Mathemagic - II (2011)

Bandcamp
Mediafire
Lastfm

9.4

/Indie pop, Art-pop, Experimental indie, Glo-fi, Dream pop, Post-rock/

Comment: Evan, Karen, and Dylan is a trio from Guelph, Ontario (the hometown for Memoryhouse either) who have been active since the spring of 2010 and having issued two 2 EPs and one split before their first proper long player. However, these new 11 tracks have a persuasive drift alongside an idiosyncratic long line between indie pop and glo-fi music, on the other side, at times it can be considered the acoustic version (with vocals) of such recherche post-rock bands as The Dylan Group or Mice Parade. Savory guitar strums with fine-grained synth chords (without any kind of blissful, chillwave-esque synth progressions) constitute a solid background for all those murmuring vocals by the female and male side co-operatively laced effortlessly with each other subsequently evoking a beatific sense getting above the usual standards in indie music. All in all, I got a sequent favorite band from Guelph (by the way, Mathemagic`s Evan (Euteneier) used to be not the same person with Evan from Memoryhouse).

Clinker - A Poison Tree

Sinead O'Connick Jr. - Live In My Bedroom (2011)

Recycling Records
Lastfm

8.4

/Mash-up, Plunderphonics, Sound collage, Cut and paste, Avant-garde, Non music, Freeformfreakout/

Comment: This is as frenzied and wild as the mash-up/bastard pop/plunderphonics could be ever. There are 8 tracks, every of them can be classified as a single universe on its own (those relatively long running tracks used to contain bulks of incalculable cut-ups and relentless turnarounds and numerous shifts regarding the structure and mood) making up a connection between lettrist/situationist dètournement conceptions, ravecore, DIY culture, breakcore, speedcore, digicore, glitchcore, noise, pitchcore and (of course) samplecore. Indeed, besides being throughout all the course in extremely skidding-skipping position the whole shows up itself like a vast reference or quotation on its own.

Luminous - Or Burn​/​BG (2011)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Avant-garde, Industrial, Krautrock, Experimentalism, Leftfield, Weird pop/

Comment: First of all, it happened in the autumn of 2010 when I reviewed Factory Kids` album Get Gone (Noecho Records). This was a mesmerizing output by the Scottish duo (Christina Marie & Tom Chaplin). However, Luminous is the solo project by Chaplin (who has released music under his own name as well) who continues to exploit similar language as the duo has done. Only 2 tracks are represented here - you can enjoy from within coming flashing krautrock-ish (Faust-like) bleeps inbetween the monotone repetitions all of that wrapped up in the hazy soundscape; the second track is about vaporous noise progressions ornated with elliptical orbits of cadences. Similarly to Factory Kids those tracks are seemingly experimentally lopsided, yet, regarding its (inner) content the issue can be considered an example of (weird) pop music. A convincing result indeed.

Gutta Percha - A Crawlspace Companion (2011)

Test Tube
Lastfm

9.6

/Ambient, Avant-garde, Sound art, Hauntology, Organic electronica, Dark ambient, Experimentalism, Noir, Musique concrète, Weird pop/

Comment: A Crawlspace Companion is the sophomore effort by the brothers Hibbett from Illinois, USA The 5-pieced set rings out as if an indicative approach of ambient music on getting aware of itself. However, it subsequently gets conscious of itself. It offers up warm yet haunting arcs of soundscapes being synergized with the samples from the scenes of ancient music and dark-hued orchestrated pieces. In fact, being adequately accented it evokes lots of memories with no certain addresses and hints at, however, reminding of the genuine works by James Kirby aka Caretaker. Just great.

Light In Your Life - Christian

Tunguska Electronic Music Society - Ellipsis: Tunguska​.​Shaman​.​Vimana (2010)

Tunguska Electronic Society
Jamendo
Bandcamp

9.0

/Ethnic, World music, Big beat, Downtempo, New Age, Ritualistic, Chill out, Psyambient, Chilltronica, Psytrance/

Comment: In fact, the album`s content deserves its name. Tunguska Electronic Society is an intricate conglomerate of a wide array of artists mainly from the Russian Federation who have been active in diverse territories of art and culture (by the way, having their own net of bars and coffees). The collective has completed lots of albums/compilations since 2007 and this release of 14 tracks is one of the most convincing by them so far. It veers from psytrance /ambient and ethnic downtempo to fusion-like pop guitar riffs (EXIT project - Opium) to obscure experiments in the realm of littery electronics and shattering big beat (Jung - Sunrise On Pluton) and shamanic incantations alongside with soothing chill-ish paces. However, you can find out much more else from this miscellany, of course.