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Glass Candy - Love Love Love (2002)

Free Music Archive
Troubleman Unlimited
Lastfm

8.7

/Post-punk, Dance rock, Electro-rock, No Wave, Alternative pop/rock/

Comment: this was Glass Candy`s debut issue firstly released on Troubleman Unlimited in 2001. The duo being line-upped by Ida No, and Johnny Jewel (and Ginger Peach then either) offered up angular, no wave-ish post-punk guitars churned with slight dance vibes and jarred, pissed-off voices. All of that happened at a time when a new wave of punk rock made its revival. Anyway, some people consider it to be the best album by Glass Candy to date. Indeed, you are getting to love it.

Big City Orchestra - Submission Trax (2005)

Betasound

9.2

/Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Psych-folk, Weird pop, Poptronica, Experimental electronica, Sound-art, Acousmatics/

Comment: BCO has is a legendary avant-garde/art project from Los Angeles, California which embarked on in 1979. They have publicated about 130 hour-long releases and being an important chain in the cassette culture movement of the previous decades. They jumped out from the same nest as did other famous Californian cutting edge groups such as The Residents, and Negativeland, for instance. Their music has swerved in countless directions, veering from sound art and dada experiments and psycho-acoustic explorations to off-kilter electronica and sophisticated noise and acousmatic "folk" music. This set of handful of tracks (trax) consists of affected vowel experiments and electro-(acoustic) folk a la CocoRosie, loop-dominated deranged ambient music, and bristled conditional psych-folk music.

Randomajestiq - Evidence Of Utopia (2002)

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Lastfm

9.0

/Deep techno, Ambient dub, Ambient techno, Experimental electronica, IDM, Dub-tech/

Comment: Vladimir Hropov (born 1976) aka Randomajestiq is a producer from Gomel who used to be one of the most eminent electronic musicians from Belarus today (with Buben, and Alexander Martovsky). Just 2 tracks, though, very long ones (both of them more than 20 minutes) both of which are divided into small chapters. More detailly, ethereal dub waves are fringed with spaced-out techno rhythms and subtle IDM vibes. On the other side, there can be detected for some New Age-ish influences. In fact, the second part of the album rings out as if The Orb were mixed up with the last named elements.

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Esplim - Re-EP (2009)

Sinewave

7.6

/Post-rock, Experimental rock, Epic, Spoken word, Electronic, Trip-hop/

Comment: Esplim (Romulo Michaelsen) offers up a bunch of post-rock-related tracks - first of all, it functions to have drive and accents on overdriving, resonating guitar paths which are variegated with silentful, electronic, trip-hop-drenched beats. Elsewhere it incorporates spoken word snippets and even baby`s babble. The only problem is that it used to flake out in the ending part, having no clear-cut intention and expressive shape.

Skeksis - Vol.12: Spirits of Summer II (2011)

Skeksis

8.8

/Alternative pop/rock, Indie, Compilation, Jangle pop, Dark pop, Singer-songwriter, Alt-folk, Ambient/

Comment: at the first sight it seems to be a somewhat peculiar compilation which veers out from discrete piano pop and borderless ambient pop to the ditties of indie and jangle pop made up with more joyful energy. On the other side, the joint compartment of those 10 tracks is brought forth in dark-hued undercurrents. Jim Guittard, Orange Crush, Ben Woods, I Said Yes and others are related to the one.