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Comment: nula.cc`s East by Rail was one of the favourite albums in 2017. Concrete sounds were mixed up with artificial ones in a way to conjure up unforgettable synergy from within the initial parts. The sum of its particles was exceeded by the whole amount. Similarly to the Prague, the Czech Republic based project`s previous issue Fall To Earth should be listened in the mode while all nearby windows and doors are closed because otherwise the listener is foreclosed to evaluate the issue`s intellectual impact while its functional impact is implemented though. Because of getting well resonated with the surrounding ambient you have to admit the latter goal is fulfilled. In comparison to East By Rail the result seems to be more reserved and hazy, it is quite hard to find access to it. You can hear vague sounds coming in and out and then alternate unobtrusively and being traded for other hazy progressions. However, my senses got finally moved at Stigmata which is a vague yet haunting drone/ambient track being spiced up by remote clanks and an accidental tittle-tattle. But the listener should not forget the project`s goal as an organic chain of different representations. It is just an artsy shift from one point to another one. Indeed, points which came thereafter were Monumentum, and Points On A Map. In a word, map nula.cc`s trajcetory.

4/16/2018

[Teaser of the day] pandoras.box - Monomeet

Clinical Archives

Indie rock
Alternative rock
Dream pop

Artist: pandoras.box

Release: Monomeet

Label: Clinical Archives

Year: 2011

Lycia – Tripping Back Into The Broken Days (2002)

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Projekt

Dark wave
Shoegaze
Alternative
Ambient rock
Dreamgaze
Epic
Neoclassical
Ethereal wave

Comment: I guess Tripping Back Into The Broken Days is a good start for beginners to make acquaintance with Tempe, Arizona, US-based combo. My first contact with Mike VanPortfleet led trio (though the recent one is created by Mike VanPortfleet, and Tara Vanflower) was in 2004 while I got an album by my friend and thereafter was listening to it with my bride in the bed in a darkened room. Yeah, the impression was powerful, I got dazed and I fell in love with Lycia. I think Lycia is one of the most underrated combos in the music history and the trio`s music should be immensely more appreciated. If there is up a topic about shoegaze then you could not find out any hints at Lycia in that regard. Indeed, Lycia as a combo is a juggernaut between shoegaze and dark wave, maybe even between post-punk, and neofolk/dark folk/neoclassical. For instance, at times Lycia, and Slowdive do have much in common. The formula of Lycia is quite simple – their music used to take off with reverb-drenched, extended guitar chords being backed up by murky atmospheric synthesisers and longing vocal lines and then progress slowly and then pertify in a sense. A perfect music example to back up your dreams and anxious minds. Lycia`s music may be considered a break to the other side, or at least something of reflecting shades and dim rays from that dimension. By watching the cover print and considering the title of this 12-track outing you can perceive hints at American gothic and magic realism. It is a place where the past comes into the present in a quaint way and start to dominate the latter. In the sense you can similarities with Morrissey`s lyrics. A mandatory release for sure. The issue was intially released on Projekt Records.

[Teaser of the day] Cagey House - Cagey House is a Big Sissy

Bypass

Avant-garde
Electro-rock
Art rock
Synth-rock
Avant-prog
Freeformfreakout
RIO
Crossover
Psychedelic rock
Improvised music
Electronic music
Acid rock
Experimentalism

Artist: Cagey House

Release: Calico Pastry Sunshine

Label: Bypass

Year: 2011

[Teaser of the day] Ben Woods - Always

Post-classical
Ambient
Art music
Modern classical
Epic

Artist: Ben Woods

Release: Passing Intervals

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2017

[Teaser of the day] Antanas Jasenka - Denis & His Programme

Nishi

Experimental electronica
Drum and bass
Glitch techno
Crossover
Experimental electro
Jungle
Breakcore

Artist: Antanas Jasenka

Release: Car Music

Label: Nishi

Year: 2006

[Teaser of the day] Least Carpet - Mirrors

Psych-folk
Raga music
Drone folk
New Weird Germany
Dream folk
Minimalism

Artist: Least Carpet

Release: Shahi Baaja

Label: Self-released/Bandcamp

Year: 2015

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4/17/2018

[Teaser of the day] Speculativism - Protecting Croydon from the Martians

[Teaser of the day] Kreng - Alcyone 1

[Teaser of the day] Marevick - Rosario

nula.cc – Fall To Earth (2018)