Baikonour - Your Ear Knows Future

1. Intro
2. Shikharettes & Кhukuris
3. Chiru
4. Fly Tiger
5. Double Happiness Wholesale
6. Ye Ama Piooo!
7. Tombahead
8. Summer Grass / Winter Worm
9. Look...Wa!

The second long-player from Brighton's Jean-Emmanuel Krieger, Your Ear Knows Future marks a sharpening of his skills at whittling prog and krautrock influenced instrumentals. For this album, Krieger handles all instrumentation bar the drums, which are deftly helmed by Fujiya & Miyagi's Lee Adams - undoubtedly a sympathetic ear to the Baikonour cause. So many artists have a stab at appropriating the unique sound palettes of bands like My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins, but there are points on this album that come closer than most: 'Chiru' seems to meld the sonic hallmarks of these two touchstones of '90s indie sound sculpting, revealing a blissfully textural onslaught of effects-drenched guitars. Elsewhere 'Tombahead' has a close run-in with the sound of early Air, while the chorused twang of 'Double Happiness Wholesale' drifts off into the horizon via a swathe of glistening arpeggio passages. Lovely...www.boomkat.com

Woods - Songs Of Shame

01 To Clean
02 The Hold
03 The Number
04 September with Pete
05 Down This Road
06 Military Madness
07 Born to Lose
08 Echo Lake
09 Rain On
10 Gypsy Hand
11 Where and What Are You?

Fourth full length rips deeper with both 90 second & 10 minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. This is not to say the idiosyncratic songwriting style & vocalizing of Jeremy Earl is not present in spades but expanded, colored, & twisted into a tie-dye of soundscapes. Having toured incessantly over the last 12 months as a four piece, many of the songs on "Shame" benefit from having been road worn, windblown, & deeply grooved.

Anne Laplantine & F.S.Blumm - Fa

1. Fa
2. Do You
3. The Look-Reprise
4. Fa 1
5. Would We
6. Majestically B
7. The Look

Great release, Do you is my favorite track..