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This is a series of short spiels discussing albums that I’ve failed to review for the past month or so. Sorry I didn’t get to them. I would have liked to, but I’m just one man. I can’t review everything. Here are the albums and artists
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A new collaborative track and video from Dumbo Gets Mad and Venice. Keeping in line with 2011’s Elephants At the Door, DGM and Venice load this psychedelic pop track with odd sound effects and bouncy, retro synths. A fun, little tidbit to follow up last year’s DGM debut.
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MP3 Singers Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White make up THEESatisfaction, which is an underground R&B and soul project dropping an album in March on Sub Pop. The title: awE naturaLE. You probably caught the project’s two members on the Shabazz Palaces album, Black Up, that dropped last
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For the past several days, I’ve been listening to the new Napalm Death album, Utilitarian. I was sorta lukewarm on it at first, but now I’m coming around; however, I feel like this new band-directed video is throwing me back into a pit of emotional ambiguity. For a
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Teasing toward its 6th full-length album, De Vermis Mysteriis, which is dropping on April 3, High On Fire has released a new track titled “Fertile Green.” The album will be released through eOne. Though I don’t want to assume greatness for an album before I even hear it, I
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Here’s a downloadable remix of Shabazz Palaces “Swerve.” The track was reinvented by electronic music trio Signal Path. The song is a part of an upcoming compilation of remixes they’ll be releasing for free in April. Keep up to date on that through the group’s website. Here’
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West1996 by Lute Between this mixtape cover and the sound of his music, Lute takes his love of gritty, hardcore 90s hip hop pretty seriously. The kid sounds young, but he raps like a veteran street poet who’s seen a few things. Nice flow, tight boom bap beats, and
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While this track off Milo’s latest mixtape features the same raw and humble characteristics the Wisconsin rapper’s previous efforts, the lyrics here expose private moments in a way that just leaves me with a pile of awkward feelings. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Though it runs out of ideas a little too fast, Pallbearer’s debut album turns out to be a solid contribution to the world of traditional doom metal. WATCH THE REVIEW
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Sophist by Birth of Flower Featuring the raucous punk rock energy of the Minutemen, and the eccentric psychosis of Can, here’s one of the newest tracks from Connecticut band Birth of Flower. It comes from the trio’s latest album, Diety.
