Electric Kuru - Zugunruhe
62

Maybe, if You're not into Psych/Kraut stuff, this isn't the right album for you. But, trust me, at least give at a chance to "Juan Fernandez Petrel".

https://nonpiangeredischi.bandcamp.com/album/zugunruhe

Strobes - Brokespeak
90

Hypnotic electronic riffs all around on a carpet of hyperactive drumming. Sounds like Battles keys on acid: sometimes there are some funky details. And that's even better!

Calibro 35 - Decade
92

To celebrate ten years from first album, Calibro 35 enlarges their band to a real orchestra. And the results it's just amazing. Funk, psych, jazzcore, big beat, afro, progressive rock and cinematic sounds mixes all together to give you a bloody experiences.
Enjoy > https://calibro35rk.bandcamp.com/album/decade

Quadrupède - Interiors
82

666daysofstatic!

Laika Nello Spazio - Dalla Provincia
48

Sons of Marlene Kuntz.

Time Columns - Sunriseinthesea
67

It's a slowly starting EP: first two tracks results kinda-boring and too long. From "Hundred Flowers" it starts to push a little on the harder things and, when it keeps growing with the next two tracks ("Fall" and "Winter"), things are gettin' def better.
That's just guitar-driven math rock made with loops (even if "math rock" it's never "just" math rock).
It's a quite good one.

NUER - GAAR
67

"All is violent, all is bright" used to say God Is An Astronaut and it totally fits as a description for this work by italian NUER. This album offers a bass-driven blend of punk and violent electronics that winks to Prodigy and "The A La Menthe" by Nikkfurie.
It's like taking a mix of hallucinogenic drugs and go dancing in a factory in full operation.

What's Up - Content Imagination
70

Mathy-psychedelic synth driven band from USA, featuring Robby Moncrieff (also in The Advantage and some more projects, as a guest in "Face Tat" by Zach Hill, for example). It's crazy, and totally well-played, but it become annoying, like it happens with Oh-You're-So-Talented! musicians.
"Fool's gold" is almost perfect.

Minot - The Ringing Silence Between Your Ears / The Means Relativize the Ends
80

This is a top quality single from 2013: a high intensity Math-mixed-post-rock. MUST listen.
https://minot.bandcamp.com/album/the-ringing-silence-between-your-ears-b-w-the-means-relativize-the-ends-7

Tetuan - Serpent Of Wisdom
73

Italian Tetuan keeps walking through noisy arab markets bringing with them all the sounds, flavours and atmospheres of those places: Serpent of Wisdom mixes wisely psychedelic rock and ambient, Secret Chiefs 3 with drone and tribal rhythms and percussions.
My fav: Serpent Of Wisdom and - my best one - Illuminatus.

Maybe I'm - Colonia
82

The duo becomes a trio: a new guitar joined the band.
And now, after the afro episode ("Bwa Kaiyman", 4 and half years before), it goes all the way down the hardcore-punk. A chaotic change in an all new way, nervous for sure. More musicians doesn't necessarily means an improvement.
https://maybeimnot.bandcamp.com/album/colonia

Maybe I'm - Bwa Kayiman
97

Bwa Kayiman it's the afro step in Maybe I'm carrier, Duo becomes something more, lot of guests in this one who create an interesting melting-pot full of afro, noise rock and also bluesy reminiscences.
So far, the best IMO.
https://maybeimnot.bandcamp.com/album/bwa-kayiman

Maybe I'm - Homeless Ginga
92

Second step for them, Homeless Ginga takes the sound of We Must Stop You (the previous one) to the next level: there's more noise rock and less country/bluesy stuff.
Maybe I'm brings some gypsy rock and some Albini sound in the south-italian traditional music.
https://maybeimnot.bandcamp.com/album/homeless-ginga

Maybe I'm - We Must Stop You
75

First album made by this south-italian noisy duo.
Their We Must Stop You mixes Johnny Cash country with the worst Steve Albini's noise rock. Maybe still a little green, but It performs its work quite well.
https://maybeimnot.bandcamp.com/album/we-must-stop-you

Folwark - VIMĀNA
78

Mid-Italy duo, Folwark, plays an instrumental blend of stoner punk and doom, with a damn-punk soul (can be heard in I'll teach you the fish and, totally, in Steps). Some things reminded me another italian duo named Hibagọn.
Well, uhm, it's a nice job! Take a listen!

Pontecorvo - Pontecorvo
63

Some grunge stuff from this italian trio. The opening track, "Settembre", it's a noise-punk shot perfectly made. The other songs fail to match the quality of the opening one, unluckly: they're just a mix of already-heard grunge and bluesy stuff.
If you're looking for a good noise-punk song, with lyrics wrote in italian language, don't miss "Settembre"

Ronin - Bruto Minore
73

Bruno Dorella, pioneer of the Italian underground scene, and his new work with Ronin mix together acoustic instrumentals, bluesy riffs and folk atmospheres in a cup made with classicals and movie references.
I loved Capriccio, Bruto Minore, Scherzo and - the best one - Wicked (also in a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaH69seDDkE)

Alright The Captain - Contact Fix
96

Say what you like, but that's the best math-rock sound to me. It's heavy, distorted and technically impeccable. It's like an electroshock treatment from the first second of it to the last. And I totally enjoyed that.
One of my best math-rock record ever.

Nonlinear - Sei Mejo Te
96

A blend of synth-punk and all different stuff (you can find: punk rock, electronica, reggaeton, movie soundtracks, Morricone, Verdone, Brainiac, Michael Jackson and also napolitan neomelodic). It's crazy, so take a trip in this album, 13 tracks, 3:33 long, are waiting for you ;)

Malclango - MalClango
93

A violent italian trio, featuring two bass players and one hyperactive drummer.
Sounds like monkeys on acid.

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