The Widowers - Record Store Day Exclusive (2011)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Art-rock, Experimental rock, Noise rock, Avant-rock, Angst-rock/

Comment: This 2-track issue is written and performed by Don Logan, and this is The Widowers` fourth release after 2 LP`s and one split in liaison with German Error Message. Impressive art rock-based notches are filled with subdued full-throttle roaring or angst-loaded and void-filled imprecation, cadence variety, noisy yet deliberately channelized guitar stabs, orchestrated backdrops, charged feedbacks, and some blues-y chords, all of the set reminding of the finest moments by Sonic Youth in the 80`s. Indeed, those are just a bit the pop songs.

Anonymous Coward – Anonymous Coward LP (2011)

Nekura Kid
Archive.org

8.6

/J-pop, Drum and bass, IDM, Breakbeat, Electronic pop, Shibuya-kei, Indie pop/

Comment: This is electronic pop basically embellished with drum and bass cadences, IDM and bubblegum rhythms all of which is supplemented with indie pop attitude (the last one can be perceived indirectly) in the very idiosyncratic vein of J-pop. This is subtly easy and careless music, indeed very listenable one even if does not cover your own life. This 14-track album is released on a new Japanese label, Nekura Kid Records, embarked on 2011. In this way, lots of J-initials indeed.

Adelyn Rose - Adelyn Rose EP (2010)

Bandcamp

8.7

/Dream folk, Alt-folk, New Weird America, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: Astonishing three songs by a gal from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA. It chimes dreamy like a ghost from the 70`s folk scene somewhere, reminiscent of Vashti Bunyan or Karen Dalton and by its minimalist (sparse) approach the American Primitivism movement.

Deep Breath (Zengineers Remix)

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).