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Moodie Black – Self-Titled

Some grimy, experimental hip hop from this new, self-titled Moodie Black EP, which you can stream via the widget above. The EP is a recent released on the New Haven-based record label Fake Four Inc., which is the home to some pretty creative minds in underground hip hop. Moodie Black, unquestionably, lives up to the label’s reputation with noisy, fuzzed out beats that dish out one rough texture after another.

The verses and vocal delivery accurately fit the dismal, eerie picture the instrumentals paint, too–even though there are times when they seem semi-drowned out by all the ruckus.

It’s a short release, just five tracks, and available via a pay-what-you-want deal on Bandcamp right now.

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Death Grips Boiler Room x Ray-Ban LIVE Show @ SXSW

Death Grips’ full set at the 1100 Warehouse a few weeks ago during the SXSW festivities. As you may already know, I was down in front for this, and it was intense as hell.

Check a review of Death Grips’ latest album here:

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Foot Village – This Song Is A Drug Deal (Clipping Remix)

Clipping drops a remix of the Foot Village track “This Song Is A Drug Deal,” which is a strange track for anyone to remix–much less Clipping. However, with their new full-length, Midcity, Clipping hasn’t exactly proven itself to a bastion of traditionalism. Rather, the trio combines harsh noise and hip hop in a pretty unique way.

“Unique” is a word that can be applied to this Foot Village remix, too. Clipping chops and twists the band’s extremely rhythmic sound to create a noisy foundation for Daveed Diggs’ dark, grimy lyrics. Enjoy!

Check out my review for the band’s new LP here:

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Clipping – Midcity

It’s Clipping, bitch…

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Soap&Skin – “Sugarbread” (LOVED)

Austrian singer-songwriter Soap&Skin drops a new video in promotion for her latest single, which comes on the tail of an intense and forlorn sophomore album that I loved last year.

“Sugarbread” features the same vocal stylings, but it’s incredibly heavy with organ and orchestral hits of brass and strings. It’s massive from both a sonic and emotional standpoint. You can pre-order a copy of this 7″ here.

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Igorrr – Hallelujah

Admittedly, if I had casually heard the phrase “operatic breakcore” getting tossed around in a music conversation, I’d truly be fighting the urge to step in and shout, “GIMMICK! GIMMICK! GIMMICK!” However, that’s really the only word grouping I can conjure to describe the sounds on Igorrr’s Hallelujah. I guess it isn’t truly functional, though, because there’s an indescribable metal influence on some of these tracks, too.

Grab this album on vinyl, CD, or MP3 on Bandcamp.

While I’m not completely convinced that the music streaming in the above widget isn’t a gimmick, at least it’s detailed and impressively produced. The pairing of genres here may, on paper, look about as appetizing as a mustard and jelly sandwich, there’s some serious gourmet cooking going on here.

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Death Grips- NO LOVE DEEP WEB

OK, OK, feel me.

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Wreck and Reference- No Youth

On their latest album, Wreck and Reference unapologetically combines elements of noise, drone, black metal, and industrial as well.

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Marilyn Manson- Born Villain

Though I’m not really a big fan of this new Manson record, I can’t help but get nostalgic over his past albums, because I used to be such a huge fan of them. Eh, maybe I still am to a degree.

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Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury- Drook: Music Inspired by Mega-City One

Geoff Barrow (Portishead) has teamed up with composer Ben Salisbury to make a soundtrack dedicated to Mega-City One from the Judge Dredd comics. With that in mind they have successfully created a moody, progressive synths composition reminiscent of the Social Network soundtrack crossed with Tron Legacy. A lot of the songs on here are more complex and interesting to listen to outside of the context of a movie with smooth humming synthesizers and a constant, shifting progression using a variety instruments. As I listened to it I found myself looking at images of Mega City One, which definitely helped in almost transporting me into the area that this album tries to capture through music. This would probably go over well with fans of Zombi, too.