I'm From Barcelona: New music from spanish city

Band with dear name (for Russians and Dostoevsky fans) plays troubleproof joyful noise pop, more looks toward The Pains of Being Pure At Heart than No Age. Nevertheless, they're not as simple as they look - drummer loves offbeat and he's a jewel of duet, they're sing about gags in the mouth, subversive methods, vital strategy and night vision (if we can believe to mechanical translations). Anyway, impression is complacent - the main song there called "heavenly noise" and it's the best appropriate characteristics for Grushenka's music.

Fitzroy North with all their look (rather name and cover) show that it's the suburbs music (for remark - it's not bad). Their EP consist of progressive electronic, something between wonky and skwee, simply - wonky is rustling music and skwee - squeezed. Both genres don't have a georeferencing, thet's why their music depersonalized, it's unclear what is all for, but easy to imagine on some party like in the Skins. However, the main problem there as in the whole skwee genre - of this music quickly you becomes tired.

Ocellot plays psychedelic pop, which little bit sounds like Animal Collective in times of Campfire Songs, but their favorable difference - besides the guitars, there we can hear strings, horns and flute and the sound is very dense. In addition it's (maybe allegedly) field recording - here and there nature sounds may be heard, for example, a brook is gurgling. It would seem that this music not hip, but Spanish do this crusty genre better, maybe because of their sincere and bright songs. It's gratifying that not all go in funeral orchestras trend.

Further we should pay attention to another orchestra - it's not EP at all, just a preview, but I can make an exclusion. Evripidis is Evripidis Sabatis, incomer from Greece who came in Spainat least 5 years ago, when his first single was released. The immersion of them is quite pleasant - for someone is not a recommendation, but maybe others will not averse to brighten their hedonistic summer with these songs. With a look at the cover where band meeting looks like relaxed party in serene day, and, moreover, with a look at Sabatis, who reflectively stands in the middle of the room with a cigarette, I bethink not about Antiquity but about Oscar Wilde heroes.

And finally, new track by Versatile, in its place would be their demo-EP, but I saw in time that it came in September. They plays kraut-rock, and don't stand still - when I heard their first EP i thought that they sounds like Neu! on the first song and other songs don't sound like kraut at all. But there is all in the canon - gloomy and grim rhythmic music.