Knife City - Knife City (2012)

8bit peoples

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9.0

/8-bit, Tracker music, Chipbreak, Psychedelic dance, Bitpop, Nintendocore, Primitive pop/

Comment: Knife City is the nom de plume for Luke Silas who used to fuse essentially catchy rhythm patterns with 8-bit/chiptune/chipbreak templates. There are up a handful of notches which provide a kind of alternative for your usual imagination about dance music. More profoundly, it showcases short pace cycle tendencies and offhand frequencies regarding all of that which used to be produced with the help of Gameboy consoles and vintage programmes-plugins. On the other side, it is psychedelic and acute making your feel good. In any cases, Just Trash is the outstanding track on the album.

Hanetration - Tenth Oar EP (2012)

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9.2

/ Avant-garde, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Drone folk, Experimentalism, Avant-folk, Improvised music/

Comment: there are represented 4 notches which used to come out like the reflections through broken pop mirrors. Indeed, it is a little bit out of pop where the listener can perceive hazy compositions involving ghastly, neoclassical/neofolk tendencies which in turn are brought forth with droning harmonium-alike instruments which are backed up by slight cadences on the background. Yet, it is just one tendency regarding the album. The listener can perceive hatching some influences by Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and Daniel Figgis from this egg now and then. Furthermore, some improvised, freeform explorations are up there as well. 

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Bruised Skies - Brumes EP (2012)

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8.9

/IDM, Ambient dub, Chillout, Ambient techno, Downtempo, Modern classical, Crossover/

Comment: these 4 notches are about dubby glacial glow-alike ambient progressions and flickering interaction somewhere in between light and shades. Stylistically it can be determined as "ambient techno/dub" or "IDM-tinged ambient". And even Sigur Ros and mùm come to my mind while listening to these slowly winding paces and harmony-filled progressions. On the other side some epic piano chords are wrapped up in thick mist where is no possibility for sunshine and - rather deliberately managed sadness is to dominate over there. In a word, all these pieces are true to nature, which ultimately will fade out into silence. Blissful experience.

Starfire Connective Sound - Where Go The Boats (2012)

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9.3

/Shoegaze, Alternative rock, Space rock, Post-rock, Dance rock, Psychedelic rock, Indie dance/

Comment: If to talk of the Brazil-based shoegaze scene, first of all, my glance is spotted upon Sinewave, the record label-related artists, and Starfire Connective Sound on the other side. This single is a two-headed one, creating of which is assisted by their friends from This Lonely Crowd. However, the result is a formidable blend of shoegaze, post-rock, psychedelia, dance-appealed sequences, and slight stoner/desert rock dust. The second track reminds a little of the Happy Mondays` Lazytis. Great.

Linear Bells - Los Angeles (2012)

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8.7

/Art-pop, Shoegaze, Experimental indie, Electronic pop, Post-pop, Lo-fi, DIY/

Comment: Linear Bells is a project from California whose album Los Angeles is made up of a little angular synth buzzes or synthetic bugs and bits and resonating drone flickering. However, if to trying to generalize it more profoundly, it can be seen for staying at the crossroads of shoegaze, post-rock, glo-fi, and DIY aesthetics. Furthermore, it used to be rather by the side of glowering and murky territory than on the side of blissful approach.