- Electro-rock
- Synth rock
- Dance rock
- Alternative pop/rock
- Synthwave
- Alternative dance
- Electro-indie
- Space pop
Year: 2008
- Indie pop
- Dream pop
- Indietronica
- Singer-songwriter
- Alternative pop
- Electronic pop
- Poptronica
- Chillwave
- Glo-fi
- Drone pop
- Post-punk
- Art pop
Comment: I used to adore and hate the list of the best
albums at the end of year. I hate it because many excellent releases issued in
a certain year I had had no time to listen to them and add to the list. One of
such albums is Red Cosmos` sophomore issue Dreaming In Unison. Indeed,
three long years had passed since the Englishman Kim Tortoise released his
debut There And Back on Clinical Archives in 2012. The issue starts off
with high-spirited Kindred, which is an excellent indie/chillwave pop
with ennobling harmonics, blissful noisy sonic shards and post-punk gears
chiming like…Red Cosmos meets The Cure. The album will be finished off by Shout
Into The Sky, which is similarly highly epic and beautiful. Both of them
are real pop gems to be measured up to pop charts. That`s the fact. I am really
fascinated by them being not tired after listening to them many times in a row.
In the meantime, Kim Tortoise’s account could be considered more sophisticated
thereby reminding of his compatriots Nick Currie aka Momus and Alan Driscoll
aka The Womb`s doings. More profoundly, he likes to play with the listener`s
attitude and aesthetical perceptions in elegant way. Funk Night sounds
like being a tribute to Spacemen 3, and Spiritualized mingling together poppy
and experimental sides of alternative pop music. Frequently his aesthetic is
saturated with humour and sadness, a times being buffoonish, thereof catching
hold of the listener even with greater strength. At We Should Have Kissed
Kim Tortoise shows again his immense love towards post-punk rhythmic lines. Carnal Vindicator is an amusing blend of music hall, comedy and electro-rockabilly. In fact, what the fuck is that? Taken together, get this album of 12 different chapters full of uncanny artsy
phenomena while being up to.
- Avant-garde
- Post-classical
- Electronic music
- Art music
- Experimental pop
- Leftfield
Year: 2005
- Pop rock
- Soft rock
- Singer-songwriter
Year: 1994
- Industrial noise
- Avant-garde
- Non-music
- Rhythmic noise
- Experimentalism
- Leftfield
Comment:
this issue can partly be considered a found sound issue and partly an
industrial/noise one because the base of this 16-notch release is made of
recordings from an industrial workplace. Indeed, the creator of this
overwhelming release firstly recorded the sounds of machines and the machinery
to later mix them to a mind-blowing waterfall of noises. The next question may
be of how to convert these abrasive sounds to one’s emotions? Is there any
proper interface to endorse it? I can say there is no problems with those
anonymous compositions that are done for you in an easy manner. Theoretically
and practically the artist follows the binary between noises and silence though
in fact the noises are being remarkably more tangible on it. It is even to the
extent that the listener can perceive as if there is no longer space for those
intense frequencies to be housed. Furthermore, it is life and the work
environment for many of us. On the other side, it is a piece of art, though
tough art. The issue is a bit of the discography of CS Industrial 1982-2010, of
which purpose is to reaffirm industrial tinged music from the aforementioned
span of time either from the former Czechoslovakia or separate parts of
them at later time.
- Ambient
- Soundscapes
- Post-classical
- Minimalism
- Epic
- Art music
Year: 2016
- Synth electro
- Electronic pop
- Electro pop
- Alternative
Year: 2005
