he died while hunting - we used to dream awake (2011)

Totokoko
Lastfm

9.2

/Folktronica, Organic electronica, Drone pop, Experimental folk, Singer-songwriter/

Comment: a handful of nice electronica-drenched folk songs from Belgium. These are enough mellow and cute ones to attract attention for you and me. Finger tapped rhythms and synthetic bleeps are fused with suggestive guitar sounds and microscopic near-noise feeling to make out an accomplished whole.

Moses Luster & the Hollywood Lights - Lover

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Black Winds - Space

Kent State - Polly (2011)

Paranoid Futures/Kent State

9.0

/Cover, Garage pop, Alternative rock, DIY, Lo-fi/

Comment: Kent States do cover Nirvana`s classic song Polly and doing it very well because of giving it a dirty yet uplifting lo-fi/garage shift.

Brian Square - A Bunch Of Souls (2011)

Bandcamp
Lastfm

8.5

/Avant-garde, Spoken word, Psycho-acoustic, Anti-folk, Experimentalism, Freeformfreakout, Non-music/

Comment: Brian Square is an artist closely related to the Cologne-based vagabond Richard There and his Sleeping Horse Records. As you have figured out at yourself now, indeed, it supposes something unusual, something which is very away from the cores and centres of mainstream pop music. More profoundly, there can be detected for a countless amount of sonic experiments, which are "embellished" with skewed spoken word experiments, different occult voice manners, creepy song structures and tenuous electronic minutiae (around the folk-based song There Is No Sin For All This). By the way, Brian Square conveys to us a version of the US-anthem Star-Spangled Banner which is the only notch which throws out a sense of easiness and more light.

Weird Ribs - Tubes (2010)

CLLCT
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.5

/Krautrock, Experimental rock, Psychedelic electronica, Ambient rock, Epic, Avant-rock, Electronic pop, Cosmic fusion, Drone, Kosmische Musik, Space synth/

Comment: not only Bradford Cox can forge excellent music. Here is 22-year-old Englishman Joseph Cox who is as similarly as his well-known namesake influenced by electronic, ambient and psychedelic sound. However, a native from Newcastle was previously known thanks to his obscure ambient project Fragile Battleship. Anyway, Cox takes out some elements from there and fuses them with the oscillating vibes of Kosmische Musik and krautrock, following at times slightly more pop-oriented (Tangerine Dream; Harmonia; Cluster), at times more profound, orthodox alchemy (a la Conrad Schnitzler). On the other side, if to compare it with contemporary kindred souls you can direct spot upon Growing, Emeralds, Fuck Buttons, Oneohtrix Point Never and many othe rones. In a nutshell, this 9-track issue is truly epic and huge.

Hipster Youth - Crying Outside Clubs

These Animals - These Animals EP (2011)

Aaahh
Lastfm

9.3

/Indie rock, Alternative pop/rock, Doo wop, Baroque pop/

Comment: here is a handful of ditties coming out from New York, USA. However, there is no opportunity to say unpleasant words about this 6-track EP which compounds burbly guitar strums and chiming magic and a little bit androgynous vocal yodel with each other as if The Free Design or The Manhattan Transfer were chatted up with indie sound approximately four decades ago. Indeed, sixties-soaked harmonies give it a characteristic outlet and output. Let`s call it just doo wop-drenched indie pop.

Paper Pilot Plane - As You Let Me Go (2011)

Paper Plane Pilot
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.3

/Electro-indie, Post-punk, Alternative pop/rock, Indie dance, Dance rock/

Comment: behind Paper Plane Pilot hides himself Dustin Frelich, a San Diego native who has issued the album First Flight and a shitloads of singles. However, the current single is tagged as Joy Division", and "New Order" among others at Bandcamp. Indeed, And You Let Me Go used to utilize and gets benefit from vivid, propulsive bass lines and The Cure-esque synth dust hovering above it and getting a whiff of. On the other side, all those old school post-punk elements are intensively interlaced with the structures of nowadays electronic indie sound. A solid punch indeed.

Bobby Baby - Some Place New (2005)

Corpid
Corpid

9.2

/Indietronica, Experimental indie, Organic electronica, Alternative, Leftfield, Electronic pop/

Comment: Ella Blixt is an indie girl from Hultsfred, Sweden who embarked on playing music in her early teenager years in 90s. This EP can be considered as "classic" because of having been very popular and on the other side Blixt`s ditties are really worth deserving to be giving a try. These 5 songs reflect upon the examples of silentful, mellow guitar chords and minor symphony-based harmonies of melodica assisted by gritty electronic beats below it. The most important aspect is established on the ground that the ditties are craftily accentuated, filled in with lots of crunchy touches and perceptions. All of that happened before she joined with Robert Kretzschmar, and Frank Shültge Blumm to establish new projects (It`s A Musical, and Bobby & Blumm, respectively) and record for the legendary Morr Music. By listening the EP, you can obviously feel similarities with mùm, Cantaloup, Lali Puna, Wixel, Hood and many others.