3/23/2011
c0ld l▲k3 - Lanceton Ice Factory, Magic Hour (2011)
Comment: In fact, for all of those people who have erlier made acquaintance with c0ld l▲k3`s oeuvres the recent issue makes up some surprise though. It sounds like a skeletonal approach of witch house-alike madness. A bleak, abrasive soundscape, which seems to be running on digital hisses and dust, does make strongly sense. Yet, within it there are some lightest moments as well. For example, Robocop makes itself out as a fine instance of afrofuturistic/voodoo funk mongrel. Or Detroit 9000, which does have strong references toward the seminal scenes of Detroit club music.
The Heather - HOLIDAY 0061 (2011)
/Indie pop, Neokrautrock, Electronic, Baroque pop, Glo-fi, Poptronica/
Having nothing more to add but this is a catchy, balanced, well-grown indie pop on its own. The second track Like There`s Now Tomorrow is a case of neokrautrock having a decent pop melodic hooks, the lead-off notch Why Do You Laugh, on the other side, is relied upon crumbly focused poptronica.
The Macadamia Brothers - Tiger Sauce (2009)
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.
3/22/2011
Ugol Ratmanova - Oregon (2011)
/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.
3/21/2011
Flyafter - Today I`m With You (2011)
23 Seconds
8.8
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.
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