Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down

Bobby Baby - The Some Place New

Tim Chaplin - The '80's Girls EP (2008)

23 Seconds

9.2

/Covers, Singer-songwriter, Alt-folk, Indie folk, Folk indie, DIY/

Comment: the British singer-songwriter and experimental musician Tim Chaplin is covering a handful of hits from the 80`s. Here is Westworld`s Silver Mac, Kirsty MacColl`s They Don`t Know, Yazoo`s Only You, and Roxette`s It Must Have Been Love. Twanging guitars and convincingly accentuated are loftily wrapped up by lo-fi-esque intimate ambience and gritty hiss. Indeed, let`s break on through to the other side of those beloved songs.

Ars Sonor & Meklabor - Box of Matches (2011)

Eg0cide

9.4

/Drone, Ambient, Dystopbient, Ambient drone, Ambient noise, Soundscapes, Epic, Minimal/

Comment: this 4-track is an intricate compromise between lush ambient soundscapes and epic drone pulsation created by Laetitia Schteinberg (Ars Sonor), and D. Vlasov (Meklabor) who are supported by the well known drone musician Mystified ( playing flute) in one track. More concretely, the album is a majestic drift between bleak and whistling sonic plateaus, as if murmuring its wishes over the metallic landscapes and wrathful hills. Great.

ShakySuperFly - Don't Sweat the Neon Fever (2011)

Dystopiaq

8.8

/Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Sampledelic, Cut and paste, Sound collage, Urban music/

Comment: 9 tracks which end up at the length of 21 minutes. More profoundly, all the tracks are cut up to the pieces of hip-hop, propulsive sultry samples, "accidental" spoken word snippets and primitivistic electronica. A solid reflection of the urban sampled tapestry.

Bus Stop Dreams - The Kiss

Keep away from heat... - des notes de clementines (2008)

Rack & Ruin

9.0

/Post-rock, Crossover, Electronic pop, Electro-indie, Alternative, Experimental pop/

Comment: Predrag Nedic is a Belgrade, Serbia-based recording artist better known as pndc and member of the former electro-ambient duo Erogenius. Here are represented 3 tracks walking on the borders of post-rock-ish scaffolds and pulsating electronic indie-esque sultriness, thus showcasing its remarkable pop potential and appealing power. By any means, it is a very interesting issue. However, let`s continue discovering the gems under now defunct Rack & Ruin records.