Wolfredt - Wolfredt (2011)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Shoegazetronica, Post-rock, Indietronica, Experimental indie, Alternative, Leftfield/

Comment: behind Wolfredt hides himself Margus Voolpriit (born in 1973) who has been known as the drummer in some eminent Estonian indie combos (Dreamphish; Pia Fraus) throughout 90`s and 00`s. Regarding Wolfredt he has traded drums and kits to guitars and electronic devices. He makes his vista up with the help of rising, atmospherical guitars, pulsating electronics, a few sonic effects, which ultimately provides enough aesthetical joy and relaxing ambience. Stylistically it mostly veers away indietronica, post-rock, and electronic shoegaze. The last track is a cover version of a track of Picnic, an indie group consisting of a couple of the previous members of Dreamphish (indeed, the issue needs more for such sort of lush (female) vocal lines provided by Marju Taukar aka Marjusass).

Sun Deers - Shaman Colours EP (2011)

Bandcamp
Native Flowers Recordings
Lastfm

9.0

/Free folk, Chillwave, Exotica pop, Poptronica, Tropical pop, Electronic pop, Glo-fi, Dream pop, Alternative/

Comment: actually I cannot agree with one site suggesting that this album is far away from the best because of having no goal. What does it mean having the goal at all? Actually the album can successfully exist of having no visible goal. For instance, these 6 tracks conjure up chillwave-ish running mixed up with the frames of exotica pop, thus resembling of Monster Rally, for instance. Furthermore, it provides free folk-ish ecstasy and tropical pop-loaded mist either. Great work!

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Lizard Kisses - Tiny Island Teeth (2011)

Cakes & Tapes
Lastfm

9.7

/Alt-folk, Dream folk, Indie folk, Americana, Folk indie, Baroque folk, Experimental indie, Art pop, New Weird America/

Comment: heck, my heart got broken once again...they made it again...indeed, once again listening to this Brooklyn-based girl-boy ensemble I got profoundly bewitched and satisfied with those bottomless bittersweet feelings and stings in the chest. More detailly, Cory Siegler & Marc Merza`s sound is filled with austere soundscape yet it is so fantastically accentuated and spiced out with other segments (found sounds, Balkan music themes, theremin-afforded screeches) that this makes your day. By the way, this time the duo is assisted by a handful of contributors. One of the best issues of 2011 so far (where are the reviews by Pitchfork, Drowned In Sound and other such sort of juggernauts?).

Thierry Massard - 15 minutes of fame (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Noise, Microtonalism, Minimalism, Sound art, Experimentalism, Avant-garde/

Comment: the French noisenik/experimentalist/netaudio activist/philosopher Thierry Massard is back with his brand new one. He initially embarked on with sound mastering in the late period of 70`s creating it with the help of ubiquitous and less conventional music devices/and non-instruments. These 10 short-running tracks play on the experienced shifting inbetween silence and noise, inbetween ominous progressions and barely audible microtonalism, inbetween sonic effects and "fictional" scapes. The album is obligatory for those guys and gals who used to be keen on "heavy" experimental electronic music. An inspiral listening indeed.

Radix - Autopsy (2009)

Modicum Of Silence
Mediafire
Lastfm

9.5

/Ambient, Breakbeat, Ambient techno, Glitch ambient, Glo-fi, Experimental electronica, Downtempo/

Comment: enthralling broken beats wrapped up by dense yet blissed-out atmosphere do make this album really worth always to be remembered for. More profoundly, the beat structures veers away techno, breakbeat, jungle, downtempo, however all these rhythm structures are coated with darkly glistening synths this way rather being a part of the glo-fi/chillwave music scene. Released on the Modicum Of Silence label which once domesticated such outstanding musician as Brothertiger, a melody maker widely known in the circuits of the chillwave/glo-fi scene at the moment.

Bugotak - Thunder Dance