Crimewaves - Eighteenth (2010)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Chillwave, Glo-fi, Dreamwave, Alternative, Post-pop, Poptronica, Electronic pop/

Comment: at first, it is said that Crimewaves is the result of a mixture of boredom, musical desire, and an obsession with sonic textures. Indeed, it may be that the most optimal place to enjoy the Las Vegas-based project would be siiting in armchair. Such a lazy yet blissed-out soundscape outreaches the boundaries of styles and genres, running across the fields of dreams and fiction. More detailly, these 6 notches are made up of the exploitation of reverie-soaked guitars, beatific keyboards, and some clicking in-between waking up and bringing the listener back to the real world.

Yeyo Moroder - Yeyo Moroder (2006)

Umor Rex

9.4

/Krautrock, Lo-fi, Psychedelia, Crossover, Avant-rock, Experimental indie, Experimental rock, Psych-folk/

Comment: The Mexican Gerardo Monsivais aka Yeyo Moroder`s 9-piece album is about how motorik can be twined with lo-fi-tinged folk and indie music in excellent way. More profoundly, all these offbeat repetitions, chopped-up effects, noisy yet spatial feedbacks are set up in a way to create a lopsided whirlpool involving the legacy of the likes of CAN, and Faust (though, the traces of the latter may be perceived even more). Furthermore, the listener can be a part of the fingerpicking of American Primitivism and shoegaze music. All in all, the result is excellent. The issue was released in 2006 on Umor Rex, an Mexican imprint.

Babungus - Knuckle Chunder (2011)

Faturenet

9.2

/Breakcore, Downtempo, Nu jazz, Drill and bass, Sampledelic, Crossover, Sound collage/

Comment: Babungus is a hard-bitten producer who already started off in the mid of 90`s. His latest issue is about 18 notches which, by any means, offer a smorgasbord of intense paces and moods and currents. More profoundly, more or less rigid beats (jungle, downtempo, breakbeat, big beat) are tightly intertwined with bubbling electronica, smoky nu jazz-esque vibes, and sublime atmospherical layers above it. Now and then it reminds more of a case brought out from the sound collage/plunderphonics scene or is an instance of drill and bass music. In a word, a dizzy merry-go-round is set up here.

Gnyonpix - Poyopoyo

Assault Squad Safety Scissors - Tapes Have A Way of Holding Things Together (2008)

CLLCT
Lastfm

9.0

/Indie, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk, Folk indie, Lo-fi/

Comment: Andre Allingham, a resident from Fredericksburg, Virginia, is the person behind this funny entitled project. The 8-piece album is a part of the glorious CLLCT scene, though, initially released on Best Kept Secret Tapes, a small indie label. These tracks take on lush guitar twangs, dreamy vocal manner. However, ultimately you can admit it is a decent indie release due to its flourishing turns and warm progressions. By the way, Allingham`s aesthetics is approved by Jarvis Cocker. Jarvis cannot be wrong!

Cultus Sabbati - Woden`s Galder (2011)

Cultus Sabbati

9.4

/Illbient, Noise, Avant-garde, Power electronics, Dark ambient, Witch noise/

Comment: noise music can have lots of faces and facets, one of which, furthermore, one of the best ones is provided by Cultus Sabbati. Intense yet lush brown noise is variegated with signal-based undercurrents and epic, martial industrial progressions. At times CS`s noiseful soundscape used to get more involved in rhythmic, even dance-appealed undertakings (Twigs). Though the 4-piece issue is an intense one you can detect a highly mental approach and touch oozing out from within it. Cultus Sabbati`s sound is somewhat similar to the likes of NON, Grunt, Edgeist, Maurizio Bianchi, Marc Broude, Subterrestrial. An impressive outlet which is way too malignant for all sort of pop-related stuff.

Mr. Dee & Ms. Dee - Rain EP (2011)

Bump Foot

9.2

/Techno, Club dance, Deep techno, Remixes/

Comment: a single accomplished with a pair of remixes. Gloomy, glacial glow-alike techno music which, on the other side, provides a bouncy, crispy feeling. While it sounds almost like an instance of the vibes of dance club-centered deep techno it outreaches the boundaries of it due to dystopic seeds within it.