?alos – Ricordi Indelebili (2012)

Pan y rosas 

9.6

/No Wave, Dada, Anti-punk, Noise rock, Avant-punk, Avant-garde, Chamber music, Art punk, Experimental rock/

Comment: though this batch of 13 notches by the Italian musician Stefania Pedretti was firstly issued in 2006 on Bar La Muerte it is still actual at the recent time due to its essentially rebellious patterns, irritating sonic bugs and incisive effects. More concretely, Pedretti manifests toward her audience in an obsessive and arrogant way being backed up with distorted guitar riffs, acute electronic torrents, rigid chamber-induced processings, and dance rhythms which in fact are not thought to have further intention toward the disco venues. Her nihilistic approach can be compared with such female artists as Diamanda Galas, Lydia Lunch, Maja Ratkje. But not only to hint at them - there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of Sonic Youth, Public Image Limited, Gang Gang Dance, and Mark E Smith (The Fall).

Linear Bells - Le Cavalier Bleu (2012)

Hidden Vibes
Lastfm

9.4

/Dystopbient, Ambient drone, Minimalism, Experimentalism, Avant-garde, Soundscapes/ 

Comment: this set of 3 long-running compositions is produced by David Teboul aka Linear Bells from Naoned (Nantes), Brittany, (the territory which has been culturally and ethnically occupied and oppressed by France over many generations) whose album An Island (issued on the Swedish tape label Zeon Light) is being one of the top notches in 2012. However, this time he turned over 180 degrees to take more on discrete space-related effects full of dark-hued and shadowy fringes and corroded resonances. By nature the album is genuinely pessimistic giving no hopes and light-hearted glimpses for next days. It sounds like a broadcast transmitted from an abandoned junkyard of history reflecting still upon the fucked-up dreams and hypocritical life of human kind having had once before the torrent of malignant radiation annihilated it all. The release is to be one nick in the long array of the aesthetics once conceived by Luigi Russolo who warned us from possible consequences and tremendous side effects coming out from the industrialization process.

[Teaser of the day] Keel Her - I Want To Believe

[Teaser of the day] Art Of Empathy - Good Morning Sick World

Bagpipe Whiskey - Men Bason

Drgs - A Load Of Old Drgs (2009)

Hippocamp

9.3

/Hip-hop, Electronic pop, Sampledelic, Sound collage, Chill out/ 

Comment: undoubtedly Hippocamp, the Manchester-based records can be labelled as cult label. Indeed, from within its discographic depth the listener can pull out many gems and hidden qualities. However, the particular, 4-track issue is one of them. In the first place it does reveal itself as being exulting and chill at the same time delivering the appearance of gargantuan rainbows and elemental torrents mixed up with sunny glimpses and transparent clouds. I would like to call the whole as a blended example of emotive electronica.

Bisamråtta - Bisamråtta (2012)

Vulpiano

Mediafire

Lastfm

10.0

/Post-rock, Ambient, Experimental rock, Soundscapes, Post-folk, Epic/

Comment: if I can remember it accurately for Bisamråtta was a philospher in the Moomin Tales, a minor character in one of the most beloved (children) books worldwide written by Tove Jansson. This time Bisamråtta is the Russian artist Vlad Luchansky who provides a batch of 3 mesmeric compositions based on blissful guitar-shaped massives and otherworldly beautiful turns and heart-breaking ascensions. Theoretically, if the listener is interested in to localize the possible place this soundscape would be born once then you have no choice to figure it out. In fact, these tracks used to sound like perfect anthems for possible futuristic, more humanistic polities. In addition to it I recommend to listen to the likes of Natural Snow Buildings, Pan American, Woodworkings, Tudo de Volta.