The Best Of 2015. 7x7

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Alborotador Gomasio "Los Excesos De Los Ninos" (p)Limbo Starr Buy

Nueva Vulcano "Noveleria" (p)BCore Disc/La Castanya Listen/Buy

Papaya "No Me Quiero Enamorar" (p)Jabalina Listen/Buy

Blacanova "Regiones Devastadas" (p)El Genio Equivocado Listen/Buy

L.A. "From The City To The Ocean Side" (p)Sony Buy

Pasajero "Parque De Atracciones" (p)Ernie Producciones Listen Buy

(lo:mueso) "Hoiden Limother Petity Vefucker" (p)Aloud Music Listen/Buy

• The energy, the cool melodies, the provocative videos and a lot of noise around. The sophomore release of Alborotador Gomasio was forged on the noisey side of Madrid punk rock.
• Another post hardcore-fueled fruit in my top lists garden. If the previous album of Nueva Vulcano "Los Peces De Colores" sounded quite edgier and stripped-down, "Noveleria" is a smoother record. There's more space in it, and while "Los Peces..." was really cool record, the new one is just better by all measures. 
• Tight and gorgeous yet quite minimalistic country-soaked baroque pop from the latest bird of the Jabalina Musica nest. Papaya's Yanara Espinoza seeks for happiness in more or less traditional formats of a song but somehow she manages to sound absolutely unique. 
• Before recording the new album the Sevillan post shoegaze rock outfit Blacanova moved from Foehn Records to El Genio Equivocado but did not change the artistic vision. Subtle и slow-paced tracks with psychedelia, shoegaze, post rock and dark folk influences for the fans of the band's previous works. 
• Luis Alberto Segura slowly moves towards his painfully underappreciated "Heavenly Hell"'s sound back from the stripped-down-to-the-core "SLNT FLM" template.
• "Parque De Atracciones" definitely is the step forward for Pasajero. The band has matured for these three years that divide the second album from the first one. The songs got stronger, the arrangements got wiser, the sound got more concerned in nuances. Another success for Manuel Cabezali as a producer.
• Experimentation with (or refusal of, in better words) the standard rock song format, flirting with pure stream of consciousness noise, and skipping between genres. With these things involved it's a pure artistic achievent for (lo:mueso) that this album doesnt sound quirky or pretentious. 

(lo:muêso) "Hoidên Limother Petity Vefuckêr"

(lo:muêso) "Hoidên Limother Petity Vefuckêr" (p) 2015 Aloud Music

The new effort of (lo:muêso) starts with 11 minutes long "Katazome Falls" where it takes almost 4 minutes to desarrolar from quasi-ambient intro to powerful & melodic shoegaze explosion. The next "Amarillo Mortimer" is compulsive emo/screamo/post-hardcore track that can beat the shit out of anyone who isn't warned. The third track "Black Scissors" contains more than 17 minutes of creepy post-everything guitar noodling replaced by the bursts of A Place To Bury Strangers-like noise. So, how many bands do you know that can start the album with the tracks of 11, 6 and 17 minutes duration? It quickly becomes apparent that the members of this Barcelonian quartet do not want to fetter their creative visions - the compromise is not their aim, and to pleasure the occasional listener isn't one of their commitments.
The album's title consists of the words "hope", "identity", "live" and "motherfucker" mixed to relatively unpronounceable results. The strange creature on the cover also wants to tell you something. Possibly, his words are like these: "Beware! This album is the mindwrenching mixture of post-hardcore, metal and shoegaze. And it's so addictive anyway!" What should I add... the fresh air in the stagnated forests of guitar-driven indie rock can be quite addictive, yes.

The best tracks: Katazome Falls, The Swindle, DeadSeaHorses

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