Younnat - His Name Is Radar (2010)

Bump Foot
Lastfm

9.2

/Easy listening, Electronic pop, Psychedelic, Sampledelic, Breakbeat, Mood music, Chill out/

Comment: Music is my radar, maybe you can remember for this way titled track by Blur from 2000? Or does it have a hint at Warren Defever`s salient project on the other side? No problems because of Oleg Serdyuk aka Younnat`s music has been my torch during the last weeks. Likely to his previous workouts (Duct; Radiovision), however it used to be the highly uplifting bumping throughout its course, toying with mesmerizing synth harmonies and melancholically retrodelic motives and propulsive paces (from tranquil electronic beats to high-energized stomping breakbeats) off to create a crafty template for the easy listening scene.

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.