Pillars and Tongues- (Laid) Palms to Tell

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Fontomi - Fontomi EP (2012)

Bandcamp

9.1

/Chilltronica, Indietronica, Chill out, Electro pop, Alternative, Poptronica, Hypnagogic pop, Electronic pop, Glo-fi, Chillwave/

Comment: this 7-track issue comes out of Odense, Denmark produced by Frederik Ludwigs and Niels Malte Lundsgaard Sørensen who used to provide mostly blissed-out electronic pop, however, a little bit reminding of Talk Talk while transmuting from synthetic pop into a more string-based, dream pop/post-rock shape somewhere in the 80s. On the other side, the combo transmits strident glo-fi/chillwave-ish signals and dream-infiltrated impulses which will get mixed up with some pitch changed effects. Mostly it is driven by male voices, sometimes providing instrumental, laidback developments or embellished with female voices. Inspite of it the favorite of mine is No Lows performed by Erika Casier.

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.