LAY BAC - Party Down (2012)

Bandcamp

9.5

/Indie funk, Alternative, Post-pop, Club dance, Alternative dance, Art pop, Experimental indie, Poptronica, Glo-fi/

Comment: LAY BAC is a duo (Josef Calamusa aka tomcruisin & Matthew Shogi aka party girl) which hails from Austin, USA.Their music can be described by using such denominators and tags as glo-fi, chillwave, morning breeze, dreamwave, hypnagogic pop. The first meeting of mine with this group was through a France-based label, called Beko DSL which is promoting divergent yet new kinds of alternative pop. In a word, it is an instance of contemporary indie music composed of glistening slacks and splendent chips. Their quite short-running Party Down (which is a part of the duo`s Shortcuts EP) was issued approximately a year ago involving all these abovementioned firmaments and matters which are propelled by featured Motown tinged funk and club dance blended dance cadences.

Worship - Saturn 4 (2012)

Soundcloud

10.0

/Disco, Alternative dance, Space disco, Mood music, Italo disco, Club dance, Electro disco/  

Comment: Ladies and gentlemen! We are floating in space. This track is a staggering entertainer because of fusing orchestrated golden disco era glides with sultry gay disco (a la Patrick Cowley) and Giorgio Moroder anf Gino Soccio-induced bouncy electro (disco) pop tendencies and spacey panoramas overhead. Indeeed, the soundscape of the track is cinematic and majestic, full of sultry changes at harmonies and rhythms. In a word, it is a timeless propulsion and a sort of ideal pop.

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Algesis - Mosaic Relics (2012)

Subwise

Lastfm

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)

Flaccid Plastic

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.

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