Stream: Big Ups – Eighteen Hours of Static Eighteen Hours of Static, the debut LP from New York punk outfit Big Ups, is a refreshing half hour of caustic and cathartic post-hardcore. The mix here is muddy, the playing is messy, and the vocals of frontman Joe Galarraga are manic – often
Designer clothing retailer SSENSE presents another formless composition from experimental electronic artist Arca that will leave you scratching your head. Set to some equally amorphous, “WTF”-inducing visuals from Jesse Kanda, “Fluid Silhouettes” is a real trip, nobly blurring gender lines, but coming off just a bit creepy all the
Beck suddenly drops a folky new single, which teases toward his next LP, Morning Phase. The album is currently looking at a February 25th release date, and I’m not entirely sure how excited I am at this point. While One Foot In The Grave–Beck’s freak folk opus–
Murmur’s self-titled sophomore album is a impressively executed fusion of black metal and progressive rock.
Nils Frahm’s latest album showcases a series of live performances, pushing a lot of previously written material to the limit with longer song lengths and intense playing.
Producer Lee Bannon fully transitions into a different sound on this new record, distancing himself from the hip hop beats he’s most known for. While he sounds completely at home making jungle and breakbeat, I was hoping he’d redecorate a bit more.
A frenetic, zany, kooky, scatter-brained, etc. track from lo-fi electronic musician Lockbox. “Brainhead” appears to be the result of a caffeine high stacked on top of a sugar rush, propelled by a constant skittering beat and loaded with countless fleeting synth textures over the course of its action-packed three-and-a-half minute
Folk legend Linda Perhacs has a similar MO to fellow folkie Vashti Bunyan. Both released a seminal folk album in 1970, and then virtually disappeared from the scene. Bunyan popped up again in 2005 with the lovely Lookaftering. Now, Perhacs is following up her debut, Parallelograms, with a sophomore LP
Hellfyre Club drops a video for one of the biggest bangers on the rap collective’s new mixtape Dorner vs. Tookie. Listen in for clever verses from Open Mike Eagle, VerBS, Nocando, KAIL, Busdriver and Rheteric Ramirez. Enjoy! Also check a review for this Dorner/Tookie compilation below:
Trickling vibraphone, lithe strings, and a delicate but assertive voice, this new Tara Jane O’Neil track, “Elemental Finding” makes me officially excited for her new LP, Where Shine New Lights. Every note is perfectly placed, and there is a quiet drone that washes underneath throughout, and the song ambles
