- Krautrock
- Psychedelic rock
- Acid rock
- Lo-fi
- Noise rock
- Psych-rock
- DIY
- Avant-rock
- Experimental rock
5/29/2015
[Teaser of the day] Andrew Howes - Radar Trap 2
Piyama Party - Michael Esta Vivo (2010)
/Electro-rock, Alternative
rock, Hip-hop, Synth rock, Crossover, Country, Indietronica/
Comment: the Mexican project`s Piyama Party`s
issue reflects substantially to the nature of ideology of their home label
Delhotel Records (also from Mexico). Their music is a sort of crossover concept
where low toned guitars/garage-y hirsute electric guitars are tightly mixed up
with electronic rhythms, magniloquent synths and other stylistic side jumps (for
instance, Historias Feas is drawing
upon the country rhythm/guitar strumming, and Rapera (featuring Pipe Llorens) is a simplistic hip-hop bastard). There
are brought forth 7 tracks coming to the end at a length of 17 minutes only.
Ultimately it can be admitted it is a solid release with different shifts and
ingredients.
Teddy Bear –Euphoria (2013)
/House, Club dance,
Electronic pop/
Comment: indeed, Teddy
Bear`s 2-track issue deserves its title and resonates with the sensual cover
print because of swaying somewhere in between filter-heavy house music and
elements wafting out of the club dance room. More concretely, with regard to
filtered sounds it chimes truly in an oneiric way being counterbalanced with
thumping bass frequencies and deliberately repeated vocal sample bits which
soon will be distilled to emerge in a more chart-oriented way. However, this
issue can also be considered to be a part of the chillwave movement saturated
with sonorous breezes and mellifluous sound progressions. Excellent work by any
means. The issue is a part of the Japanese label Ceramic Records.
Pretty Lights - A Color Map of the Sun Disc 1 (2013)
/Sampledelic, Breaks, Downtempo,
Chill out, Urban music, Soul, Big beat, Mood music, Hip-hop, Electronic pop/
Comment: this is the first
disc of the album A Color Map of the Sun
which, however, fulfils your greatest expectations conjured up by Denver, USA
based producer Derek Vincent Smith`s previous outings. This is the first issue
of him which is mixed up from his own recorded sounds by the method of trying
to emulate different styles and different eras. More concretely, the first disc
includes 16 pieces made up of tectonic plate bass rhythms, cinematic soul
samples from the 60s/70s, and velvety sonic textures, drifting stylistically
somewhere in between funk, soul and hip-hop music. At times you can perceive
spaced-out feeling adding fairly otherworldly vibrations to the blend. On the
other side, it is not surprising at all because all these sources discerned
over there used to come out from the black music tradition which searching for
the redemption on Earth frequently focused upon the zenith and outer space
concepts (for instance, the afrofuturistic movement, and Sun Ra`s interstellar
metaphysics). By the way, one track features vocal delivery by Talib Kweli and
another by Eligh. Beautiful and beatific thought to energize your withered
soul. By kindred souls I recommend listen to such producers as Max Tannone, and
Chenard Walcker.
5/27/2015
[Teaser of the day] PA - 2015-03-12 01.09.18
- Ambient noise
- Minimalism
- Psychedelic
- Ambient drone
- Experimentalism
- Leftfield
- Noise
- Musique concrète
- Avant-garde
- Sound-art
K&K$ -2ci15 (2009)
/Sampledelic, Avant-garde, Hip-hop,
Breaks, Leftfield, Improvised music/
Comment: this 4-track issue
is a collaboration act between Kasero and Koulomek, the artists related to
Hamsterloco, a Barcelona, Catalonia based record label. The whole is intriguing
because all these sounds put down over here were created during an
improvisational session in a few hours only. More concretely, it is saturated with
spoken samples, skiddy rhythms, martial orchestrations and unexpected theme
changes asi if coming out of nowhere. At times it chimes like a scowlingly appearing Flying Lotus. Interesting thing for sure.
SC#006 VA Compilation (2014)
/Experimental electronica, Glitchtronica,
Dubstep, Ambient dub, Electro, Space music, Leftfield/
Comment: Symbiotic Cube is a record label from Cologne, Germany, the home
city of an essential krautrock group named CAN. CAN was a combo who liked to
produce frantic and cutting-edge yet strongly danceable compositions, at times
more funky, at time more disco, at times more reggae-inclined. This menagerie
of 10 tracks involves also dance-appealed numbers though they chime in a more
remarkably electronic and software-based way. The miscellany includes artist
worldwide (from USA to Iran, from Russia to Mexico). The whole is masterfully
selected and compiled extending from emotive, almost pop-induced electronic
music and electro to more cut-up, sheltered and hidden compositions. In any
cases, if you are planning to organize a space journey this example is a good
source to get some moody music for relaxing in these days. There are represented
such projects as Odepth, Andi Finger, Abduct, Leaving the Planet, GLASKIN,
Reverse Bullets, Rowan J. Thyme, YBSTN, Tzeshi, and r.m.ʝ〜ʎ. In a word, come close to it to discover the asset of it.
Shibuya Motors – Furrows Of The Night (2014)
/Experimentalism, Improvised
music, Freeformfreakout, Noise, Avant-garde, Psycho-acoustic, Free jazz/
Comment: Bratislava,
Slovakia-based duo Shibuya Motor`s 8-track issue is a sort of punk because of
relying on destructive and creative energies and contradictory sonorous vectors
simultaneously. Stylistically, it is rather an act of constructing a crossroad
between improvised music, incisive noise bites, dizzy jazz flow and visceral
electronic roundabouts. Indeed, emotionally the result is both overwhelming and
amusing replete with incessant wonky repetitions, warped instruments, however, being
subjected to metaphysics of the change. The final experience is highly
challenging and mind-provoking. Dynamic and kooky. It is fair music, isn`t?
5/25/2015
Surfacing – Surfacing (2014)
/Noise, Post-industrial, Neoclassical,
Dark Wave, Dub, Alternative dance, Avant-garde, Art music, Neo-noir,
Experimentalism/
Comment: this handful of
tracks by Nottingham, England based combo Surfacing is a mind-blowing one
consisting of disparate impulses and currents. The issue starts off with
distortion-heavy noirish chants and shrieks revealing the artist`s obsession
toward industrial/neoclassical/dark wave/ambient, doleful dub and obscure post-punk-ish
sources full of distress, misery and angriness. Beyond it, it used to progress
into more dance-appealed yet menacing threads, however, pouring out desolate
and misanthropic feels. At times the artist exploits unexpected combinations of
sounds and instruments (for instance, using the chords of harmonica at Amaurot, and Melancholy of Fulfilment). It sounds like a soundtrack for the
horror film because of dosing all the aforementioned elements properly. Top
notch for your worst nightmares and otherworldy dreamy surfacing.
5/24/2015
Madoka - Take a Walk (2014)
/Indie folk, Art folk, Folk
indie, Indietronica, Mood music/
Comment: this handful of
tracks is a moody scraping made up of slightly angular electric guitar chords,
some barely audible orchestrated shuffles and faint electronic rhythms beneath
it. Indeed, it is instrumental music to the full extent filled with emotive key
changes and motive replacements and adding some subtle sonic effects and
concrete sounds around the main backbone. The artist comes out of Japan and the
issue is released on Italian label La bèl. Love it.
Dzlav - Toy Machines And Scavenged Melodies (2009)
/Experimental electronica,
Electro pop, Techno pop, Glitchtronica, Leftfield/
Comment: it is great honour and pleasure to be
back again at the discography of Just not Normal, a record label whose
intention was to issue pawky experimental music. Dzlav`s 8-track issue sounds
exactly in this way – although the uniform of it is made up of sly glitch-y
electronic bits its content is quite pop-appealing almost chiming like an
instance of dance pop music. In truth it is cutting-edge dance music (at times
more electro, at times more techno oriented). The result is fabulous because of
showing to us that music consisting of chopped-up chords could emerge in simple
or partly pop-oriented way. Actually it is a way of art to cross such different
attitudinal elements together seamlessly. Must hear.
Kane West – Western Beats (2014)
/Hip-hop, Electro, Game
music, Urban music, Breaks, Nu disco, Rap/
Comment: Kane West is a hip-hop musician from London, Great Britain being a part of PC Music. The artist`s 7-track issue is a quite one dimensional issue based mostly on game music induced incisive rhythms which sounds in a quite primitive way. Of course, it does not mean at all the release is somehow inferior or simplistic. Vice versa, those sampled and surprisingly bursting sounds here and there are a part of danceable sequencing replete with electro and nowadays disco rhythms. In short, effect loaded sounds are tightly interwoven with solid programming and spiky rhythms and low bass undercurrents and soulful female singing and some harsher shrieks in the meantime. Enjoyable outing indeed.
5/22/2015
[Teaser of the day] Mr. Z - In Orbit Pt.2
- Sampledelic
- Breaks
- Alternative dance
- Experimental
- Big beat
- Electronic
5/21/2015
Nanaki – The Dying Night (2014)
/Post-rock, Post-metal,
Epic, Experimental rock, Art rock/
Comment: Nanaki is recently minimized into the
solo project of Mikie Daugherty, being known as the guitarist of Postcode from
Great Britain creating post-punk and shoegaze influenced alternative rock. Nanaki
is obviously dissimilar case because these 12 compositions represented over
there reveal Daugherty`s spot on epic and majestic post-rock progressions –
interactions between bold guitar layers and doleful pianos, symphonized synths
and some programmed rhythms and intoxicating digitized noises here and there. For
instance, listen to such a track as There's
No Such Thing As Good which is…(very) good on its own involving a
mesmerizing synth glide over epic yet slightly glowering guitar timbres. Frequently
these layers change mood to evolve into more overwhelming post-metal hits. Of
course, it is essential to find out those odds and ends in his music which make
sense in addition to the aforementioned elements. Ultimately it can be said it
is a decorous and satisfactory issue.
Myll - Bland Siffror Och Troll I En Bil Utan Blinkers (2010)
/Alternative pop, Indie pop,
Baroque pop, Indietronica, DIY/
Comment: although this 10-piece album is produced in a simple way (if
to perceive it at the first glimpse) the result is catchy and mind-blowing.
Mostly acoustic guitar chords (or piano and electric guitar-led nexus
otherwise) are accentuated with subtle electronic developments and enchanting
woodwind whiffs. At times Myll reveals his capacity to bring forth thoroughly
infectious harmonies and magic keys as if coming out from the barrel organ. At
times the tracks chime like lullaby ditties replete with otherworldly magic and
warm touch. The final track involves a very well-known theme interwoven into
the guitar and electronic mixed background. By kindred souls it can be compared
with paavoharju, Beirut and his label mates from No Source. Myll is the solo
project by the Swedish musician Edvin Lindström.
Pablie - Prelude To Anything Exactly Specific EP (2006)
/Sampledelic, Breaks,
Hip-hop, Nu jazz, Alternative, Mood music, Crossover/
Comment: Pablie`s 5-track issue characterizes a sort of nowadays
sampledelic music very well – cinematic jazz-based progressions based on hazy
electric piano and lofty synthesizer chords and cool trumpet whiffs, skiddy
hip-hop rhythms and soulful vocal pieces and soothing vocal layers and barely
audible concrete sounds coming out from the streets. Indeed, as the music artist
himself suggests this EP might be a prelude to anything exactly specific. I
think if Miles Davis were born many decades later than his real birthdate
actually was, he would make a quite similar music, for instance. Pablie is a
producer from Barcelona, Catalonia. Eventually it can be admitted the result is
astonishingly dream-provoking animating the listener`s emaciated psyche.
5/16/2015
[Teaser of the day] M Is We - The Devil`s Are the Best
- Garage rock
- Acid rock
- Punk rock
- Experimental rock
- Noise rock
Things Falling Apart – "a broken history" live bootleg series: dekalb 2014-08-16 (2014)
/Space rock, Live session, Improvised
music, Doom rock, Experimental rock, Psych-rock, Post-rock/
Comment: Things Falling
Apart`s live session consists of a couple of improvisations extended over 37
minutes. It starts off slowly, progresses slowly and finishes off… of haing a
little bit quicker tempo. However, the nine head collective in the meantime
creates something fairly special for the listener to feel himself/herself
floating somewhere in outer space or wrapped up in azure clouds. In a word,
this is the issue`s spaced-out component. Black matter (in outer space) is
interlaced white matter (in the listener`s brain). Secondly, the group`s music
multiply the compartments within your soul. In a word, it is the release´s
another spaced-out component with regard to inwards. In a nutshell, you don`t
need neither the spaceship nor intoxication by drugs after the listening to it
anymore.
Dadala – With Brass-Lines (2015)
/Free jazz, Avant-jazz,
Improvised music, Experimentalism, Electronic jazz, Modal jazz, Cool jazz/
Comment: RDunlop, Loopy
C, Frank Dunlap,and Johann Meier and their collaborators continue to trudge
across shaky way of experimental/improvised music. Firstly, indeed, their
narrative is distinctly subjected to experimental/cutting edge algorithms, on
the other side, the players are empowered with wide-scale skills and
comprehension to bring forth their ability to interweave with each other beyond
their craftiness to convey their own catchy solos and lead motives. In true,
throughout the course of a handful of tracks you cannot feel the sense of
irrelevance or lack of sensibility in your limbs and cerebral area. Basically,
it continues to perpetuate the kind of modal/free jazz and cool jazz
amalgamation initiated by John Coltrane, and Miles for many decades ago. Of course,
Dadala`s soundscape is slightly more modern, I mean, more phantasmagorical with
regard to many electronic rushes and dodges to back up airy woodwind induced
conjurations. In a word, it is the dignified follow-up to their previous issue With Erocnet 2.
Stephen Briggs – Nebbie Mattutine (2014)
/Guitar ambient,
Soundscapes, Epic, Art rock, Space rock, Post-rock, Experimental rock,
Progressive rock/
Comment: Stephen Briggs is a
musician from the end of the world, New Zealand. His 8-notch issue based on
extensively layered guitar music depicts picturesque visions and mellow
fantasies for your sake. Although his artsy guitar approach can be compared
with Robert Fripp´s aesthetic, the issue involves many
elements which might remind you of different styles and years. From cocky
progressive rock attitude and more warm fusion infused Canterbury sound to the
sonorous grandeur of Labradford and Aarktica, artsy coldness by Slowdive`s Pygmalion and remote, full-fledged
dreams of contemporary indie artists like Ducktails and Lee Noble. Furthermore,
Briggs` album sounds like a hyperrealistic entity as if reflecting upon a state
of sleep within you are wondering around and seeing somehow acquainted yet
eldritch environments on both sides of your path. For instance, by seeing
gravestones illuminated to promote commercial products. The tracks represented
on it used to crop out of nowhere silently to blow over similarly. I am very sure
the outing is a strong candidate for listening before you fall asleep.
5/14/2015
[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Circle and Clumk
- Art pop
- Electronic
- Acousmatic music
- Experimentalism
- Post-classical
- Spoken word
- Avant-garde
- Noise
[Teaser of the day] Cold Womb Descent - Landscapes of the Future Rising
- Space music
- Dark ambient
- Illbient
- Avant-garde
- Experimentalism
- Soundscapes
- Kosmische Musik
Ekleipsi Net-Label Halloween Compilation (2007)
/Neofolk, Dark folk, Funeral
metal, Neoclassical, Space rock, Post-classical, Dark Wave, Shoegaze,
Breakbeat/
Comment: honestly, what kind of music could be
expected from the Halloween compilation else but dark-hued, doleful, ominous
and overwhelming aesthetic examples pouring out from any chord and rhythmic
staple. Furthermore, no one can blame this compilation of having blanched
outfit and nature (except the bloof, of course, thought to be delivered to
witches and other supernatural beings). More profoundly, there are represented
30 tracks of disparate edges of the spectrum replete with black and grey-filled
shades, extensive dread appeal, and phantasmal murmurs here and there. At times
it is solemn and epic, at times rhythm and echo centred. There are represented
such artists as Darrell Waters, Blue Skies Bring Tears, Shadegrown, Noctiflora,
The Light Beyond, The Silence Industry, Jupiter Make`s Me Scream, Art Of
Empathy, Aesis, Aritus, CriadCrias, Schattenwald, Comascape, Surrain, Milkrun.
By the way, most artists on it have two tracks represented. In a word, goth
kids come over here to grab it for yourselves.
Soil Creep – Small Death (2012)
/Indie, Electronic,
Alternative pop, Shoegazetronica, Bedroom pop, DIY, Lo-fi, Psychedelic pop/
Comment: I like this issue of 9 tracks at a length of 32 minute. It can be
said Aidan Wall is a mastermind to create short-running yet concise
compositions with electronic keyboards and low-end rhythm machines which are to
constitute persuasive backdrops to his volatile and dreamy vocal delivery. More
generally, partly Aidan Wall comes out of the tradition of the so-called
psychedelic electronic indie music which was mostly created by the Animal
Collective and it members` side projects. Those elliptically circulating chords
and sonorous odds and ends around it as satellites are the proof of it. On the
other side it is distinctly influenced by all-powerful DIY attitude which
inspired, still inspires and will inspire many youth artists in the future (for
instance, cassette-based underground culture movement in the 80s, Not Not Fun and Rack & Ruin Records´ related artists nowadays). Thirdly, My Bloody Valentine is probably the most
influential Irish combo and because of it you can also hear the juggernaut`s
impulses in Wall`s music. Theoretically it might seem in the way described
above yet many melody and harmony lines are up there to create the backbone to
the album. The issue is a part of the discography of Dublin-based Long Lost
Records. Fabulous release for sure.
Rama The Rad – Rama The Rad (2014)
/DIY, Singer-songwriter, Lo-fi, Blues, Avant-rock, Indie folk, American primitivism, Krautrock, New Weird America, Experimental rock, Folk indie/
Comment: although the
first chords at the opening piece Big
Bang reminded of math rock roundabouts the intuition knocked at me assuming
it will not be this genre based album at all. In truth, this 10-piece outing is
quite eclectic with his antique Japanese guitars Ryan Anzures conjures
himself back to the tradition of the
so-called American Primitivism, Velvet Underground and Lou Reed and Captain
Beefheart, and juxtaposing himself to more contemporary talented artists like
Mark Linkous, and Vic Chesnutt. Mister
Magic Man – I suppose – may it be about Damo Suzuki, the legendary singer
of Japanese heritage by the krautrock legend CAN? Actually Everything Is A Lie is also channelized into motorik groove full of
obsessive repetition. However, Clouds
& Rain is an enchanting indie pop ditty. Last We Spoke embodies the true nature of blues driven rock music
made up of sweet, tears and blood. It can be concluded, the result is an
outstanding one worth every chords from the beginning to the very end. What else should I add to?
Listen to other issues on the Polish imprint Weakie Discs.
5/12/2015
[Teaser of the day] Shibuya Motors - Mwisho
- Rhythmic noise
- Avant-garde
- Free jazz
- Glitchtronica
- Experimentalism
- Noise
- Improvised music
OverClocked ReMix - Super Mario 64: Portrait of a Plumber (2014)
/Chiptune, 8-bit, EDM, Remixes, Alternative
rock, Fusion, Nintendocore, Mood music, Chipbreak/'
Comment: this 21-track
miscellany involves many artists with disparate approaches/remixes ranging from orthodox
8-bit/tracker/nintendocore music templates to more moody and orchestrated
progressions and organ driven jazz rock/fusion excursions, bouncy electronic
dance music, cloudless film score induced compositions and even majestic guitar-based rock music. I guess this might be a
sort of challenging sonorous smorgasbord for any plumber who is prone to take
hold of more pretentious music rather than listening to this one which mostly come
from the adult-oriented radio stations. More profoundly, eventually this
creates the feeling you can perceive after an incisive rain torrent and at the
time of the generation of a rainbow arch across the clouds. On these two discs are represented such artists as halc, Nutritious, Sole Signal, Tuberz McGee, Scaredsim, Brandon Strader, The Coop, prophetik, Fishy, Fratto, Mikeaudio, Argle, Sir Jordanius, Theory of N, G-Mixer, Electric Concerto,
Figures In Motion - Cycle (2011)
/Indie rock, Indietronica, Alternative
pop, Electronic, Experimental rock, Art rock, Dream pop/
Comment: Figures In Motion is a trio from France whose 7-track issue traces back to the tradition of 90s alternative pop/rock, some electronic music`s influences and more majestic hovers. Mostly their sound is compared with Radiohead`s one although the trio`s music can be considered an alternative version of the British legend`s music and it is not the same point actually. More concretely, exuberant guitar strums are variegated with electronic whiffs, earthquake-alike rhythms, and looped synthesised patterns and languid singing manner focusing on full-fledged longing and picturesque dreaming. Frequently those restrained and buried moments there have been managed in a way to burst out into something creepy and overwhelming. It can be concluded it is a self-contained, poised issue indeed.
M.PYRES - Used To Sail EP (2010)
/Lo-fi, Experimental rock, New
Weird America, Avant-rock, Dream pop, Fuzz pop, Noise rock/
Comment: M.Pyres was a project of Matthew Sage who is a founder of Patient Sounds, a record label in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA which bunched many musicians to display their experimental music to the world. At the moment the discography of Patient Sounds has reached 81 titles (along with compilations and limited tape releases). This 10 track miscellany was specially issued for the blog Fabled Farm consisting of Sage`s early recordings (I guess the listener could even perceive the feeling of rehearsal room at some notches). Despite the sound quality is a little bit rough the ideas and touch could clearly be understood. Furthermore, it constitutes somehow mystical aura around the whole. Basically it can be considered a sort of lo-fi and noisy guitar music although revealing some dreamy reveries and chillwave/hypnagogic pop glimpses in his sound (by kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Lee noble, Atlas Sound and Ducktails regarding the projects outside Patient Sounds). For instance, He is all Pine and I am all Apple Orchard (w/ Sterile Garden) is a mesmerizing torrent of noisy progressions over the top thereby choking and relaxing simultaneously. In a word, it is a rare issue which is truly worth to be discovered and sustained.
5/08/2015
Optms Prme – Music To Grow Plants (2014)
/Deep techno, Electronic
pop, New Age, Poptronica, Electro pop, Sampledelic, Easy listening/
Comment: interestingly,
Optms Prme`s release title reminds me of one Estonian band`s name, Music For
Your Plants. Moreover, there exist even some parallels which could be drawn
upon both artist`s music. However, Optms Prme`s 3-track issue is a friendly
listening experience thanks to sonic dodges and crossed aspects therefore
creating something truly mottled and diverse – from oneiric techno progressions
and aquatic new age-y visions to bubblegum-spawned electro pop frequencies and
spaced-out electronic faeries. Actually it is truly convincing how the artist
gets right to fulfil the promise to move from one crease to another with such easiness
and in a seamless way. This was the first insight of mine into the discography
of Vaatican Records which seems to be fairly intriguing.
Mogwai – Showbox at the Market 2011-05-07 (2011)
/Post-rock, Doom rock, Art
rock, Epic, Noise rock, Post-metal, Drone rock/
Comment: for me Mogwai`s
best album by far is Come On To Die
Young (1999) though the first and third and fourth release are fine ones either.
Later on, I have avoided to hear their albums because of being a little disappointed
by lacking new ideas and catchy elements within the Scottish band`s core. I
also guess the live performances used to sound better than their later
releases. At least this 16-track issue did it in Seattle exactly four years
ago. The gig was properly laid down because of being varicoloured and filled
with different sounds and magic noises. Their well-known epic and bold
progressions on guitars and thumping drums are interspersed with brainsick
noises and empowered drones from feedback and keyboards to impend doomed days
for human kind. Of course, there are some exceptions as well – for instance, Mexican Grand Prix which rocks socks off
like an early Stereolab of conflating the psychedelic elements of krautrock and
Farfisa driven acid/drone rock impulses. There are also some woodwind based
catchy melody progressions glimpses. Gorgeous show indeed.
Popidiot – Talk To Me (2014)
/Indie pop, Alternative pop,
New Wave, Electro-indie, Synth rock/
Comment: Popidiot is an Estonian-Finnish project consisting of Hendrik Luuk, Matti Peura, and Rein Fuks who started off their way at the beginning of 00s and have issued a couple of albums so far. This is their two-folded single with catchy guitar hooks, bouncy rhythms and freely movable synthesised squelches here and there. The outing was released on Seksound (by the way, Rein Fuks is the chairman of the record label), a leading Estonian indie label being the domicile for many contemporary and early Estonian indie artists (for instance, Seksound issued recently Bizarre`s Café De Flor (initially released in 1996 on the Forwards Records from Tartu, Estonia) on vinyl which can be considered one of the most eminent indie albums from Estonia – a spellbinding blend of dream pop and electronic rhythms).
5/06/2015
[Teaser of the day] Sam Gas Can - Better Bag
- Improvised music
- Experimental rock
- Avant-garde
- Freeformfreakout
- Space rock
- Psych-rock
- No Wave
Icarus Syndrome - The Fun Tunnels of Foosland (2014)
/Indie folk, Americana,
Chamber folk, Folk indie, Epic, Lo-fi, DIY, Alt-folk/
Comment: Icarus Syndrome is an artist from Urbana, Illinois, USA whose
19-track issue opens up intriguing sides and fringes throughout this quite lengthy
course of journey. Rough guitar strums are boldly represented over there to
evolve into remarkably more sophisticated compositions influenced both by
contemporary and glorious American roots music. Icarus Syndrome`s sound could
be considered a sort of retrospective one though in a good sense only because
all these well-known sonorous elements (performed with guitar, banjos,
mandolins, harmonicas) are empowered with modern use of electronic music,
sequenced rhythms and sublime orchestrations. The album involves lots of songs
having power to melt the listener`s heart. At times it is epic (even
hyper-panoramic), at times it is bleak and subjecting itself to this contrasty
effects does make sense undoubtedly. Let`s enjoy it.
The Silence Industry - Brother Sing, Sister Shout (And Other Conspiracies) (2014)
/Cold wave, Post-punk, Goth
rock, Alternative rock, Space rock, Remixes, Psych-rock/
Comment: majestically thumping drum syncopation, reverb-heavy guitars and
cloudy vocal lines are there to constitute something special for those
listeners who think gothic rock and post-punk should be crossed and drawn up in
a spaced-out way. The thread which could be tagged as cold wave. Silence
Industry is a combo from Canada the line-up of which is made up of Graham Jackson,
Laura Mikulec, Josh Pearlman and Hyuma Frankowski. The combo has been related
to such labels as Ekleipsi, afmusic, and enoughrecords over the almost 10
years. Their 7-piece issue depicts that silence can be entrancing and gruesome at the same time. Indeed, although all these tracks are produced to
be quite lengthy it does not bother nevertheless. However, the only remix
represented within the pack does not impose upon me (consisting merely of a
maze of sonic effects – it is just annoying at its best). The album is finished
off with the bonus track Beneath A
Sinking Sky which deviates from the other pieces just using the strums of
acoustic guitar (the only unplugged version on the album). By kindred souls I
recommend listen to Lycia, an early Cocteau Twins, an early Dead Can Dance, The
Chameleons. The issue is released on Enough Records, a prolific Portuguese
label containing much music worth to be discovered.
Namm – Geografia (2012)
/Electronic pop,
Indietronica, Art pop, Chamber pop, Alternative pop/
Comment: Namm`s Geografia is a moody whole of crispy
electronic rhythms, sublime female vocal deliveries and catchy synthesised
explorations emitting in different directions its bottomless energy and
charisma. Furthermore, all these elements mentioned above used to be
channelized into the integrated fist ready to emotionally- slap anyone who is
ready to approach it. And those orchestrations flickering here and there are simply
marvellous drifting somewhere inbetween sensual and epic realms of human
cognition. By the way, all these nine songs are sung in Spanish thereby letting
some closed books unsealed. In a nutshell, by listening to it the listener gets
a solid cerebral massage. Flawless result.
5/04/2015
Rosario Indie - Compilado 2014 (2014)
/Indie pop, Psychedelic
rock, Alternative dance, Alternative rock, Fuzz pop, Electro-indie/
Comment: it is a decent miscellany of disparate indie pop tendencies – ranging from common indie pop progressions, dreamy pop reveries and dance-appealed notches to krautrock influenced motorik beats, knee-deep psychedelic reflections and clamant outcries of guitar sounds. In a word, this compilation involves plenty of synth sounds, electronic manipulations, fetching guitar chords and crossover sounds, This compilation of 17 tracks is related to Rosario, a city in Argentina. Indeed, it gives you a good overview about indie music in Rosario, and Argentina either. There are represented such artists as Mi Nave, Oscar Favre, Daddy Rocks, Juani & Checho, Proyecto Sarajevo, Vacaciones en Globo, Juli Camelli, Helena Nav, SÉNOR CASCO, ńńńń, Hombre de Color, Jubany, Té de Indio, Korben Dallas, Rejected & The X Club, Cromattista, Alpha Centauri. Most ditties are sung in Spanish.
Sophie Rimheden - rwb001 (2014)
/Electronic pop, Art pop,
Post-disco/
Comment: this 2-track issue
was the first in the discography of racewillbegin, a Swedish record label. The
result overcomes the listener with emotions and perceptual stimuli. More
concretely, the tracks called Hold Me,
and Wanting are crunchy electronic
explorations moving across the line of pop music and post-disco. Furthermore,
the artist reveals her ambitious side in these compositions – these ones are
fairly attention-getting and enchanting pop examples. Great breaks, melody
progressions and charming autotune mixed vocal lines. Despite its synthetic nature
the whole is replete with enough oxygen. Get it for you.
ThOmas.W - bru:t (2014)
/Neofolk, Industrial rock,
No Wave, Experimental rock/
Comment: these 6 tracks are
the result of a noisy improvisation session by an artist called ThOmas.W. The
outing gets right due to melting together cold folk vocals, noisy rock snippets
and industrial segments. Strident expressions and reverie drenched moments are
finely balanced and juxtaposed to create incisive contrasts and provoking
pictures in thought. Although the issue chimes frequently in doleful and sad
way it is a kind of irritating and even perverse one. If you like such combos
as Death In June, Einstürzende Neubauten, Boyd Rice this whole is thought for
you. The issue is a part of the excellent borderline punk imprint Myhand.Thanx
Records.
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