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6/22/2011

Noisesurfer - Ambient Drone Focus EP (2011)



/Ambient noise, Psyambient, Ritualistic, Downtempo, New Age, Dub-tech, Experimental electronica, Crossover/


Comment: This is a 5-track EP by Noisesurfer (Joachim Rontexlius and Rachel Moraledius), a Spanish-based duo who has been very profilic during the last years. All the sound represented on it is vastly convincing indeed. More detailly, it is noisy and used to exploit the templates for getting highly infiltrated and mixed-up soundscapes. Indeed, it is far from being just an instance of orthodox-like noise exploration. It has managed to incorporate a loads of stylistic elements inside it from right and left - powerfully thudding ritualistic techno beats, psyambient-soaked and downtempo-esque environments, dub echo experiments. From there can be found out some minutiae harking back to the soothing feeling of New Age-y explorations, however, letting no paralyzing impressions of the whole as a bleak, digital-dominated sonic pile. All is refreshing and suggestive.

Pasqualino Ubaldini - Viaggio Primo

Words After - The Armada of Lights (2010)


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8.3

/Alternative pop/rock, Soft rock/

Comment: This quartet comes from Dundee, Michigan, USA offering an album with 6 tracks which habits are domesticated on a scale relied on alternative pop and soft rock, respectively. On its dominating scale, those melancholically whining vocal lines are supplemented by moderately tumbling guitar gears and consistent running.

Sacred Animals - Welcome Home EP (2010)



/Folktronica, Baroque folk, Alt-folk, Epic, Chamber folk, Indie folk, Singer-songwriter, Experimental indie, Post-folk/


Comment: We like Radiohead, Britpop, and modern Welsh/Celtic indie folk either, isn´t? Sacred Animals is a singer-songwriter, who comes from Ireland, who sounds like an example of Britpop made out in a mold of the folk music which is at times embellished with epic baroque-like characteristics, at times with subtle electronics/glockenspiel clicking sound. Indeed, you can figure out some similarities with Radiohead, Gorky`s Zygotic Mynci, Super Furry Animals. Yet, it intends to go away from the harrowing urban environment, instead having left off into bucolic introspections of the countryside.

Hlo - Dont Pray For Me (2011)



/Glitch, Glitch-hop, Sampledelica, Bitpop, Noise, Experimentalism, Chiptune, Lobit, Primitivistic music, DIY, Electro-acoustics, Rhythmic noise/

Comment: 7 tracks within16 minutes only. It is essentially as primitivistic music as a sort of anti-pop used to be (I do not think of it in a bad sense, though). However, 8 bit/tracker sound is crossed with low-bit noise which at times gets evolved into rhythmic one or even having acquired the clothes of a kind of club dance sound, on the other side can be perceived for chopped-up vowel experiments and the littered ambience around it.

6/21/2011

Narcoleptica - Never Happy

Josh Woodward - Not Quite Connected (2007)



/Singer-songwriter, Pop, Alt-folk, Country, Pomp pop/

Comment: Josh Woodward has been one of the most loved artists in netaudio so far. This album of 11 tracks is a sincere set of loveable listening, based on guitar- and banjo-based singer-songwriter-ism. Mostly introspective or even melancholic (love-soaked notches), those songs will be at times embellished with orchestrated and brass-filled progressions, country-tinged aesthetics. Being characterized mostly via light-structured notches running on restraint fingerpicked strings, at times Woodward`s music intended to evolve into the kinds of bombastic structures.