Hurricane Heart Attacks - Hurricane Love (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Drone rock, Psychedelia, Alternative pop/rock, Surf rock, Art rock, Psych-rock, Experimental indie/

Comment: Hurricane Heart Attacks comes out of Argentina, offering an album of 13 tracks, entitled as Hurricane Love. Indeed, you can be sure the submission loves you so much. And vice versa, however, the issue will be loved by you so much as well. So much. It is down-tempo yet highly mesmerizing, involving the elements of psychedelic/drone rock a la Spacemen 3, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre and on the other side, it does have a slight Latin touch now and then(for instance, the influences of tango at El Radomante). Onwards, it takes on surf glidings either. By the way, the lyrics are sung in English. In a nutshell, it is a sort of rock music which is imbued with spiritual mechanisms.

Jeesh - Rare Candy

The Suadetones - Ultrasuade (1985)

Bob Chaos

9.2

/Covers, Alternative, Avant-garde, Weird pop, Lounge pop, Improvised music/

Comment: The Suadetones was a weird output under an off-kilter Muncie, Indiana-based label, Bob Chaos, being active from 1984 to 1988. The Suadetones comprised three members and even once shared the stage with Sonic Youth in Chicago (the crowd was very hostile toward them at a time, though). They issued 2 albums, however, all of that was recorded on tapes (this was an era lacking of computers and Pro Tools). One of them, getting reviewed at the moment, is a 24-piece cover-based publication. These are quite free-formed, even a little bit certifiable versions driven by Casio synths and reed organs representing the feeling of 80`s lo-fi/DIY/bedroom pop culture. Indeed, let`s take your time and listen to the covers of Moon River, New York New York, Yesterday, Goldfinger and many more pop culture gems.

Anika`s Basement Show - My Tambourine Hands Are On Fire (2011)

CLLCT

8.8

/Singer-songwriter, Americana, Alt-folk, Indie folk, Lo-fi, DIY, Folk indie/

Comment: here are uploaded 10 minutes spreaded out over a pair of introspections of a type of intimate, circumspect ones by a singer-songwriter with the assistance of facilities such as a guitar/strings, lone harmonica, suggestive vocal manner, and much ambiance surrounding all of that. By the way, it is entitled as late night lo-fi and comes out of the bottomless realm of Bloomington-based CLLCT.

Kairon; IRSE! - the Defect in that one is bleach / We're hunting wolverines (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.0

/Post-rock, Progressive rock, Ambient rock, Art rock, Experimental rock, Epic, Alternative, Chamber rock/

Comment: Kairon; IRSE! is a quartet from Kaustinen, Finland who offers up high-octane post-rock explorations embellished with some progressive and art rock/chamber music and even "lazy" jazz tendencies (I adore the mandolin-alike vapour around the riffs of guitars). The backbone of the issue relies on the massive guitar-and-drum gravity or on the other side it is abandoned to run on a more dreamy path and ambiance. There are some wondrous progressions on it (Soroche; Девочка парит в воздухе). However, their aesthetics reminds a little bit of another Finnish post-rock combo, called Magyar Posse.

Stuart Newman - Feel the Temperature Rising

Johan Reinhold - Shoot Me Down (The Kill Van Kulls remix) (2011)

The Kill Van Kulls
Soundcloud

8.5

/Electronic pop, Electroclash, Electro-rock, Remixes, Electro pop, Alternative dance/

Comment: this is a remix version of Johan Reinhold`s track Shoot Me Down. Honestly, I like this version more than the original one because it used to toy with more uplifting synth sounds and dashing vectors wrapped up in relieving propulsion. However, all those sounds are incessantly shooted back-to-back for every second and breath of your soul.