diecidicembre - diecidicembre (2011)

Acustronica
Lastfm

9.0

/Guitar ambient, Sound art, Microtonal, Avant-garde, New age, Experimentalism, Ambient, Laptop-folk, Drone, Avant-electronica/

Comment: By a 38-year-old resident from Bari, Italy, offering 5 long-running guitar experiments in the vein of sound art. It embarks on by leaping out from the silence and conjuring up many tones, half-tones and wraith-like imaginations. You can detect some unusual elements within this totally experimental area - for instance, flamenco-tinged guitar fingerpickings next to the pitched experiments or new age-loaded synth sounds and progressive rock-hued developments in some tracks. However, all is beautiful on it.

brunk - a simple guide (2010)

WM Recordings

Bandcamp 

Lastfm

8.8

Indietronica, Lo-fi, DIY, Experimental indie, Post-rock, Funk rock, Experimental rock, Avant-rock/ 

Comment: As brunk, indeed Bert van der Berghe`s impassion used to be creating angular beat schemes under guitar pattern-backed soundscapes or making up the profound soundscapes of ambient music (Winter EP). However, this is an issue of his old tracks wherein next to the indietronic approaches, sample-enriched math-alike progressions, DIY-based workouts can be met somersaulting funk rock and electro-rock and highly charged guitar outputs either. Powerful and totally convincing.

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)