The Macadamia Brothers - Tiger Sauce (2009)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.4

/Indie folk, Folk indie, Alt-folk, Singer-songwriter, Experimental folk/

Comment: Actually I want and can still remember for those days when Scott Milligan aka The Macadamia Brothers recorded for the now defunct Rack & Ruin Records, sounding like a torch bearer for the New Weird Canada movement. Whatever, this 9-track album is less involved in ecstatic states of songwriting, yet there are some sparkling indie folk/alt-folk moments by set out for us.

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Ugol Ratmanova - Oregon (2011)

Clinical Archives

6.5

/Sound-art, Noise, Live recording, Improvised music, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Electro-acoustic, Illbient, Industrial/

Comment: Digital sound processing in nowadays situation can be considered as a sword with two razors. Some musicians are able to take advantage of it, the other not. However, Sergey Kniazkov and Igor Orlov could reach this challenge out partially. There can be detected for some patterns-aspirations behind the duo`s doings, yet the most part of the soundscape has lacked clear-cut arrangements on timbres, thereby mostly sounding as an array of chords just following to each other, or an instance of into one-pressed audible bunch anyway. Only Muddie Venture and Recession Whisk can make some difference from the residual part.

Flyafter - Today I`m With You (2011)

23 Seconds

8.8

/Experimental indie, Poptronica, Chillwave, Lo-fi, Glo-fi, Electronic pop, Electro-indie, Leftfield/

Comment: This is the second album by this 4-pieced Indonesian ensemble under the Swedish 23 Seconds label. Similarly to their previous, self-titled issue the recent one is filled in with astonishing growings and transitions, more detailly, operating with traditional indie pop impetus and blissful horizons of chillwave/poptronica/glo-fi music, all in all, creating a kind of irresistible touch for ardent indie people. In a more technical language does it mean the change drifts toward a spot on drum machines, sequencers and synths. By the way, you can take the first EP and add it over to this one, thereafter getting a proper LP and more listen times. But it is just a hypothesis.

Victory VIII - Vermont (2011)

Holiday Records

9.0

/Poptronica, Electronic pop, Bedroom pop, DIY, Lo-fi, Glo-fi, Chillwave, Avant-pop, Experimental indie/

Comment: Victory VIII in his well-known quality. This time lo-fi-esque rhythm sources meet introspective and even melancholic layerings above it reminiscent of Morricone-esque sadness (actually I have no idea why I have met so many groups during last weeks resembling heavily the Italian film score maestro). As he said this is an attempt to make a soundtrack to a National Geographic magazine about New England. Also, he wishes he was dead.

Holytigress - Oh Joann (2011)

Holytigress
Bandcamp

8.6

/Dream folk, Alt-folk, Singer-songwriter, Demo, Covers/

Comment: Based in Paradise Hills, Holytigress is a dream pop/slowcore project headed on by the songwriter Joshua Saposnekoo, who has said he is used to create his songs in his mom’s apartment. Herein are four songs - two of them are the covers of golden classic`s tracks, - made just by the man, his guitar, colourful voice, having much of shivering, hazy space around them. Though very simple by its main line, it contains a bunch of captivating moments here. And it makes really sense.

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