Coma Cinema - Blue Suicide (2011)

Coma Cinema
Lastfm

9.2

/Americana, Singer-songwriter,Experimental indie, Chamber pop, Baroque pop, Lo-fi, DIY, Indie folk, Alternative, Folk indie/

Comment: Coma Cinema is an one-man-project headed by Mat Cothran, a troubadour from South Carolina, USA. Cothran is penchant for writing a vast amplitude of different kind of songs which contain the elements of lofty Americana, intriguing lo-fi/DIY, catchy electronic-soaked psychedelia, and his music is not devoid of more root-related sound, mostly folk-drenched appearances. A bunch of trasures can be pulled out from this 16-track release (Blue Suicide, Business As Usual, Desolaton`s Plan, Eva Angelina). Cothran can be compared with such celebrated musicians and singer-songwriters as Warren Defever, Stephin Merritt, Jonathan Donaghue, Mark Oliver Everett, Mark Linkous, Sufjan Stevens, Dave Fridmann, and Bradford Cox. However, by listening to the abovementioned tracks the listener can admit that Cothran is a very talented musician and deserves much more to be appreciated (with other similar type of musicians like Dan Masquelier, and Derek Clegg, for instance).

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Golosy - Echo Nude (2010)

Cocodriller

9.1

/Glitchtronica, Dubstep, Cut and paste, Sampledelic, Experimental electronica, Breakcore/

Comment: this 6-piece teaser embarks on with glich-y, very sharp and angular rhythms. The tendency gets developed throughout the course incorporating (or abandoning upon it) dub(step) elements and more atmospherical whiffs oozing out from a batch of slots and corners and surfaces. It may be the most surprising track is Tutom which mixes up broken beats with very vintage sounds (20-30`s jazz canons), this way reminding of the aesthetics of The Caretaker, Gutta Percha, MAS & Travis McAlister, for instance. Elsewhere Golosy`s sound resembles more of dizzy, spacious inner space by Flying Lotus.

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Tortoise - Live at Black Cat on 2007-07-07 (2007)

Archive.org

9.0

/Experimental rock, Post-rock, Live session, Instrumental rock, Fusion, Progressive rock/

Comment: obviously the most eminent and influential post-rock groups evoked in the 90`s across the Atlantic were Tortoise, and Godspeed You! Black Emperor which constitute diverse narratives within the post-rock scene. Tortoise, however, was more improvisation-centered (obviously influenced by and being part of the local Chicago-related experimental jazz scene), more progressive rock-inflected and less crescendo-heavy and epic. Tortoise`s kindred souls were Mice Parade, The Dylan Group, The Sea And Cake (John McEntire`s another project), Mercury Program. The legends perform a 16-track gig which involves frantic jazz grooves and more elusive vibraphone-driven appearances. Of course, at times these main offshoots will collide with each other to get intertwined into an organic whole. More detailly, driving rock guitars are blended with the patterns of lofty synths, washes of crescnding noises, elusive Americana-drenched orchestrations (the 4th track in queue) and chopped-up drums behind and below it.

Embark - Adieu Paris (2011)

Bandcamp

8.8

/Shoegaze, Alternative pop/rock, Covers, Conceptual, Trance rock/

Comment: by covering Adieu Paris Embark pays tribute to the French group Les Fils De Joie`s track (1985). However, by listening to the track more closely you can detect that the single is up there to bow the head toward My Bloody Valentine either. Stomping but sonorous guitar/bass floatation is backed by distinct drumming parts and trance rock-heavy buzzing which used to grow and dilate cyclically.

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