▲NDRΛS - $LEΔZY (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.3

/Drag house, Witch house, Avant-electronica, Trianglecore, Witch-hop, Experimental electronica/

Comment: this 2-headed single ($LEΔZY; Less Than Zero) is as serious as the coverprint of it used to be. It is horrifying and exhausting. More profoundly, ▲NDRΛS used to invoke skull gleaming, drag-infiltrated backdrops to give his hip-hop approach a more expressive output. It is emotionally loaded and does have an epic, pessimistic gliss about the future, present and past. The result is mesmerizing for sure.

Electroacoustic Mexico 1960-2007 (2011)

Audition

9.2

/Conceptual, Electro-acoustic, Experimental electronica, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: undoubtedly the music history is an exciting realm for any melomans to concern for. Indeed, any new compilation or discovered albums may release a new gambit for a new theoretical approach and concept. (The most well known are Sub Rosa`s anthologies of noise and electronic music). Here is an eligible legacy of 23 notches regarding the past of the Mexican electroacoustic music over the 4-5 decades. More detailly, such miscellanies are the clear-cut evidences of how electronic music has been developed, containing a loads of conceptual ideas (serialism, for instance), pitchbent textures and minimalism-induced phase changes, passionless sonic effects, ambiance-related bleak vistas and so on. And of course, lush appearances of analogue sounds. In any cases, take care of it.

Clinker - Stop!

Masske - Masske (2009)

Archive.org
Lastfm

9.0

/Post-rock, Post-metal, Stoner rock, Experimental rock, Art rock, Instrumental rock/

Comment: Masske (previously also known as Last Romantic) by the Englishman Dan Stone extend from crispy post-rock-ish steamrolling and massive post-metal-alike formations to more light-hearted fusion/jazz rock-esque gears. Similarly to Stone`s previous combo some of those 11 tracks do show off the inclination toward dance-appealed grooves and some of them living up to the creator`s name bucking along the stoner-dusted paths. By the way, he is a native of Exeter, a place for some great artists (Children Of The Drone and its subsidiaries; Speculativism). Great.

Bonfire Kids - We Are Telephone Friends (2009)

Holiday
Lastfm

9.3

/Alternative pop/rock, Shoegaze, Fuzz pop, Dream pop, Indie pop/

Comment: Bonfire Kids is an indie pop group from California whose mould is made up while standing firmly on the basis of DIY aesthetics, cellophanic guitar and mandolin-based magic dust. No doubt, there can be detected for the stature of The Smiths (which is previously the biggest indie band worldwide by far), Slumberland-related roster, and longing-tuned Slowdive. The album was issued on the Holiday Records, an indie pop records comparable to the likes of EardrumsPop, and Bubbletone Discos´Club 7. However, a wondrous effort by any means.

Surrent - Gadgug (2008)

Modicum Of Silence

9.2

/Guitar ambient, Ambient, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Electro-acoustic, Improvised music, Acousmatics/

Comment: if you are made acquaintance with the albums on Modicum Of Silence, a label concerned on the music of the state of Ohio then you should know very well what could be expected from this issue. Indeed, tense guitar-based experimentation is surrounded by the sort of open-aired ambience permanently swelling and shrinking, adding and reducing the elements of lush noise, and electronica. Just one, 15-minute improvisation for the guitar, electronica, and the undulation of refreshing air is offered here all of that wrapped up by longing and melancholic feeling.

Sunlight Ascending - Diorama Dream