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7/23/2015

[Teaser of the day] Josephines - Made of Stars



  • Psych-rock
  • Blues rock
  • Alternative rock
  • Indie rock

Artist: Josephines
Release: Josephines
Year: 2015

Pizza Puppy – I Got Sunburned (2015)




/Breakcore, Sampledelic, Electronic pop, Mash up, Breakbeat, Crossover/

Comment: by watching the cover prints of albums issued by US-based Underground Core Collective you can see obviously young musicians yearning toward their childhood and obsessions about certain things. About the Little Pony and pizza and burrito, about the sample-based and mash up culture, about the “cores” related to digital dance cadences and anime. Pizza Puppy`s 10-track issue is an organic blend of heavy bass thumping beneath and more light-hearted singing/rapping/chanting snippets. The artist is not ashamed of himself to merge slightly cheesy and “deep” elements together in a seamless way thereby fulfilling one of the pop formulas properly. Throughout the course you can perceive an incessant torrent of sounds and rhythms arriving and leaving and then returning again. More laid back spans are followed by remarkably more aggressive ones being represented even in particular compositions frequently. Let`s enjoy it. 

7/22/2015

[Teaser of the day] Natural Snow Buildings - You'll Become What You Fear the Most


  • Drone folk
  • Avant-folk
  • Post-folk
  • Epic
  • Art folk
  • Experimental folk
  • Psych-folk
  • Experimental folk
  • New Weird France
  • Ambient folk

Label: Vulpiano 
Year: 2014

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The Stepkids – Wanderers (2014)




/Soft rock, Digital funk, Funk rock, Synth fusion, Doo wop, Alternative pop, Electronic pop/

Comment: the shortened Soundcloud version of Wanderers comprises three compositions veering a crossover attitude of soft rock, synthesised fusion and digitalized funk rhythms and robot pop. Although getting partly inspiration from the musical groups of bygone decades the issue`s general impression is very modern – all these production tricks with appearance of stereo effects and overdriven acid keyboard chords, layers of exuberant sonic minutiae atop used to gravitate toward catchy rhythmic structures and subtle singing. At times the singing chimes in the vein of the best doo wop tradition. You can even hear Miles Davis` funk-inclined shuffles through predominant jazz narratives. By listening to The Slap you can discern how it bridges the US-based r`n`b, funk and soul tradition to Italo disco and Kraftwerk-ian electro pop influences par excellence. In a word, it is a fine example of contemporary pop music. It is infinitely better than Lady Gaga, and Miley Cyrus, for instance (in fact, they are more products rather than musical output).

7/21/2015

[Teaser of the day] Plastic Whore - Thirteen-Eleven


  • Industrial 
  • Death metal
  • Trash metal
  • Electro-metal

Artist: Plastic Whore
Release: Wet Planet
Label: Self-released
Year: 2004

Outer Gods - Ascend Unto The Seventh Throne (2015)




/Drone doom, Drone, Ambient, Post-metal, Avant-metal, Experimentalism, Spoken word, Minimalism, Field recording, Crossover/

Comment: this issue consists of two lengthy compositions at which drone music, doom metal, and ambient are three whales the Atlanta, Georgia, US-based combo used to draw on. Although those sounds represented over there are frequently austere and bleak ones with little changes the result is highly emotive and galvanizing. Guitar based drones are densely interwoven with electronic sounds resulting in thought-provoking outputs. For instance, there are up some snippets where gloomy yet picturesque church bells and ambiances create sensations of impending doom. It is intriguing to hear how the layers of the issue are interconnected with one another and used to minimally change throughout these two lengthy courses – at times with immense even squelchy gravitational power, at times decelerated to a more minimal extent. All of that seems to be highly convincing at its uncompromising hustling. Stylistically it is puzzling to discern is it either metal-related music or drone/ambient oriented experimentations. At least, it does not make sense. Consequently it can be said it is one of the best issues in 2015 so far. 

7/20/2015

[Teaser of the day] Ranon - To My Life



  • Afrobeat
  • Disco funk
  • Dance music
  • Afrofunk
  • Ethnic electronica
  • World music

Artist: Ranon
Release: Africa Edits
Label: Self-released/Trash Can Dance
Year: 2013/2015