These Animals - These Animals EP (2011)

Aaahh
Lastfm

9.3

/Indie rock, Alternative pop/rock, Doo wop, Baroque pop/

Comment: here is a handful of ditties coming out from New York, USA. However, there is no opportunity to say unpleasant words about this 6-track EP which compounds burbly guitar strums and chiming magic and a little bit androgynous vocal yodel with each other as if The Free Design or The Manhattan Transfer were chatted up with indie sound approximately four decades ago. Indeed, sixties-soaked harmonies give it a characteristic outlet and output. Let`s call it just doo wop-drenched indie pop.

Paper Pilot Plane - As You Let Me Go (2011)

Paper Plane Pilot
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.3

/Electro-indie, Post-punk, Alternative pop/rock, Indie dance, Dance rock/

Comment: behind Paper Plane Pilot hides himself Dustin Frelich, a San Diego native who has issued the album First Flight and a shitloads of singles. However, the current single is tagged as Joy Division", and "New Order" among others at Bandcamp. Indeed, And You Let Me Go used to utilize and gets benefit from vivid, propulsive bass lines and The Cure-esque synth dust hovering above it and getting a whiff of. On the other side, all those old school post-punk elements are intensively interlaced with the structures of nowadays electronic indie sound. A solid punch indeed.

Bobby Baby - Some Place New (2005)

Corpid
Corpid

9.2

/Indietronica, Experimental indie, Organic electronica, Alternative, Leftfield, Electronic pop/

Comment: Ella Blixt is an indie girl from Hultsfred, Sweden who embarked on playing music in her early teenager years in 90s. This EP can be considered as "classic" because of having been very popular and on the other side Blixt`s ditties are really worth deserving to be giving a try. These 5 songs reflect upon the examples of silentful, mellow guitar chords and minor symphony-based harmonies of melodica assisted by gritty electronic beats below it. The most important aspect is established on the ground that the ditties are craftily accentuated, filled in with lots of crunchy touches and perceptions. All of that happened before she joined with Robert Kretzschmar, and Frank Shültge Blumm to establish new projects (It`s A Musical, and Bobby & Blumm, respectively) and record for the legendary Morr Music. By listening the EP, you can obviously feel similarities with mùm, Cantaloup, Lali Puna, Wixel, Hood and many others.

These Animals - Souvenir

Bear Mountain - Daysailer (2011)

Bandcamp

9.7

/Alternative rock, Indie, Glo-fi, Art-rock, Shoegaze, Dream pop, DIY, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: it is said that this is the musical project by the filmmaker Jeffrey Hoyt. Anyway, these 8 ditties (most of them do include just a few rows of lyrics) are truly enthralling in their dreamy, reverb-loaded guitar strums and mesmerizing arpeggio-driven twangs which at times are interfered by harmonica and female vocal-relied harmonies. It reminds a little bit of Slowdive`s quite unfamiliar songs like Richard, and Summer Daze (which are already more inclined toward the aesthetics of Mojave 3) moreover, as if these ones were remixed by Avey Tare-Panda Bear and. Moreover, Hoyt seems to be influenced by the spaghetti western themes and saccharine underground-ish easiness. For instance, listen to Dunes, a blissed-out incantation/insight which sounds like indie-esque Morricone. Graveyard Shift is one of the ditties in 2011 as similarly as Daysailer is one of the albums in 2011. A truly lush shift indeed.

Plasma - Digital (2008)

Off/Bruma
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9.3

/Avant-garde, Noise, Abstract electronica, Experimentalism, Drone, Conceptual, Minimalism, Microtonal, Sound-art, Non-music/

Comment: Ian Linter aka Plasma`s Digital (2008) was the first issue under Off/Bruma, an experimental/avant-garde label. As the title hints at the 6-track one`s content it does explore on the borders of digital approach and used to search for possible hidden angles and almost invisible corners within it. More profoundly, it consists of the turbulences of noise which are truly restraint and microscopic being incessantly variegated with the different lengths of bleak, abstract chords and barely audible pulsations below it. In true, due to extensive using of sine-wave oscillators the bunch sometimes resembles more of mathemathics than a kind of music.

Sobre A Máquina – Decompor (2010)

Sinewave
Bandcamp
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9.6

/Doom metal, Funeral doom, Post-metal, Drone rock, Avant-metal, Post-industrial, Post-rock, Experimental rock, Avant-rock/

Comment:two months ago I reviewed the Brazilian`s combo sophomore album Areia (2011, Sinewave) which was a quite diverse and colourful release. However, their debut Decompor is more orthodox, monotonous, and mourning. Yet, it is highly beautiful in its melancholy. Indeed, it is f.cking sad on its slo-mo running reminding of Sunn O))), Bardo Pond, Jesu, and Jessamine at times.