Juanitos - Welcome in the House of F.U.N. (2011)

Jamendo
Free Music Archive

8.7

/Psychedelia, Latin rhythms, Easy listening, Exotic pop, Crossover, Dance rock, Trop-rock, World music, Funk soul, Tropicàlia, Rockabilly/

Comment: I like the rock`n` roll music and I like to the cha-cha-cha... . After a bunch of mesmerizing issues (Best Of; Exotica; Soul Africa) Juan Naveira aka mrjuan is back with a new catchy brand of latin rhythms, funky soul (and the way round), fine exotic pop, madman dance grooves based on glaringly psychedelic dust-coated organs, some acute hints at jazz experience, afrofuturism (cos he believes in black music), subtle brass-tinged compartments, declaiming spoken word hums, and suggestive singing course definitely pulled out to the front. Though Welcome in the House of F.U.N. represents a cool easy listening way, however, it is all but superficial. In a nutshell, it comes to a mighty drift demonstrating a way how the music (at least emotive sonic crests) should be made up. Indeed, the issue is a masterful bow regarding the 20th anniversary of (Les) Juanitos. By the way, a sequent eminent cover sleeve is represented over here. Moreover, it might be even the best.

Hobo Cult 2.1 (Hobo Cult)

Hobo Cult

8.6

/Avant-garde, Psychedelic, Post-psychedelic electronica, Experimental indie, Lo-fi, Avant-pop, DIY, Krautrock/

Comment: I have often thought during last years that the pop tradition is used to repeat itself, coming forth as a cyclic appearance. However, this miscellany of 21 tracks represents the nowadays underground situation and consciousness while harking back to be mirrored upon the early days of electronic music and experimental rock. In fact, therein can be met the shadows of CAN, Neu!, Suicide, Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, The Silver Apples and other seminal legends. It is compilated by the Montreal-based label Hobo Cult including such artists as Dirty Beaches, Reedbeds, CVLTS, Quiet Evenings, Jean-Sèbastien Truchy, Panabrite, Relax and Sleep, Body Rush and many others.

Urmal Vesnat – Musics for Near Future Ceremonies (2011)

17 Sons
Jamendo

7.0

/Ambient, Soundscape, Minimal, Drone, Ambient drone/

Comment: This is a case of three long tracks of pulsating ambient sound and "dances", inclinated to show up some metallic vapours and dark-hued shades around it. Despite of some slight progressions within it, however, this does not offer a pivotal turnabout for to be reached upon the next perception level either. Its margins are used to be mostly bleak, furthermore, all of that which is set inbetween its extremities can be detected for in the same simplistic way too. Indeed, business as usual - if to give it the admittance from the average experience of ambient embodiment.

Totally Nebular - Anthony Naples

The Burning Of Eterna City - Dance Till Your Fucking Legs Break EP (2011)

Mediafire

7.9

/Doom, Grindcore, Goregrind, Crossover, Power rock, Electro-rock, Progressive rock, Trance, Avant-garde/

Comment: Indeed, behind this malevolent title can be discovered for even more wicked content of 5 songs, wherein angry electro-driven power rock riffs are being mingled with grindcore/goregrind/doom mandatory elements which are contiguous to some "non-sequitur" minutiae, for instance, including some chiptune-backed beepy elements, progressive rock details, club dance/brooding trance progressions, and spoken word samples. Finally I was able to figure out that the main keywords would be "eclectic" and "bulimic" and those 5 notches are not used to be reflections regarding the love themes somehow (haha!). By the way, the combo comes from the State of Virginia, USA.

Keyboard Choir - Electrical Unity EP (2009)

Lastfm
Brainlove Records

8.7

/Neokrautrock, Experimental indie, Electronic pop, Synth pop, Psychedelic/

Comment: This issue was publicized yet at those times (some years ago) while Lastfm embarked on with the official presentation of new albums under its own umbrella. However, Keyboard Choir, an Oxford-based and Brian Eno-approved combo was an excellent choice, showcasing a potent mix upon synthesized nowadays and yesterday. More concretely, soothing, even inside directed realms were variegated with subtly tumbling krautrock-esque lines, reminiscent sometimes of an impetus similar to Ladytron (Witching Hour, for instance).

Ana Threat - Tug Of War Of Love (2010)

Kill Mommy
Lastfm

7.7

/Primitive pop, Anti-punk, Lo-fi, DIY, Blues, Psychedelic, Weird, Garage rock/

Comment: Ugghhh, what the hell is the coverprint about... . This is a combo from Vienna, Austria offering a weird 5-track set of primitivistic notches. Though being apparently the primitive output, however, such sort of nihilistic approach toward punk, garage sounds, psychedelia makes sense nevertheless.