Don’t be fooled by the minimalism of Tallest Trees’ external cover art: the Technicolor forms revealed within are as vibrant and unexpected as the music from this quirky electro-indie duo out of Nashville.
Toy instruments, synths, and children’s voices, mixed with musique concrète and samples of his father’s recordings from the 1960s, are some of the elements that comprise Peruvian-Italian artist João Orecchia‘s spirited Hands and Feet.
Among the thousands of under-appreciated or under-publicized albums that were released in 2010, hundreds became our favorites and were presented in ALARM and on AlarmPress.com. Of those, we pared down to 100 outstanding releases, leaving no genre unexplored in our list of this year’s overlooked gems.