The Falling Floors - The Falling Floors (2008)

Daydream Generation/Quixodelic
CLLCT

8.8

/Psychedelia, Psychedelic folk, Folk rock, Indie folk, Folk indie/

Comment: The Falling Floors comes out from the Daydream Generation/Quixodelic Records block. Similarly to the Bloomington-based CLLCT, and the Exeter-based Children Of The Drone-related groups this foundation embodies the most free-spirited moments in pop music. However, Falling Floors plays nice psychedelia-infused pop folk where are presented sublime motives and harmonies, at times it takes on oriental (including drone folk instruments), at times conjuring 60`s hippie stuff. The last track rings out like a tribute to Procol Harum.

Daniel Maze + Dave Zeal – Blueprints For Insect Architecture (2011)

Test Tube

9.2

/Ambient, Experimental electronica, Hauntology, Dubstep, Noise, Crossover, Sampledelic/

Comment: it is quite hard to have a clear-cut definition pertaining of these 6 tracks, which are merely essential parts of Maze-Zeal`s second issue created in liaison with each other on Test Tube (a continuation to Small Airports EP). More profoundly, it is full of trash and hisses, delicate noiseful swerves, dubstep-like ghostly urban undulation, haunting jazz samples, penetrating electronic signals, all of that replaced sometimes with very floaty atmospheric layers to get the whole to be more variegated within its borders. In fact, all of that could be called as experimental ambient in corpore. Masterful!

Wonder Bear - Reverend

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The Victory Park - False Silence (2010)

Radio Hand
Lastfm

9.3

/Post-punk, Alternative pop/rock, Shoegaze, Gothic, New Wave, Experimental indie/

Comment: the debut album by a trio coming from Moscow, Russia does reflect a quite similar effect to the likes of Franz Ferdinand and Interpol, however, their output imposes even more through its acute roughness. Their music is uncompromising, seemingly having no intention for such calculations as regarding the objects of utility, on the other hand, lacking also the annoying hermetics so usual to the studio walls and pertaining of the producers of kind of I-know-which-is-the right way-to-record. It is personal sort of anxiety and pessimism, which encourages these musicians to struggle on to battle their fights. Obviously it is inspired by post-punk and proto-indie forerunners (Joy Division, The Cure, The Chameleons, Durutti Column) which came about from the end of the 70`s and early 80`s. Infused with the verbal side sustained by the pessimistic philosophy of life, and obscure moods. Inspite of a sort darksidedness the guitar chords are played up with the help of the glare and dinstinct flash and overdriving riffs do conduct a trip sometimes even further, crossing the boundaries of post-punk, and coming over to the house of shoegaze music (a la Swervedriver); beyond that there is given importance to the neurotic drums and some pinch of electronics with the purpose to get pushed up this desired and obligatory dark appealing. A worth issue mentioned in by many bloggers from around the world.

Infirm Individual - I`m Not From Here (2011)

Pxl-Bot
Infirm Individual

9.0

/8-bit, Bitpop, Tracker music, Nintendocore, Crossover, Psychedelic electronica, Chiptune, Chipbreak/

Comment: if to regard for a line of delicate creative tradition in the realm of 8-bit electronica/bitpop/console music we cannot be without listening to the oeuvres by Infirm Individual, a young musician from Germany. Indeed, it is a top output by Evil Cee aka Healy Cee to date. It is highly psychedelic, using acidic patterns (autotuned vocals) and blissful grit to bury the sawtooth-shaped patterns beneath it. On the other side, at times it is highly atmospheric, ambient-alike, more profoundly, using the stylistical element as the ground for grindcore-ish vocal manner and shamanic overthrows. You can compare his deeds with such names as ashbrg, and 8bit bEtty, and Bliss, for instance.

Cagey House - Gnomic (2011)

Justnotnormal

8.8

/Sampledelic, Sound collage, Cut and paste, Plunderphonics, Hauntology, Weird pop, Art pop, DIY, Lo-fi/

Comment: the webaudio/netaudio legend Dave Keifer aka Cagey House (being active since the end of 90`s/the beginning of 00`s) makes a slight swerve from his previous, profoundly wraith-filled pop/art pop/intentional pop tradition, on the other side, coming relatively close to his first publications (Model City; Octopus Two). Roaming lo-fi motives are around there to involve shades drawn out from the vials of sampledelia, DIY, and hauntology. At times it is funny, sometimes gratingly melancholic. However, you get highly confused if you are intended to determine it off on the scale of time and space.

Yokandesh – Viva Como Queira (2011)

MixGalaxy

9.1

/Crossover, Jazz, Latin music, Hip-hop, Urban music, Baião, Samba, Pop rock, Easy listening/

Comment: Yokandesh is a musician (born in 1985) from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, who used to merge traditional Brazilian/South American beats and colours (samba, rock, baião, jazz, bossa) with fine hip-hop beats and rhymes. However, being up there to realize his ambitions in an excellent way. The average quality of this 18-track album is high thereby a handful of truly mesmerizing pop songs can be found out from there. Moreover, it involves much more than a common summery pop album.