On the first track to drop from Feist’s upcoming album, Metals, the instrumentation hits a light groove as the lyrics detail a story about finding a love that was once there. However, all efforts seem to be doomed from the start. The music doesn’t come on hard. It
On Rival Sons’ sophomore album, the California quartet makes the classic sounds of hard rock and blues rock kind of exciting again. While these dudes are nowhere near as flashy as some of the bands that influence them, they do pull together some really great sounds on this LP. Pressure
New York’s Cerebral Ballzy have a lot of energy and rage, but I still don’t know what exactly is causing all of it. It’s just my opinion, but I didn’t find much to get enraged over in the lyrics on this album. Being told where to
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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
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
This compilation features 15 cuts from a time span of several years in Nigeria’s musical history. It was a time when Phonodisk, a record label looking to engineer hits, started promoting Nigerian bands playing with some sounds that were big in the West at the time: disco and funk.
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
While Hudson Mohawke’s new EP isn’t flashy, detailed, or technically impressive, I still have a lot of fun listening to it. For lack of a better word, I think what actually attracts me to the instrumentals on this thing is that they sound, well, dorky! WATCH THE VIDEO
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
