The Best Of 2015. 6x6

The occasional sickness provides me with the chance to speed up the process somehow. So, only in a day from the previous entry please find below the next one.

See also:
11x11 (EP's and mini albums)
10x10
9x9
8x8
7x7

El Lado Oscuro De La Broca "Beta" (p)El Genio Equivocado Listen/Buy

Second "Viaje Iniciatico" (p)Hook Listen/Buy

Belize "Belize" (p)Warner Listen

Detergente Liquido "Ponte Lo Peor. Llamame El Lunes" (p)Discos del Rollo Listen/Buy

Izal "Copacabana" (p)Hook

Maicalles "DSPRXR" (p)self-released Listen/Buy

• The most fierce and furious shoegaze album this side of A Place To Bury Strangers' "Exploding Head". Once you dive into it you wouldn't get up for air again until the music stops.
• Fortunately, Second have returned to what they can do best. Recorded and released via the massive crowdfunding campaign (the band has set a new record for the French crowdfunding platform MyMajorCompany reaching the 15000 Eur limit literally in hours) "Viaje Iniciatico" visibly abandons "2502"'s straight-forward dance rock approach turning out the well-balanced album where intelligent electronica warmly befriends the new bettersweet mid-tempo hymns "Nivel Inexperto" and "Lo Unico". And I'm proud of the fact that somewhere in the liner notes to this album there's my name too.
• One of the main entries to this year's 'Breakhrough' category - the juvenile Pamplona-based sextet Belize delivers the breezy sunshine pop with the touches of indie rock, lounge and acid jazz. The best choice to give rest to ears after El Lado Oscuro De La Broca or Disco Las Palmeras! 
• As honest as sarcastic (just look at the song titles and you'll find something like "Everything Is As Fantastic As A Drugstore Poster"), the music of Detergente Liquido is a bug gulp of the fresh Atlantic air (the band is from Cadiz that looks like a perfect place to soak yourself in the fresh Atlantic air) tasting like pre-Cool Britannia jangle pop along with slight twee notes in the aftertaste.
• In fact there's some kind of duality about "Copacabana". In one hand, Izal as a band has reached the level of masterfulness and internal chemistry where everything is possible and you can do every trick you intend to do. In other hand, apart from a couple of tracks (most notably "En Aire Y Hueso" and "Oro Y Humo") the songs are sounding less complicated than those on two previous longplays. By structure some songs here are closer rather to "Teletransporte EP" than to "Agujeros De Gusano". Anyway, in terms of complexity "Copacabana" is 'the major league of Spanish indie' album which can provide you with the great listening pleasure without any doubt. 
• Recorded by Poomse's Llorenc Rossello en solitario "DSPRXR" is the perfect example of lo-fi folktronica much in the vein of Lou Barlow solo works. By the way, it's the second album of this year that mentions another lo-fi pioneer Bill Callahan. But if Hazte Lapon have only sung his name once, then Llorenc has penned a full-fledged homage to the lo-fi mastermind turned out to be the Pitchfork-embraced indie darling.