5/30/2012
Cerebral Pain - Um Jarro De Flores À Janela (2009)
8.8
/Tango, Instrumental music, Mood music/
Comment: Cerebral Pain is a musical project from Covilha, Portugal who provide 13 tracks extended out over a little more than one hour. All these instrumental compositions are played on an accordion (or a bandoneòn) conjuring up tango melodies and grooves. At times the play of the accordion is adorned with the fingerpicking of a guitar and the whiffs of a flute. In the first place the album used to be a little doleful full of chord changes and moody paths. Pleasant.
Captain Missouri - Ordinary Pinecone Tricks (2012)
8.8
/Lo-fi, Anti-folk, DIY, Primitive pop, Singer-songwriter, Psychedelic folk, Blues, Primitronica/
Comment: Captain Missouri (also being known as a half of Brain) hints at the blues tradition which is mixed up with noiseful, even primitivistic guitar twangs and acute, rattling drums. Throughout the course CM exploits lots of electronic devices and manipulates with knobs thereby making up feedback-laden sonic labyrinths. At Sandbox; Children Play Nicely the soundscape gets evolved into a mesmerizing, psychedelic ditty.
The Olsen Twinns - it's okay because some people still love each other EP (2012)
9.0
/Chillwave, Alternative, Post-psychedelic electronica, Lo-fi, Leftfield, DIY, Poptronica, Avant-pop, Glo-fi, Post-pop, Experimental indie, Dream pop/
Comment: there are up a handful of tracks spreaded out over 20 minutes. It comprises blissful, a little bit dopey electro pop/poptronica with serious attitude of indie/alternative pop. Indeed, these ditties are blissed-out, yet, somehow warped, otherworldly ones which resemble of Scott Walker, Animal Collective, David Sylvian and other obscure pop artists now and then. However, Chering Is Caring reveals the combo`s love affair with Cher.
5/29/2012
Thuuooom - Uinua (2012)
9.2
/Black ambient, Ambient drone, Drone, Minimalism, Avant-garde, Abstract electronica, Sound art, Experimentalism/
Comment: Thuuooom is an one-man, Finnish-based experimental/avant-garde combo whose nature is quite problematic to categorize properly for. Some albums of him seems to be more concept-relied or some instrument-centered ones. This time Tuomo`s 6-piece album is about intense, minimally treated ambient and drone explorations which in turn are embellished with obscure, black-coloured dust. Yet, the power of the album are brought forth thanks to some sonic minutiae, i.e barely audible, repetition-heavy oscillations.Furthermore, the closing track Release is built upon shimmering loops and adjacent, ascending synth chords. Very beautiful indeed.
Wojciech Wszelaki - the motyw - out of space (2012)
8.4
/Progressive techno/trance, Dance pop, Synth pop, Space disco, New Wave, Electro pop, Robot pop/
Comment: this set of 11 tracks involves a broad array of the explotation of synths, however, veering stylistically away from glamorous electro pop and elegant space disco grooves to more cheesy, eurobeat-tinged appearances and Dusseldorf-inspired robot pop examples and progressive techno and trance mixed rhythm patterns. Although at times it seems to be way too bulimic, however, at its most refined moments Wszelaki has acquired his own flavour.
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