Migalha - Ice Cream in the Waterfall Gibberish (2012)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Musique concrète, Ambient, Ambient noise, Acousmatics, Avant-garde, Noise, Microtonal, Acousmatics/  

Comment: these two long-running compositions have been managed to get a lush drift between organic electronica and ambient music which is filled with noiseful glitch-tinged undulation and microtonal haziness made up of the washes of concrete sounds and accidental voice/babbling snippets. Indeed, the picture is blurred, though, it is very effectively bedimmed. The projects originates from Brazil which is home for many great post-rock, shoegaze and ambient bands. 

Gareth Clarke – Atheist In Foxhole EP (2012)

 The Centrifuge

8.8

/Synth pop, Electro pop, Mood music/

Comment: there are represented 5 tracks which used to make headway into a maze composed of the elements of robot-influenced electro pop and even austere industrial-tinged aesthetics. However, on the other side, the upper layers of comprise the suggestive hooks of 80`s synth pop and blissed-out progressions thus allowing more access to mainstream-appealed territories.

Electricwest - MOTH3R (2009)

Archaic Horizon
Bandcamp
Lastfm 

8.8

/Downtempo, IDM, Experimental electronica, Breaks, Glitch ambient/

Comment: behind Electricwest hides himself Patrick Benolkin, the artist from Boise, Idaho, USA who is also being known due to his side project Eluder (epic ambient/drone). Anyway, this 11-track issue is covered with intimate paces and moderately propulsive synths thus making up some microscopic whirlpools and pleasant milieus which in turn are varied with more sharp oscillations and blissed-out thudding. The last quarter turns rather into glitch-filled slow burning.

[Teaser of the day] Dreamphish - If The Sun Goes Down

AA.VV. - 11 of the 19 Worst Problems of the US (2004)

Lastfm

8.7

/Psych-folk, New Weird Italy, Weird folk, Avant-folk, Experimental folk/ 

Comment: this compilation involves 11 tracks all of them are made up of Carlo Barbagallo-related projects and his friends who are natives from Sicily. However, these notches reveal its bias toward off-kilter singer-songwriter-ism, which is filled in with psyched-out folk music, despair-tinged singing, some turns into noiseful progressions, and even nervous folk-hop. Intriguing.  

Klein Blue - Sono Note Immaginate (2012)

Bandcamp

9.0

/Leftfield, Experimental indie, Art pop, Alternative, Avant-pop/

Comment: just one, 197 seconds long track produced by an Italian band called Klein Blue consisting of arty bubblegum pop-esque propulsions and light-hearted vowel whiffs providing hints toward the easiness of estrada pop by the 60s, and leftfield pop wizards-lizards like Stereolab, and Broadcast.

John Praw - Four Twenty Twenty Twelve (2012)

Mine all Mine
 Mine All Mine

8.8

/Organic electronica, Musique concrète, Experimental electronica, Modern classical, IDM/

Comment: these handful of tracks are infiltrated with "accidental" concrete sounds and crackling IDM-alike minimal throbbing and subtle touch of modern classical feeling.