smoked out brainz - re disablinator

Rate:4/5

Nice hardcore
I would truly recommend this tune. It reminds the good, old experimental hardcore stuff from Alternative Tentacles Rec. and so on. It's much more sophisticated that the usual hc stuff, but still it has this energy and power one looks for. I would work on the vocals a bit (I think more about the production than the singing), but overall it is an interesting composition.

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p.s. well... only after I wrote this review it appeared that a tune comes from my Canadianb friends. Greetings!!!
p.s.2 Smoked out brainz is a name of a net-label, not a band. What's group name? I don't know. Anybody?

The Shambolics - First: I Kill You. Then: I Steal Your Power

Rate:8/10

It's raw, it's garage-like, it'S The Shambolics. Those crazy punk-blues kiwi's from postmoderncore net label it's one of the most surprising things I've recently come over CC. First: I Kill You. Then: I Steal Your Power it's just 4 tracks, roughly 12 minutes of music, but still it's so dirty and in-your-face that I do recommend it to every indie-fan out there. My favourites there is instrumental Petrol, and Bad Man/Bad Girl - a modern crazy ride in a Jon Spencer's Blues Explosion style. Number 2 at the record, Stoopid Bitches may be little bit off-putting because of a sexiest title, but nonetheless it's nice tihs to listen to.

stay cool,

gz

Lágrima - Trayecto Imperfecto de un Viaje Inacabado

Rate:8/10

This is the first of the records from Error!Lo-Fi Recording, a very interesting net-label that I recommend here, that's why the score is maybe a bit excessive. Lagrima plays interesting and engaging instrumental lo-fi and although there is a certain that-composition-is-so-similar and I-have-heard-it-before syndroms, it's still a recommendable release. Becasue of the first thing mentioned above, I won't say which track on the Trayecto Imperfecto de un Viaje Inacabado is the best, and because of the second syndrome, I won't say which bands too much influenced this project ;-).
Summarizing, check it out; if you like lo-fi/postrock vibes, this is your record. If not, well... Too bad.

stay cool,

gz.

New Year, New challenges.

There are plans for 2010. First of all, I’d like to post things here often (sweet dreams ;-), but you know life, so no promises. Second of all, I’m breaking the rule of presenting only jamendo and garageband releases. From now on, it’s every single netlabel or artist that uses CC, if he is worth recommending, of course.

Ok, so have a great 2010, live long and prosper!

Yours truly,

gz.

Merry X-mas

Light In Your Life – light in your life

Rate:8/10

That’s the nice record, one that sticks with you from the first chords to the end of the album. The content is basically, a guitar-based, new/dark wave melancholic songs. It reminds me of an early Radiohead (the intro in It Would Be Fine for that instance), Editors (just listen to the vocalist style in Smile That Smile), the Smiths (their hypnotic mode - Christian), Interpol (the riff in Psych) or even Arcade Fire (an extremely catchy and in the same way obscure and melancholic guitar work in Emily Scott). Ok... Even with the comparison, because in a way it is degrading for the band. I think that Light In Your Life has its own style, and it seems that if they play their cards right and put a bit of diversity into their arrangement, there is definitely future ahead of them. As for now, I give 8 out of 10, because the cover is a bit amaterish.

Stay cool,

gz.

Guilt trip - Headplate [el:ectro]

Rate:5/5

Good one
This tune has everything I expect from a solid industrial tune. It has good electronic sample (reminding me of early Nine Inch Nails or Nitzer Ebb), the vocal is very much in industrial style - dark and emotional preaching ;-) Rhythm is professional and has good sound, there are nice breaks of it (1'23'') and the chorus is quite catchy. Summarizing, it's two thumbs up!

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