Zvukolom (2011)

Lom

8.6

/New Weird Slovakia, Psych-folk, Sound-art, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Electro-acoustic, Psycho-acoustic/

Comment: This is a miscellany of 14 tracks from Slovakia, veering from psych-folk and murky sonic appearances ( I am not able to give it another name) to the abstract progressions of electro-acoustic enterprises (drifting between white, black, and grey-ish shadows), from very silentful to electrically charged soundscapes. If you are intended to wrap up the whole one, it can just be named as New Weird Slovakia (you can figure out lots of similarities with other countries, for instance, Australia`s respective one). It might be right to consider it even more than music because of growing from an entropic level to the controlled stage of sound.

Doc Deem -Tight Tight (2011)

Tres Catorce
Lastfm

8.4

/Abstract electronica, Electro, Experimental electronica, Noise, Crossover, Experimentalism, Breakbeat, Darkwave, Techno, Synth noir/

Comment: Doc Deem started off his deeds in 2000, having issued a handful of albums so far. The recent output includes many breaks and harmonies, veering from electro, breakbeat and techno to almost laid back electronica and EBM-like arrangements, or on the other side, having pleasant crossovers of them. However, it is not only thought for hard-heartened gearheads but having some contemplative, even dark-hued tracks either (Elsmere), or offering near-abstract repetitive loop-based buzz monsters developed into a kind of techno hypnotism (Risen Is Already Enough), or a beat-backed, finely orchestrated darkwave undertake (The Previously Electrified Key), or a noise-infused lo-fi-tronic experiment (Fli). Actually lots of noise developments can be found from here. In a nutshell, a long-running experience does recoup.

Wings Of An Angel - Satsangs In The Dark (2011)

ParaLucid

8.7

/Darkwave, Avant-garde, Spoken world, Improvised music, World music, Mysticism/

Comment: Behind this project is Felix Kaplan, a musician from Israel, who presents his antagonism against the truth of gurus, educated specialists, artists and other warts who used to think they are most competent of deciding what must be right or wrong in this world. However, by listening to the current issue, I shall have to admit it continues the profound mysticism-veiled tradition of his previous album Requiem For An Anonymous Genius (The Breath Of Life, Carnal Annihilation And Miraculous Resurrection Of The Job Of Art). Sung or spoken in Hebrew, English and Russian, it is quite hard to understand should it be the opus in the praise of human being or not. By being and burning in hell is it the ban of him/her or not? The God is dead (is it?). All those mesmerizing verbal outputs are accomplished with the diverse scale of sonic structures (world music, improvised music, New Age, slowly breaking sounds, minimalism etc).

LAKE R▲DIO - Delta (2011)

Bandcamp

8.7

/Witch house, Drag house, Glo-fi, Chillwave, Avant-electronica, Synth noir/

Comment: This 4-track is created by Caden Moore from Chicago for whom it is the fourth release under this pseudonym. There can be looked for shitloads of blissful synth glimpses/and captivating electronic sections, amongst it can be perceived for mutilated effects (pitched-down sounds), autotuned vocals, and heavily pounding catchy machine-like rhythms. Outside of it, I could guess, this will be showed off lots of triangles, crosses, low-end synths, and drum machines. By the stylistical side it can be considered a bumper between witch house/drag house (or trianglecore - as described at the artist`s Bandcamp page) and chillwave/glo-fi, i.e containing details from the both compartments. On the other side, the third track does depict a danceable vision of the drag house music - it is an exorbitantly swinging example indeed.

Inverness - Illuminaciones (2010)

Archive.org

7.8

/Alternative pop/rock, Drone rock, Pomp rock, Psychedelic, Shoegaze/

Comment: A quartet from Chile (not to be confused with the same-titled groups from Brazil and the USA, respectively) playing up massive (even bombastic) alternative rock carcasses with some elements of shoegaze and psychedelia. Most of the tracks are guided by guitars, and the residual notches are the keyboard-based ones (at the time of droning organs accompanied with long vocal chords, however, it resembles strongly of Sigur Ros). All the tracks are sung in Spanish. Subsequently, although well-elaborated notches on its own, way too much sugar contain some parts of the Illuminaciones at times.

Ataque Escampe - no Planeta Furancho

Utrovortu - Byt' kak myshi-polevki (2011)

Clinical Archives

9.3

/Avant-rock, Krautrock, Improvisation, Free jazz, Conceptual, Dark pop, Singer-songwriter, Experimentalism, Experimental rock, Avant-garde/

Comment: This interdisciplinary collective coming from Saint Petersburg (Sankt Peterburg), from the northern capital city of Russia was previously known as The Pigeons and the Insane Porridgemakers (having issued albums on Clinical Archives as well). However, they used to be previously very insane, making out an impressive patchwork of diverse styles. In principle, all is built on borderless improvisation, veering from experimental pop and freely floating krautrock a la Faust (the first contemporary indie band of the world) to free jazz and bucolic singer-songwriter-ism and just dark-hued pop (even darkwave). Moreover, some explorations within electro-indie/synth rock and space rock and free jazz and dense sonic effect compartments are also carried out herein. In the second part of the issue can be detected for the rhythm experimentation on the Casio Tonebank synths (cheap but very effective keyboards) either. In a nutshell, the Byt' kak myshi-polevki embodies a finely balanced yet very intriguing album. Actually this is all what we can expect from the music, isn`t?