Art Boys Collection - Stoned Wall (1972/2011)

Golden Pavilion
Free Music Archive

9.2

/Art rock, Acid rock, Psychedelic rock, Psych-folk, Soul rock, Progressive rock, Proto disco/

Comment: Art Boys Collection was an Austrian (1969-1975) sextet who offers a delicious set of the blend of psych-folk, art rock, psychedelic rock, and progressive rock. Walter Holz`s organ-driven vibes are on the ball, variegating a bunch of (at times heavily jamming) guitars and sublime vocal mannerism round it. The chords and moods are craftily fixed there, resulting in as a spectacular whole. This 12-track issue reminds of the Canterbury scene, and 60`s angelic introspective folk ensembles a la Dulcimer. But not such obscure artists only. It takes on The Beatles, Queen, and even Motown`s proto-disco vibes as well. In a foreign country, and Jesus said had big potential to blow off the charts. This amazing album was initially recorded in 1972.

Omara - Schubfaktor

Dreamphish - Garlic Icecream (1997)

Bandcamp

10.0

/Experimental indie, Art pop, Dream pop, Alternative pop, Indie pop, Art punk, Shoegaze, Post-rock/

Comment: Dreamphish was one of the foremost Estonian indie pop/rock bands with Dallas, Bizarre, and Borax in the second half of the 90`s. Their debut album Garlic Icecream (released on the cassette format only) rings out even today in an idiosyncratical and vanguard-ish way. While the quintet`s irresistible compositions are based on conventional yet majestic song structures it is spliced up with more uncompromising progressions - trip-hop-relied shadows, naughty punk rock, lofty shoegaze forays, and darkly gleaming post-rock-ish outer space. You can perceive the connections with Pulp, Stereolab, Portishead, Sonic Youth... . Most of the time the 10-track album induces to be longing and looking so hopefully for the future. Indeed, it is a glorious chapter of the Estonian innovative pop/rock. Inspite of missing nostalgically for those old good times, however, the album chimes perfectly on its own. I recommend listen to their follow-up It Is I (2000) either.

Morbo y Mambo - Das Papier EP (2011)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Improvised music, Cool jazz, Fusion, Crossover, Psychedelic, Free jazz/

Comment: no doubt, this is a lush, spatial improvisation set by a sextet from Argentina. Cool jazz-approved trumpets, acid-fried stumbling synths, rattling drums function to take on frenzied grooves and psychedelic washes everywhere. Indeed, it is pleasantly perverted by language.

The Grey Field Project Names - Without Meanings (2011)

Mediafire
Lastfm

9.3

/Ambient, Avant-rock, Epic, Minimal, Soundscapes, Post-rock, Crossover, Ambient noise, Dark ambient, Experimental rock/

Comment: behind these ten exhilarating ambient rock explorations is Adam Kalamàr, a young musician from Tapolca, Hungary. Before starting to create such amazing sound he played in punk (The Extrended Crackers) and screamo/grindcore combo Who Told You This Room Exists. It is an epic and majestic one where clear-cut visions are tensely mixed up with unidentified hiss-buzz and murmuring noise and hazy droning and concrete sound-infiltrated developments. At times it turns out to be essentially abstract (9).

Brad Sucks - Look and Feel Years Younger

Laura K - ePop018 (2011)

Eardrums Pop
Lastfm

9.5

/Twee pop, Indie pop, Cover, Baroque pop, Experimental indie, Sunshine pop/

Comment: Eardrums Pop is back after a while with an amazing miscellany of 3 songs by Brisbane, Australia-born indie gal who has played in such groups as Little Scout, and Roman History. This case takes on amusingly strumming ukuleles, striking vocal harmonies, and chiming synths, thus constituting the organic whole. One of those songs is a cover version of Real Estate`s Beach Comber. By the way, Jarvis Cocker likes her music. Lucky you.