9/13/2014
[Teaser of the day] Wreck And Reference - Abhorrence
Avant-metal
Experimental metal
Avant-garde
Angst metal
Screamo
Post-metal
Apocalyptic
Noise metal
Asalto al Parque Zoológico – Sonnen (2014)
- Shoegaze
- Dream pop
- Alternative rock
- Noise rock
Comment: to listen to
this couple of tracks incessantly from one hour to another it is a very
ecstatic, even purgative listening experience. If to draw parallels to another
South American combo, This Lonely Crowd`s album An Endless Moment Everyday All The Time (2010, Sinewave) sounded blatantly close to Smashing
Pumpkins. In parallel, The Buenos Aires-based combo can sound even more into
the hard core of My Bloody Valentine than the legendary shoegaze pioneers
themselves wanted to do it (you obviously understand what I mean). Indeed,
those exuberant layers of dream-drenched noise cascades do not give you a hoot
wrapping the subject up into a hazy, velvety sonic Shangri-la where she/he
loses a sense of gravity. AAPZ`s concept may be considered partially as a noise
rock example either but it is remarkably more dulcet and sexy than most of pop
acts to put together.
Guerrinha - De Rosinha Falsificado Para Feirinhas Cinzentas (Os Pequenos Tijolos Da House Music) (2012)
- Big beat
- Club dance
- Techno
- Alternative dance
Comment: If you guess 12 minutes might be way too
long to produce one dance-tinged track than you go definitely wrong regarding
the recent issue. More profoundly, Guerrinha`s 2-track outlet is a beast of
corkscrewing techno and viable big beat mixed rhythms varicoloured with some
vowel samples and key chords to result in a highly spellbinding and hypnotic
grower. These simultaneously brisk and hesychastic cadences penchant for
serotonin-releasing key changes remind me a little bit of Italo disco vibes
either. Sometimes it is assumed dance music is somewhat superficial and cursory
kind of music, however, if it is relaxing and psychedelic does it mean that it
is somehow more draffy or rubbish in comparison with Pink Floyd or Spacemen 3,
for instance? It sounds almost like a club version of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Listen to it and you will
adore it.
Ashtray Navigations - Sweet Iron Feet (2009)
- Drone
- Sound-art
- Experimental rock
- Avant-garde
- Post-psychedelic electronica
- Experimentalism
- No Wave
- New Weird Britain
Comment: there can be difference
between Ashtray Navigations, and Ashtray Navigations regarding Phil Todd headed
combo`s releases. There is no wonder because of having issued a shitloads of
avant-whatever albums since the beginning of 90s. Todd and his variable collaborators`
music can be considered a sort of alchemy of manipulated sounds which may be
even more influential than the listener is able to guess. For instance, you could
remember for the first two albums of
Animal Collective where they partially carry out similar minimalistic psychedelic
experiments and more sophisticated noise-tinged explorations (or so-called
post-psychedelic electronica) thereby bringing forth such sort of music to a
wider audience. More concretely, this 4-track issue is a positive sonic mayhem filled
with whistling feedback noises, arty guitar chord layering, amplified hisses and
bubbly synth drones, however, there aforementioned elements are just tools to
experiment with them on different intensities and interactions throughout this
31-minute course. It might be considered an improvised music album, though, it
seems that every element brought forth on it is thoroughly analysed and elaborated.
By the way, the album will be finished off in a majestic manner (The Whirlpool What Was). By kindred
souls I recommend listen to such artists as Kemialliset Ystävat, Glenn Branca,
Vibracathedral Orchestra, fydhws, Tore Elgaroy.
9/11/2014
[Teaser of the day] Postcode - Pound
- Post-punk
- Alternative rock
- Shoegaze
- Alternative dance
Artist: Postcode
Release: Zebratronic
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2014
EDASI – Orphaned Demons Follow Your Destiny (2014)
- Black noise
- Avant-garde
- Psycho-acoustic
- Crust punk
- Blackgaze
- Experimentalism
- Improvised music
- Non-music
Comment: when I was a little
boy while lying in bed I was a little bit frightened by trying to listen to
buzzing frequencies behind the silence and dreaming up ghouls coming out of the
wall. This 11-track issue by Mihkel Kleis aka Ratkiller aka EDASI recalls me a
little bit these early days in my life. Although his music can be considered an
exemplar of black noise the album incorporates elements from disparate genres.
Fairly sympathetic are those barely audible but effectively resulting sampled
particles, occult speech and burked screams-ritual evocations and pulsating
synth repetitions among tight layering. Kleis also used to recruit quite
uncommon sounds in the context of such kind of music – for instance,
melodica-driven explorations in one composition. An important part of the issue
is the relation between insistent, besotted noise walls and elements coming out
of it. Moreover, it is all about of how a sonic particle or snippet is contingent
on the total amount of these particles, and conversely. The final track Outro and partially Intro are more concretely influenced by My Bloody Valentine`s beatific
noise aesthetics. Call it architectural approach to create black noise music.
In a word, it will take care of your soul.
Delhotel Records: Club Comfort Remezclado (2009)
- Indietronica
- Alternative pop
- Leftfield
- Remixes
- Electro pop
- Alternative dance
- Robot pop
- Electronic pop
- Chillwave
Comment: this set of 10
tracks involves both original and remixed ones and some reworks, however, all
thoroughly rotating around Roberto Polo and Sergio Treviño aka Dj Queco`s
collaborative project Club Comfort. Club Comfort`s original sound is based upon
gritty indie electronic, volatile chillwave tuning, and electro pop progressions,
however, remix makers will make it amenable to more diverse electro pop and
stroboscope-lighted and autotuned robot pop touch. The remixers on it are the
collective`s label mates like Mersey Hot Springs, DJ Golonsh, Sr. Amable, White
Ninja, and Mockingbird. The issue includes enough of highlights to be deemed a top
notch. The godfather of the release is an excellent Mexican experimental
pop/rock label, Delhotel Records.
J.-P. CARON – ST (2014)
- Drone
- Dark ambient
- Ambient noise
- Epic
- Ambient drone
- Dystopbient
- Avant-garde
- Minimalism
- Microtonal
- Experimentalism
Comment: J.-P. Caron`s recent
composition may chime like a graveyard or junk yard antidote to La Monte
Young`s music. Just kidding. However, there are represented a couple of tracks
first of them extend a little longer than one hour and another is approximately
about 14 minutes. Despite their imbalance in format the nature is similar –
taut, bleak drones run ceaselessly over endless landscapes full of ghostly
shades and penumbras. Inspite of the minimal or even microtonal concept the
emotion flourishes throughout and will be full-fledged at the end. Of course,
such kind of minimally produced music is tractable by illusions thereby the
listener cannot be very sure where is laid down the border between reality and
fiction. The blurred vision is actually its strength and source of
vitality.
9/09/2014
[Teaser of the day] Erissoma - Emotional Landslid
- Glitch ambient
- Glitchtronica
- Soundscapes
- Experimental electronica
- Abstract
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Microtonal
Cagey House – Second Sight (2014)
- Free folk
- Weird folk
- Avant-folk
- New Weird America
- Sampledelic
- Sound collage
- Art music
Comment: Baltimore-native
Dave Keifer aka Cagey House has been a prolific artist issuing at least 15
albums since 1999. He is one of the main icons regarding netlabel based music.
A shitloads of records who had issued his outcomes are already disappeared but
he is still here to delight the listener. When he started to produce his sound
it was formally electronic but chimed rather like a modern indie rock combo.
However, later on his sound veered into a haunting, more experimental approach
full of haunting art house-y milieus and uncanny but catchy melodies atop.
However, his previous one Pistol Vest
(2010, MAV 0kbps) seemed to be a turn forward due to more psychedelic and
improvised set-ups and soundscapes. And now Second Sight denotes another dodge in stylistic approach of him.
Keifer sound has never been so folk-ish, though, heavily, blended with sonic
effects, orchestrated glides, warped ambiences, 60 and 70s-alike female singing
manner and vowel experiments and electronic ploys. Moreover, his recent
approach is minimalistic relied on a couple of sonic algorithms and repetitive,
even a little bit autistic samples regarding most of these 7 compositions
represented over here. Fairly amusing and relaxing.
AKA Gelbart – Please Please Me (2013)
- Conceptual
- Space Age
- Exotica pop
- Alternative rock
- Psychedelic
- Rockabilly
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Electronic
- Art rock
- Psychobilly
DavidKBD - Plastik-The Technosphere (2011)
- Trance
- Techno-metal
- Electro-metal
- Dance pop
- Crossover
Comment: David KBD is a
musician from Pamplona, Basque country. His 7-track issue is a melting pot for
poppy techno cadences, bubbly trance rhythms and metal guitar riffs. The result
is fizzy and upbeat, though, being superficial, simplistic and cheesy by its
nature. Actually the whole chimes like a long-running track, just providing
some pauses at different times. The artist tries to find out the middle ground
between disparate genres or to amount to them, though, having no plan and enough
depth to manage it. On the other side, there are certainly some elements to
create finer and more segmented results. Moreover, Tinkling Lights is a banner thanks to an unforgettable motif and
subsidiary progressions and relaxing pads around it.
9/07/2014
DJ Torby - Big Bag (2013)
- House
- Alternative dance
- Club dance
- New Age
- Downtempo
- Chillout
- Mood music
Comment: DJ Torby provides
mostly phlegmatic downtempo-esque and New Age-soaked rhythms accentuated with
lonely piano chords, smooth jazz-y whiffs and scant bass drum-based slaps.
However, these elements do corkscrew against the upper layers of compositions
which used to be shimmering and sheeny ones thereby providing the welcome
counterbalance to it. Of course, there are represented some exceptions either. At
Sleep In My Arms are catchy but
gloomy synth layers mixed up with majestic bells therefore sounding quite close
to some borderline post-rock combos. Beach
Walker is a house-inspired notch bringing incessantly forth uplifting milieus
and dreamy associations throughout. At Let
Me Feel Your Fantasy is all about a catchy electro-disco hook.
Dancing Deadlips + Potworow - Buffalo Bill's Defunct (2014)
- Spoken word
- Sound poetry
- Dark ambient
- Noir music
- Avant-garde
- No Wave
- Experimentalism
- Microtonal
Comment: the
Poland-residing Dancing Deadlips` rationale is based upon gloomy and noir-laden
soundscapes and persuasive storytelling getting their inspiration at the
fringes No Wave movement and gothic/neoclassical music. This time they issued a
composition, Buffalo Bill`s Defunct featuring
Potworow. Indeed, it is heavily crawling and horrendously grumbling thereby
adding to the air of impending threat and awe. By the way, the lyrics is based
upon Buffalo Bill's Defunct by E.E. Cummings,
a prominent representative of the 20th poetry.
Jazz Friends – Autumn Leaves (2013)
- Nu jazz
- Mood music
- Chillout
- Acid jazz
- Art music
- Easy listening
- Smooth jazz
- Downbeat
Comment: this miscellany
of 9 tracks issued approximately 10 ten months ago is relevant at the moment
either. In fact, it may behove for any time. The smorgasbord starts off with a fabulous regatta pop example
by Roberto Daglio combining together easy-paced cognition, 70`s ending jazz progressions
reminding a little bit of Miles Davis, and Jaan Kuman, for instance. However,
in addition to it there are represented also jazz-induced mood music, more art
music progressions, smoky downbeat shuffles, and more contemporary electronic/acid/nu
jazz grooves and hovers. In a word, it guarantees to the listener good feeling
and pleasant state of mind. Beyond Roberto Daglio there are represented Stefano
Mocini and Liquid Frame, JAZ, PeerGyntLoboGris, Liquid Frame, DavidKBD, Nujazz
Trio, Thorvald Odin, and Lino Del Vecchio.
9/05/2014
[Teaser of the day] Asalto al Parque Zoológico - Sonnen
- Dream pop
- Alternative rock
- Shoegaze
- Psychedelia
6SISS – In Pallid Nights (2014)
- Ambient techno
- Experimental electronica
- Ambient dub
- Post-industrial
- Glitchtronica
- Breakbeat
- Ambient noise
- Crossover
- Experimental techno
- Dubstep
Comment: 6SISS is the
nom de plume of Peter Adriaenssens, a Belgian artist whose 6-track issue is the
follow-up to his Untitled release under
Ledebronx in 2014. More profoundly, it is an example of wondrous sonic alchemy
where topmost lush ambient-drenched layers are tightly blended with dub-induced,
slightly `lazy` rhythmic patterns and reverb-heavy semi-paces beneath. However,
Adriaenssens is not an orthodox musician who would like to confine himself into
the borders of a definitive genre. He is a nature who prefers to go across
different sonic territories – from immersive noise-soaked compositions and horrifying industrial visions to gritty
techno and breakbeat-tinged background realms, from quasi-minimalism to glitch-y
electronic experiments. In a word, this 6-notch issue can be considered a part
of cerebral dance music full of challenging patterns and varicoloured webs
whose relatives are Joel Tammik, and Tim Hecker. Keep tab on the artist.
9/04/2014
Duesterheit - f3style (2000)
- Funk
- House pop
- Alternative rock
- Trance
- Rave
- Electro pop
- Crossover
Comment: f3style was one of the first albums in the discography of Duesterheit issued in 2000. Inspite of being highly eclectic one this 9-track whole includes lots of contrasts and interesting outcomes. At the beginning Duesterheit provides superficial house and funk-y frequencies, though, which seem to be influenced by post-punk mentality; later all of that will be traded for more gloomy electro explorations and even abstract rhythmic combinations (Bass, Damage). The most contrasty stylistic element on it are elliptically extended guitar chords which subsequently constitute the suggestive alternative rock example at Seven In Concert. The final track Confused is a crossover instance of guitar riff-driven layers and choppy cadences below it. Worth album by any means.
Huron – Social Engines (2006)
- IDM
- Space techno
- Downtempo
- Avant-techno
- Experimental techno
- Deep techno
Comment: this 12-track
issue was the starting point for the Berlin-based records Crazy- Language.
Indeed, the choice was very successful due to hovering sublime atmosphere and
mesmerized rhythm shuffles on the whole. Huron provides glacial ice-alike
relaxing backgrounds variegated with more sophisticated rhythmic patterns, brooding
panoramas, angular electronic overthrows and even robot pop-induced samples. In
artist`s soundscape there can be perceived influences amounting to Autechre,
Kraftwerk, Detroit techno scene, and then actual-IDM artists rather than the
European club music scene. In a word, it is a fairly profound listening
experience which is worth to be remembered and honoured with new listening
times once again.
9/03/2014
Opusvertigo – Cosmic Dream (2011)
- Psytrance
- Kosmische Musik
- Space music
- Alternative
- Lo-fi
Comment: by listening to the
Yvrench, France-based musical project Opusvertigo`s one-track-issue Cosmic Dream the listener can perceive
a similar experience she/he felt while listening to Tangerine Dream`s albums
from the mid-70s to the beginning of 80s. More concretely, it is filled with
sci-fi spaced-out seeds with the assistance of majestic and a little sinister
synth layers which are paced with (psy)/ambient/trance-alike rhythmic sequences
and grooves. Of course, unlike Tangerine Dream`s opuses Opusvertigo`s sound is more
loose and skiddy throughout. By the way, there is an innumerable amount of
one-track compositions by Opusvertigo at Jamendo you could enjoy and download
Bencina Disturbio - Goodbye Monday (en vivo) (2011)
- Psych-rock
- Space rock
- Alternative rock
Comment: if to play rock and
roll music it should be done very loud and aggressive. Buenos Aires-based
collective Bencina Disturbio does it in an excessive way to ooze out energy and
power from any slot and crack. Indeed, the collective`s 7-track issue is a
blasting appearance filled with tinny, Sonic Youth-alike guitars and supersonic
jet engine-reminding overdrives here and there. At times they used to vary
their sound with spaced-out indications and more panoramic sonic layers. In
fact, it is fairly sexy and appealing to dive into trance-inducing guitar noise
whirlpools and enchanting black holes. In true, there was Velvet Underground in
the 60s, there was Sonic Youth in the 80s, and now is Bencina Disturbio in the
10s. But why they are not famous yet? Why? It is genuine rock and roll, believe
me.
Hyperreality - Submarine Techno (2014)
- Deep techno
- Club dance
- Dub techno
Comment: This couple of
tracks (Bravo Zulu, Depth Charge) are thought to be listened
to at midnight to get a better vibe perception and depth reflection. Indeed,
Hyperreality`s sound chimes like a blend of tightly mixed techno vibes and
spaced-out, a little bit grim soundscapes and hiss clusters and vowel samples around
it. The whole is dynamic and straightforward, however, sometimes providing
dub-alike reverberations and some outlined sonic stripes accelerated through
the tracks. In a nutshell, it is an instance of cerebral and body music
simultaneously. Yeah!!!
9/01/2014
EUS – Reviraje (2014)
- Dark ambient
- Drone
- Ambient drone
- Electro-acoustic
- Abstract
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Organic electronica
- Neoclassical
Comment: EUS is a
prolific artist from such a small country as Costa Rica from Mesoamerica. Jose
Acuña has issued approximately a dozen of releases during the last 4 years. Reviraje encompasses 7 compositions
where long-running mellow drone chords generated by machines are tightly
accompanied by dolorous cello chords played by Oliver Barrett. At times the
soundscape results in majestic orchestrations or just adding some seeds from
electro-acoustic and concrete music to get a more profound and magnetising
outcome. In general, the whole is a dainty sway between known and abstract,
between visible and occult, between mundane and blissful, between epic
and…epic. Furthermore, it could not be described as beautiful because of being
way too gloomy and glowering by its nature. Some decades ago such kind of music
was just described as deep.
8/31/2014
The Movin´ Circles – Chaotic Process (2012)
- Chamber pop
- Indie pop
- Folk indie
- Alternative pop
- Indie folk
Comment: actually there is
quite little to say about this 3-track issue coming out of Buenos Aires,
Argentine. It is obviously inspired by sunshine and shangri-la, cute melodies
and chords. At Sonia`s Letter (Sunset)
are guitars, ukulele, and banjo seamlessly blended with suggestive keyboard
whiffs in the background thereby resulting in to be the favourite track of
mine. The other tracks provide more lo-fi and songwriter-alike approach adding
more soulful facets and exemplary, a little bit cheesy singing manner to the
soundscape, however, on the other side, losing its catchy dynamics and moving
in circles gradually. Last but not least - the ditties are sung in English.
Himmelkommando – Cerebromatika (2006)
- Abstract
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Drone
- Non-music
- Glitchtronica
- Post-industrial
- Noise
- Avant-electronica
- Sampledelic
- Illbient
- Dark ambient
Comment: these 7 tracks
spread out over 35 minutes are positioned to be very far from the centres of
pop music. More profoundly, it embraces straightforward, brutal and improvised
noise dashes or more restrained but even more bleaks and malignant
(post)industrial and experimental electronic/glitchtronic compositions. At times Himmelkommando´s music
chimes like a blend of disparate sonic elements where one layer is managed to
be more rhythmic, laidback or even beatific and another used to be clearly abrasive or
ominous (for instance, Teletaxia, Alterego, Fantoplication, Water_Hemlock).
At this point of view the album can be considered a classical example of noise
music where obsessive but successfully accentuated interaction between silence
and noise embrace the central point on it. In a word, it is an austere but
compensatory experience.
8/30/2014
A&C Download Sampler (2014)
- Funk
- Electro-indie
- Alternative rock
- Poptronica
- Baroque pop
- Neokrautrock
- Indie pop
Comment: Arts &
Crafts is an indie label based on Toronto, Canada whose well-known artists are
or has been Bell Orchestre, The American Analogue Set, Moby, Röyksopp, Stars,
The Hidden Cameras, Tricky, Los Campesinos!. The recent sampler includes such
artists as NO, Gord Downie, The Sadies, And The Conquering, Kevin Drew, Lowell,
Reuben and the Dark, Timber Timbre, Trust, and Zeus. Stylistically the
compilation used to veer into lush indie electronic and electro pop, circumspect
baroque pop, funk-inclined rock, straightforward but viable rock and roll, and
even an up-to-date version of krautrock. However, the catchiest and most
volatile track on it is Kevin Drew`s You
In Your Were, and more pretentious and distant one is Timber Timbre`s Curtains!?. In a word, the Arts &
Crafts`s sampler is compelling and worth to be enjoyed again and again. Subscribe to the label`s mailing list.
Hox Vox – Suffer (2013)
- Avant-prog
- RIO
- Alternative dance
- Crossover
- Synth-rock
- Leftfield
- Electro-rock
- Art rock
Comment: talented avant-garde/prog-man,
conceptualist, multimedia functionary, lonely wolf Gianluca Missero has been
cheering up the listener during the last 5-6 years with a numerous of albums.
Missero`s music is an amalgamation of different aspects, though, it seems his
soundscape has changed in a way to afford more dodges and dashes toward the
future on. Suffer is a sufficient
instance of it – mandatory rock in opposition`s elements used to intersect with
Latin sounds, electronic and dance music facets, concrete music and…a pure
sexual intercourse (Desire). Mostly
all of that used to be performed offhand and laid down in some seconds.
Moreover, Missero has positioned himself very close and very far to the
epicentre of pop music at the same time. Call it compelling impulsiveness.
Erissoma – Textures (2011)
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Microtonal
- Post-rock
- Microsound
- Experimental electronica
- Glitchtronica
- Modern classical
Comment: this handful of tracks is a mesmerized presentation of picturesque
piano and guitar-based chords which are wrapped up by signal-alike electronic
progressions, choppy droning hums and hazy vowel samples which constantly whir
and whirl. The whole results in creating of thick, sublime layers, however,
stylistically veering at the crossroads of post-rock, modern classical, and
experimental/glitch electronica. It is a thorough experimental pursuit, though,
not to be separated from emotions. Spain-based magician Erissoma proves that actually it is needed
few elements to create something overwhelming – the essential point of the
issue is about how to evoke subtle changes in texture. The outcome will eat
your mind.
8/28/2014
[Teaser of the day] Tont - King Willie Dub
- Dub doom
- Musique concrète
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Sampledelic
Miami Slice – Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn EP (2014)
- Electro house
- Italo disco
- House pop
- Disco house
- Mood music
- Alternative dance
- Club dance
Comment: one thing is
truly sure at the moment - New Yorker Christian Montoya aka Decktonic aka Miami
Slice came off in full. Undoubtedly Brooklyn 2 Brooklyn
EP is his best release ever issued. It is fairly catchy and spellbinding
sharing its place somewhere in between the territories of club dance and mood
music. There are many ghosts in-flight. From Giorgio Moroder and Gino Soccio
inspired Italo disco-based grooves and propulsions and more contemporary
filter-heavy house dregs to volatile electro gears and cinematically orchestrated
or briny pop house/disco oscillation frequencies. It is pure gold by any means.
It might be even the best issue in 2014 so far.
Children of the Drone – Falling Together (Compilation no.5) (2006)
- Psych-folk
- Improvised music
- Space folk
- Musique concrète
- Electro-acoustic
- Dream folk
- Avant-folk
- World music
- Experimental folk
- Free folk
- New Weird Britain
Comment: Children of the
Drone is a coterie from Exeter, England whose music presentation way is to
deliver it for free download - previously improvised in live. Their 14-track
set is a sublime soundscape based on natural (ethnic) instruments-based arsenal
and some electronics (synthesizer) full of solemn space-y reverberations and
dreamy glimpses here and there. In principle the collective`s music can
contingently be considered a part of the so-called New Weird movement, though,
the set involves also their propensity to experiment within the confines of
electro-acoustic, concrete music, jazz, world music and improvised music. By
listening to them the listener can perceive unhurriedness to drift along. The
favourite track of mine is The Lucid
Dreamer because of having serious flirtation with noise music. In a word, the
whole results in delivering of suggestive synergy. I recommend visit to COTD`s
site and read about their way of looking at things (mostly at music and music
industry, of course).
postmeshische - накося выкуси (v30 km ot goroda mix) (2011)
- Lobit
- Noise
- Funk
- Non-music
- Primitive music
- Glitch
Comment: this 3-track
issue is a weird shit composed of lobit sonic frequencies, glitches, and
demented noises. The Russian experimental music project/duo postmeshische
demonstrates how could sound funk music or techno music in a mutilated way (live at 30 km far from a city (v30 km ot
goroda), and accidazm,
respectively). In fact, there is no much imagination let above of how the music
issue could sound in a more primitive way than this one.
Daleth – On Board With The Ark Ruffians (2013)
- Psych-metal
- Post-metal
- Sludge metal
- Trash metal
Comment: My love against
Daleth began while listening to their double album Lusitania for many years ago. Their ability to represent metal
music in an enormous way of oozing out overwhelming energy and deranged black
power is endearing and irresistible. This handful of tracks is a seamless blend
of sludge-y and trash-y tools as if these elements were dubbed and boosted
twice. It may sound in a strange way but despite its growling nature this
ruffian is soothing and nervous simultaneously and, of course, being very far
from epicentre of the pop music. Additionally, I recommend listen to such group
as Wreck And Reference.
8/26/2014
[Teaser of the day] Travelling Wave - Desprazer
- Psych-rock
- Stonergaze
- Alternative rock
- Psychedelia
- Space rock
- Alternative dance
Amitron_7 - Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel (2014)
- Electronic pop
- Easy listening
- Indietronica
- Downtempo
- Sampledelic
- Chilltronica
- Nu jazz
Comment: I can remember
for the English musician Amitron 7`s issue The
Anton Phase Electro Clockwork Menagerie released in 2009 under Enough Records.
It truly ate into my mind. However, the recent issue is a vast, 19-track one
involving lots of musical and stylistic elements – from brooding electronic and
indie mixed hums, entertaining spoken word and concrete music samples to sinuous
nu jazz/fusion-alike jitters, blissful easy listening moments, some haunting
and spaced-out blended flickers and a little disconcerted downbeat-induced decelerations.
Some improvised moments from the ending part can be found from there. Indeed, the
album expands and flourishes providing many moments worth to be arrived at. At
times Amitron_7`s music does somewhat reminisce the early 80s in Estonia due to
such fusion/jazz rock group as Kaseke. The result is a remarkable chill-out/fusion/electro-jazz
release – actually it is far more than just the sum of its ingredients. In
conclusion, music is the music fans` gospel and Come Ye Sinners to the Gospel is an array within it.
Terracota Blue – Last Night (2014)
- Chilltronica
- Alternative
- Electronic pop
- Mood music
Comment: Maryland-based
musician Terracota Blue says at his Bandcamp site that music on his mind and
his mind on music. During the last three years he has been active issuing more
than a dozen of releases. More concretely, the soundscape of Last Night is thoroughly integrated full
of laidback rhythms and mellow synth layers hovering atop. The motif based on
synths reminds a little bit of Kraftwerk-esque progressions. In a word, the
single is thought for the listener`s heart and body. By the way, he recently
issued the brand new one Depth Charge.
Tracing Arcs – Wasteland (2014)
- Trip-hop
- Jungle
- Downtempo
- Mood music
- Alternative pop
- Remixes
- Nu jazz
- Soul
- Alternative dance
- Cinematic
Comment: Fran Kapelle,
and Paul H Addie provide a subtle trip-hop album, of 10 tracks presented there
are 7 original ones and 3 are remixes. The favourite (and fortunately
overwhelming) element within the duo`s soundscape is a sustaining synergy between
Fran`s soothing (sometimes sinister, though) vocal submission and Paul`s
haunting yet somehow blissful instrumentation – which is a blend of either
relatively rough or caressingly hovering guitar chords, cinematic synths and
bold yet suggestive rhythm sequencing. In other words, it can be compared with
the situation when you drift along in your dream and all what you can see there
seems to be so hyper-realistic and bewitching. The listener`s feels will be
overshadowed by such a kind of magic. At times you might feel it is not an
exemplar of trip-hop at all but an example coming out of the witch house genre.
One of the best music issues in 2014.
8/24/2014
[Teaser of the day] The Japanese Girl - Tape Burial
- Kosmische Musik
- Avant-pop
- Hypnagogic pop
- Dream pop
- Electronic pop
- Experimentalism
- Leftfield
[Teaser of the day] Mount Eerie - 2 Blonde Braids
- Singer-songwriter
- Live session
- Free folk
- Folk indie
- Psych-folk
- New Weird America
- America
- Indie folk
Yan – Super Pig (2014)
- Breakcore
- Hi-NRG!
- Electro
- Club dance
Comment: this issue by
Yan includes a couple of tracks. The first of them, the title track, is a
catchy, a little bit infantile (in a good sense, of course) bumper embellished
with shimmery synthetic layers and glitch- y noises. Furthermore, the metrics
of the pace will be changing throughout this long-running track. DJ GO COME ON! is thought to be
presented at the dance floors characterized by electro-driven vibes and chopped
vowel samples. Indeed, it can be considered a genuine exemplar of Hi-NRG! In a
word, the result is suggestive and amusing.
Bongley Dead – Demo "3" (2014)
- Alternative pop
- Indie rock
- Dance rock
Comment: undoubtedly
this 9-track issue is a nice listening session because of providing catchy
hooks in guitar playing, dashing paces and joyous melodies on the top. Actually
it is the first aspect regarding the Italian quartet`s music which seems to be influenced
by the so-called easycore (pop punk) groups. The other aspect is remarkably
gloomier and spectacularly nervous, however, reminiscent of Sonic Youth`s anguished
guitar chords and Thurston Moore`s singing manner loaded with pre-millennium
tension. In conclusion, despite the polarity of the aforementioned phenomena in
a theoretical plan Bongley Dead is able to melt them seamlessly into each
other. Last but not least- the favourite notch of mine is Razor which shows up a suggestive, dance-appealed gear in the
middle of bruising guitars.
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