The Hirundu – Pain Levels Of The Rich And Famous (2017)

Pitch And Putt

• Dada music 
• Experimentalism 
• Avant-garde 
• Leftfield 
• Electronic music 
• Alternative 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Indie folk

Comment: recently we all got the sad announce that Mark E. Smith passed away. The true old-school (post-)punk leviathan who had been the synonym of stubbornness in music for the four decades. MES and The Fall had influenced an innumerable amount of artists including The Hirundu, and Johnny Crewdson behind it. I could say The Hirundu shows up the quality by blending together old and new tendencies and similarly to MES Johnny Crewdson fights against the stupidity and evil threads of the human race by employing incisive irony. What else could be the best weapon but irony and sarcastic approach? Similarly to The Fall it could be admitted about the music of The Hirundu it's always different, it's always the same. It does mean the scope of the sonic phenomena must be stylistically wide enough to drift freely within the borders. From uncanny piano music and energetic electro pop to guitar twangs filled with slight instability to more or less heavily twisted electronic music to mutant world music, and frequently pulling some elements out from one track to transfer them to another. However, I have never heard Crewdson of singing folk songs (it happens in one song though). He seems to reinvent himself with any brand new one. At Neeto The Wonder Wig Part II you can hear a zombie singing a lullaby to you. It's so cute, isn't it? In a word, Johnny did it again. Thereafter I recommend listen to The Fall's Perverted By Language (1983).

[Teaser of the day] Nigo - Sea Monsters

UpitUp

• Electronic pop
• Chilltronica
• Mood music
• Breaks

Artist: Nigo

Release: Various ‎– Knobheads

Label: UpitUp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] KuNa - Satya

• Dub
• Electronic music
• Lo-fi
• Downtempo
• Alternative

Artist: KuNa

Release: Kuna EP

Label: AQuietBump

Year: 2015

[Teaser of the day] Kent State - Secrets For Sale

• Noise pop
• Alternative rock
• Garage rock
• Fuzz pop
• Indie rock
• Neo-psychedelia

Artist: Kent State

Release: The Wrong Side of History

Label: Paranoid Futures

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Smooth Genestar - Jazzo Bandito

Cyan Music

• Electronic music
• Nu jazz
• Ambient dub
• Acid jazz
• Downtempo
• Crossover
• Breaks

Artist: Smooth Genestar

Release: Last Train Downtown

Label: Cyan Music/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Canoply Games - Stains

Jamendo

• Post-industrial
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Power electronics
• Leftfield
• Electronic music
• Experimentalism

Artist: Canoply Games

Release: Post-Music#2

Label: Jamendo

Year: 2009

[Teaser of the day] Asian Women on the Telephone - Da da da beasts

• Dada music
• Krautrock
• Improvised music
• Avant-rock
• Electronic
• Experimental rock

Artist: Asian Women on the Telephone

Release: hour of Lavsan

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2013

[Teaser of the day] Towards The Forest - Dawn: Home In My Skin

• Indietronica
• Alternative
• Drone pop
• Electronic music

Artist: Towards The Summer

Release: Moon Summer

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Nuclear Biologist - Onomatopoeias Researched!

Nuclear Biologist

• Art rock
• Progressive rock
• Surf rock
• Crossover
• RIO
• Avant-prog

Artist: Nuclear Biologist

Release: Rocket Surgeons

Label: Self-released

Year: 2008

The Shalfonts – Totem Power, Totem Life (2016)

Bandcamp

• Indie pop/rock 
• Alternative pop/rock 
• Art pop/rock 
• Post-rock 
• Drone pop 
• Jangle pop 
• Organcore

Comment: Birmingham, UK-based The Shalfonts have much to say because given that 25-notch issue otherwise it could be a merciless failure. These compositions are exquisite and witty drawing comparisons with ensembles of the C86 movement/jangle pop and on the other side there are up hints at the jazz influenced Chicago post-rock scene, especially to the like of Sea And The Cake. Indeed, a listener can perceive some kind of sophisticated easiness in The Shalfonts' music. With regard to the just written words The Shalfonts do create a coherent sonic bound between the USA, and Great Britain. Yet eventually I shall have to admit the US influence is even stronger and more remarkable. Strumming guitars are wrapped up by miscellaneous sonic effects and electronic sounds. Imagine it is a sort of jangle pop (or post-jangle pop) being influenced by an exquisite sort of jazz rock. It burrows its way through minimal changes and by adding a rewarding amount of new elements to the mix. I recommend listening to it because it is immensely more worth hearing rather than following some NHL team while these teams are as changeable as the brothels by its members. Do you think you are following Montrèal Canadiens, for instance? What sort of phenomenon do you follow exactly if the next season at least a third of the team is renewed? Is it worth to waste your time on nonsense? It is a crooked self-deception. The nowadays world is seriously fucked up. Only music does still have something worthy to say. The Shalfonts has also something worthy to say.