Trilitrate "Frutal Death"

Trilitrate "Frutal Death" (p)2016 Metamovida/ Nooirax

This is kind of strange music. The members of Metamovida collective (the Galician artistic commune that unites the underground bands such as diola, Cro!, Bala, Guerrera, IgMig amongst others) Ruben Abad (also of Cro!), Marcos Padron, Elena Vazquez and Laura Iturralde take a step into acoustic music built upon the instrumentation unusual for the habitual rock apparatus (even for the underground side of it). How many bands that use accordion you can count except for the Celtick punk sub-genre? That's really uncommon. I've never listened to anything like "Frutal Death" before. This is tiny fragile folkloric music - very quiet, trembling and mysterious. 

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Best of 2016. 5 great albums more

Now it's time to shift the point of attention from the dead and bloated corpse of the year 2016 to something more recent and fresh-smelling - but it's not the way the poor slowpoke-minded me wants to go right now as I don't want to leave the unprocessed residues here. So there are 5 albums more to add to the 'best of year' section. I totally missed these albums when I was in process of Top50 preparation but they shouldn't go along underappreciated.

05. Desperanza "El Tiempo Destruye Todo" (p)self-released

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The hard-boiled indie rock that fits perfectly for the 90's indie rock lovers like me.
The frontman of Desperanza Enrique Billy contacted me via Facebook mesenger in the very beginning of 2016 but the message was filtered off, and I found it almost over a year since the moment it was really sent...

04. El Imperio Del Perro "El Imperio Del Perro" (p)Green UFOs/ Lunar

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First I noticed this name on the sleeves of Ninos Mutantes' tribute "Mutanciones" where El Imperio Del Perro masterfully revised one of the Mutantes' multiple hallmarks "Naufragos". This should make me eager for the releases of the band but somehow this intention was overshadowed by more urgent events, and it was only 2nd week of 2017 when I brought it back to mind. Better late than never.

03. Os Amigos Dos Musicos "Os Amigos Dos Musicos" (p)Gran Derby

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Folk rock, roots rock, americana and slowcore born and bred in the valleys of Ribeira Sacra.

02. Belgrado "Obraz" (p)La Vida Es Un Mus

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The post-punk combo from Barcelona is obsessed with Serbia. Even the lyrics are Serbian. Cold and machinery-like at the first glance, "Obraz" evolves into something more soulful and warm with every consequent listen.

01. Cro! "Mounstros" (p)Metamovida/ Nooirax/ La Choza de Doe

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The fourth album of the Vigo-based experimental rock band. A lot of genres - at times quite disparate - are mixed here, but the final result is the solid and cohesive blast of spazzcore in the vein of Unicornibot (mentioned here) and Betunizer.

Previous entries:

Top50. Albums 01-10
Top50. Albums 11-20
Top50. Albums 21-30
Top50. Albums 31-40
Top50. Albums 41-50
Top10 - EPs and mini albums
Honorable mention #1
Honorable mention #2