Keshco - Accountants By Day (2010)

23 Seconds
Lastfm

8.4

/Experimental indie, Alt-folk, Weird pop, Art-pop, Folktronica, Psychedelic pop/

Comment: This London-based trio has been active for more than a decade, having released a handful of issues during the period. The concrete album under the 23 Seconds records starts out with somewhat solemn yet very warm vocal timbres and spatial flute-relied appearances. In following tracks the whole will mainly be structured through quirky experimental pop evolvements, however, it is an intricate kind of the singer-songwriterism having no inclination to be revealed it at once. It sounds almost normal/or a little "deviating" from the usual standards of alt-folk/experimental folk. In detail, you can figure out lots of elements the issue is constituted of- haunting soundscapes, toy sounds, skipping guitar strums, tricky synth elaborations, unexpected key and mood changes.

Professor Kliq - Movement EP (2010)

Jamendo
Lastfm

8.8

/Digital funk, Breakcore, Hip-hop, Electro pop, Electronic pop, Electro-tech, Crossover, Hardstep/

Comment: This is a "hard" album in many senses. Indeed, it is not easy to categorize it and get the initial sense from it. This Chicago-based resident used to repeat in the second track All Control (Hard Version) too that they have lost all the control. (Do they have it actually?) No doubt, the album is the sort of grower, revealing its machinery - first of all, regarding those highly energized, cadence-relied skeletons - with each following listening. It seizes the machine-alike structures of brooding hardstep and rusty breakcore music, bug-filled digital funk (Work At Night - an outstanding moment on it), determined hip-hop, and sampledelic progressions.

Virgin of the Birds - Let Me Be Your Bride

Children Of The Sun - Exeter Phoenix (2004)

Archive.org

8.7

/Ethno punk, Art-punk, Psychedelia, Conceptual, Psych-rock, Live recording, Live session, Covers/

Comment: Acoustic Hawkwind covers performed by an one-time project headed by Pok Spacegoat and assisted by some members of Children Of The Drone. Because of using the non-traditional rock instruments (saz, dilruba, balalaika, mandola) they have brought forth a unique kind of sound and attitude, however, by the project`s tone colours reminiscent apparently of the Exeter-based combo`s spacious raga-tuned/drone folk-ish warbles. On the other side, depending strictly on the concept, the format of the album is different, though - it is more sheer, high-tempered, psyched-out and heavily rocking in the psychedelic ethno punk tradition. A thankworthy enterprise indeed.

Daixiaole - Beko_89 (2011)

Beko DSL
Lastfm

8.8

/Indie pop, Dream pop, Bedroom music, Singer-songwriter, DIY, Lo-fi, Shoegaze/

Comment: Daixiaole is a female bedroom pop musician from China offering a three-pieced issue on Beko DSL. Indeed, she has her own idiosyncratic approach of the songwriting exploiting the hazy soundscapes surrounding densely subtle guitar fingerpickings and dream-soaked vocal manner. It reminds a bit of those "opened" shoegaze outputs (Lavished EP; Luxate EP) in the lo-fi method by Vlor recorded in the end of 90`s.

Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles – Brick City Ghosts (2011)

Bad Panda

8.9

/Minimal, Chamber rock, Post-rock, Experimental rock, Crossover, Avant-rock, Epic, Modern classical/

Comment: Minimally bleak/ or chamber-drenched/electro-acoustic/treated electronic-relied soundscapes are variegated with (or without) lone piano-driven modern classical tunes which at times are pulled off into potently brooding rock snippets. Indeed, as so plain to the kind of classically channelized post-rock, it shows up its inclination and readiness for getting drift between silentfully and powerfully chiming pieces, having some fluctuant layers into epic progressions. Thereby it makes out as a juncture area compiled of the oeuvres of Godspeed You! Black Emperor (those pitched violins at times!), and Bosques de mi Mente, for instance. The band which comes from New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, has dedicated this album to all of the ghosts they left behind. Beautiful.

Super Galactic Expansive - Broken Clocks