Tudo de volta - Tudo de Volta (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Drone, Ambient rock, Post-rock, Drone rock, Guitar ambient, Epic, Experimental rock, Avant-rock/

Comment: Tudo de Volta is a young, 21-years-old musician from Curitiba, Brazil, offering for the world an upsetting, 3-track EP to be praised now and later. Indeed, it is an epic blend of atmospheric guitars and vibrant rhythms (in fact, the release is without any drums and other pounding instruments). More concretely, as if endlessly running droning and resonating hiss-laden layers assign impressive grandeur to it. At times it seems as if were rolled over by steamwaves able to throw you down.

Naturalbody - Escape The Album (2011)

Jamendo

8.7

/Synth rock, New age, Electro-rock, Crossover, Electronic pop, Ethereal pop, Classical/

Comment: Naturalbody is an artist from Italy who has issued more than a handful of albums at Jamendo. Naturalbody`s usual practice is to create short-running tracks having the length not more than 3 minutes as usual. (For instance, Escape The Album turns up with 9 notches to its closure at 16 minutes). It extends from slightly pitched synthetic pop and some exercises on piano to tumultuous synth-driven rock drawing majestically high bows, or from funky-approved entertainment to atmospheric/classical/and new age-loaded sonic installations. Indeed, NB loves to shoot incessantly. By the way, the coverprint of the album is attractive in its minimal but longing appearance.

Anderlink - When You Sleep

Pilot Cloud - Halycon EP (2010)

Acoustic Firework
Lastfm

8.9

/Shoegaze, Alternative pop/rock, Indie, Dream pop, Post-rock, experimental rock/

Comment: Shoegaze, dream pop, post-rock - all of that has ruled for some decades and will obviously be ruled as well. Just some elements will be added to. All the aforementioned styles are gathered on an issue, carved out by the Philadelphia-based group Pilot Cloud, the combo of Justin Lerner (guitar/vocals), and Nick Biscardi (drums, synth). Their concept makes the listener feel really relieved and blessed. Blissed-out guitar lines used to tower up to the clouds having a little bit more disparate (technical) vision than the usual experience of it used to be for. Moreover, it is not a daily fact for shoegaze/indie groups striving for a bunch of street records/found sound aspects to interweave it into the mix.

Telepathic Teddy Bear - Reactions (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.6

/New Wave, Glo-fi, Poptronica, Electronic pop, Synth pop, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: TDP is the project of Juan Carlos Padilla, a resident out of Boston, Massachussets. The sophomore issue of him harks back to the 80`s new wave/synth pop sounds mixing it up with glistening chillwave/glo-fi sounds sometimes. Yet, it is not all at all, indeed, showcasing the affinity toward piano-driven singer-songwriter-ism and soulful electronica either. The heart-throb of mine is The Music In My Headphones which should be towering in every sort of pop charts.

Amarok - Amarok (2010)

Orca Wolf
Lastfm

8.6

/Doom metal, Stoner metal, Experimental metal, Funeral doom, Avant-metal, Post-metal/

Comment: Amarok is a unit from the Northern California embarked on in 2009. The group was initially formed by Jeremy Golden, and Brandon Squyres (of The Makai). The current line-up includes Zeke Rogers (also of The Makai), and Kenny Ruggles. There are are represented two long-running notches running on doom metal/funeral/and stoner metal mode. More concretely, the decelerated layers of paces and thrilling moaning are up here to describe this fucked-up world in their very own way. This is why this album seems to be a bit bleeding on its own. As people at Doommantia already described it this is thought for the fans of Khanate, Burning Witch, Weedeater, Grief.

Sir Deja Doog - An Impossible Darkness (2010)

CLLCT

8.7

/Alt-folk, Anti-folk, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: Eric Alexander is one of those stalwarts along with Tinyfolk, James Eric, The Sarcastic Dharma Society, Adrian Aardvark (if to name just some ones) coming out from the Bloomington-based CLLCT collective. Sir Deja Doog is the nom de plume for his side project, however, demonstrating himself as a crafty solo musician. Highly loaded, strumming guitar gears are variegated with profound, contemplative songwriting exploiting just guitar and diverse approaches for singing and delivering his message. The lyrics of the 6-track EP are sometimes descriptive (regarding his loon state of mind), at times plaintive, or straightforwardly striking in its bareness, respectively. He has described the album in the following way - I believed I died and went to Hell. I ended up in the hospital in a catatonic state. This is what I saw.