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12/31/2015

External World - External World (2006)




  • Improvised music
  • New Weird Britain
  • Free folk
  • Dada music
  • Freeformfreakout
  • Anti-folk
  • Experimentalism
  • Primitive music
  • Weird folk
  • Avant-garde
  • Psychedelic

Comment: it is not the first and apparently will not be the last entry of a combo related to such labels as Cozy Home Records, Daydream Generation, and Quixodelic Records. All the three can be considered as staples within the realm of home recorded ingenious music which frequently tend to stay beyond definitive stylistic terms. External World is the duo of Judy Shimmin and Rob Levy whose 15-notch issue is released from conventional pop music threads of utmost extent. I guess someone might think it is negative album on account of just wanting purposefully to counteract to the mainstream music. Such sort of statement would be probably wrong because the result is somehow cohesive and convincing despite of providing a shitloads of wired progressions and wild turns and frantic dodges. More concretely, it involves tickled dialogues in words, mind-boggling interactions between guitar playing, trance-y ethnic drumming and amusing synchronised vocal deliveries pouring out of both channels simultaneously. And all of these elements seem to be surfaced at ease. The starting point is not important here as it is not the ending spot either – between the listener could discern much free energy and delight of cooperation coming out of those relatively short-running pieces. The more you listen to it the more you could behold folk-based structure behind it. Firstly one might discern chaos fuelled fractals which then stepwise begin to disappear to hold place for more “logical” indications. In fact, the aforementioned improvised pieces and lovely freakouts do variegate with emotively and aesthetically restrained guitar twangs (Early Hours) or one could enjoy calm moments where the birds are singing, cicadas are chirping, some leaves fall spirally down accompanied by faint drumming. It sounds like a nice afternoon on Sunday somewhere in the backyard. By lyrical side, it is similarly imaginative and freely tripping as the sonic concept (for instance, We Must Go). In a word, listen to it to get permitted to enter into a difference making portal.

8/19/2015

The “New” Utica Compilation (2002)




/New Weird America, Crossover, Electronic pop, Blues, Psych-folk, Experimental indie, Acid rock, Psychedelic rock, Anti-folk, Punk rock, DIY/

Comment: I guess I firstly stumbled upon the music of Cozy Home Records at the end of the 00s sometime due to discovering some artists through CLLCT who were being related to the label and closely related platforms like Daydream Generation, and Quixodelic Records. However, this 15-bar issue is the first miscellany being issued under the umbrella in 2002. It was the year when Devendra Banhart, Animal Collective, and Ariel Pink as later backbones to the upcoming New Weird America scene and weird pop appearance just started to gain reputation step by step. Musically the whole is diversified providing a shitloads loads of glimpses into many genres, however, the quality of music not to be given a fuck. Furthermore, it is a vivid exemplar of full-fledged DIY culture in the USA. The listener is being kept in the radar due to thought-provoking crosses between indie and electronic and acid pop bits, freaked-out folk compositions, uncompromisingly stalking blues driven punk rock energy, and effect-laden experimental inclined rock examples. The compilation could be considered as a notch of the so-called New Weird America movement with some reservations because folk music represented over there is not a goal on its own but just a bare instrument to bring forth the magic of sounds. There are represented such artists as The Chrome Ghosts, The Real Burnouts, Have You Seen This, Man?, Zapp Chapp, Crookedfoot (early handwithlegs), D. Only, Dead Priest Sphynx, Early Morning Edison, Christian Science Mobsters, Family Talent Show, Eponine, Travel Labyrinth, Maynard and The Molemen, and The Flying Turdballs (Big Mimi Bourgeous with Jenny Penny and Cashew Cook). Additionally to listening to this lofty legacy I recommend to open up the catalogues and links through the aforementioned platforms to discover an universe within the glorious US-based DIY tradition.


11/22/2013

The Painted Shuts - My Own Personal Summer Of Love (2008)




  • Space pop
  • Indie pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Jangle pop
  • Psychedelic pop
  • Drone pop
  • Organcore
  • Art pop
Outstanding tracks:
At The Bus Stop
Elephant Teapot
Raskolnikov
66
Casablanca

10/29/2013

The Fig Mints - Enjoy While You Can (2005)



  • Indie rock
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Folk indie
  • Drone rock
  • Indie folk
  • Lo-fi
  • Alternative rock
  • DIY
  • Musique concrète
  • Experimental rock
Outstanding tracks:
I Have a Headache
Cleaning Up
You Got Too Much, Son
The Trouble With Superstition

10/20/2013

Dead Canaries - Critical Mass: Flying Things Vs Crawling Things (2008)




  • Baroque pop
  • Alternative pop
  • Chamber pop
  • Singer-songwriter
  • Experimental indie
Outstanding tracks:
Moths Are at the Bug Zapper
Lamentations of a Penguin
It`s A Crab`s Life
Norman & The Dragonfly