Vision in Furs continues in the same vein of chill, ambient electronics and hazy beats. Bozella uses a lush cacophony of synths, guitar loops and instrumental samples to create a swirling, slightly mysterious, sound. Some of it sounds like the It also has this faraway, nostalgic feel which I really like a lot. It sounds like dance music shot on slo-mo, soaked in euphoric reverb. If that’s not clear, the album covers and press shots are a pretty good visual summary. If you like your ambient music with a hint of hip hop, some smart electronics, all shot through with shimmering psychedelica, then this is an album for you.

You can get Vision in Furs on a pay-what-you-want basis over at Bandcamp.

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Opening track ’願望’ (which Google translate informs me is Japanese for ‘Desire’) is the perfect introduction, with chillwave-y atmospherics and some rather catchy beats.

‘Yumii (It’s Now)’ comprises of some nice guitar work over breathy vocal samples (and even some birdsong), before having this weird wobble at the end and getting all surreal and dreamy. ‘Fashion House’ opens with tropical beats before warm and languid guitar stroll in on top. The word “chill” comes to mind.

The entire album comes in at just 15 minutes so it certainly does not outstay its welcome. In fact I found myself wishing for more, which is always a good thing.

Slow House Virtual is available for free download over at Bandcamp. If you’re a fan of Rem’s Floating Chandelier, or of experimental, dreamy electronic music in general, then I highly suggest you check this out.

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(RIYL – “Defeatist Folk”, Nostalgia, House of Wolves)

Pop Winds – Earth To Friends

(RIYL – Psych Pop, Animal Collective, Parts & Labor, Braids)

Praything – Her Skin Caught The Glow

(RIYL – Indie Pop, Pianos, Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Youth Lagoon)

Rem’s Floating Chandelier – Think Of The Willows

(RIYL – Chillwave, Ambient, Dream Pop, Variety)

Ricky Eat Acid – Ambien Music

(RIYL – Ambient, Drone, Melancholy)

Ricky Eat Acid + Arrange – Sketches

(RIYL – Ambient, Collaborations, Ricky Eat Acid, Arrange)

Roman Ruins – Homebuilding

(RIYL – Electronic Pop, Animal Collective, Beach House)

Sean Atkins – Volume One / Volume 1.5 / Volume Two

(RIYL – Acoustic, Singer Songwriters, Bright Eyes, J. Tillman)

Selkies – Tall Grass

(RIYL – Psych Folk, Nature, Mountain Man, Joanna Newsom, Lemolo)

Seth Frightening – Don’t You Worry (Heat Death)

(RIYL:Experimental Folk, Smog, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Grouper).

Shipwrecks – Whatever

(RIYL: Bedroom Pop, Talons’, Phil Elvrum, Sufjan Stevens)

Sledding With Tigers – Being Nice is Still Cool

(RIYL: Folk Punk, Defiance Ohio, Andrew Jackson Jihad).

Snow Mantled Love – Romance 126

(RIYL: Dream Pop, Sharon Van Etten, Beach House, Twin Sister, Sigur Ros).

Spook Houses – Trying

(RIYL: Indie Rock, Pavement, Titus Andronicus).

Squanto – On Being Lumpy

(RIYL: Ambient, Folk, Nils Frahm, Talons’)

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Welcome to the third installment of our Best Free Releases of 2011 series. Remember to support these bands by leaving donations, going to shows, buying merch etc.

*Due to a large number of bands beginning with S, there will be more in the next post.

Memotone – Bad Panda

(RIYL =  Electronic, Beats, Four Tet, Flying Lotus)

The Milk Carton Kids – Prologue

(RIYL = Folk, Americana)

New Animal – New Animal

(RIYL = Bedroom Pop, Psychedelic)

Of Architects – Demo.

(RIYL = Lo-Fi, Punk, The Midwest)

Okkervil River – Golden Opportunites II

(RIYL = Indie Rock, Folk, Covers)

Old Earth – More Wrung in the Wrong?

(RIYL = Folk, Southern Gothic, Weird Shit)

Oliver Tank – Dreams

(RIYL = Ambient, Dream Pop, James Blake)

PONCHOS – Rawness EP

(RIYL = Electronic, Noise, Cold Cave)

Power Player – Power Player:Power Player

(RIYL = Variation, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone)

Railcars – Hounds of Love

(RIYL = Weird Shit, Kate Bush)

Rem’s Floating Chandelier – Rem’s Floating Chandelier

(RIYL = Ambient, Dream Pop)

Ricky Eat Acid – Haunt U Forever

(RIYL = Ambient, Hip Hop, Samples)

Ruby Coast – Whatever This Is

(RIYL = Indie Pop, Canada, Tokyo Police Club)

Sad Souls – Precious Paragons

(RIYL = Bedroom Pop, Ambient)

Sea Oleena – Sleeplessness

(RIYL = Dream Pop, Ethereal)

Selva Oscura – AS/IS/WAS

(RIYL = Chillwave, Dub, Beats)

Shakey Graves – Roll the Bones

(RIYL = Folk, Blues, Alt-Country)

Snowmine – Laminate Pet Animal

(RIYL = Indie Rock, Psychedelic, Yeasayer)

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