album review
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Connecticut rapper Apathy brings a modern feel to the classic sounds of East Coast hip hop on his latest album, Honkey Kong. Though this LP doesn’t experiment or step over any major boundaries, it does come with a lot of consistency, quotable lyricism, and solid beats. Despite a few
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Detroit rapper Danny Brown’s latest album functions in extremes. They’re not really the angry, voluminous extremes the latest Death Grips album functions on. They’re more like extremes of excess. Of course, what Danny is being excessive with is drugs, sex, misogyny, and basically anything else that one
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Active Child’s sophomore release has some pretty haunting and beautiful sounds. Lone member Pat Grossi’s choir boy falsetto is undeniably good. Plus, all the effects he laces into these tracks makes this LP an interesting listen. While I’m not in love with every song on this LP,
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The War On Drugs’ Slave Ambient is a glistening set of folk rock tunes and kinda ambient instrumentals. The production, for me, is a real blessing on this LP. The sounds are so pretty, which actually makes me wanna revisit a great deal of these tracks. But as far as
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On Watch the Throne, Kanye and Jay-Z team up for a celebration I’m sure their fans are going to love. The heavyweight MCs celebrate their relevancy, fame, and popularity with one track after another–occasionally stopping to make an introspective or societal observation. While the idea of the album
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For me, Beirut’s new album is a small step back from the Flying Club Cup and the March of the Zapotec EP that preceded it. I was sure all this waiting would result in something bigger and better, but the ambition needed for that doesn’t surface on the
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This video is a collaborative review with the good guys over at Dead End Hip Hop. Here’s the text they popped in the description box: “We couldn’t hook up with The Needle Drop and not do an album review. Brooklyn MC Theophilus London drops his debut album a
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Despite a bit of genre-hopping, Machinedrum’s latest album, Room(s), comes together quite nicely. There are moments tracks influenced by the world of glitchy, which this guy has always had a soft spot for. But Machinedrum is very good about appealing to the winds of change whenever they’re
