Since reviewing SBTRKT’s debut album, I’ve picked up the CD and haven’t regretted a single penny spent. I just love how soulful Sampha’s vocal contributions are, and the simple, bright synths SBTRKT backs them with. Of course, my musical hunger is insatiable, and I can’t
MP3 Lenses Alien, the new album from New Jersey’s Cymbals Eat Guitars, arrives on August 30th on Barsuk Records. Soon after, the band will kick off a lengthy tour across the United States. We’ve already heard one track from the album, a staggeringly ambitious opening track called “Rifle
In the new video for Toro y Moi’s Underneath The Pine cut “How I Know,” three friends explore a haunted house late at night. Over the course of the next three minutes, they all die spectacular deaths. One suffocates on bubble gum, one gets electrocuted by spaghetti, and one
When combined, the two opening tracks on Tera Melos’ 2010 album Patagonian Rats make for one of the more pop-sensible and instantly likable moments in their discography. In this video, the stage-setting “So Occult” serves as the soundtrack for the introduction, which features a masked skateboarder bearing an upside-down cross
The trailer above is no joke. What you’re seeing is real. It’s a 15-track compilation of Nigerian funk, disco, and boogie music recorded in the late 70s and early 80s. Some of these tracks sound like they could have been huge hits in the U.S. if they
A new track from none other than Four Tet. The title is “Locked,” and will be getting a 12” release this September according to Four Tet’s SoundCloud page. The song will also be featured on this Fabriclive series mix. Stream the track above and enjoy all eight minutes of
When it comes to generating earworms, New York’s Das Racist works with a special recipe. The mistake most artists make is in trying to be meaningful or melodic. Nah, all you really need is an equal mixture of repetition and outlandishness. Throw “Michael Jackson, a million dollars, ya feel
Oddly enough, out of all the tracks on their new album Circuital, My Morning Jacket’s joke-ish “Holdin On To Black Metal” is the first to get the music video treatment. The clip unrolls like some sort of strange acid trip, featuring a number of strangely smiling people in a
Yeah, So by Make Wave Believe it or not, it’s already August. Aside from signaling the impending end of the summer season, this fact means that some people out there are probably getting a little tired of catchy, summery pop music–the kind that gets played on road trips
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
