Tom Fahy - 5 Minutes to Midnight (1995)

Auralnaut

Lastfm

/Experimental rock, Dream pop, Electronic, Ambient rock, Shoegazetronica, Big beat, Darkgaze, Ethereal Wave, Post-rock, Alternative/

Comment: Tom Fahy and his satellites` 10-notch issue is stylistically multi-faceted, extending from New Age-y big beat cadences, hovering ambient tinged soundscapes and repetition-heavy guitar shapes to more murky ethereal wave and slowed down progressions. By listening to it the album resembles slightly My Bloody Valentine`s long-awaited third album mbv (2013). For instance, Z Machine is saturated with reverb heavy drums, overdriven guitar effects and signal-alike noises – in spite of it the track sounds exuberantly full of segmented dreams and insights. And listen to Time Traveler's Dilemma (Maude) – pure beauty. Sometimes the listener can feel the time to be stopped by or...just you are stopped for the passing of time. Indeed, the time and being (and Martin Heidegger) is one of their topics on the release. Ultimately it is a great release – so do not miss it out on.              

[Teaser of the day] Afronoise - Deep Raid

Lastfm

• Afrofuturism
• Psychedelic
• Alternative dance
• Breaks

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• Glitch-hop
• Breaks
• Hip-hop
• Experimentalism
• Sampledelic

Sonologyst - The Waiting

Atlas Sound - 2012-06-22 Athfest Main Stage - Athens, GA (2012)

Southern Shelter

/Indie rock, Indietronica, Americana, Dream pop, Live session, Chamber pop, Folk indie, Singer-songwriter, Indie folk/

Comment: Bradford James Cox is a name which apparently does need no introducing to the indie audience worldwide. Through his participation of being the singer and frontman of spaced-out experimental/psych/shoegaze rock band Deerhunter and creating more electronica and string mixed spacey Americana music under the moniker Atlas Sound he has been a pioneer in a new wave of modern indie combos since the mid of 00s. To a wider audience he is now known as an actor thanks to the film Dallas Buyers Club. This is Cox`s a hour long live set in his domestic Athens, Georgia, USA. The whole is enchantingly dream-filled and hypnotic full of continuous delays, astral singing and vowel effects and daydreamy strumming. There is just one man with the guitar, harmonica, and electronics on the stage. Highly recommended.       

Disgorged Faeces – Contamination II (2012)

Genetic Trance

/Harsh noise, Non-music, Avant-garde, Experimentalism, Minimalism/

Comment: I discovered a quite feeling by listening to this 44-minute album just consisting of one long-running track full of static harsh noise propulsions and overwhelming sonorous brutality. However, if my first experience was disgusting because of being without apparent changes then the track would have mellowed throughout the course. By the conceptual side I truly like Yevgeniy Kukharik`s approach to reflect upon shortages related to ecological environmental pollution by malevolent consumption activities of the human being. The point is he/she pollutes himself/herself either. Is that the mind of our life? Of course, by exploiting such kind of threatening (white) noise music to hint at problems related to the human being is not the first time throughout the history of noise music but, however,  the result is impressively yelling into the listener`s ear. Please do not think about them as crazy ones but it is not the point of it.

Ou Où – Geocities (2013)

Bandcamp

/Shoegazetronica, Experimental rock, Epic, Ambient trance, Leftfield, Crossover, Avant-rock, Kosmische Musik, Ambient drone, Alternative dance/

Comment: it is simply awesome…based on druggy rhythms which at times will expand into a panoramic moloch amplified with elemental loops, vivid techno paces, oneiric synth progressions and dreamy, even astral shoegaze-y pads. The listener can enjoy different motives simultaneously and stepwise coming out from the same direction to constitute something unbelievable and cathartic. Although the St Louis, Missouri-based duo (Travis Burski, Patrick Weston) is apparently influenced by such groups/albums as The Orb (Orblivion), Tangerine Dream (Ricochet), My Bloody Valentine (Tremolo EP), and Seefeel (Quique) it is idiosyncratically overwhelming touch presented on this 6-piece issue. If you listen to the finishing composition Maidan it chimes like an eargasmic experience on its own. It might be pop music or not but it is music with the initals. Mandatory in any sense.