c'est pu l'temps gras – commencez bien la drogue (2008)

Les Diks Qui Sautent

• Dada music 
• Primitive music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimental pop 
• Freeformfreakout 
• Psychedelic 
• Lo-fi 
• DIY 
• Crossover 
• Spoken word 
• Electro pop 
• Comedy music 
• Outsider pop 
• Toytronica

Comment: undoubtedly music which is based on fun and a primitive base may paradoxically be more serious than seriously intended music. Of course, it might be the case of proper adjectives but this set of 12 compositions is a frantic example of disparate elements which starts off with the sound of a cheap second-hand synthesiser, however, later incorporating strings and freaky singing to the mix. biche is an example of motorik electro rock though it did start off with the buffoonish mantra and continuing with a spoken word snippet and some concrete sounds here and there. Do I perceive it in a schizoid way? No, I do not. Johnny Bigoudi is a seminal crossroad for heavy beats and droning synths to get harmonized in a poignant way. All the lyrics are sung in French except the one phrase /like Sonic Youth/ at Trou. Indeed, I also like Sonic Youth though not so much as… . Or like Sonic Youth. This whole is not like Sonic Youth though. In spite of this enormous miscellany the whole will not water down and being convincing due to revealing its coherent nature ultimately (it is paradoxical, isn`t?). Many tracks within involve psychedelic layers with acidic organs and toy-like electronic sounds. The issue is a part of the discography of such a label as Les Diks Qui Sautent (065).

[Teaser of the day] DR - Grapefruit Dream

TVK

• Kosmische Musik
• Cosmic synth
• Musique concrète
• Field recording
• Electronic music
• Alternative

Artist: DR

Release: Ambient EP

Label: TVK

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Pixieguts - Voide - The Beat of You (feat. Pixieguts)

• House pop
• Electro pop
• Electro house
• Robot pop
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Pixieguts

Release: I Sand

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Jahzzar - Europa

Free Music Archive

• Easy listening
• Mood music
• Lounge pop

Artist: Jahzzar

Release: Galaxy

Label: Free Music Archive/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Bebhionn - Dispersions

Zimmer

• Techno
• Alternative dance
• Experimental techno
• Avant-techno
• Minimal techno
• Electronic music

Artist: Bebhionn

Release: Polarizer

Label: Zimmer

Year: 2017 

[Teaser of the day] The Undynamic Pop Experiment - Part-Time Lover

Free Music Archive

• Art punk
• Psychedelic
• Post-punk
• Prog-punk
• Dance punk
• Punk funk

Artist: The Undynamic Pop Experiment

Release: The Undynamic Pop Experiment

Label: Self-released/Free Music Archive

Year: 2002/2017

[Teaser of the day] Caroline Park - We Can Be What They Are Doing

Vuzh Music

• Drone
• Microtonal
• Experimentalism
• Microsound
• Ambient drone
• Abstract
• Minimalism
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde

Artist: Caroline Park

Release: RIM

Label: Vuzh Music

Year: 2013

MDL4 – Anima Mundi (2017)

Dusted Wax Kingdom

Bandcamp

• Trip-hop 
• Sampledelic 
• Breaks 
• Electronic music 
• Mood music 
• Alternative 
• Hip-hop 
• Urban music 
• Big beat 
• Electro 
• Chilltronica

Comment: MDL4, an artist from Sacramento, California, USA makes a little bit difference within the last albums I have heard from the discography of the Bulgarian imprint Dusted Wax Kingdom, a fine record based on samples and crunchy beats thereof constituting a whole universe for our sake. The difference is based on more smooth transitions from one sample to another, more organic shifts from one beat to another, more subtle drifts from one style to another which also include more profound, cinematic reflections and stylistic movements. In a word, you can extract something magically elegant from within. The opening track Time Stamp is based on the storytelling of an estranged relationship. Sunwalker is the thick bound of a thrilling electro cadence and a massive big beat rhythm. Waves is about sublime, lofty waves as if coming out of your subconscious mind and at the same time having an influence as a tranquiliser. Old Waters is an astounding underground hip-hop appearance based on thick and gleaming beats and cut-up vowel effects. Starborn is an astral break-out based on suggestive electric piano chords and otherworldly synthesised layers. These ones were only some descriptions of this amazing whole. In my music player the 11-track issue will be finished off by Leaper which I would like to call muezzin-hop. Great stuff. In a nutshell, I am going to insert it into a list of the best issues in 2017. Into the list of the best issues in 2017 which is already up there at Recent Music Heroes.

Kara-Lis Coverdale – Triptych I (2012)

Bandcamp

• Piano music 
• Modern classical 
• Mood music 
• Contemporary classical 
• Art music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Post-classical 
• Minimalism

Comment: I am honoured to listen to Kara-Lis Coverdale`s music who is a Canadian (Montrèal) musician of Estonian descent, and second, she has collaborated with Tim Hecker on his Virgins (2013) whose albums from the first half of the 00s can be considered one of the best ambient music having ever been created. Triptych (as the title says) is 3-track issue consisting of floating piano chords which create arousing moods and feeling despite its minimal and sparse format in a sense. The emotiveness of the outing is brought forth due to consisting of an incessant flow of chord changes while preserving some enchanting iterativeness in her music. As K-LC has stated once of being influenced by sacred music and beyond that she has been working as an organist in different churches across the domestic country for me this album appears as a shelter within it one can withdraw from our spasmodic and neurotic life. Her music can be compared with such artists as Max Richter, Nils Frahm, Lubomyr Melnyk (another Canadian modern classical artist) and by its light-heartedness and captivating mood it can also be compared with such female troubadours on guitar as Vashti Bunyan, Linda Perhacs yet this is a special item by any means. 

[Teaser of the day] Sir Edgar Carpenter - Polydactyly

Zenapolae

• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Leftfield
• Experimental electronica 
• Experimentalism
• Post-industrial
• Psycho-acoustic

Artist: Sir Edgar Carpenter

Release: Mabels Side 

Label: Zenapolae

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Hanging Freund - Lines

• Art pop
• Electronic
• Avant-pop
• Organcore
• Experimental pop
• Drone pop
• Epic

Artist: Hanging Freud

Release: Anomalies

Label: Tiny Box 

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Elisa Luu - Pixie Space Rock

• Electronic music
• Post-rock
• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Art rock

Artist: Elisa Luu

Release: Come (Single)

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2010

Putro And The Money Making Machine Bedroom Session Part 1 (2013)

Ear Alert 

Soundcloud
Archive.org

• Anti-folk
• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Unplugged
• Singer-songwriter
• Covers

Comment: indeed, this set of 10 tracks embraces covers and the unplugged session with vocal and acoustic guitar and all this set of 25 and a half minute is played in the vein of agit-pop (based on the intensely strumming guitars, and straightforward and clear vocal line). The artist provides attention to such artists as Green Day, Operation Ivy, The Ramones, The Descendent, Social Distortion, No Use For A Name, Alkaline Trio, The Bouncing Souls, MXPX, and The Vandals. If you have not made acquaintance with the artists and songs before that yet it is time to do it now with regard to compare the original oeuvre with the cover versions. In fact, for me that agit-pop edge adds a welcome edge to the original ones. The more I listen to it the more I like it. The outing is a part of the discography of Indonesian imprint Ear Alert Records. 

[Teaser of the day] Tarred Brigade - We Looked Away

Free Music Archive

• Lo-fi
• Indie pop
• Alternative pop
• DIY
• Americana
• Bedroom music

Artist: Tarred Brigade

Release: Second HoneyMoon

Label: Self-released/Free Music Archive

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Monkey Warhol - Berghain

• Electro pop
• Alternative dance
• Electronic pop
• Synth-pop
• Post-disco

Artist: Moneky Warhol

Release: EP5

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] TNKS - Mechanical Bike

Sucu Music

• Electronic music
• Chilltronica
• Electro pop
• Crossover
• Mood music
• Alternative pop 
• Indietronica

Artist: TNKS

Release: Nostalgic Happiness

Label: Sucu Music

Year: 2017

Furiosa – Furiosa (2017)

Naciòn Libre

Bandcamp

• Stoner rock 
• Trash metal 
• Doom rock

Comment: Aracely Sánchez (voice), Alan Vargas (guitar), and Arturo Villalobos (the drums) from Mexico do synthesise something truly reverent through a powerful attitude toward the metal and power rock tradition. Of course, the best elements from the genres are picked up to be added to the 10-track mix. Tortured ghost loaded smouldering thick energy used to keep going on fast pace around the voice of Aracely, and the instruments of Alan, and Arturo. Indeed, it is possible to put together lurking elements and fast tempo on this album throughout the course. The listener can perceive the burning circle around the chords as if an example of the representation of flaming rings in the middle of purgatory. A strength feature of this issue? In fact, it features no weak and self-indulgent moments in production and general appearance. The outing is a part of the discography of Naciòn Libre. An outstanding trash/stoner/doom melted album. By listening to it one will create his/her own mosh pit in front of his/her computer or sofa or somewhere else.   

[Teaser of the day] Coolrunnings - Side A: Spirit of the High

• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock
• Rockabilly
• Neo-psychedelia
• Experimental pop

Artist: Coolrunnings

Release: Spirit of the High (Digital) 7"

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] Ronco - Femea Fatal

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Blues rock
• Hard rock

Artist: Ronco

Release: EP

Label: Brechò Discos

Year: 2015 

[Teaser of the day] Gray Souvenirs - I Barely See the Earth

• Post-rock
• Art rock
• Epic
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Gray Souvenirs 

Release: The First Sight

Label: Salitre

Year: 2017

Norja – Vuonoja (2007)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

• Primitive music 
• DIY 
• Art music 
• Electro house 
• Electronic music 
• Dada music 
• Electro funk

Comment: this set of 21 tracks (or sketches) can be considered a grower. The grower in that sense you will discover many interesting nuances after a bunch of listening times. Undoubtedly it is a mischievous release because the Finnish artist is not interested in developing certain themes but is already ready to make frantic dodges as if zooming in and out incessantly. Because of that pattern it reminds of music being vamped up in the mind set of dada. The issue was outed by WM Recordings, and it reminds of another release from the imprint`s discography, Brunk`s Insert Coin To Continue (2009). In truth, with regard to the release years the proposition should be said vice versa. Of course, the whole is not without exceptions. For instance, at Vuono 18 one can hear enchanting electro house progressions with a midnight vibe. Vuono 17 is a beatific glimpse on the base of a dusty organ chords. Vuono 16 is a bewildering electro funk at its best. All music had been conjured up with Amiga 500 running OctaMED sound tracker program and was recorded to c-cassette in 1994-1995. In a word, you must listen to this eminent and fabulous release.

[Teaser of the day] The Asteroid Belt - Corruption

• Space rock
• Improvised music
• Experimental rock
• Krautrock
• Avant-rock
• Psych-rock

Artist: The Asteroid Belt

Release: Do Whats Right

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Rawph - Os famosos e os duendes da morte

• Spoken word
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock
• Shoegaze

Artist: Rawph

Release: A melancolia vai nos separar, outra vez.

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] FM Raster - Pattern 1

• Electronic music
• Experimental pop
• Art pop
• Alternative
• Post-dubstep
• Post-pop
• Avant-pop

Artist: FM Raster

Release: New Weird Australia: Passages, Volume One

Label: New Weird Australia

Year: 2015

Chris Sabucco – Divided Falls (2017)

2419 Record Label

• Singer-songwriter 
• Pop

Comment: I did not expect such sort of music being released on the Netherlands-based imprint 2419 Record Label. My earlier experiences with the imprint were related to more experimental angles and structures but this one started off with a straightforward, flamboyant song which continues to go the same vein where doleful singing is backed up by the plucking of acoustic guitar, and slightly orchestrated vowels all of that a bit resembling Robert Smith. Like a very light, unplugged version of The Cure. Way too bombastic and transparent while providing no X-factor for a more sniffy listener. Nice ditties for the AOR station though.

[Teaser of the day] James Doesn`t Exist - Sulfuric Acid

Torn Flesh

• Death metal
• Brutal metal
• Screamo
• Extreme metal
• Grindcore

Artist: James Doesn`t Exist

Release: Leeches

Label: Torn Flesh/Bandcamp

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Cubenx - Hollow (feat. Guilhem)

• Electronic pop
• House pop
• Alternative pop
• Poptronica

Artist: Cubenx/Guilhem

Release: Hollow (single)

Label: Bad Panda

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] La Mansarde Hermetique - Sonnige Zeiten

• Electronic music
• Kosmische Musik
• Space music
• Cosmic fusion
• Alternative

Artist: La Mansarde Hermetique

Release: Haunted Attic

Label: Petroglyph/Archive.org

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] The Shalfonts - Boy Musk

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Jangle pop
• C86

Artist: The Shalfonts

Release: Totem Power, Totem Life

Label: Giant Manilow

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Lezet - Hiccup Analogy

Abdicate Cell

• Experimental electronica
• Leftfield
• Folktronica
• Crossover
• Avant-electronica
• Electronic music
• Dada music

Artist: Lezet

Release: Earpiece

Label: Abdicate Cell

Year: 2007

[Teaser of the day] Electricwest - Deficient

• Ambient dub
• Minimal techno
• Experimental electronica
• Dub techno
• Electronic music
• Minimal dub

Artist: Electricwest

Release: Inner Forms

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp 

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Weldroid - Csillagok

• IDM
• Experimental electronica
• Dreamwave
• Space music
• Electronic music

Artist: Weldroid

Release: Splines

Label: Soft Phase/Bandcamp

Year: 2010/2017

[Teaser of the day] Tom Fahy - Slow Autumn and the Fire

Archive.org

• Modern classical
• Mood music
• DIY
• Baroque pop
• Alternative
• Lo-fi
• Chamber pop

Artist: Tom Fahy

Release: The Gradual Riddle

Label: Self-released/Archive.org

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Bluebridge Quartet - Karp

Aerotone

• Post-rock
• Fusion
• Jazz rock
• Crossover
• Avant-rock
• Art rock
• Experimental rock
• Progressive rock

Artist: Bluebridge Quartet

Release: Adjusted For Low Noise Tape EP

Label: Aerotone

Year: 2007

Akiba Jonze – Realm of Rain (2015)

Mothermantra

Bandcamp

• Ambient pop 
• New Age 
• Folktronica 
•  Musique concrète 
• Electronic music 
• Organic electronica 
• Chilltronica

Comment: this couple of tracks is imbued with concrete sounds, guitar twangs, synthesised gongs and gentle yet compelling electronic beats with intention to conjure up a mystical world somewhere in the middle of tropical warmth, sultry raining as if letting surface a fairy tale alike ambience. It is way too beatific to be a subject of belief. It partly reminds me of such an artist as it is Tont from Estonia whose soundscapes are similarly otherworldly and wondrous. Jokingly, this is a way of how the New Age musicians make folk music. Realm of Rain was the third single by the artist being released on Mothermantra Records. The sort of ideal music indeed.

FET.NAT – Purple Empereur (2014)

Bandcamp

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Improvised music 
• Art rock
• Crossover 
• Post-punk 
• Avant-rock 
• No Wave

Comment: this set of three tracks (classified as B-sides) from Hull, Quebec, Canada is a provoking rock example with crashing guitars, screaming and weeping vocals in French and a minimised amount of electronic music. That's weird in its dadaist approach while being somehow lofty at the same time, that's also artsy and inspiring. It harks back to an experimental compartment of post-punk (in fact, post-punk as a style was being mostly experimental and seminal anyway) to such combos as Ludus (a favourite combo of Moz), and This Heat, but by contemporaneous combos it a little bit resembles ranting Fly Pan Am, another French Canadian combo. The issue is a part of the discography of E-Tron Rec., and Boiled Records.

Trillion Catz – Vulgar (2017)

Bump Foot

Bandcamp

• Krautrock 
• Electronic music 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Art rock 
• Motorik 
• Ambient rock 
• Drone pop 
• Alternative

Comment: it is not a wordy and magniloquent issue enough because of being inspired by krautrock, by Neu!, an early Kraftwerk and Faust, the combos who liked move on across a minimal, the so-called motorik pattern. Yet the recent motorik pace based on 14 tracks is a bit different and refreshing. Trillion Catz comes out from Berlin, Germany, a fruitful soil to develop new genres. On the other side, which role is to bear by the musician? To provide the matter, the sound for allowing the listeners to escape from the burden of exhausting sensations, to reach aletheia, to ascend his/her nature into a godlike person. To partake in a systematic, coherent universe. In reality, it does mean to crawl against the mainstream, against the hyper-sexualized and monetary world and the excessive flow of information or to get in touch with them as less as needed. A person's goal should be intended to be less vulgar and mediocre and brainwashed. Is Vulgar a good medium to withdraw him/her from it? The answer of mine is pure yes because it is clearly balanced between those slightly haphazard electronic impulses yet in turn synthesising something new for our aural world. Those miniaturised sounds and effects do set up something unusual and exciting. If to compare it to the aforementioned krautrock juggernauts it may be more (self)-aware of how to elegantly disturb a historical krautrock bound yet at the same time preserving the tight connection with it. That's logical because the first ones had created it while Trillion Catz is deconstructing it. This outstanding (one of the best in 2017) release which adds to krautrock as a style an additional value and meaning is a part of the Japanese imprint Bump Foot.

Alex Mason & The Minor Emotion – Soul Breaker (2017)

Enoughrecords

Jamendo

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Modern classical 
• Contemporary classical 
• Neoclassical 
• Post-classical 
• Epic 
• Art music 
• Chamber music

Comment: this 9-notch issue comes out from Russia, it is a collaborative issue between Alex Mason, and The Minor Emotion. Its formula is simple – lone, minor piano tapped chords being accompanied by soaring synthesised orchestrated progressions which at times are being bent into murky, neoclassical sadness. Emotionally it is hard to measure the impact of the whole upon the listener. Undoubtedly it is epic but on the other side it might be a bit anemic to feed one's the most profound, transcendental ideas. If you need more vivid colours to be inserted into your every day's life then you have to listen to it while watching outside from the window or just walking in the middle of autumnal beauty and decay. Indeed, maybe concrete sounds and sonic effects could add a more organic touch to the whole. The result is a bit flat out in its sheared and predictable dynamics and two dimensional shift. The outing is a part of the discography of Enoughrecords.

[Teaser of the day] Fall Baby - Storm

• Indie pop
• Glo-fi
• Dream pop
• Chillwave
• Alternative pop

Artist: Fall Baby

Release: Beko_Fall Baby EP

Label: Beko DSL

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Purling Hiss - Almost Washed My Hair

• Psych-rock
• Power pop
• Live recording
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Purling Hiss

Release: Live at Three Lobed​/​WXDU Hopscotch Afternoon Jamboree

Label: NYCTaper

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] GosT - Unum Infernum

• Electro-metal
• Dark synth
• Neoclassical
• Synthwave
• Synth-metal
• Black metal

Artist: GosT

Release: Non Paradisi

Label: Blood Music

Year: 2016

Betelmire – 606 MPH (2005/2010)

Rain Above

• Indie pop 
• Alternative pop 
• DIY 
• Lo-fi 
• Folk indie 
• Drone pop 
• New Weird America 
• Organcore 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Indie folk 
• Bedroom pop 
• Indietronica

Comment: I would like to call this set of 8 tracks an instance of old school indie. More profoundly, I mean the music coming out from the 80s, the 90s, and the 00s by the US-based indie mavericks such as Galaxie 500, Yo La Tengo, and Low (with regard to their more restrained moments). On the other side, the issue was released in the middle of the 00s which was the heyday of the Weird New America movement. I really liked and still like such indie chicks who produce lo-fi tinged droning organ/harmonium-based indie being accentuated with blissful melodies and wondrous harmonies. The sort of music where simple elements meet complicated ones yet the flow of it is flawlessly organic and dynamic having been recorded on a 4-track cassette machine. It makes you relaxed and withdraws you from shitty topics around you for a while. It is the meditation. For instance, listen to the ending track Preston Parker which saves one`s soul due to vibrant droning and enchanting female singing. The same can be said about the rest of the 18-minute release. The issue is a part of the discography of Rain Above Records. Without any hesitation it will be added to the compartment – Outstanding music.  

[Teaser of the day] Yoshida Com - Scene 3

Upitup

• Synth-pop
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Shibuya-kei
• Electro pop
• Alternative
• Mood music
• DIY

Artist: Yoshida Com

Release: Onna no Kanojo

Label: Upitup/Free Music Archive

Year: 1988/2014

[Teaser of the day] Tunnelbirds - You

• Garage rock
• Indie rock
• Psych-rock
• Blues rock
• Alternative rock

Artist: Tunnelbirds

Release: Tunnelbirds

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2012

[Teaser of the day] The Machine - Death

Kermesse

• Alternative rock
• Art rock
• Screamo
• Industrial rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: The Machine

Release: Black & White

Label: Kermesse

Year: 2016

Pineal Neuron Trauma – The Story Of… (2017)

Etched Traumas

• Post-industrial 
• Avant-garde 
• Dark wave 
• Electronic music 
• Drone 
• Experimentalism 
• Dark ambient 
• Electro-acoustic 
• Psycho-acoustic 
• Leftfield 
• Illbient 
• Neoclassical 
• Noise 
• Experimental electronica

Comment: it is one of the most voluminous if not the most voluminous release having ever been appeared at RMH. It clocks in at a 197 minute (based on the set of 24 tracks) which exceeds more than 3 hours of pure music. The reason is actually simple – it encompasses all the sounds having been produced by the artist. The status of the combo is unknown due to health problems, and collaborative disagreements between the members. The only constant member behind the project has been Tim Van der Schraelen from Antwerp, Belgium, and the members also have been Mattia P. (Italy), Theofil Tsiolakakis (Thessaloniki, Greece), and Joseph (Athens, Greece). In truth, a couple of tracks are added as the oeuvre by Drowned In The Sewers (a collaborative act between Tim, and Theofil). Contingently I tagged the music as post-industrial (among many other tags) because it is a contemporary example of industrial music though by its attitude, approach and characteristics of sound it may even more remind of early old school industrial and noise music acts like Zoviet France, for instance. Second, it also comes very close to neoclassical and dark wave artists because in some tracks the soundscapes are loaded with ominous and depressive seeds and even sickening milieus reflecting upon the shortness and decay of the human being`s life. Indeed, that has always been a moral statement of such sort of music. Given the extent of time, and the nature of music the listener can be very sure to be flooded by intriguing sounds and obscure and morbid moods of different kind. Experiments with disparate timbres and varied rhythms. And you should be warned again – it is very far away from an innocent fun. It more a kind of music providing you a stark accompaniment while walking through a catacomb or a graveyard. Such sort of sound (I mean noise music) is universal in a way because it used to incorporate so many sounds within it (lo-fi, spoken word, sample-based music/plunderphonics, electronic music, drone, improvised music, ambient, electro-acoustic) and while needing no any further categorization and explanation. It is more about the method rather than about certain sounds. The style is being an all-devouring phenomenon. The prodigious issue both by its physical, psychic and intellectual extent is a part of the discography of Etched Traumas, the imprint headed by the same Joseph being mentioned above.   

Teaser of the day] L. Valerie - Venus Dreams

• Electronic pop
• Alternative
• Bubblegum pop
• Art pop
• Primitive pop
• DIY
• Miniature pop

Artist: L. Valerie

Release: Frika

Label: Bleeding Gold

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] CIRCVLO - Tiki Taka

• Jazz rock
• Psychedelic rock
• Fusion
• Dance rock
• Yacht rock
• Lounge pop
• Crossover
• Indie dance
• Alternative rock
• Indie rock

Artist: CIRCVLO 

Release: Beleza

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Bite - Espectro visible

• Ambient
• Modern classical
• Minimalism
• Art music
• Post-classical
• Electronic music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Bite

Release: Calle Palma

Label: Basic_Sounds

Year: 2016

Bongley Dead – 4 (2015)

Soundcloud

Mediafire

• Alternative rock 
• Indie rock 
• Post-grunge 
• Hardcore

Comment: recently Italian quartet Bongley Dead released a brand new one, Undici, on their own terms being uploaded and letting available for free download at Soundcloud, and Mediafire. Before that they had issued 4, the predecessor of Demo n.3 (2014). In comparison to its predecessor 4 abandons trudging across a path being based on heavy and moshy alternative rock guitars (though Demo n.3 includes exceptions either – even hints at dance punk/rock were represented over there). The guitars are more extended and outstretched, light-hearted and jangling in their timbre and style of play. Yet one should not forget and misunderstand it is not an example of jangle pop because the combo is being influenced and rooted by hardcore and (post-)grunge music. For instance, Blueworms is a pure example of post-grunge style with a commercially accessible tone. Nice pop song indeed. Similarly to the previous outing a Sonic Youth influence (especially at Silent Queen) is also present over there yet it is more buried as it was presented in some songs at Demo n.3. A poppy Sonic Youth version. At She Comes Too Late the ending part is accentuated with epic shoegaze tinged noises. It can be admitted their style seems to be more uniform and unvarying with regard to the previous one. By the way, they are being very kind by adding 41 cover prints (sic!) within the folder. I did have to choose only one from this bunch. Because of having listened to the great album a next step of mine is to listen to Undici.

[Teaser of the day] Quinn Walker - Decline

Rural Colours

• Electronic music
• Ambient drone
• Experimental electronica
• Drone
• Ambient
• Glitchtronica

Artist: Quinn Walker

Release: Quinn Walker: The Weight of Care

Label: Rural Colours

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Rizke - Aluminium

Soisloscerdos

• Minimal techno
• Industrial techno
• Alternative
• Electronic music

Artist: Rizke

Release: E2

Label: Soisloscerdos/Bandcamp/Free Music Archive

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Non Camera - Sky Lantern

Jamendo

• Indie pop/rock
• Art pop
• Alternative pop/rock
• Synth-rock
• Pomp pop
• Chamber pop

Artist: Non Camera

Release: Behind The Walls

Label: Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

Abisales – ABSLS (2017)

Bandcamp

• Art rock 
• Jazz rock 
• Fusion 
• Progressive rock 
• Yacht rock

Comment: this swarm of 3 tracks is played by a quartet called Abisales who comes out of Còrdoba, Argentina. One chord is followed by another, gentle guitars are backed up by spacey synthesiser chords, the soundscape used to ascend and descend in a picturesque way.. Although it is tagged as psychedelic rock, space rock, and rock and roll at Bandcamp their music and intention remind more of progressive rock, and fusion. Their approach is based on the first mentioned tag, and the combo`s timbre is very fusion/jazz rock-alike. And yacht rock, of course, the style is quite nearby because for me the whole is an example of artsy mood music imbued with ambition, lofty feeling and craftiness. Predominantly a Pink Floyd influence is present over there. Great thanks to Fran, Nahuel, Pelado, Pablo, and Cristian. And of course, similarly to me you shall have to listen to the combo`s previous four issues either (in fact, XDCS (2013) was reviewed at RMH three years ago and mentioned as one of the best albums in 2013).   

[Teaser of the day] Chenard And The Sand - One-Armed

Free Sample Zone

• Sampledelic
• Plunderphonics
• Breaks
• Psychedelic
• Sound collage
• Crossover
• World fusion
• Alternative dance

Artist: Chenard Walker/The Sand

Release: C-Side 

Label: Free Sample Zone

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Joxfield ProjeX - Abandoned Asteroid - Space Journey

Cratediggers

• Krautrock
• Space music
• Kosmische Musik
• Avant-rock
• Live recording
• Experimental rock
• Improvised music
• Art rock
• Electronic
• Psych-rock

Artist: Joxfield ProjeX

Release: VoxLuxRabax

Label: Cratediggers/Folksoundomy: A Library Of Sound

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] fydhws - Surf Drone

• Avant-rock
• Experimental rock
• Space rock
• Minimalism
• Drone rock
• Psych-rock
• Art rock

Artist: fydhws

Release: Lament for All Alive Rock Stars

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp/Future Sequence

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] edPorth - Unraveled Knot

• Minimal techno
• Experimental techno
• Alternative dance
• Electronic music

Artist: edPorth

Release: Static

Label: 51 Beats

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Romantic States - Take My Hand and Run

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Power pop

Artist: Romantic States

Release: Take My Hand and Run

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Mike Cassells - It's In Here, Somewhere

• Free jazz
• Improvised music
• Avant-garde
• Experimentalism

Artist: Mike Cassells

Release: Mike Cassells Power Quartet

Label: Catchy Name

Year: 2017

Noteherder & McCloud – The Tail (2008)

WM Recordings

Archive.org

• Free jazz 
• Improvised music 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Modal jazz 
• Live session 
• Electronic music 
• Leftfield

Comment: I am very glad to back again at WM Recordings, the imprint which has introduced me to many interesting artists like brunk, Chenard Walcker, Roy "Chicky" Arad, Keshco, Phil Reavis, Jared C. Balogh, The Hathaway Family Plot and many others. Beyond that the roster embraces such luminaries as the godfather of the home recording R Stevie Moore, and Russian dadaist sound collage and surf pop mixed madness Messer Chups. Undoubtedly The Tail is a highly complicated and mind-provoking one composed of three different live gigs by the two experienced musicians wherein you can enjoy many parallel running compartments based on the playing of a soprano saxophone, and on the other side it is undermined by poignant synthesiser-based bubbling and effects making an impact on a fastidious listener. And I am probably the demanding reviewer. And if you want to get a solid review of how to play the soprano saxophone in an intriguing way then this issue is for you. Synthesiser is a remarkably more broad instrument or it can even be considered a platform, however, this issue provides a little yet intriguing bit of it. It certainly touches on sonic qualities which remind me of electronic krautrock artists as Konrad Schnitzler, and Asmus Tietchens. Use The Desk Lamp is the favourite of mine because it is absolutely fascinating in its overwhelming tempo and energy. For me, it is jazz punk. In a word, the result is great.

ps – Volatile (2017)

Enoughrecords

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Bandcamp

• Experimental electronica 
• Glitchtronica 
• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Ambient noise 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Electronic music 
• Spoken word 
• Sampledelic 
• Post-industrial 
• Leftfield 
• Psychoacoustic

Comment: this issue of 11 tracks is psychotic, strongly filled out with desperate vocal samples and violent filled dialogues from different motion pictures being backed up by sinister yet blissful soundscapes being in turn filled in with glitchy "errors", and frequently interrupted static providing you a starkly disturbed sonic picture while paradoxically maintaining its picturesque image. By casting the light upon the titles it is mostly about blood and cuts and stillness. As if getting an audible, almost physically tangible bridge from within an unnerving psycho-neurological ward. If to compare it to the artist's release which was recently reviewed at RMH, Finding My Own Way Back Home, the recent one is not about the hiss imbued walls and supportive prodigious power dictating the whole, it used to lurk after you searching for your cerebral traces to overtake it and then modifying it into psyched-up ones. And then the past is going to come ahead of your present to govern the future of yours. Overwhelming by any means. Similarly to Finding My Own Way Back Home it is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

Ellah a. Thaun – Happy 30 Honey (2017)

Bandcamp

• Indie 
• Drone pop 
• Experimental pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Post-punk 
• Krautrock 
• Electronic 
• Alternative dance 
• Psychedelic 
• Art pop 
• Epic

Comment: Ellah. a Thaun is a contemporary indie artist from France whose method is to embrace many elements into her idiosyncratic mix. Obviously it is not the ultimate purpose of her. It is the way how her music must be made up. This handful of tracks surprises again with its frantic touch though by the sound and loudness all is controlled by Nathanaelle Hauguel. For example, the opening piece Part 1 progresses into a sort of indie techno based on an elliptical catchy loop. It is the favourite of mine though the rest of the whole is also very good. She has always been strongly influenced by post-punk music and the influence comes out in the second part. Rough post-punk germs are crossed with the dreamy higher chords of shoegaze thereof resulting in a bewildering while majestic avant-pop composition. Part 3 showcases Hauguel`s exposure towards the motorik, towards krautrock though the drumming is vamped up by digitally modified thin kick drums as if all of that were extracted either from a contemporary soul or electro pop release. Part 4 is the outing's slacker track being stylistically grunge which lazily continues at Part 5 as well though being strongly intertwined with droning organs and wah wah effects. As if an early Stereolab meets Spaceman 3 yet the comparison is my mirage because that results in something very originally spiritual ultimately. In a nutshell, undoubtedly one of the best issues in 2017, and probably the best indie album in 2017 so far. Amazing gal indeed.

[Teaser of the day] Daniel James Dolby - A Warning

Murmure Intemporel

• Dark ambient
• Film noir
• Illbient
• Electronic music
• Post-industrial
• Leftfield

Artist: Daniel James Dolby

Release: Grimojo

Label: Murmure Intemporel/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Poros - Ter

MiMi

• Post-punk
• Experimental rock
• Gothic rock
• Alternative rock
• Post-rock
• Crossover
• Indie rock

Artist: Poros

Release: Ter

Label: MiMi

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Torley - The Garden

Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums

• Piano music
• Contemporary classical
• Modern classical

Artist: Torley

Release: Solo Piano 7

Label: Folksoundomy: Music And Music Albums/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2008

NNY – offear.ep (2004)

Enough

Archive.org

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

• Electronic music 
• Experimental electronica 
• Alternative 
• Drone 
• Minimal techno 
• Glitchtronica 
• Micronoise

Comment: this set of 5 compositions created by Portuguese artist Jerome Faria aka NNY is certainly the kind of electronic music but it is problematic to pigeonhole it in a certain way. Maybe it is just about a physical vibe, to get your change in mood through moving of the sounds from one channel to another. And vice versa. A traffic of gentle and noisy sounds to pass by each other. I couldn't find out any narrative of it. When you have stopped listening to it you could remember just a little bit about the whole. Maybe there were up some shrieks, some noises and glitches, some spans of silence, some kind of talking. You cannot remember nothing but the issue is intriguing and you have to listen to it again to figure it eventually out. It is uneasy to think it off. So your presence is essential for that outing. Without your experience it does not exist in fact. It is a mental terrain which is going to blossom at the presence of the listener. The release is a part of the discography of enoughrecords.

[Teaser of the day] Sekotis - Ravens

Bump Foot

• Art rock
• Indie rock
• Math rock
• Post-rock
• Avant-rock
• Alternative rock
• Experimental rock

Artist: Sekotis

Release: For Your Weird Ears

Label: Bump Foot/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Scissor Lock - I Guess

• Post-psychedelic electronica
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop
• Electronic
• Leftfield
• Art pop
• Drone pop

Artist: Scissor Lock

Release: Churn

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Lackluster - Starcell U.K

Soulseek/Other Net.Label Artists

• IDM
• Alternative
• Mood music
• Electronic music

Artist: Lackluster

Release: Distance

Label: Soulseek/Other Net.Label Artists

Year: 2004

[Teaser of the day] Blasphemation - Stomped Into a Sludge

Torn Flesh

• Death metal
• Crust punk
• Brutal metal
• Goregrind
• Crossover

Artist: Blasphemation

Release: An Oath of Total Allegiance to the Black God

Label: Torn Flesh

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Wacky Southern Current - Kogan Tribute Piece

• Indie rock
• Alternative rock
• Art rock

Artist: Wacky Southern Current

Release: Today`s Embrace

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Bronze Eye - Hopfrog

• Experimental hip-hop
• Rap
• Electronic music
• Glitch-hop
• Urban music
• Avant-hop

Artist: Broze Eye

Release: Past Imperfect

Label: Bayshore

Year: 2014

[Teaser of the day] Fabio Keiner - Charun

Free Music Archive

• Avant-garde
• Minimalism
• Drone
• Experimentalism
• Microtonal
• Electronic music

Artist: Fabio Keiner

Release: Shidim

Label: Murmure Intemporel

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Cisne Sônico - Schwermut

• Experimental rock
• Avant-rock
• Neofolk
• Space rock
• Neoclassical
• Dark folk

Artist: Cisne Sônico

Release: Melancolia  

Label: Bandcamp/Archive.org

Year: 2016

[Teaser of the day] Broken Music Box - Achievement

Birdsong

• Lo-fi
• DIY
• Bedroom pop
• Improvised music
• Drone pop
• Avant-pop
• Experimental pop

Artist: Her Highness

Release: Broken Music Box - Featuring Her Highness 

Label: Birdsong

Year: 2004

ps – Finding My Own Way Back Home (2017)

Enoughrecords

Free Music Archive

Jamendo

Bandcamp

• Avant-garde 
• Experimentalism 
• Minimalism 
• Leftfield 
• Noise 
• Ambient noise 
• Microtonal 
• Drone 
• Ambient drone 
• Abstract 
• Illbient 
• Dark ambient 
• Epic

Comment: this batch of 10 compositions can be considered as one monolithic track because it consists of very minimally changed phases as if My Bloody Valentine were standing somewhere under a tremendous waterfall. Yet it is the album having nothing to do with shoegaze. Because My Bloody Valentine under an imposing waterfall can not be a shoegaze case at all. Glenn Branca to be set up under a waterfall? More profoundly, you are directed to a hiss loaded droning universe of energy where you can make decisions on sonic intensity, energetic consumption and burning and mere, almost invisible dodges only. However, it is enough to make difference. Furthermore, even if you thought of it as something excessively primitive at a first glance you soon got realized of it as quite sinister and totally overwhelming. At some point you are not reflecting upon it, it reflects upon you. That's the case. Behind visible sonic carpets one can perceive even more invisible ones which used to resonate with one another and thereof produce new templates again and again. There are connected the physical and mental power of music as a phenomenon. Real, existing sounds are created in the way to induce chimeras and phantasms. Vectors, inner impulses and inertia are seamlessly intertwined into ghastly landscapes. Call it hisswave on its own way. And although it seems to be ominous it is beautiful and wondrous either. This stunning release is a part of the discography of the enoughrecords, the legendary Portuguese imprint.

[Teaser of the day] Eva on the Western Castle Island - Surfing Like a Guru

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Bubblegum pop
• Blonde hair indie

Artist: Eva on the Western Castle Island

Release: The Wong Way 

Label: EardrumsPop

Year: 2013