Indie Rock/Pop from France | Another Record is a small French record label that uses CC-licences as a promotion tool. Because their music can be shared freely, the attention to their artists and their physical releases is growing. In the end of February they have released a nice compilation called “Sweets For The Wild 3”, where you can find various kinds of indie rock/pop music ranging from melancholic singer/songwriter to experimental, psychedelic pop songs and guitar-driven indie rock. Listen & Read more »

Dreamy Acoustic Pop | I always appreciate a good level of self-irony. A musician who describes her music with “acoustic dilettante post-something” must be likeable, I assumed. As soon as I listened to the first seconds of Entertainment For The Braindead’s Hypersomnia EP, I immediatly underlined my first impression. And suddenly there was this image in front of my inner eye: A young woman from Cologne is sitting in front of her Laptop and starts recording plain and simply wonderful acoustic pop music, that is full of life and everything around it. Listen & Read more »

Japanese Ambient Benefaction | To readers of Phlow Magazine, Ryonkt ain’t a new name. I wrote a review about his debut EP “Slow Time” in November 2007. Back then, Ryo Nakata aka Ryonkt promised to releases some more music in the near future. After appearances at Audiotalaia, Mandorla and Noise-Joy, Nakata delivers his most recent masterpiece via the welcome hands of Resting Bell Netlabel. Listen & Read more »

Experimental and Catchy Guitar Music | Fiktion is the moniker of Gustaf Erik Lundh from Gotheburg, the album “Morfint” his second LP for the Swedish Frukt Netlabel. On his website, you can find his debut “Gryning & Skymning” and three EPs, all of them recorded since late 2006. Definitive a man of quantity, Lundh’s latest releases is a rich source for suckers of high quality Indie Pop, too. Listen & Read more »

Postmodern Renaissance Music | Autark is a new Austrian Netlabel, “Four Pieces” is their second release. While I was preparing to write something about their first release (a two-track EP of decent piano experimentalism featuring Hans Platzgumer), Innsbruck based analog fanatic Krowley hit the scene. “Four Pieces” is postmodern Renaissance music for the IDM afterglow. Listen & Read more »