Immune - Sound Inside
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It's always easy to compare a band to another but in this case even if we can feel a lot of influent bands, we can't easily describe the grace and beauty that touch Immune's wonderful official debut "Sound Inside". Magnificent guitars, piano melodies, smooth electronics, strings and drums melted in a thrilling imaginary score for a sad but hopeful world. Some references that are usually mentioned are Mark Hollis, Sigur Ros, Hood, Arab Strap or Elbow. Immune defines a thin line between post-rock and sad post-electronic with its own delicate wave of tenderness that will push you to remind all the souvenirs of your childhood or the smell of winter falling leave in lonesome woods.

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Off The Sky - It is impossible to say just what I mean (€10)
Off The Sky "It is impossible to say just what I mean", a line in T.S. Eliot' s poem "The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", fits apropos as title-to-idea for the artists on-going struggle to transcend innate social limitations. And in the process of completing this album, Off The Sky (Kentucky based Jason Corder) successfully crossed many boundaries through working with countless musicians to form a diverse sound. "It is impossible to say just what I mean" deftly fuses atmospheric-electronic sensation with heart-felt, post-rock melodies that exists truly as a work of poetry in motion.

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Various Artists - Stilllysm (€10)
The Brussels-based Stilll label' s first compilation, "Stilllysm", confirms a commitment to the best in organic electronic post-pop music with melancholic tinge. The compilation includes music from established artists such as Mitchell Akiyama, Aoki Takamasa, aMute, Ghislain Poirier, Peter Principle, Off the Sky, Christophe Bailleau, Benjamin Lew... as well as newer names, including the post-jazz duo Tangtype, the sonic destructured post-rock of Mikale de Graff, the extremely talented Holiday for Strings and many other excellent surprises such as Immune and Nox. Sometimes melodic and dynamic, other times vast, contemplative and ambient, "Stilllysm" is a obsesive and powerful record that will have listeners in anticipation of the great things to come from this new label.

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Vedette (€10)
The label with a hook up for confusing three letters, Stilll, continue this path with Vedettte - disturbed collages of dirty experimental hip-hop (a la CLOUDDEAD), illuminated like stained glass by vividly poetic lyrical rays. The duo are MANUEL STAGARS and NEIL CARLILL, two transplanted Europeans now residing on opposite edges of America. Their auspiciously combined talents have created something belonging to a world all its own. Here the tandem takes root in the muddy earth of neodeconstructed pop, where XIU XIU serenely intertwines with CAPTAIN BEEFHEART. This fresh release, being among the freshest releases of the 2006 last quarter, will introduce and intriguing beauty and new mystery to our ears  one that should be most welcome in these strange, strange days.

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Holiday For Strings - CD (€12)
"CD" is the ace debut by Swedish band Holiday For Strings. Think the mad guitars of a clean Sonic Youth mixed with the groove and unlimited beats of an alternative Lee Perry or Animal Collective. Holiday for Strings is throwing infinite melodies,
humour, tensions and relief. It' s a slow grower. Catchy without being hip, HFS proves through their rhythms, guitars, vocals that groove has its place among alternative post-pop, that funky tunes and beats can be perfectly connected to everlasting guitar riffs. Purely and simply outstanding& Mastered by Harris Newman (Constellation) and designed by Hans Seeger).

PRESS:
"The Swedish connection appears in the form of the fabulously named Holiday for Strings from Stockholm, whose deeply groovy I got Two Hands sounds like an unholy alliance between The Monochrome Set and the B52's" // THE WIRE

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De Portables - Top Less is More (€12)
T.I.M. is the fifth full length album by de portables, yet it's their debut for Stilll. It was recorded over a period of almost 5 years in 3 different locations by de portables. T.I.M. is an album of mysterious plots and strange twists and turns that leave you with one question at the end: Who did it? And what with? T.I.M. is an album filled with songs and stories, social criticism and bad jokes, hits and misses & T.I.M. is an album of familiar surprises telling stories about a drummer lost in the woods, frustrated lovers-to-be on a vegetarian barbecue, malfunctioning doorbells giving electric shock, a strange Indian intruder, friendly cows in the zoo and random thoughts and philosophies on the nature of songs and making music and today's world&T.I.M. is probably one of the most prodigious albums of this year. It is a tempered post-pop/rock storm fuelled with funky beats, unlimited waves of synths, guitars, drums, vocals and twists. It's a hit.

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A Perfect Friend (€12)
Meeting A PERFECT FRIEND is a full introspection into dream lights and slowcore shadows. The decision of pushing play has to be done while knowing you have to fully jump from A to Z in a world of beauty created by these two overtalented Sweds. CJ LARSGARDEN and THOMAS DENVER JONSSON' S music could be ranked among the quiter moments of SIGUR ROS, the icy electronics of RADIOHEAD and the lyrism of JOHANN JOHANNSSON. It is more a story to live on its own than an family album,
with its own personnal way to evolve, seduce and choke our hearts.

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Arden - Conceal (€10)
Arden is the new band of Mitchell Akiyama, aMute and sogar. For friends of Colleen, Fennesz and Keith Fullerton Whitman.
Arden is a Belgian-Canadian-French six-piece band that unites the forward-thinking micro-forces of Mitchell Akiyama, aMute, sogar, Jeuc Dietrich, Christophe Bailleau, and Sébastien Roux. Their debut, "Conceal", was conceived across a three day production bender at an old house nestled in beautiful Belgian country. The album's style marries a minimal-electronic approach with post-rock sensibilities from each artist's sonic palette to birth an entirely unique provisational sound. "Conceal" is a delightful production piece with unlimited moments of candid melodic beauty that spring into dynamically intense yet masterfully contained emotive exaltations.

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Babils - The Joint Between (€12)
This is Brussels based quintet Babils' first official album, "The Joint Between", and it could be compared to elephants running in a chaotic urban landscape. It's a massive hour of psychedelic influences and disturbed layers of ufo guitars, dreamy bass lines, distorted trumpets and repeated drums. Some addicted audience to the Belgian scene will recognize the Babils founder and multi-instrumentist Gabriel Severin (aka Silksaw who has released many projects on notorious labels such as Sub Rosa and Ant-Zen). Some others will simply fall, head first, into these dynamic and unforgettable rivers of steady melodies.
"The Joint Between" is heavy and dense, loud and hypnotic.
Babils has the following members: Michel Duyck(ufo guitars), Etienne Vernaeve (drums, little objects), Patrick Bellefroid (bass, guitar), Lukas Vangheluwe (trumpet, percussions), Gabriel Séverin (voices, keyboards and other stuff).

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Baja - Maps/Systemalheur (€12)
BAJA is a loose collective around composer and sound artist DANIEL VUJANIC. It is also a three piece live band. The debut cd "Maps/Systemalheur" consists of the 40 minutes long "Maps": oscillating between progfolk-postrock, jazz, minimal music and haunting electroacoustics and the compact, percussive and theme based "Systemalheur": turning analog and digital sounds into cut-up pop and almost symmetrical, edgy rhythms for 30 minutes. BAJA music has been compared to quite a lot of very diverse artists and genres: composers and musicians like BRIAN ENO, TERRY RILEY or JOHN FAHEY have been
mentioned, also experimental rock acts like THIS HEAT, HARMONIA, SONIC YOUTH,and TORTOISE. It' s not easy to pin down the vivid instrumentalism. Even indiepop electronica acts like PSAPP and THE BOOKS have found their way into comparisons while the
jazzrock enthusiasts rather drew charming analogies to 70ies fusion works like "larks´ tongues in aspic" or "bitches brew".

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