experimental
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Sundown / Sunrise EP by jesu As many of y’all know, I wasn’t huge on Jesu’s last album, Ascension. For me, the mix wasn’t heavy enough, and nothing really struck me as memorable. All we can do at this point is go back and listen to old
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With production from Johnson&Jonson, here’s a new track from hip hop mystic Gonjasufi. It features Blu, too. I wonder when that dude’s new album is actually gonna come out. Ugh! Well, anyway, Gonjasufi has a new EP on the way, but here’s the good news:
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I can’t remember how exactly I heard of him, but I’ve been following New Jersey rapper GDP on SoundCloud for about a month or so now. He’s seriously growing on me, and it’s hard to figure out why. The dude is highly lyrical and clever. Even
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Out tomorrow on Stones Throw is the new Jonti album, Twirligig. The dude sent me a download of his new album personally over a week ago, and it’s been sitting on my to-listen list ever since. I’m glad I finally got around to it, cuz this dude’s
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The new Colin Stetson EP, Those Who Didn’t Run, is now available for streaming on Constellation Records’ SoundCloud page. There are two ten-minute tracks on this monster, which is an exercise in attention span that not even Stetson’s last album asked listeners to endure. Not to make this
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Polish musician Michal Jacaszek will be dropping a new album on Ghostly this December, and I’m really hoping this new LP–titled Glimmer–will maintain the wintery feel the track above seems to proclaim so proudly. “Dare-gale,” armed with loads of classical timbres, drones ominously in waves of sound
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C3 by 3:33 From the looks of 3:33’s album artwork, you’d think this project was some sort of rising black metal band. Well, if the previous sentence didn’t already make it obvious, that’s not the case. Still, the music 3:33 creates is undeniably
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BADBADNOTGOOD is a Canadian jazz trio, and the outfit’s latest self-release is a series of instrumental reinventions of classic hip hop beats. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Over the past couple weeks, I’ve gotten some really passionate, enthusiastic requests to review this new album from the Boston, Massachusetts outfit That Handsome Devil. I’ve been sampling the band’s latest album, The Heart Goes to Heaven, The Head Goes to Hell, but I’m still not
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A track off the latest release from German electronic music producer Roman Flügel. Fatty Folders is the LP’s title. It’s out on Dial. The track above, “Song With Blue,” features a very subtle beat, but it still puts four to the floor. I’m loving the jazzy ride
