Pretty Lights - We Must Go On (2012)

Pretty Lights

Soundcloud

9.3

/Funk, Urban music, Soul, Mood music, Chill out/

Comment: behind Pretty Lights hides himself Derek Vincent Smith who comes out from Fort Collins, Colorado, USA which may be known thanks to its DIY/underground label Patient Sounds (involving such artists as M.Pyres, Petrels, Sterile Garden, Littoral Drift, Bad Weather and many other ones). If he used to perform at stages (and it used to happen frequently due to his popularity) then Adam Deitsch gets involved in the project. DVS delivers an amalgam of soulful vibes with dreamy vocal treatments which are backdropped with lush funk beats. The magic will be ended up at 5.44. Obviously he knows very well what he does. Very chill urban sound indeed. So go on and listen to his other compositions either.

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Charles Rice Goff III and Jared C. Balogh - Resonant Tableaux (2011)

Altered State Reflections

9.5

/Experimentalism, Radiophonic, Avant-pop, Indie, Experimental electronica, Folktronica, Crossover, Hauntology, Cut and paste, Free formfreakout, Space Age, Sound collage, Art pop, Avant-garde/

Comment: arrghh, undoubtedly it is a frantic set of 12 pieces which is composed of a huge array of the snippets of (mostly) vintage recording samples, commercials and elaborated sounds. Indeed, it behaves like a chameleon throughout the whole course providing many cogent changes in formation and moods. More profoundly, sometimes it chimes like a space age courier, sometimes like a brother of Dave Keifer`s Cagey House due to its haunting artful outlets, at times like a weird output of indie/folk pop, classical music and electro (which is driven by autotuned robotic vocals with tongue in cheek). Or on the other side offering up instances of buffoonish pop a la Kevin Ayers which do entertain you in a weird way as those compositions which freak out within the territory of ethnic and trance-induced progressions. It is a loveable issue which may make you go nuts.

Due Samoani - Just Guitars (2012)

Paragrafo

Bandcamp

9.0

/Art rock, Blues rock/

Comment: Due Samoani is an Italy-based experimentalist who has dragged his approach over the realms of blues, post-rock, and indie (check it out his excellent albums, called Early Tapes, and Saturae Cubilculae). This time his concept used to be quite minimal and linear because of playing on electric guitar only. On the other side, it involves a loads of arpeggios and intensified chords shifting seamlessly in between blues and artful pop. Just guitars.

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