Reviews

Au Poil! (English Subtitles)

Revolution is in the air and it's happening in your own bathroom! From the magical house of ESMA comes another animated wonder in Au Poil! (English sub-titled version) by Julie Duvernelli and Nicolas Perraguin. This short piece takes its place in the revolting human washroom where objects have been ranked into a caste system—the glamorous jobs and the filthy ones. When the toilet scrub and cotton buds try to overthrow the lipstick and perfume spray, a messy riot is bound to happen.

Wotienke: Please Read This For Me

Emerging from the gloomy smoky bar aesthetic, Wotienke's latest release Please Read This For Me lavishes on casual jazzy pop tracks that are pleasant to the ears. The Netherlands-based band was formed by piano singer Wotienke Vemeer when she met four musicians (Karel Cinibuk, Jan Boroš, Ond?ej Adámek and Martin Janírek) in an eastern village in the Czech Republic. Five years later, the musical group have already toured through half of Europe and recorded their full-length album Mainland Sailors.

Clouds & Sheep

Care for a sweet, nice and casual gaming session that will make you feel silly and also make you laugh? Well, it is time to try Clouds & Sheep on Android. The game is very casual and does not cross any threshold in the gaming world. Created by Handy Games, this developer is a Top Developer on the Android Market and has churned up some seriously awesome casual games for the iOS and Android platform.

Ending Satellites: 7 Billion Passengers Only One Flight Left

Cinematic is one of the words that best describe Ending Satellites' new album 7 Billion Passengers|Only One Flight Left. Hints of rock, alternative and electronica litter across the album; making it an intriguing record to have. According to their site, the album is "both musical and photographic." The goal is to provide listeners a chance to explore the melodies along with images (which you can find on their site.) The album has a beautiful concept and it also features collaborations from several talented artists.

LiveProfile

Loving the Android or iOS ecosystem, but yearn to have a feature like BBM on your device without any additional cost. Well, LiveProfile is just the perfect app for your needs. Users will be surprised how well LiveProfile mimics the BBM environment and does it with panache. Developed by LiveProfile themselves, this app is slick, fast, intuitive, and personal. Users on Android and iOS are in for a big treat, in terms of functionality.

Love Story in Blood Red: Hot Cha

Love Story in Blood Red is spearheaded by former Means frontman, Jason Frederick. Working together with producer and friend, Kris Poulin; the duo created this 4-track compilation of indie rock goodness. Although it took years for the actual songs to be fleshed out as circumstances and life got in the way; the final recordings were presented by Kris to Jason after 9 years since he left him with it. They finally managed to release the short compilation last March 2011 over at indie netlabel, RockProper.com. The EP also hosts several musician friends who were enlisted to help complete the EP by Kris during all those years.

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Plunge your mind in another classical piece with A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. A prolific author of short stories, plays, novellas, novels, and fiction, Charles Dickens is considered as one of the greatest writers of the Victorian period. He was known for his remarkable characters, realism, mastery of prose and depictions of social classes.

Mike Schpitz/Grumpy Old Men: Sunday Skool

Marking his second appearance here in Frostclick, Mike Schpitz has released his latest record, Sunday Skool. The artist first debuted on the pages of the blog after releasing his second album, Spring Cleaning which to date has reached more than 200,000 downloads! For that album, he collaborated with a variety of artists and musiciansto create a stunning, laid back hip hop record anybody can enjoy. This time around, Schpitz collaborates with Pete Sayke, forming a new group called, Grumpy Old Men. Sunday Skool is their debut record and it seems to be heading the same route as his earlier release. It's packed with good beats that should get you to take notice.

Physi Bricks

Windows Phone 7 has a very meager app choices up it's sleeve when it comes to games, further frustrating it's users. So for all the gaming junkies out there with a Windows Phone 7 device - check out Physi Bricks. The game takes alot of cues from Angry Birds and Crush the Castle. Yep, it is quite similar, but with an interesting and intuitive gameplay mechanism. It was developed by Stiq Joy LLC for whom the app is the first one on the record.