[Teaser of the day] Grievances - The Fade

• Indie pop/rock
• Alternative pop/rock
• Power pop
• Emo rock

Artist: Grievances

Release: Something Was Supposed To Happen 

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2016

Ziv Shachar – Nice Day (2016)

Bandcamp

• Post-dubstep 
• Electronic pop 
• Alternative pop 
• Indietronica 
• World music

Comment: by listening to this 10-track issue you could discern it is produced by a talented but young musician. The main proof is that the Israeli producer Ziv Shachar used to run between different styles – from electronic pop to indie-influenced electronic music to Ivrit-sung piano driven pop songs to some funny interludes to enchanting post-dubstep threads. Indeed, the last stylistic element is the one, which used to appear in the most prominent manner within the whole. In truth, the style is also the major preference on it, providing enough conspicuously remarkable moments where he demonstrates his expert songwriting abilities and being adept in surfacing mind-provoking sounds. All in all, I recommend follow the artist`s next steps very carefully because the recent issue is one of the best issues in 2016. If it would have been written by a more well-known artist it were praised all around the world. You can be sure about it – just listen to it.         

Sam Golden Sings – Watch Out For The Quiet Ones (2008)

Rack And Ruin

• Lo-fi 
• Acoustic pop 
• Singer-songwriter 
• DIY

Comment: this is a simplistic yet catchy album of 6 pieces just based on the twangs of acoustic guitar, a few storytelling lines, some melodica whiffs and subtle stereo effects. And the singing with a catchy impetus is placed in the front page. For sure, it fits properly in to the lo-fi aesthetic of Rack And Ruin Records because it is played with great enthusiasm believing in a better future where one could perceive the thrill within it. The issue was produced in a time when all seemed to be possible. More profoundly, the DIY scene had appeared through blogs and independent music sites to get thousands of followers in the end of the 00s. That`s all. The simple things make highly sense on it.  

[Teaser of the day] Mauro Donati - Ratticidio

Ephedrina

• Minimal techno
• Deep techno

Artist: Mauro Donati

Release: Response EP

Label: Ephedrina/Jamendo/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

Brideburger – A Beautiful Mind (2011)

Amnion

• Shoegaze 
• Post-rock 
• Avant-rock 
• Guitar ambient 
• Epic 
• Soundscapes 
• Experimental rock 
• Noise 
• Minimalism

Comment: the UK-based Matt Catling aka Brideburger`s handful of tracks plays with the consciousness of listener both through volume loudness and an exquisite aesthetic standing on an interface of noise, shoegaze, post-rock, and guitar-based ambient. And of course, it shows how patient is your neighbour actually if you play it through the loudspeakers. Mostly it is quite silenced, however, you have to be warned, before the start of A Beautiful Mind 2, where the sound is strongly cranked up. Otherwise Brideburger`s aesthetic is quite silenced though the sound is intense and even glowering by its nature. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels upon the likes of My Bloody Valentine, fydhws, Glenn Branca and A Beautiful Machine. Eventually it could be said it is a fascinating issue because it changes and ennobles your state of mind. This issue is a notch in the catalogue of Amnion Records.                  

[Teaser of the day] Manifold - Voinamirov

Ektoplazm

• Psytrance
• Alternative
• Tekno
• Electronic music
• Psyelectro

Artist: Manifold

Release: Digital Sun

Label: Ektoplazm/Mystic Sound

Year: 2016

Dead Black Arms – Slow Burning Ocean (2010)

Drowning

• Drone doom metal 
• Doom metal 
• Post-metal 
• Experimental metal 
• Minimalism 
• Avant-metal

Comment: this issue consists of one, long-running composition, which slightly embarks on from nothing, then stepwise evolves being cranked up in volume and added up with slamming drumming and distorted, warped hi-hats. Indeed, the result is craftily composed therefore it might be considered a mystified issue. However, it is feint. With regard to the title of the track it reminds me of horrendous sea catastrophes being caused by the human race and oil tankers. For example, the one what happened in the Gulf of Mexico 6 years ago. Because of this it is not fun at all. Fuck off, those droning doom chords resemble hundreds of thousands dying sea birds and fishes and mammals who are killed by the human being's brain as allegedly the most sophisticated object all around the Universe. The bad thing is this is just a little part of all the atrocities perpetrated by us against nature. No respect, no humbleness, just arrogance and exaggerated self-confidence mixed up with stupidity. It is both against the own species and other species as well. Just watch daily TV events to get proof against. All is being set up in flames directly and indirectly. There is no future. The only positive thing in relation to the human race is to create art in different appearances, which provides hope and some salvation. These 32 minutes created by Danish Claus Haxholm over there are thought for it. This is a great issue under the experimental metal imprint Drowning.