William Wilson - Summer Holidays & Folk Routine EP (2011)

Lophophora Williams

9.4

/Indie folk, Baroque pop, Alt-folk, Singer-songwriter, Experimental indie, Folk indie, Singer-songwriter, Chamber pop, Americana, Indietronica/

Comment: WW`s music seems to be as careless as their slogan "take it easy man, life is just a game". Yet, on the other side, there is represented a formidable aesthetical outlet crossing seamlessly elusive indie touch with baroque pop gliding and rumbling-shaking electronic outbursts and delicately treated rhythms around and below it. It is massive, it is epic, it is monumental, it is... . For instance, listen to Blank which is one of the most beautiful ditties I have ever heard. It flourishes amongst the melodies and harmonies. Or ...By Night (September Sky) what the beautiful longing is hidden in it! By the way, there are up a pair of covers (The PepiBand, Tim Buckley). WW can be compared to such astonishing Italian composers as Barbagallo, Winstonmcnamara, Artwood, Nick Rivera.

Elite Gymnastics — Gizzard Greens V.2 (2011)

Elite Gymnastics

9.6

/Post-pop, Avant-pop, Alternative dance, Hip-hop, Post-psychedelic electronica, Spoken word, Crossover, Poptronica, Electronic pop/

Comment: EG is an innovative (post-) pop combo which deserves to be discovered by a wider audience. This time these the duo used to rap and chant, of course, doing it in their idiosyncratic way - mixing up colourful mc-ing with shimmering electro/dance/funk/house based templates and in another track taking on a gloomy blend of an ethereal spoken word looming and a spaciously lofty rhythmic maze. In a word, every second on this 2-piece EP is really worth to be choked down.

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Lullabier - The Italian leaving EP (2012)

ViVeriVive

9.3

/Shoegaze, Dream pop, Singer-songwriter, Slowcore, Experimental indie, Alternative/

Comment: Lullabier is Andrea Vascellari, an Italian musician who provides 3 tracks spreaded out over 15 minutes. He embarks on in melancholic way, singing in Italian, however, slow vibrations and warm harmonies and broad dreams used to ooze out from every chord and slot. Altogether, Vascellari shifts between shoegaze-ish glimpses, dream pop-esque plateaus, lofty singer-songwriter-ism, and of course, compelling slowcore-ish propulsions, which is the most dominating stylistic element he got involved in over there.

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Japanese Gum - End Of Summer EP (2011)

Japanese Gum 

9.0

/Shoegazetronica, Dream pop, Chillwave, Glo-fi, Experimental indie, Lo-fi, Poptronica/

Comment: Japanese Gum is a duo (Paolo Tortora, Davide Cedolin) from Genova, Italy who had issued Lost In Weirdness (2009, Chew-Z), a remarkable remix album of their songs covered by Arbdesastr, Die Stadt Der Romantisch Punks, Eniac, Grausamerg Eisenberg, and such IDM eminence as Isan. On the current issue are up 3 songs which are heavily rhythm-soaked, hiss-drenched, and electronics-fringed in the middle of guitar and vocal relied dreams. However, there are up even gypsy motifs-samples to diorientate the listener. I shall have to confess that by listening to it in the first time I did not like it but after a while it is very ok with it at the moment.

Telafonica - Dos (2001)

Bandcamp

9.3

/Indietronica, Experimental indie, Breaks, Avant-folk, Post-psychedelic electronica, Digifunk, Crossover/

Comment: Telafonica is a combo from Sydney, Australia who have mixed up electronica and programmed beats with indie tunes approximately throughout a decade. There are 14 tracks mainly exorcized with heavy trip-hop, breakbeat, and (digi)funk vibes, though, sometimes running on more experimental shapes - for instance, Sunlight showcases itself through droning folk psychedelia which in turn is subjected to circulating algorithms (reminding a little bit of Simian, for instance). Or Radio Low which is built on abstract bass frequencies of didgeridoo backed up with changing cadences. One of the favourite of mine is 89 which is an instance of indie funk. Altogether, the album is filled in with well composed notches and the listener should be warned - it enlarges its load and quality with every following listening time.