not surprising at all. It veers away from the improvised sets of beatbox music and noiseful gears to the samples of genuine classical music. However, the question can just be reduced to the one - is it enough suitable to your recent psychological condition and nature, though? Yet, undoubtedly it is intriguing and enough intricate to have a couple of listening times at least. Or much more.

Lufth - Tendenzen (2003)

Thinner
Thinner 

9.1

/Trip-hop, Dub, Breaks, Experimental electronica, Chill out/

Comment: undoubtedly a label called Thinner was one of the first netlabels who had provided qualitative kind of dance rhythms and broken beats. This 4-track publication takes on sublime, slow-paced pieces including mainly acidic trip-hop progressions and glowering dub-moulded mist, however, involving some acoustic chords in between the aforementioned styles either. In a word, the set is rich emotionally and sensually. It is truly worth to be remembered.

[Teaser of the day] Cosmic Boxer - Jasper in Denmark

Sean Nicholas Savage - You Changed Me

Andrew Cedermark - Moon Deluxe (2010/2012)

FMA

9.0

/Chamber pop, Alternative rock, Indie pop/

Comment: AC conveys an intriguing batch of 3 notches which is made up of lush orchestrations infiltrated with more noiseful guitar strumming and frequencies or on the other side is composed of harmonica-led indie chips and glockenspiel-tinged colours and rough blues chords. Sometimes there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Richard Hawley, and The Pixies.

Puke Skywalker - Tripper Crust EP (2012)

Puke Skywalker

8.8

/Noise rock, Crust punk, Brutal metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, Anti-rock/ 

Comment: this handful of very short-running tracks consists of the brutal punk essence involving the elements of self-englutting noise rock and extreme metal/grindcore which are variegated with some doleful spoken word chips. Indeed, it sounds like a hardcore combo who is intended to play their music at the speed of 2 times faster than the usual understanding of it used to be.   

Youarehere - As When The Fall Leaves Trees (2011)

51 Beats 

Youarehere

Lastfm

9.0

/Dream pop, Shoegazetronica, Alternative dance, Experimental indie, Modern classical, Post-rock/

Comment: Youarehere is an Italian musical group whose current album is a sign of how dreamy shoegaze-hued progressions are craftily fused with massive dance-appealed rhythms and dilating psychedelic currents and picturesque modern classical developments. Their approach, however, resembles of the undertakings of such groups as Locust, Seefeel, Ecovillage, M83, early Opium Flirt, French Teen Idol, The Japanese Gum, edPorth, and Superficial Random Knowledge Porridge.