Girlhood - Half Dead (2011)

Bandcamp

8.9

/Anti-folk, Psych-folk, Indie folk, Ambient folk, New Weird America, DIY, Lo-fi, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: approximately 16 months ago I reviewed Phoenix, Arizona-based project Girlhood`s eponymous album (2010, CLLCT) which was a fabulous blend of psychedelia, divergent breaks and beats, and glo-fi templates pouring out of numerous slots. This time Girlhood`s set of 5 pieces is absolutely another story taking on restrained yet psyched-out, reverb-heavy guitar strums, rough vocal lines and buried incantations thereby gushing out much corroded magic and freeing mysticism.

[Teaser of the day] 2muchachos - svirel`

[Teaser of the day] Fera - I Just Wanted To Let You Know

CLLCT

Kitate - Teoria antiamor

Zenjungle & Tunedin 52 - Inner Orbits (2012)

Bruits

9.3

/Motorik, Crossover, Post-psychedelic electronica, Space rock, Free jazz, Krautrock, Ambient, Noise, Avant-garde, Avant-industrial, Improvised music, Experimentalism/

Comment: this clump of 5 tracks is a shape-shifting one extending from Neu!-esque proto-industrial motorik chugging and more contemporary industrial and electro-acoustic mixed outlets to cool and free jazz-esque reshuffling and improvised noise snippets and ambient/space rock-induced flutters and pitch effect-driven sessions. The ending piece Afteryouknowyouknow is more restrained due to blissed-out synths and brass instrument-based whiffs. Emotionally, for sure, it is evocative and uplifting, filled with mesmeric milieus and repetitive horizons suppressing the listener`s consciousness. In a word, it is a fetching, suggestive whole because the artists over there used to get involved in a profound play on subtlety and dynamics.

Fature – From the Other Side (2012)

Dystopiaq

9.3

/Breakcore, Kosmische Musik, Psychedelic electronica, Experimental electronica, Downbeat, Breaks, DIY, Ambient dub, Lo-fi/
         
Comment: these 4 pieces are made up of dusty, a little frowzy broken beats which are set below the dubbed layers of electronic progressions (which in turn used to extend from wobbly electronic arrangements and bent downbeat sequences to more glacial glow-tinged spaced-outs). Indeed, all these elements are seamlessly interlaced with each other therefore providing a solid configuration. Behind this project hides himself an experienced cockney producer, Lee, who heads such label as Faturenet Recordings.

[Teaser of the day] Akryllic Love - Pearlstone

CLLCT