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Yasiin Bey has released a new single and music video inspired by police brutality and the art of Basquiat on the website A Country Called Earth. Tune in to it above and read Bey’s accompanying statement here.
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This new video from London-based producer Ash Koosha features stunning animation from Hirad Sab. From the album GUUD, out now via Olde English Spelling Bee. We love it:
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English electronic music producer Christopher Clark just released his latest full-length on Warp Records this month. It’s self-titled. Of the songs I’ve heard thus far, I’m finding it much more experimental and intriguing than his last album, Iradelphic, and “The Grit In The Pearl” is moment that
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AD143 Coin Locker Kid 'Traumnovelle' by Already Dead Tapes and Records Previously mentioned Coin Locker Kid has one of the most unorthodox approaches to hip hop that I’ve heard in the past few years. I didn’t love the last full-length I heard from him, but I
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The latest album from New York’s Uncommon Nasa is as grimy as it is experimental and conceptual.
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Armand Hammer drops a post-album EP of fan-pleasing odds ‘n’ ends.
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With more motifs and musical dead-ends than legitimate songs, the new Shabazz Palaces album is suffocated with a surprising amount of filler.
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Ambient composer Nils Frahm sneakily dropped one of 2013’s prettiest albums, Spaces, near the end of the year. A puzzling mixture of live recordings and reenvisionings of past tracks, it was moving and interesting nonetheless. And now one of its best cuts, the striking “Says”, gets the video treatment.
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Odd Future’s Earl Sweatshirt returns with his long-awaited major label debut, Doris. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Scottish experimental hip hop outfit Young Fathers drop some visuals for the TAPE TWO track “Queen Is Dead,” and the gritty, black and white closeups that comprise this vid match the sounds presented perfectly. The urgent lyrics, blaring synths, and exited shouts of “WOO” all have an in-your-face attitude to
