Retro Retry Sonic Youth - EVOL (2005)

Narrominded
Lastfm

9.0

/Covers, Noise rock, Conceptual, Alternative pop/rock, Indie rock/

Comment: 10 Dutch rock groups do cover Sonic Youth`s classical album EVOL and manage it very well. Noisedelic and whimsical. New forms are offered by The Hitmachine, Franco Formica, Gone Bald, Fine China Superbone, Pfaff and others.

Bus Stop Dreams - Anything

Juanitos - Ooh La La Boogaloo

Tristeza Orange - Monochrome EP (2010)

Acustronica
Lastfm

9.2

/Film noir, Experimental rock, Avant-rock, No Wave, Psychedelic, Experimentalism, Alternative dance/

Comment: here are represented 4 solid explorations being quite characteristic experimental notches on their own. The issue kicks off with a droning film noir-charged soundscape, the second track The Stars, They Burn My Eyes, My Hands resembles of the interplay between Michael Karoli`s screeching guitar and Irmin Schmidt`s synth layers while proceeding CAN`s Tago Mago album. Two last, short tracks do constitue slightly more dance-appealed rock/No Wave notches- funky bass gears and bouncing electronic bits are begirded by different kinds of minutiae (there can be used adjectives like "droning", "shouting", "soothing", "joyous").

Herwig Holzmann - Has your anger really disappeared or have you just buried it so deep (2011)

Camomille
Bandcamp

9.4

/Modern classical, Organic electronica, Film noir, Mood music, Soundscape, Chamber music/

Comment: a legendary electronic musician (also known as Das Gritli Moser, and Macon Tights), from Graz, Austria provides a bewitching, 5-piece release of orchestrated fascination blended with discrete, organically loaded electronic undercurrents, chiming as a soundtrack for an imaginable film somewhere outside of perceptible reality. It is filled with highly doleful harmonies and more gleaming and murky shimmer to soothe your pain and desperation.

Sky Picnic - The Unknown Regions EP (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.1

/Indie rock, Slowcore, Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock, Experimental indie/

Comment: seemingly squelched indie progressions with accidental, restraint storms above it. The mellow chords of guitars and synths prone to orchestrations and vocalise-based skies are mixed up with more murky bits and beats. The aesthetics of this Brooklyn-based duo reminds of Low, and Galaxy 500, and even borrowing from the distant past of acid/psych folk.

Chester Chicken - Clucking The Classics (2011)

Happy Puppy

9.0

/Conceptual, Humour, Covers/

Comment: good idea, good humour, good accomplishment. Indeed, 50,000,000 chickens will not be wrong - let`s have spot upon song titles - Omletes Keep Fallin` On My Head, Hard Egg`s Night, Egg-White Christmas, You Don`t Bring Me Feathers, Can`t Cluck Without You, and one song and dance remix more yet.