Recent Music Heroes

4/27/2017

Karl Frank – Fragments of Decay (2015)

Redstarcommunity

Bandcamp

Indie pop
Alternative pop
Glo-fi
Post-pop
Electronic
Art pop
Chillwave
Hypnagogic pop

Comment: first of all, the album is quite peculiar due to embracing 9 tracks and clocking in at a 13 minute. Formally it is the album but by its nature it is a long-running (but not bothersome) track in fact. Yeah, it is an example of contemporary indie music because of ranging from guitar-based progressions to drum machine and synthesiser based build-ups. It starts off with Voices in the Dark with some stomping guitar riffs and skidding drums at mid-tempo. Shadows is a similar case though adding a spaced-out vocal template and joyous brass whiffs to the mix. Red Eyes is a step further in comparison to Shadows because of employing a mutant electro vocal within the usual vocal employment. A part of the rest of the tracks are formulated by using the aforementioned elements in different combinations but the favourites of mine are such tracks as Disappearance Delay, Recycling Dreams where the listener can enjoy blissful memories and synthesised space mixed bittersweet beauty which has been demonstrated at a large scale somewhere 5-10 years ago when chillwave and glo-fi and hypnagogic pop were a cut above within the indie scene. By the way, Karl Frank started his career more than 10 years ago so I like his statement to create such sort of art he himself wishes to create. That`s honest and ennobling. The issue is a part of the Swedish imprint Redstarcommunity. Outstanding pop music.

4/26/2017

[Teaser of the day] Orange Crush - Zero Degrees

Archaic Horizon

Shoegazetronica
Alternative
Glo-fi
Electronic
Dream pop
Lo-fi
Indietronica

Artist: Orange Crush

Release: Autumn Reflections

Label: Archaic Horizon/Bandcamp

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Monokle & Galun - Justalite

Post-rock
Indietronica
Glo-fi
Indie pop
Dream pop
Alternative pop
Post-pop

Artist: Monokle/Galun

Release: In Frame

Label: 12rec

Year: 2010

[Teaser of the day] Sun Devoured Earth - Fountain Square

Shoegazetronica
Indietronica
Alternative pop
Electronic pop
Nugaze

Artist: Sun Devoured Earth

Release: Ellilian

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] A Finnish Contact - Cloud Eyes, Blue Days

Experimentalism
Post-industrial
Avant-pop
Crossover
Experimental electronica
Dreamwave
Post-rock
Electronic music
Drone pop
Leftfield

Artist: A Finnish Contact

Release: In Case We'll Meet

Label: Kohlhaas

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Kuh-Lida - Angles/Orbits

Post-dubstep
Electronic pop
Experimental pop
Urban music
Alternative dance

Artist: Kuh-Lida

Release: Savage Casual

Label: Stereocure

Year: 2012

Fm-Ra ‎– Some Kind Of Forest (2011)

Rejected

Experimentalism
Avant-garde
Art music
World music
Ethnic music

Comment: it is way too problematic to tag this album of 4 compositions because of involving way too a little and on the other side much unusual and not quite daily sounds. It was recorded at home employing Audacity and the instruments were a kalimba, one rain stick, and a storm imitator with some delay effects. Given that kalimba can be categorized as an instrument in the ethnic music world and its use in the popular music is quite limited the recent outing can be pigeonholed both in the compartments of experimental/avant-garde, and ethnic music. Moreover, one can discern very closeness to the nature as if being played under the sunny (or cloudy – it does not make difference though) sky somewhere nearby the forest. In fact, the title suggests it. The elemental touch can always be welcomed. The result is simple, pure, and even divine. The nature has been a topic for the artist because some days after the release of this issue he issued another similar album Oceans & Waves. The issue is a part of the discography of Rejected Netlabel.