Radere - Maple Drip (2010)

Rural Colours

9.7

/Ambient, Organic electronica, Sound-art, Musique concrete, Post-rock, Soundscape, Minimal/

Comment: Philly-based writer and sound artist Carl Ritger`s sophomore album consists only of 1 track (23 minutes long, though) , which is a solid wash of ambient sounds, organic soundscapes, synthetic swirls and exhilarating post-rock-ish vibrations. A kind of post-music indeed, which is filled in with lots of dreams and imaginations. By the way, the release is mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri aka Sight Below.

Joxfield ProjeX - Hypnotic Wash Up (2011)

Clinical Archives

9.2

/Kosmische musik, Krautrock, Psychedelia, Avant-rock, Fusion, Progressive rock, Space rock, Dance rock/

Comment: One of my favs (from Sweden) are back with a brand new release...it reminds me of the first CAN`s issue I have ever heard - CAN (1979), which is used to be ashamedly underrated by the musical press worldwide. More detailly, those subtly flowing, high-ridged guitar riffs are pulled off to the frontline, slightly danceable spaced-out washes ride into a listener`s consciousness, subdued autotuned vocals, altogether making lots of sense through dynamic jamming sessions. Space-funk, kraut-fusion etc... Hipernotik.

fydhws - Fikcii, II (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.4

/Post-rock, Drone, Krautrock, Minimalism, Experimental rock, Avant-garde, Sound-art, Experimentalism, Progressive/

Comment: This is a beautiful and irritating post-rock album simultaneously. Fikcii II does not come over to the high ridges of guitar explosions, preferring to play with other "toys", for instance, with minimalistic, very slowly progressing primal sonic atoms, threatening infiltrating drone overthrows, static krautrock effects, and a kind of sound which comes very close to the sound-art-like approach. Knob-screwers` output indeed. Could this sound be described as the progression of the cancer disease throwing its metastases over to the every angle of a body? Fydhws is an artist from Macedonia, Balkan, whose sound has been very underrated so far. So if you have been interested in such (post-rock) bands as Transient Waves, Grails and Radian, however, this group would be similar to your taste.

pous- VPLE (2011)

Noecho

/Indie-hop, Experimental hip-hop, Avant-garde, Noise-hop, Sampledelica, Rap/

9.0

Comment: pous is an experimental hip-hop guy from London, UK crossing it with indie aesthetics, cinematic sampledelica and digitally inflected hiss and noise outbursts and different overthrows. Very dense and obsessive indeed. Visiting his site at Lastfm I mentioned such tag as der beste rapper der welt (the best rapper in the world). In any cases, those 7 tracks make hugely sense.

A Beautiful Machine - Solar Winds, White Noise, Antigravity (2000)

Embryo

10.0

/Shoegaze, Stonergaze, Psych-rock, Experimental rock, Epic, Avant-rock, Guitar ambient, Dream pop/

Comment: The Australian Skye Klein is known by his participations in such projects as Halo and Terminal Sound System, yet my favorite endeavour by him is A Beautiful Machine, an epic shoegaze project, which decently reflected upon the angst feeling of a pre-millennium change, and some new directions during the post-Slowdive/MBV era. Indeed, similarly to Slowdive`s Pygmalion (1995) it is heavily abstract and warm simultaneously, full of suggestive guitar manipulations and progressions, atmospheric yet psyched-out vocal howls, and mellow noise washes. Actually, the term shoegaze does mean way too little nowadays, so let`s complement the term, however, it is clustered with abrupt yet dreamy chasing along the midway of stoner visions and ambient . Aarghh, it is a majestic yet forgotten (actually undiscovered) shoegaze gem.

Blear Moon - Sauvignon Valley (2010)

Umpako
FMA
Lastfm

9.0

/Musique concrete, Sound-art, Abstract, Electronic pop, Modern classical, Electro-acoustic, Dark ambient, Modern classical, Microtonal, Ambient drone, Experimental electronica, Dystopbient, Experimentalism/

Comment: The Russian experimentalist Vlas Presnetsov`s 8-track album (being released at 20.10. 2010) is a lingering journey across different stylistic middles and fringes, which staple spot is focused upon profound, mostly beatless endeavours, though, at times it goes into down-tempo electronica for a wink. More precisely, the first mentioned involvement is more intriguing approach among Presnetsov`s sonic pastiche, i.e compacting the elements of ambient drone/dark ambient/ghost ambient, some minutiae of electro-acoustics, undercurrents of microsounds/experiments with hisses, piano-headed snippets, concrete music occurrences, however, all of which is flinged into endless progression and phase changes. A solid result indeed.

Sometimes Always - ePop008 (2011)

Eardrums Pop
Lastfm

9.2

/Indie pop, Alternative rock, Cover, Noise pop, Shoegaze, Fuzz pop, Electro rock, Jangle pop/

Comment: Sometimes Always (may it be named by the Hope Sandoval-featured JAMC`s hit?) is a sequent example of the blossoming Indonesian indie scene nowadays. More detailly, Tyo from Jakarta seems to be one of those old school guys who used to mix up the mid-period (Isn`t Anything) MBV-echoed densely stomping drum patterns with dynamic, hiss-filled jangle pop/C86/blonde hair guitar strums, however, which will be interrupted sometime to segue into shoegaze-inflected electro rock (a cover of The Sharesprings` Ivory Tower). Grossly, it is a recommended release for all of those bewailing crews having assumed the advantage of the past experience vis à vis with the nowadays musical situation.