Arbor Glades - Coming Home EP (2012)

Bandcamp

Lastfm

9.0

/Glo-rock, Alternative pop/rock, Indie rock/ 

Comment: this 5-track album is one of the examples which does convey some hints at flamboyant power related to the Canadian indie scene. This Montrèal-based combo offers up highly chiming guitar structures and infinite chord changes adorned with the whiffs of dilating synth endeavours and daringly gliding yet longing vocal lines over them. I would like to call this kind of music a sort of glo-rock which is thought to be an entertainment subject for slackers and dalliers. In a word, cheers to the big masses, here we come!

Starstarstar - 2009 04 20 Record Lounge (2009)

Archive

9.3

/Freak folk, New Weird America, Dream folk, Live session, Alt-folk, Americana, Improvised music/

Comment: indeed, it is one of those many sessions improvised by Golda, McConeghy, and Rogers by the side of East Lansing, Michigan, USA which all are available at Archive.org. Before starting as starstarstar the trio was being known as ringostar, and ***. Regarding the session most of the pieces originate from starstarstar`s sole album and masterpiece Electric Goose and The Nylon Moose (on fabulous Rack & Ruin Records) which is an extraordinary but underrated (if not to say a yet undiscovered one) gem within the New Weird America scene involving the elements of quirky folk, heartfelt soul, halcyon electronic experiments, dreamy incantations, and exuberant Americana progressions. The music which reflects back to the past and forth to the future at the same time. The session of 10 tracks surprises with some unknown compositions. I really hope they are intended to come back sometime and ready to record at least one more album yet. Additionally I recommend listen to Chad Golda`s avant-garde solo albums either (on Rack & Ruin, and Writing Records).

Knock-Knock & NECROdog - Deja Vu (2011)

Ruszud

8.7

/Electro, Gabber, Tekno, Club dance/

Comment: there are up 2 notches based on rigid but fast electro and tekno/gabber mixed beats, tingling synth oscillations and sharp vocal samples. Indeed, the pair of tracks is deliberately minimal, though, the second track (Gabber In Psychedeliya) does have more time and diapason to get more involved in shuffled and variegated patterns on rhythms.

[Teaser of the day] Al Lover - Roger From Zapp? (Vodka)

Alligator Indian - I Gave Myself A Science Lecture

Alligator Indian - I Gave Myself A Science Lecture from Christian Church on Vimeo.

Neurobit - Maison De Verre Sur Le Chantier (2012)

Clinical Archives

9.2

/Experimental electronica, Ambient pop, Electronic pop, Drone pop, Post-psychedelic electronica, Post-pop, Soundscapes/

Comment: this issue by Bas Welling aka Neurobit consists of one lengthy composition only. More concretely, there are up approximately 1200 seconds at which the listener can discern different parts which are brought forth due to incessant progressions. A particular amount of chords are channelized into soothing undulations and reaching the borders of otherworldly beatific spheres. However, these lucid synth undercurrents (actually they are rather overcurrents) and silentfully ticking, vibraphone-near electronica which is set subtly between the lines comes quite close to the aesthetics of early Mice Parade, Tortoise, and The Dylan Group. The finishing part of the track will be evolving step by step into an instance of pronounced drone pop full of poignant shapes and austere yet epic outbursts (comparable with such contemporary projects as Oneothrix Point Never, and Emeralds, and The Silver Apples by the 1960s).

Boyish/Daisyblue - Gentle Breeze EP (2012)

Canata
Lastfm 

9.2

/Alternative rock, Indie pop, Jangle pop, J-pop/

Comment: this is a sequent issue on a Japanese label, called Canata Records. In any cases, this 4-track issue created by two bands can be characterized by highly joyous guitar works reminiscent of a timespan having been between the mid-80s and the beginning of 90s when the indies made their first efforts. The whole is filled with blossoming guitar chords and suggestive vocal reveries (variegated with male and female vocals respectively) which sometimes is embellished with heavy keyboard-based works. There can be drawn parallels upon the likes of McCarthy, The Pastels, early Primal Scream, The Chameleons. The closing Summer Film track by Daisyblue resembles a little bit of Happy Mondays` Lazytis. In all, it is soo nostalgic and impressive!