Abc100 - Exit Site (2012)

Headphonica
Lastfm

8.8

/Electronic pop, Noise, Experimentalism, Avant-electronica, Experimental electronica/

Comment: there are up 13 notches recorded by Alexandr Sinyagin, a literature student from Moscow, Russia. It is assumed his music used to be directly influenced by literature. His sound used to extend from the structures of quelled but chopped electronica to more bubblegum bouncing ones which sometimes run along more poppier pathways. For instance, Sous Cari does have such marks being highly suggestive through its exulting hooks and sequences. Or on the other side, it exploits the templates of more experimental and even pranky details (different kind of noises, pitchbent effects, somehow weird sounds and disrupted developments, radiophonic samples etc). Thus the spirituality of the album used to superimpose with the main slogan of the Headphonica Records. In a nutshell, the whole is brisk, disquieted and lively.

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Binärpilot - Bend

Various Artists - Äriasjad EP & PDF (2012)

Bandcamp

9.1

/Alternative, Lo-fi, Garage pop, DIY, Blues rock, Bedroom music, Post-psychedelic electronica, Electronic pop, Experimental indie/

Comment: this is the first compilation issue by an Estonian virtual label, called Lita. It contains 4 tracks, 2 of them are recorded by more well-known artists (Zahir - an Estonian noise and blues-rooted underground legend who has been active since the first half of 90`s, and today`s Estonian golden pop girl Maria Minerva who has issued her releases on the Not Not Fun, a Californian-relied panacea for DIY/lo-fi/experimental artists all around the world. In any cases, both of them demonstrate their power at the highest level). However, the hysterical garage propulsion Ma Pesen Oma Hambaid Verega (I wash my teeths with blood) by Kooma, and bouncing rhythm sequences and catchy pop-laden hooks by Endel are suggestive in their somewhat sneering attitude either. In addition to the music the publication involves a PDF-based document of how promote your music (though it is written in Estonian it includes a shitloads of links for important places and domains). In a nuthsell, it is a great miscellany which proves that the things are getting improved with every next issue within the Estonian alternative scene.

Makunouchi Bento - Rinbu Remixed (2012)

Bandcamp

8.9

/Experimental electronica, World music, Avant-electronica, Chamber music, Dark ambient, Crossover, Glitchtronica, Remixes/

Comment: Felix Petrescu, and Valentin Toma comprise a Romanian duo, called Makunouchi Bento having already been active since 2001. There are represented 3 remixes, and one mix by their friends which used to span a variety of electronic visions extending from disquieted electronic drifts (mixed up with chamber music whiffs at times) and more haunting/dark ambient progressions and glitch-filled pieces to more ethnic/World Music-concentrated sonic seeds and Balkan-infected film soundtracks (indeed, the closing track Jubokko is a fabulous one in its otherworldly blinking and glimmering hooks and developments). All of these elements are a little pitchbent and deformed. In a nutshell, the result is essentially offbeat and unexpected which does not uncover its nature at once at all. And of course, in addition to it you should listen to their original tracks at Camomille either.

Coma Cinema - Baby Prayers (2009)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.0

/DIY, Chamber pop, Alternative pop, Singer-songwriter, Experimental indie, Lo-fi/

Comment: this is the debut album by Mat Cothran aka Coma Cinema involving 14 tracks just spreaded out over 27 minutes. It contains exclusively demo staples recorded between 2005 and 2009. Indeed, the album provides lots of hints at Cothran`s further DIY aesthetics tightly dabbled with electronic undercurrents and curious elements of singer-songwriter-ism and baroque pop-esque sweeps. More profoundly, it is elegantly rough due to its lo-fi guitar fingerpicking which is interlaced with compelling orchestrations, droning synths and dreamy vocal lines. In the first place his aesthetics reminds of Mark Linkous aka Sparklehorse.

Max Cavalerra - Der Mensch und seine Gänsehaut