1/16/2012
Beat Surrender - Beat Surrender (2011)
8.7
/Pop punk, Ska, Alt-country, Psychedelic, Alternative pop/rock/
Comment: joyous, mostly (pop) punk or rock-inflected with some ska, country, and psychedelic dodges and undertakings. Just a handful of pieces are up here to make out an enjoyable result ultimately. The opening track (Where Do You Buy) Clothes (That Fit?) functions as a platform to cross country, ska, and strong psychedelic angle. Mirage is a dashing retrospection reflecting upon the beatific pop charts of the 60`s and 70`s. Or Three Little Feelings which is made up of charming country strums, electric guitar-based trills, and mild song manner. The quartet comes out of Boston, Massachussets, USA.
The Light Tracer - Landspace of My Flesh (2011)
/Shoegaze, Indie rock, Space rock, Chamber rock, Post-rock, Instrumental rock, Dream pop/
Comment: resonating, highly spatial progressions are created on ground of amplifying and ascending guitar layers and guitar fingerpicking-headed motives. The best example of how to create the harmonies is laid out at What The Fuck Mogwai Means (sic!). In a word, massive and exultant by any means. However, there is a joint point connecting all these 4 tracks into the whole - clattery paces which used to incessantly trash around.The last track sounds like a melancholic chamber rock looming being deeply drowned in its enthralling self-pitiness. You can draw parallels upon the likes of Vlor, and Spell 336. Ultimately, the result is outstanding which deserves to be got more listening times.
Dainumo, Jeesh, P.SUS - 3 Flavors of 8bit (2011)
Bandcamp
8.8
8.8
/Chiptune, Mood music, Primitivetronica, 8-bit, IDM, Lounge, Chill out, Experimental electronica/
Comment: this 12-track miscellany is made up by 3 artists - Dainumo, Jeesh, and P.SUS. As the title already hints at it this trinity used to generate 8-bit alike sounds, though, doing it in a quite quaint way. More concretely, it is instrumental electronica which does have remarkable laid back, even lounge-alike angle. Its characteristics are naive, subtle, and graceful as if were brought out from a remote yet blithesome period of your childhood. Stylistically it rings like the kind of sci-fi chiptune/8-bit music - more detailly, the minutiae of chipcore is intertwined with glitch-inflected bits. The favorites of mine are Summer Magic, Yo-Ho, and Rare Candy.
1/15/2012
Dudeldrum - Dudeldrum (2011)
9.4
Comment: Dudeldrum is a Celtic folk and medieval folk inspired ensemble from Moscow, Russia. A little bit surprising, isn`t it? However, the result is decent on an issue consisting of a three-quarter hour spreading out over a dozen of notches. The soundscape is intense, more intense than the average Celtic folk album used to be - in addition to droning bagpipes, frantic drumming threads and sparkling fiddle hooks it incorporates the undercurrents of ethnic music from elsewhere off Ireland, used to have flirt with New Age sounds, offers some glimpses of martial-tinged endeavours and a dollop of programmed (tabla) paces and a dollop of electronica either. At times it covers you with brooding veils, at times it used to shatter into the smithereens of melancholy and longingness. Pleasantly surprising indeed.
Exihibition Poland and the Helmut Orchestra - Like All The Leaders (2011)
Paragrafo
9.1
9.1
/Avant-garde, Martial industrial, Spoken word, Experimentalism, Dark ambient, Illbient, Neoclassical, Chamber music, Ambient drone, Musique concrète/
Comment: as so characteristic instance due to the aesthetical platform of the Italy-based Paragrafo Records, this issue comprises deliberately vanguard-ish progressions made up of the snippets of spoken word (more concretely, Parts of Speech), martial industrial-relied brooding epicness, glooming but dirty ambient droning, chamber-soaked or even jazz-esque bits and minutiae, however, all these tendencies are infiltrated with naturalistic shades and dust. Indeed, despite of many elements within it the issue is solidly produced, having neither shortfalls nor deficiences.
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