Henrik José – Photo Album (2011)

Jammerdosa

9.6

/Dream pop, Electronic pop, Art-pop, Ethereal pop, Experimental indie, Alternative/

Comment: Henrik Josè from Sweden started out his musical actions very early, at the age of 15, in the mid of 90`s. As known under the pseudonym Bliss he was then known as part of the 8-bit/bitpop/tracker music/chiptune scene, blending those genres with shimmering soulful tunes. If to juxtapose his then-experience with the nowadays one, however, you can see some huge differences for sure. Though, Josè`s experiences are still bridgeable with each other. If the first track used to go far away, quite close to the glacial yet dream-filled soundscape of Sigur Ròs (on the other side, at times it resembles of the superb album Cafè de Flor by the Estonian group Bizarre), the second track is wrapped up with glossy electronics whose starting part resembles (more or less) paradoxically of Steve Reich`s Drumming. One of the best successes from the recent year.

Kristin Hersh - Speedbath (working) (2009/2011)

CASH Music
Free Music Archive

9.3

/Alternative pop, Indie rock, Singer-songwriter, Chamber rock, Epic, Dream pop, Art-rock, Power rock, Alt-folk/

Comment: Despite the years already passed since the creating act of Throwing Muses, Kristin Hersh does lack no power hinting at how to conjure up great rock songs nowadays. As one of the biggest (female) indie stars throughout the 80`s and 90`s, she used to sound previously excellent to date. All those 12 songs represented here are solid ones enough - stylistically veering from folk-ish interpretation to dream pop-like introspections, from subtle infiltrated guitar layers and angry guitar strums to progressive orchestrated guitar pop and powerful but majestic grazing. Thank You, Kristin.

Josh Woodward - Flypaper

LFC & FCao - Mesinha (2011)

pCloud

8.7

/Psychedelia, Avant-rock, Improvised music, Doom rock, Black metal, Experimental rock, Space rock/

Comment: This is an almost omnipotent striving toward different sort of psychedelic heaven - massive abrasive guitars pannels (at times with strong doom-ish angles or mid-points), relaxing reed organ lines, or some solemn seepings on church organ, heavily moaning vocals will be merged into peculiar and dizzy evolvements pretending to be quite genuine on its own. No doubt, the closure track Symphonic Vagina is an instance of the apoteosic revelation of psychedelia.

The Post Riot Era - It`s Already Tomorrow in China

Decktonic - Dance Machine (2011)

Decktonic
Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.8

/Electro pop, House, Electro-house, Club dance, Rave music, Bubblegum techno, Tekno, 8-bit, Bitpop, Chiptune/

Comment: A set of 11 tracks by Christian Montoya, a DJ and electronic musician from the Big
Apple, did start off to sympathize from the very first second, pointing it out through the filter-subordinated neon-lighted house music, serotonine-releasing electro-house sequences which are at times replaced with bubblegum techno/tekno beats, buzzing and drilling electro drones and even the "corroded" break echoes of 8-bit/chiptune/tracker music. Sometimes the frequency of beats will be thickening upon the level of rave-shaped twists. By the way, Dance Machine is a Korg DS10-determined issue (with some exceptions, though). Indeed, it rocks your electro-socks off.

Astrowind - Zhitkur