3/17/2012
Brain - The Dogs Side B (2010)
/DIY, Lo-fi, Primitronica, Alt-folk, Psychedelia, Anti-folk, Weird folk, Free folk, Experimentalism, Freeformfreakout/
Comment: these 11 tracks can be considered drunken songs somewhere around the campfire - as we have been having knowledge such kind of action can be appealing at least since Animal Collective`s Campfire Songs. It extends from expanding, in unison produced guitar and vocals in chorus and ferocious guitar strumming to synth-driven instrumental compositions, however, all of that is surrounded with a remarkable amount of gritty, rough hiss. The last track The Dogs is a truly demented one, involving and replacing the elements of electronic cuts and warped folk music and looped rhythm sections and sampledelic bits to each other. In a word, it is a weird shit by Captain Missouri, and C. Russel Lewis. In any cases, the more you listen to it the more beloved it gets for the listener. For instance, 03 (Folding) is an absorbing ditty. In conclusion, The Dogs Side B is a pop and anti pop album at the same time. Is it provoking? Definitely yes.
They Stay Dead - Cursed (2011)
Death To False Hope
Bandcamp
8.0
/Hardcore punk, Pop punk, Hair rock/
Bandcamp
8.0
/Hardcore punk, Pop punk, Hair rock/
Comment: by watching the coverprint and considering the title of this 3-piece issue it may be seem a little bit disorientating because the topics behind it are not so atrocious, though. The tracks used to run on melodic intentions which in turn are shaped by intense rhythmic sections and pop punk guitar hooks and sleazy vocal manner. Furthermore, the singing in chorus and some bombastic guitar riffs remind of the 80`s ridiculous gigs embodied by so-called hair rock/metal/pop metal scene (Europe, Poison, Charizma). In a nutshell - not bad at all because lots of energy used to ooze out of the slots of the issue.
Echthros - lyov (2011)
/Dark ambient, Ambient, Neoclassical, Sludge metal, Ethereal, Spoken word, Avant-metal, Crossover, Post-metal/
Comment: this issue originates by Echthros (Bartosz Frąckowiak) from Poland who provides 6 long-running progressions (over 54 minutes in all) where orthodox church hymns are crossed with more or less ominous spoken word/and moaning snippets and ethereal floatation/or settling on more abrasive, noiseful/sludge/doom guitar blow-ups. It is solemn and a little ghastly simulatenously, i.e masterfully accentuated and channelized. Altogether, it is the intriguing appearance from its very start to the ending point.
3/16/2012
Bankie Phones - Dragon Scarf (2009)
Future:Komp
9.3
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.
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