gnyonpix - Place for a lost boy (2011)

Elegirl

9.1

/Primitive electronica, Lo-fi, DIY, Alternative, Chill out, Electronic pop, J-pop/

Comment: gnyonpix is a Japanese project which showcases how the memories (from childhood?) should be proceeded in a way to shape a reliable folder of songs. Indeed, the primitive kind of concept is made up of joyous yet poignant accents and convincing counterpoints laid down within the concept of infantile pop. The lopsided yet suggestive motive of the last track (requiem for memories) seems to be even a little bit boozy. Not an ordinary publication at all.

Barbagallo - Mediocre

Boy Crush - Hauntr (2011)

Bandcamp

9.2

/Singer-songwriter, Lo-fi, DIY, Alternative pop, Psychedelic, Indie pop/

Comment: BC is a singer-songwriter from NY providing trash-filled, fluttering undertakings reminding of somewhat Wavves, Sparklehorse, and Neutral Milk Hotel. But not only - Dorothy Dale Diebold harks back to the aesthetics of Love. Lo-fi and DIY are keywords to describe his template. The set of 7 songs is simple yet it is tinged with highly melodic and harmonic corners evoking out from within the rusty programmed rhythms and resonating guitar strums and spacious vocal manners. The issue is to have slumped into psychedelic and blissed-out conflated pond. It is said at BC`s Bandcamp site that the albums was recorded in a haunted house and mostly the notches used to get involved with ghosts.

Black Veil Of Light - World of Light and Magic (2011)

BVOL
Lastfm

8.9

/Neoclassical, Dark wave, Alternative, Dark pop, Martial industrial, New Age/

Comment: there are up 8 tracks which charateristics are deeply into dark synth progressions undulating between symphonic, neoclassical and at times even New Age-alike soundscapes. The issue can be considered as an instance of characterizing the incessant fight between dark matter and...even a more dark-tinged substance. It is a distinguished drift between pensive and melancholic moods. If to check out a part of of the titles (Why We Must Die; The End Of Our Time; Post Apocalyptic; After The Calm Stillness) you can figure out that the term "post" is pertaining to the main topic. In a word, the outlet is charming and uncompromising simultaneously, inspite being 100% instrumental by the way. BVOL comes out of Slovakia starting with his doings in 2009 and having been very active since (approximately 10 albums are out). Though all the tracks are felicitous the last notch is truly outstanding through hypnotic shifts between darkwave, and shoegaze mixed high-registered layered and catchy cadences below it.

Honky Tonk Project - Elements (2010)

Honky Tonk Project

8.6

/Experimental electronica, Modern classical, IDM, Nu Jazz, Dark pop/

Comment: this 7-track (one of them is HTP`s remix) issue embarks on a slo-mo piano-driven melancholic introspection with some beatific bits of electronica surrounding it. Onward, the album used to pick up more abrasive and mashed bits and minutiae over time including obsessive shrieks, sharply glistening and fluttering electronica, chopped-up rhythms and near-sound collage aesthetics now and then. Furthermore, because of running on slo-mo mode and sometimes being murky, however, it is getting close to the realms of dubstep, and nu jazz breath. The favorite of mine are Microwave#2.

YOUAREHERE - Tape

Simiram - Talvinen Juttu (2011)

Elpa

9.0

/Downtempo, IDM, Poptronica, Chill out, Psyambient/

Comment: Talvinen Juttu is a follow-up to Somni (Winter) issued in 2010, and Loona issued in 2011 by Ivan "Simiram" Filin. He used to produce subtle shifts between majestic downtempo, poptronica, and IDM-patterned paces which are mixed up with the influences of ethnic music, enthralling symphonic and glacial reflets (as astonishing as St Elmo`s Fire), psychedelic trance progressions. It reminds a little of the outlets of Tunguska Electronic Music Society, a Russian based very interesting art/music collective with whom Filin has collaborated by the way. Finally, it is a little bit lazy but elegant sort of entertainment, however, in the first place thought for your brain and for your soul.