9/13/2014
Asalto al Parque Zoológico – Sonnen (2014)
- Shoegaze
- Dream pop
- Alternative rock
- Noise rock
Comment: to listen to
this couple of tracks incessantly from one hour to another it is a very
ecstatic, even purgative listening experience. If to draw parallels to another
South American combo, This Lonely Crowd`s album An Endless Moment Everyday All The Time (2010, Sinewave) sounded blatantly close to Smashing
Pumpkins. In parallel, The Buenos Aires-based combo can sound even more into
the hard core of My Bloody Valentine than the legendary shoegaze pioneers
themselves wanted to do it (you obviously understand what I mean). Indeed,
those exuberant layers of dream-drenched noise cascades do not give you a hoot
wrapping the subject up into a hazy, velvety sonic Shangri-la where she/he
loses a sense of gravity. AAPZ`s concept may be considered partially as a noise
rock example either but it is remarkably more dulcet and sexy than most of pop
acts to put together.
Guerrinha - De Rosinha Falsificado Para Feirinhas Cinzentas (Os Pequenos Tijolos Da House Music) (2012)
- Big beat
- Club dance
- Techno
- Alternative dance
Comment: If you guess 12 minutes might be way too
long to produce one dance-tinged track than you go definitely wrong regarding
the recent issue. More profoundly, Guerrinha`s 2-track outlet is a beast of
corkscrewing techno and viable big beat mixed rhythms varicoloured with some
vowel samples and key chords to result in a highly spellbinding and hypnotic
grower. These simultaneously brisk and hesychastic cadences penchant for
serotonin-releasing key changes remind me a little bit of Italo disco vibes
either. Sometimes it is assumed dance music is somewhat superficial and cursory
kind of music, however, if it is relaxing and psychedelic does it mean that it
is somehow more draffy or rubbish in comparison with Pink Floyd or Spacemen 3,
for instance? It sounds almost like a club version of There Is A Light That Never Goes Out. Listen to it and you will
adore it.
Ashtray Navigations - Sweet Iron Feet (2009)
- Drone
- Sound-art
- Experimental rock
- Avant-garde
- Post-psychedelic electronica
- Experimentalism
- No Wave
- New Weird Britain
Comment: there can be difference
between Ashtray Navigations, and Ashtray Navigations regarding Phil Todd headed
combo`s releases. There is no wonder because of having issued a shitloads of
avant-whatever albums since the beginning of 90s. Todd and his variable collaborators`
music can be considered a sort of alchemy of manipulated sounds which may be
even more influential than the listener is able to guess. For instance, you could
remember for the first two albums of
Animal Collective where they partially carry out similar minimalistic psychedelic
experiments and more sophisticated noise-tinged explorations (or so-called
post-psychedelic electronica) thereby bringing forth such sort of music to a
wider audience. More concretely, this 4-track issue is a positive sonic mayhem filled
with whistling feedback noises, arty guitar chord layering, amplified hisses and
bubbly synth drones, however, there aforementioned elements are just tools to
experiment with them on different intensities and interactions throughout this
31-minute course. It might be considered an improvised music album, though, it
seems that every element brought forth on it is thoroughly analysed and elaborated.
By the way, the album will be finished off in a majestic manner (The Whirlpool What Was). By kindred
souls I recommend listen to such artists as Kemialliset Ystävat, Glenn Branca,
Vibracathedral Orchestra, fydhws, Tore Elgaroy.
9/11/2014
[Teaser of the day] Postcode - Pound
- Post-punk
- Alternative rock
- Shoegaze
- Alternative dance
Artist: Postcode
Release: Zebratronic
Label: Self-released/Bandcamp
Year: 2014
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