Damon Albarn’s latest record may be slightly passionless and relentlessly dreary, but he delivers some stand-out songs throughout the tracklist here.
With Christmas Island, Andrew Jackson Jihad comes through with what’s essentially their pop album. While the band brings plenty of concise tracks with straightforward instrumentation, they mostly lack the emotional impact of previous material–the instrumental finesse, too.
Never Young whips out a sad, heart-stopping chord progression on “Main Stacks,” which is one of the many tracks featured on their new, cassette, Master Copy. If you’re looking for well-crafted guitars mixed with noise, and fed through some lo-fi recording tricks, then look for this thing on Father/
BADBADNOTGOOD drops their most moody, lush, and orchestrated album yet.
UK post-punk outfit Savages drop a cinematic live video of their recently released single, “Fuckers.” The footage is stunning, and the performance is, well, anything but concise. I wouldn’t call it sloppy, but the band definitely seems “in the zone” on this one. The almost 10-minute rendition of this
https://soundcloud.com/mickjenkinsmusic/mick-jenkins-who-else-prod-tj-osinulu Mick Jenkins has really been impressing lately, namely with his last video for the macabre “Martyrs,” and now with his new single “Who Else.” The man is proving to be a hell of a wordsmith (“Piers Morgan my peers now”!) and his lyrics retain a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVSSESLaZHQ Shabazz Palaces, the experimental hip hop duo behind of one of our favorite albums of 2011 Black Up, thankfully has a new project due out in a couple of months. It is titled Lese Majesty, and it is looking to be even more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbFp1Q_Z8mM&feature=youtu.be After dropping the rigid, rollicking title track from their sophomore album Sunbathing Animal last month; Parquet Courts are now offering a second glimpse of the project via the considerably wilder “Black and White.” The song features the band’
Beast Coast‘s Flatbush Zombies share a psychedelic video for the recent collaboration they did with Trash Talk titled “97.92.” The fish eye on this thing is intense! Props to Aplusfilmz and Pier Pictures for the direction on this! I guess the musical collab was brought together by Converse
This Sleaford Mods record is pretty one-dimensional with its endless rants and repetitive beats, but I have to admit that this Nottingham duo’s style is awesome.
