Emerald Park - A Beautiful Mourning

Paper Plane Pilot - This Afternoon (2012)

Paper Plane Pilot
Lastfm

9.3

/Alternative pop/rock, Post-punk, New Wave, Gothic rock/

Comment: this is a synth-driven/orchestrated single produced by Dustin Frelich (voc, keyb, g, dr), Eugenio Iglesias (b), and Bryarly Bishop (voc). Though the notch is produced recently it partly harks back to the 70`s British gothic/post-punk tradition. Indeed, those solemn, slightly glowing synth whiffs, guitar shapes and Frelich`s resigned singing manner make difference. In a word, the single is masterfully accentuated and dosed.

Tudo de Volta - Sempre Acaba (2011)

Bandcamp

10.0

/Guitar ambient, Shoegaze, Ambient rock, Ambient, Ambient noise, Post-psychedelic, Drone rock, Post-rock, Avant-rock, Minimal, Experimental rock, Psychedelia/

Comment: Sempre Acaba is a follow-up to Tudo de Volta, a Curitiba, Brazil-based musician`s self-titled debut at the start of 2011. There are represented 4 tracks which is a platform for fusing ambient, post-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia, drone, epicness and deliberate vulnerability into an enthralling whole. All the layers around there are craftily densified, at times the whole gets embellished with flickering spots and lights and is curtained with more darker whiffs and veils and variegated with subtle changes regarding more or less visible phases inside the whole. It is profoundly abstract and highly sensitive simultaneously. The project can be compared to the likes of Slowdive (Pygmalion-era), Bowery Electric, Aboombong, Flying Saucer Attack, Pan American, Doldrums. This is a way how rock music should breathe and throb, relieve and give hope for melomans. This is a gospel, obvious soundtrack for God.

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Love Sex Machine - Love Sex Machine (2012)

Bandcamp

8.6

/Black metal, Sludge, Screamo, Brutal metal/

Comment: this French collective provides extremely brutal noodling, earth devouring concepts and massive washes of noises and vocals above it. These 8 tracks can be considered just as one huge wave comprised of the elements of sludge metal, black, metal, screamo. In a word, the album demonstrates its power and harshness in a specific way. Yet, in order to be a top notch, it should have produced in a more variegated way (to have more hooks and gears). It seems to be way too monotonous ultimately. As an one-time attack, however, it is very efficient.

SFIAS - Readin Ritin Rhythm

Waylon Thornton - Paranormal High School II (2011)

White Moon

8.3

/Lo-fi, Rockabilly, DIY, Rock and roll, Garage rock/

Comment: Waylon Thornton is a musician from Gainesville, Florida, USA who has issued a shitloads of releases on his White Moon Recordings since 2007. He also performs the music with his wife Megan who used to play drums then (Waylon Thornton and Heavy Hands). Paranormal High School II incorporates 7 short-running compositions which used to rotate mainly around ragged rock and roll/rockabilly explorations spiced up with garage-y rock reverberations.