From Rotting Fantasylands -
Nero's Day At Disneyland [2009]
Breakcore without dubstep but with occasional chiptunes.
The songs are more structured than
Venetian Snares songs, in that the songs follow a set melody. There is a slight circus theme to the music.
Central Park Jogger -
FFH and Prurient [2009]
Surprisingly, it's not a shock album, but a strong noise album with nods to the early power electronic sound, without ripping it off.
Too much distortion to be called power electronics, but takes it's cues from power electronics by adding spoken word samples, especially spoken word samples taken from the media.
Reminds me of
Death Mask, with it's messy ambiance of layered analog noise.
Alphabet 1968 -
Black to Comm [2009]
An excellent album with a light, ethereal feel.
Incorporation of beats and other various samples keep the music interesting, but, like most ambient, the music is still relaxing and comforting.
Sounds like
Tim Hecker or the slowcore version of an instrumental
Animal Collective.
koffing ep -
Koffing [2009]
Like
Lustmord with more percussion instruments that sound like
Harry Partch's
instruments.
It's not spooky. It reminds me of some art student's project on sound collage.
Eyes Of The Owl -
eyes of the owl [2009]
Like
Sleep or a heavier, sludgier
Minsk.
Sparse vocals, that are never distracting, whether they're screechy or monk like chants.
Glorious heavy music to zone out to.
Central Market -
Tyondai Braxton [2009]
Tyondai Braxton is from
Battles. Unsurprisingly, the music sounds like it's related to Battles.
Central Market is somehow both silly and sophisticated. Due to the wide variety of instruments and how they're utilized, there's an orchestra feel to the album similar to
Peter and the Wolf. In other words, it sounds like a symphony for children.
One exception is
J. City, which is the only track that has lyrics and a bouncy guitar melody. Rest assured though, it's still quite unusual.
Two Sunsets -
Pastels/Tenniscoats [2009]
Sugary sweet, down-tempo, Japanese music. No thanks.
Absence -
Paper Route [2009]
Another boring Christian band.
Gambling on the Richter Scale -
Kowloon Walled City [2009]
Rumbley, bass-driven metal.
I'm not too crazy about the singers voice. A deeper, more manly voice would compliment the music better, imo.
A rather unremarkable, but enjoyable album.
It's a free d/l from last.fm.
Static Tensions -
Kylesa [2009]
Metal with hardcore and a hint of stoner rock/sludge. The mixture of different styles compliment each another very nicely. Also, delicious drum work is delicious.
Running Red sounds like
Minsk.
Here Be Dragons -
The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble [2009]
One of
Bong-Ra's side projects.
live bootleg>mutations ep>s/t and here be dragons
Succubus -
The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation [2009]
Another one of
Bong-Ra's side projects; it's similar to tkde.
I think I like this better than their last album. It has less doom and more jazz, and the songs are a lot more interesting.
Petturien rooli -
Grunt [2009]
Power electronics from Finland.
Not just another
Whitehouse ripoff; they have their own sound. Interesting layering and lots of samples that give the songs a unique texture.
Still Night, Still Light -
Au Revoir Simone [2009]
Another typical girl-fronted indie band
Pass.
Agonist -
Latitudes [2009]
Almost instrumental, melodic death metal.
The singer's voice is pretty like a girls.
Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian -
Prefuse 73 [2009]
Mostly instrumental idm/hip-hop.
Paul White, a similar artist, managed to pull off this style much better with
The Strange Dreams of Paul White. I would not say this is a bad album though; it just meanders more than I'd like. Some of the tracks could be shortened up, and some of them are boring and need to be revamped.
Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix -
Phoenix [2009]
Upbeat, indie-pop with neo-disco leanings
Reminds me of jupiter one's s/t, a lot. In their defense though Phoenix was around first, so I suppose it's really the other way around.
Fences is a pretty catchy track with
Bee Gees-like vocals.
Sunshower -
Jupiter One [2009]
Much, much worse than their s/t.
They've shed most of their disco trappings in favor of simple, over-used guitar melodies.
Anna reminds me so much of the theme from growing pains,
As long as we've got each other.
See the Light -
The Hours [2009]
Boring, slick, down-tempo pop.
Coldplay for indie kids.
Coldplay
Untrust Us
