V.A Christmas (2009)

Petite & Jolie

• Indietronica 
• Art pop 
• Electronic pop 
• Conceptual 
• Improvised music 
• IDM 
• Folktronica 
• Drone pop 
• Organcore

Comment: today is the 29th of April, and it is a date quite far away from the Christmas but I have to admit it is one of the best Xmas compilations I have ever heard. It does not include traditional Christmas songs but new ones. Most of the songs used to chime and soar based on sublime electronic progressions and delicate chord changes, mutant frequencies and crispy beats. Additionally one can find out more technical and maybe less emotion arousing tracks either, for instance, two gentle improvised tracks by Makunouchi Bento. I guess it could be exciting, and at times ennobling and relaxing by listening to the whole while sitting with your family around the table. The compilation is a part of the discography of Petite & Jolie by including 13 tracks in total. There are up such artists as Makunouchi Bento, Julian Winter, Relative_q, QuasiMojo, Pam, Kaneel, Valzi and Blot, Windy Hill Mill, and The_Zwicker_Tone.

[Teaser of the day] Abe Lyman - Oh How I Miss You

78RPMs

• Oldie music
• Big band
• Swing
• Jazz

Artist: Abe Lyman 

Release: Abe Lyman Collection 1925-1935

Label: 78RPMs

Year: 1931/2018

[Teaser of the day] tay_ploops - hhhiii

• Avant-folk
• DIY
• Free folk
• New Weird Canada
• Improvised music
• Lo-fi
• Experimental folk

Artist: tay_ploops

Release: spool oops

Label: Pan Y Rosas Discos/Bandcamp

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Cinchel - Begging Bringing In

• Ambient noise
• Minimalism
• Avant-garde
• Drone
• Acousmatic music
• Microtonal
• Ambient
• Sound art
• Soundscape
• Ambient drone
• Experimentalism

Artist: Cinchel

Release: A Sad Study in Temporal Dissonance 

Label: Bandcamp/Patient Sounds

Year: 2018

[Teaser of the day] Makunouchi Bento - Gymnopedie No 1

One

• Conceptual
• Experimentalism
• Field recording
• Dreamwave
• Post-classical
• Crossover
• Modern classical
• Musique concrète
• Avant-garde

Artist: Makunouchi Bento

Release: Trcutu

Label: One/Bandcamp

Year: 2005

[Teaser of the day] Shiftless - The Mailbox

Camomille

• Ambient
• Soundscape
• Epic
• Microtonal
• Electronic music
• Minimalism

Artist: Shiftless

Release: Cloudburst

Label: Camomille

Year: 2004

The Hathaway Family Plot – Bethlehem Is Burning (2018)

Bandcamp

Free Music Archive

• Art pop 
• Avant-pop 
• Alternative 
• Singer-songwriter 
• Noise pop 
• Experimental pop 
• No Wave

Comment: Kevin McFadden from Buffalo can be considered a most obscure artist below Star-Spangled Banner and he continues an occult way to pave on this 13-track issue either. The concept of the release is ghastly based on an imagination of a mentally fragile man who believes to be a new messiah born from the fire of Bethlehem. All of that is exquisitely supported by an incisive sonic set where dreamy progressions are interrupted by sharp noises and concerted glitched-out debris. One can hear uncanny marching music being craftily imbued with subdued noises and a bit pointed glitches. Yet you can be sure it is not neither noise nor dream pop at its core. You can find out similarities with the last album of David Bowie, with Robert Wyatt, with Tom Waits, with Scott Walker, with Mart Avi, with a late David Sylvian (Blemish) yet the artist`s handwriting is something fairly singular and extraordinary. For sure, it is an example of pop music in positive term (unlike its nature) because one cannot see destructive tendencies against the poppy structures (though McFadden`s music is filled in with swathes of impressive rage, i.e on emotional level here and there), all of that is positively constructed from scratch instead of manipulating with annihilated mainstream pop dictations and being based on deep-seated contradictions. In a word, it is not the kind of sound collage, it is an integrated, full-fledged composition. For sure, it will be put up in the list of the best albums in 2018 at Recent Music Heroes.

[Teaser of the day] Trianov Maxim - The Morning After

Nexsound

• Experimental electronica
• Avant-electronica
• Post-rock
• Jazz rock
• Improvised music
• Fusion
• Electronic music
• Crossover

Artist: Trianov Maxim

Release: A Chance To Remember

Label: Nexsound

Year: 2014 

[Teaser of the day] Leões de Marte - Inverno Abaixo

• Alternative rock
• Psych-rock
• Post-rock
• Indie rock

Artist: Leões de Marte 

Release: A Face Mais Vermelha

Label: Sinewave

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Samarah - Strip Mall Romance

Nishi

• Electro pop
• IDM
• Glitch pop
• DIY
• Electronic music
• Alternative pop
• Lo-fi

Artist: Samarah

Release: Robots Smile Too

Label: Nishi/Archive.org

Year: 2007