Mood Rings - Sweater Weather Forever (2011)

Mediafire

Bandcamp

9.2

/Indie pop, Alternative pop, Shoegaze, Dream pop/

Comment: a handful of solid indie songs by Allen Taylor, a Atlanta, Georgia-based native. The chiming touches of delay-filled pop progressions are spiced up by some more penetrating shoegaze-esque guitar riffs now and then. In fact, the last track Washer abandons all the dreams to come over for fording in the swamp of more straightforward indie rock/shoegaze-ish tunes. Ultimately, you can draw the parallels upon the visions and intention of those combos ever issued on Slumberland Records and Holiday Records. Of course, the reverberations by Deerhunter, and Atlas Sound are also represented on it. However, this release was the first one issued in 2011. Taylor has been truly prolific since this moment (7 publications upon it at Bandcamp).

ISM/DUBBHISM - Vintage Dubbs Vol. 1 (2010)

Dubbhism

7.4

/Dub, Reggae, Raggamuffin/

Comment: here are represented 8 tracks by Tony Dubshot and 2 by Scratchy Dubplate Crew. Lazy ganja beats are mixed up with electronica or more contemporary club dance-tinged (programmed) beats. At times it sounds even primitivistic, though, which this time is not of advantage to. On the other side, however, Breaking Dub is a solid exploration. All in all, vintage meets more recent years.

Asolaar - Vellocet (2011)

Sincro

9.2

/Industrial electro, Abstract techno, Noise, Experimental electronica, Minimal, Drone noise, Avant-techno/

Comment: this 6-track album can be described as a sort of galvanized industrial electro/abstract techno where beats are highly blurred in the embodiment of noiseful droning chords and being as sharp as the smithereens used to be. Indeed, at times it seems to be chiming as an ode to electricity. However, it comes out from Argentina by the experienced musician Dario Pinto.

Philippe Nore - Additif EP (2011)

NoEcho

9.0

/Experimental electronica, Noise, IDM, Abstract, Experimental techno, Avant-electronica/

Comment: this is a boisterous but intelligent machine/machinery-induced vision by a classically educated French musician who used to mix up noiseful signals and bleeps with more restraint, undulant pads of electronica which are embellished with symphony-relied samples sometimes. Intriguing and intricate indeed. Needs more listening times than just one time.

Bing Satellites - Areas Of Darkness And Light (2011)

Laverna
Bandcamp
Lastfm

9.8

/Ambient, Shoegaze, Psyambient, Dystopbient, Kosmische Musik, Soundscapes/

Comment: this is very vast, very broad, very profound...one of the best ambient artists in the world at the moment because of mixing intensely up the warmth of arctic fields and shimmering of borealic fires. Sounds like the kind of shamanic dance below the aurora borealis reminding a bit of the works by Tim Hecker in the first half of 00s. It is supposedly quite rare when the sound gets much bigger than your possible imagination about it. Actually the other works by Brin Coleman are as qualitative as this one here.

Melting Clouds - Full Removal (2011)

Clinical Archives

9.3

/Post-rock, Dark pop, Chill out, Experimental rock, Psychedelic, Art rock, Organic electronica/

Comment: six profound, blissed-out/or even creepy insights into a sort of ethereally tinged experimental/post-rock from Kyiv, Ukraine. Indeed, it does involve interesting electronic modalities and uplifting psychedelic washes following the mentality and formula of arty rock music. At times solemn, cathedral-based organs are fused suggestively with the layers of concrete sounds. On the other side, the last track is an example of pleasant smooth art pop aesthetics.

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.