11/03/2012
Algesis - Mosaic Relics (2012)
9.5
/IDM, Experimental techno, Glitch techno, Ambient techno, Noise, Electronic pop, Experimental electronica/
Comment: this 8-track album is a masterful issue made up of gloomy rhythms, noisy glitches and tight glacial ambient-textured motives overhead. Furthermore, Fugue State is an example of mixing up electro-induced torrents with indie aesthetics. It is relaxing and sophisticated, common and strange, cozy and brsitled, local and far-away at the same time. One spectacular track is dedicated to Yuri Gagarin, the first man who had been up there in outer space. In a word, I will not be wrong by naming this whole as masterpiece.
Evil Robot Ted - Waster (2012)
8.6
/Noise, Dark ambient, Lobit, DIY, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Crossover/
Comment: by listening to it firstly I had some problems to understand it because it seemed way too obscure, blanched, and buried. However, by listening to it many times in a row I discovered the value of this 10-track release. In fact, it is an album settled in a bunch of contrasts where the basic brown noise massives are varied with majestic glacial glow-tinged soundscapes and harsh (white) noise glimpses and big beat-induced rhythm sections. However, the aforementioned brown noise structures have diverged in turn, for instance, being subjected to the pitch mode and other effects. Intriguing. The album is issued on a New Orleans-based label, Flaccid Plastic Records.
11/02/2012
Deerhunter - Fluorescent Grey Demos & Out-takes (2008)
9.3
/Psychedelia, Ambient rock, Experimental indie, Space pop, Art pop, Avant-pop, Demos/
Comment: undoubtedly Atlanta-based Deerhunter have been and still is one of those modern cutting edge-oriented indie juggernauts alongside Animal Collective, Black Dice, and Ariel Pink who came up to the ground after the change of millenium. Indeed, their 9-piece album consists of outtakes and sketches afterwards presented on the band`s album Fluorescent Grey (2008, Kranky). However, inspite of involving some microscopic "faults" and predominating roughness at it the miscellany provides a fabulous listening session filled in with mixed frantic psychedelic hooks and sultry space pop-near milieus. And Bradford Cox`s whimsical interpretations of compositions within his free stream of consciousness
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