Singer-songriter Jenny Hval’s sophomore full-length has its share of jumbled ideas with obvious inspirations, but sometimes her vocal expressions and songwriting are just enough to keep this album intriguing and somewhat moving. WATCH THE REVIEW
Blood Becomes Fire by BEASTWARS Hailing from New Zealand, Beastwars is a four-piece metal band specializing in the sludge variety and incorporating doom and stoner influences as well. Their sophomore LP is titled Blood Becomes Fire, and the first half of it is available to stream above via their Bandcamp,
Throughout an excellent debut LP and a handful of stellar EPs, Nicolas Jaar has proven himself worthy in a number of roles throughout the past few years: a producer with fine attention to detail, a justifiably patient songwriter, and a seductive singer. His skills extend to a live context as
The self-titled debut album from English duo Letherette is a colorful trip through a dusty, sample-driven take on house music and instrumental hip hop. “D&T” is a prime representation of the album’s house roots, placing groove-laden drums under infectiously sliced vocal snippets and similarly chopped synthesizer bits.
Stream: Mikal Cronin – MCII Mikal Cronin is bringing out the first truly summer ready album of the year. All of the songs embrace a brand of pop rock that will get your body moving and ready for the sun. Cronin clearly knows what he is doing with these songs as
As you know by now the new album from The Knife is a pretty insane electronic pop ride, and now they’re giving a look inside their minds with this new interview, which is also about as crazy as you’d expect. It really feels like this whole video was
Underground MC Illogic has united with producer Blockhead to make some old school hip-hop with a clear voice to it. The tracks on this album give me vibes from older Atmosphere albums, including the lyrical content and flow of Illogic is even close to Slug in some ways. Each song
Cloud rap producer Clams Casino drops a new instrumental which features some verses from the metal-faced villain, DOOM. Give a listen via the widget above, and enjoy!
On The Stooges’ latest full-length effort, the band is sounding tighter than they did on 2007’s The Weirdness, but there’s still no effort to fix what was ailing the band lyrically and vocally. WATCH THE REVIEW
On Colin Stetson’s latest installment in the New History Warfare series, the Canadian saxophonist displays some tenderness in his incredibly technical solo compositions. WATCH THE REVIEW
