2012
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As Danny Brown’s progressed past last year’s XXX, he’s taken his more excessive side and thrown it into overdrive. He’s managed to stay personal with tracks like “Grown Up,” but “Witit” is definitely the high-water mark of this incoming tide of rhymes that pile drugs and
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Gorgeous Children by Gorgeous Children Some ethereal and dark hip hop on this self-titled Gorgeous Children project, which features some pretty heavy trap-style instrumentals. The lyrics and flows are as swag’d as they are strange. While I don’t assume they’ve got a lotta depth to them, there’
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On 3:33’s latest effort, the experimental and drone-influenced beatmusic project widens its sonic frequency, and gets pretty ambitious with a 41-minute closing track. WATCH THE REVIEW
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dripping by Pile Bring on the moody, noisy, strange post-hardcore, please. Thank you! Pile is a Boston band, and Dripping is their latest full-length effort, and I’m really enjoying what I’m hearing on the album thus far. It’s a pretty solid offering of slightly off-kilter rock tunage,
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A new video from Canada-born singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, which lays visuals to the track “Proserpina.” It’s a song that finds itself on Wainwright’s latest album, Come Home To Mama. From the sound of the track, she obviously takes a lot of influence from folk, chamber pop, and French
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There’s not much about Mr. Mac DeMarco’s outward appearance that says “rock star”–even as he’s on stage, casually singing the songs he’s written in front of his 3-piece band. But it’s something the ex-Makeout Videotape frontman is well aware of. In fact, I’d
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In The Middle Of Infinity by 3:33 The experimental beatmusic project 3:33 will be releasing a new album at the end of this month via Parallel Thought titled In the Middle of Infinity. If there was any time of year for an album like this, it’s the
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Ways of Being LP (2012, NNF) by Rites Wild I’m not typically one for obscured vocals and the general overuse of reverb; however, in the case of Rites Wild, I can make an exception. While Rites While may hide the more natural sounds of their music, it actually creates
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Over an atmospheric cloud rap beat created by Lee Bannon, America’s most beloved nerd rapper, Milo, has a new track out featuring his usual series of strange personal musings. We already know he’ll be reading Aristotle while we’re all popping bottles at the club, but giving pep
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Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar drops a new track during the same week his latest full-length effort is being released, good kid, m.A.A.d. city. “The Heart Pt. 3” is an interesting and extremely emotional update on the current state of Kendrick, talking about where he sees his music
