Chris Forsyth + The Paranoid Cat Band - Live on WFMU's The Long Rally with Scott McDowell 3/18/11 (2011)

Free Music Archive

9.2

/Psychedelia, Drone rock, Improvised music, Avant-rock, Rockabilly, Crossover, Trance rock, Experimental rock/

Comment: This is a set of 3 improvised, long-running jam units by Chris Forsyth and 4 of his fellow musicians. Altogether, you can call it just trance rock, for instance. The first, 20-minutes notch involves the similarities with Spaceman 3, and Spiritualized through artistic guitar playing (relied on elusive arpeggios and repetitions and such kind of "dry" chord progressions reminiscent of the string magic by John Fahey) accompanied by Don Bruno`s incessant phase changes of organ`s droning. The second track might be considered as a modified, more experiment-appealed version of Blur`s Tender. The third notch mixes up sheer psychedelia with free form rock and distinctive undercurrents of rockabilly. Indeed, the whole seems to be rational that is the reason of why it is impressively accomplished.

Wouter Bruys - Semur-en-Auxois

Infirm Individual - The Green Incident (2010)

Infirm Individual
Mediafire

9.4

/Experimental electronica, Electronic pop, 8-bit, Primitronica, IDM, Tracker music/

Comment: These 4 tracks are the representatives of catchy, uplifting electronic music by a profilic artist from Germany. His idiosyncratically original soundscape is simply irresistible relied on the maze of 8-bit, IDM, and melodico-tronica. No doubt, this is one of the most eminent 8-bit/tracker music/chiptune-based sounds I have ever heard. The first track The Steampunk-Brothers Arrival rings out as if an easily gliding attempt by the Orb in the second half of 90s. He has sticked voice samples by Terence McKenna into the whole thereby exalting the niveau of a cute-o-meter.

Marc Broude - Medicine (2009)

Mediafire
Lastfm

9.6

/Dark ambient, Sound art, Dystopbient, Spoken word, Psycho-acoustic, Avant-garde, Illbient, Avant-industrial, Soundscapes, Avant-jazz, Experimentalism/

Comment: Marc Broude`s (born in 1984) outputs can be considered as one of those hallmarks in the crossing point of illbient, industrial and (dark) ambient music without any doubt. At those 7 tracks over 42 minutes you can feel dense, clinical sense of dystopic ambience played up by means of Tibetan bowls, electric guitars, drums, violin, piano, acoustic guitar, didgeridoo, electronics and many other devices. (There can not be forgotten the influences by Big City Orchestra, and Coil either). But not only - at times it sounds like an instance of free improvised jazz madman. The closure track Muerte incorporates refined rushes based on a Western-like harmonica and subdued chords of a guitar.

Anubi - Perdition Is My Queen EP (2011)

42 Records/24

8.9

/Art-rock, Alternative pop/rock, Psychedelic, Indie pop/

Comment: It is quite difficult to generalize this 4-pieced issue - it chimes as rock`n`roll as The Fall and The Brian Jonestown Massacre used to have done. During most of its course it showcases quite straightforward sonic spine with some exceptional dashes of psychedelia and galvanically artistic minutiae (using violins and organs for it) dipping out its power from the extremities of the pop scene and melting it into an "understandable" form of art.

Diablo Swing Orchestra - Velvet Embracer

The Vaselines: Live at Primavera Sound Festival 5/28/2009 (2009)

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9.0

/Jangle pop, Alternative pop/rock, Indie pop, Twee pop/

Comment: The Vaselines is a Scottish duo consisting of Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee firstly being surfaced in 80s (1986-1990) as part of then twee/jangle pop scene. Quite paradoxically, they got some fame as one of the favorite bands by all our beloved Kurt Cobain (by the way, Nirvana covered three of their songs). This gig was recorded at the famous Primavera festival including their best songs represented over here (Molly`s Lips; Jesus Does Not Want Me A Sunbeam; Slushy; Sex Sux, You Think You`re A Man; Oliver Twisted etc). Honestly, I have long awaited for the revival of those seemingly simple yet catchy infiltrated guitar strums and joyous even groovy drum patterns of 80`s guitar bands. This is a honest example of indie`n`roll.