Karibean - Down Before Xmas from Rockit on Vimeo.
12/22/2011
12/21/2011
Simon Waldram - Industrial Skyline (2011)
/Alternative rock, Guitar ambient, Experimentalism, Ambient drone, Crossover, Ambient, Experimental rock, Minimalism/
Comment: it is said that The River, a majestic 40-minute album, was motivated by the compositional approaches of CAN, and Miles Davis. Nearly an hour of improvised guitar was recorded, which was then chopped up, treated and re-arranged into one 20 minute piece of music. Maelstrom is meant to represent an overloading of the synapses before they gradually shutdown for good. While The River is a musical description of the landscape of an industrial city, Maelstrom is the inner journey of a person living in that same environment. If to unstitch all the whole you can see lots of minimal, loop-repeated units and minutiae, droning guitar buzz where you can perceive permanently evoked seams and phase changes - all the aforementioned elements are up here to meet sometimes with more traditional, guitar-driven rock compositions. All in all, it is a very positive outlet.
Hurricane Heart Attacks - Hurricane Love (2011)
Bandcamp
9.2
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.
12/20/2011
The Suadetones - Ultrasuade (1985)
Bob Chaos
9.2
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
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)
/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.
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