It’s that time of the month, isn’t it? I’M TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THESE RECORDS IN BRIEF. I WISH I HAD THE TIME TO REVIEW THEM IN FULL ON THEIR OWN IN APRIL, BUT SUCH IS LIFE. HERE’S THE LIST: PROTOMARTYR – UNDER THE COLOR OF OFFICIAL
People come up to me all the time, I mean, literally every day, and they ask me if I know of an album out there that gratuitously mashes a myriad of different pop tunes together in a violent, overwhelming display of digital editing. Now, I can finally say “yes” to
https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/percussions-blatant-water On April 28, Four Tet put out two 12″ singles on his TEXT label under his Percussions alias. The singles were “Ascii Bot/Blatant Water Cannon” and “KHLHI/Sext,” both of whose B-sides you can stream above and below. Not a whole lot more to
https://soundcloud.com/thrilljockey/the-soft-pink-truth-black Drew Daniel, best known as one half of Baltimore-based electronic music duo Matmos, is back with his first album in ten years under his handle The Soft Pink Truth. The album is, strangely enough, a love letter to the black metal genre – just in case
Are you one of the admirable few who’s managed to abstain from listening to Swans‘ massive new album To Be Kind? Hang in there – there’s only a handful of days left to go! But maybe you’ve already worn out their other 12 records waiting and need a
https://soundcloud.com/immune-recordings/sets/cleared-drown/s-xINig In 2009 Steven Hess and Michael Vallera, two of the figureheads of Chicago’s experimental music underground, formed the duo Cleared. They conceived of a sort of trilogy, starting with their 2011 self-titled debut, continuing with 2012’s Breaking Day, and now finishing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl76sGuxH78 via Tiny Mix Tapes The ladies of Rio de Janeiro hip hop trio Pearls Negras have a new video out for Biggie Apple cut “Guerreira.” From their fiery flows to their blaring, lasering beats, Alice, Jeni, and Mari are indeed up to some
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/
