9/01/2012
Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame - 2006 (2012)
9.4
/Baroque pop, Dream pop, Experimental indie, Art pop, Electronic pop, Sunshine pop, Chamber pop, Post-punk/
Comment: undoubtedly Giant Manilow, the Birmingham-related artist is one of the greatest labels all around the world which used to house bands like The Shalfonts, Shocked Elevator Family, Yellobelly, The Reverends, Vampire Cop, The Home Stretch, Bryn Bowen, and Greg Bird & Flamingo Flame. Similarly to the other artists of the label an album of the last named collective (duo) sheds light upon different music styles veering away from baroque-esque thoughfulness and artful frills (therefore qetting quite close to Scott Walker, and David Sylvian, for instance) and murky post-punk/gothic rock/dark wave-alike dredging to insouciance kind of sunshine electronica and pronounced guitar chirps and spatial reverberations in emotions and yearning. In a word, it is enough right to suppose that these 6 tracks represented over there do have higher artistic quality than those first 6 pieces ranked up in the UK single chart top at the time.
Anitek - Calm & Collect Vol.1 (2012)
9.0
/Crossover, Chillout, Alternative pop, Nu jazz, Trip-hop, Hip-hop, Breaks, Mood music/
Comment: a brand new one by a prolific master of chillout music called Anitek can easily be described in the terms of crossover music. More profoundly, his soundscape includes a lot of hints at many directions. Nevertheless, this 9-piece album used to be craftily balanced drifting moderately in between trip-hop/hip-hop frills and clearly framed acoustic guitar pop, gritty nu jazz/and smooth jazz visions and a little muddy blues-tinged templates. It seems to be an especially fine listening during the late hours of a day.
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