WINSTONMCNAMARA - Amore E Iodio (2011)

42 Records/24

8.7

/Alternative pop/rock, Dance rock, Electronic, Psychedelic pop, I-pop/

Comment: Inspite of the Irish/Celtic-entitled project name you can figure out only Italian-sung songs from there. If to crack a joke about this 10-pieced album, however, it can be considered like a set of the alternative version of Eros Ramazzotti`s music produced by the members of Sonic Youth. Yet, beside those shrill guitar somersaults the concept is made up with orchestrated snippets, dance-appealed interludes and synthetically embellished undercurrents. Altogether, it is a sophisticated pop album indeed.

Brian Green - Untitled With Kayla Valerie (2010)

Luv Sound
Luv Sound

9.2

/Chamber music, Avant-garde, Dark ambient, Acousmatics, Darkwave, Noir, Crossover/

Comment: Oh, this is simply mesmerizing. Although consisting only of a short-running track, however, it carries out an impressive dash upon the centre of your cognitive mind. The sound is conjured up with a cello and elaborated-amplified via electronic devices. All in all, it rings out like an irresistible alloy of (neo)classicism and hauntingly pounding ambient.

Dntel - Clelia II (2011)

Basic_sounds

9.4

/Indietronica, Experimentalism, Ambient, Conceptual, Crossover, Avant-garde, Organic electronica, Experimental electronica/

Comment: Obviously the name of Jimmy Tamborello needs no longer introduction for our obdurate melomans. He has been one of the main stalwarts regarding the worldwide organic electronica/indietronica scene at least for the last decade. This release consists of a 30-minute track only wherein diverse layers as the summary result have epic shifts against or parallel to each other. You can detect for some long-running synth drones, organic electro-acoustic overthrows, air-filled found sound, vastly suggestive motives and much more. Indeed, he did it again.

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Stray Dogg - Almost (2011)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Singer-songwriter, Alt-folk, Chamber folk, Baroque folk, Epic/

Comment: Yesterday I reviewed Shaita, a darkwave-ish modeled singer-songwriter from Zagreb, Croatia. Here is another set of suggestive songs from Balkan (this time from Belgrade, Serbia). These nine songs are an instance of melancholy-drenched introspection using epic transitions and lush arrange of organic/acoustic sounds. The combo consist of Dukat Stray (guitars, vocal, harp), Jelena Damjanovic (piano), Ana Jankovic (violin, backing vocals), and Marko Ignjatovic (solo guitar). Awesome.

Georg Hekt - Three Around Ten (2010)

Stigae
Lastfm

8.6

/Deep dub, Tech-dub, Club dance, Chill out/

Comment: The album starts out and continues with whimsically skipping chords of elaborated funk (rock) as if coming from some solo albums by Holger Czukay. Later the concept of this Berlin-based yet of Bulgarian heritage musician (born in Stara Zagora) will be entered into shimmering area of deep dub/tech-dub as if thought for the listeners of late hour radio shows. Such laid-back sound yet having no laziness within it - because of being genuinely profound on its progressions.

The New Mystikal Troubadours - The New Mystikal Troubadours (2009)

 Free Music Archive
Mt6

9.3

/Drone folk, Experimental folk, Trance folk, Psychedelic folk, Epic, Avant-folk, New Weird America, Raga folk/

Comment: Those mystical yet psychedelic and raga-tinged guitar strums variegated with some reversed sonic snippets and drone progressions and (semi-)orchestrated beauty by a New Weird American duo from USA, consisting of Dave Gibson (Agrarians) and Matt Perzinski (Bad Liquor Bond). The self-titled, 6-track album was their debut issue. However, lots of mystics, synergy and magical feel can be felt imbuing from every of their sophistically treated chord. Indeed, the duo have succeeded to lace the past tradition of psychedelic folk with the nowadays modern one.