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Bankie Phones - Dragon Scarf (2009)

Future:Komp

9.3

/Robo pop, Industrial techno, Experimental techno, Electroclash, Electronic pop, Electro, Noise/

Comment: Dragon Scarf comprises 9 tracks which used to convey compelling electro/and techno propulsions and visions. More concretely, it chirps like a machine-alike outlook for future days taken out from the middle of a dance floor filled in with fashioned robots and humanoids. More concretely, it veers away from industrial-hued bits, dystopic/paranoid gleaming all of that is backed up with fall-to-pieces or motorik-induced rhythm sequences, though, on the other side, the last track takes on more brassy bounces. Now and then noiseful, intoxicated electro chunks will be surfacing to variegate the ground. Yet, the second track is a great exception sounding truly pop/electro rock/electroclash-appealed in a good sense of this word. Altogether, the soundscape seems to be rigid and lush simultaneously, however, hinting at the quality of the issue. I guess Aldous Huxley would have loved it. Bankie Phones originates from Minneapolis, USA.

2muchachos - Lost In The Mist

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Keijo - WHNZ:16:MYTIME (2010)

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Lastfm

9.3

/Psych-folk, New Weird Finland, Improvised music, New Weird Europe, Forest folk, Free folk, Weird folk, Avant-folk, Experimental folk/

Comment: the Jyväskylä-based musician Keijo (Virtanen) is a godfather for nowadays Finnish experimental folk musicians, also known as the representatives of so-called Finnish forest folk (the equivalent for Finnish psych folk/New Weird Finland). By his contribution to the Finnish and other countries underground scenes Virtanen can be compared to the likes of Erkki Kurenniemi, and Pekka Airaksinen. However, there are represented a handful of long-running tracks (6 notches spreaded out over 37 minutes) which are profound ones due to their running on flickering incantations and exorcized, shamanic appearances-improvisations. In a word, classic.

Former Babies - The Blackout Album (2011)

Bleeding Gold

8.7

/Acoustic punk, Garage rock, Grrl riot, DIY/

Comment: Former Babies (Moll Ball, and Shawna England) is a duo from the West Coast conveying a set of short-running tracks comprising the twangs of acoustic guitars and sonorous singing all of that is wrapped up by a rebellious feeling. In fact, their template and premiss are quite intriguing because their sound is obviously inspired of punk music, self-conscious grrl riot bands and DIY aesthetics. Though they are not, they could freely be a part of CLLCT, a Bloomington, Indiana-based platform.

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Bigcolour - Centuries Of Summer (2010)

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Lastfm

9.1

/Glo-rock, DIY, Alternative, Experimental indie, New Weird America, Post-psychedelic electronica, Avant-pop/

Comment: behind Bigcolour hides himself Brian Brissart, an DIY musician from Chicago, Illinois, USA who provides a set of truly colourful, sonorous ditties with "lazy" yet very catchy harmonic hooks. His vocal is a formidable instrument running in the vein of the doo wop tradition, furthermore, showing up a close connection between it and nowadays glo-fi music (especially Nostalgic Ataraxy). However, the singing is backed up with billowy guitar treatments and clattery drum punches now and then. On the other side, the issue is comparable to the likes of Animal Collective, and Ganglians, thanks to its restraint, arranged (post-)psychedelic expells - Salte Ciclo is a mesmerizing endeavour coming out of the tradition of this US-based new wave/New Weird America movement.