12/29/2011
Derek Clegg - Across Town (2011)
/Alt-folk, Folk indie, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Alt-country, Americana/
Comment: Derek Clegg is a troubadour from Chicago, Illinois, USA who has issued three albums in 2011. Across Town is a follow-up to the albums Here Comes Your Fate, Quick Duck, and Beautiful World. I can say only superlative words about this 12-notch album. All the elements of the album are craftily unisoned with each other, offering up a remembering worth listening experience. Mostly it is folk, less it is country, however, all of that is made up of high-flown, majestic Americana. More profoundly, the velvety, accentuated singing manner is counterbalanced with lofty synthesized strings and numerous chord changes in a big manner. On the other side, Beautiful World pays tribute to John Fahey and other representatives of the American Primitivism scene. Anyway, you can admit to have parallels with Wilco, Alexi Murdoch, Josh Woodward, and Brian Borcherdt as well. An outstanding album indeed (I have yet not listened to his previous albums, though).
Subterrestrial - Map of the Interior World (2010/2011)
/IDM, Experimental electronica, Chiptune, Lo-fi, DIY, Folktronica/
Comment: it is said on the blogspot/homesite of Subterrestrial that Map of the Interior World was available on a specially packaged 3.5" floppy disk from Diskette Etikette Rekords, catalog number DER008. It was originally issued on July 27, 2010 and limited to 35 copies. However, now is the EP issued on a label, Diskette Etikette Net. The 4-track publication consists of intimately chiming short-running developments, incorporating the elements of lo-fi electronica, chiptune-resembling shades, and art-tronica/IDM-tinged spawns. The favorite of mine is the closing notch interior_world4.map which is an elusive vista based on glockenspiel/laptop folk-determined sequences and glitches.
Annorkoth - Voids EP (2011)
/Glam rock, Dark pop, Dark wave, Alternative, Lo-fi, DIY, Neoclassical/
Comment: it is said that Annorkoth is an atmospheric depressive black metal band from Podolsk, Russia. But wait for a moment! This EP of 24 minutes spreading out over 7 tracks chimes at least like a light-weighted or steam-rolled version of brutal metal. Indeed, it is murky, at times embellished with martial-induced paces and sometimes offering up slightly bleak visions (as similar as the coverprint of it used to be) but on the other side it is conducted by the melancholic drops of piano chords, fast tempo progressions and breezy structural dodges. Altogether, it seems more restraint glam than black or more dark wave than black metal. And it is absolutely the sort of instrumental music. Visit Annorkoth`s self-titled website/blogspot where are uploaded shitloads of albums, EPs, splits/collaborations.
12/28/2011
Cold Womb Descent - Cold Womb Descent (2011)
Comment: Cold Womb Descent is a collaborative act between the Polish sound creator Risen (Mealann; Risen v0id; Distorted Perception; Dead Girl Radiation), and Tabique (Vozrozhdeniya), a producer from Mexico. This is their 8-track debut album which functions as a wide panoramic vision of dystopic ambient, ghastly noir, and on the other side more hopeful vistas regarding the upcoming times. Indeed, the album can be considered as an endless journey in the Outer Space, however, being truly suggestive and profound in its glacial glow-alike drifts and movements toward the giant red stars. Colony of the Remnants chimes like a sort of futuristic symphony music. For the melomans and possible musicians, however, the album conveys lots of viable modalities regarding the kind of sphere-drenched/ambient music in the first place. Very strong manifesto indeed.
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