Animal Collective plays it straight, stripping away their usual sonic mayhem, on their latest album.
Aesop Rock is following up 2012’s Skelethon with The Impossible Kid on April 29 via Rhymesayers. Watch the half stop-motion/half body horror video for lead track “Rings” above.
The fourth promising single from Weezer’s upcoming White Album, out April 1 via Crush.
Porches pull together some decent synth-led pop instrumentals here, but they’re topped with some of the most off-key and uninspired vocals I’ve heard this year.
A highlight from Animal Collective’s new album Painting With, out Friday via Domino.
Kanye West attempts to sell disjointed and incomplete as a concept on his latest album.
A glimpse of Blue-Lit Half Breath, an upcoming LP for Penultimate Press by Melbourne sound poet Matthew P. Hopkins.
Lucinda wears her experience and age on her sleeve with this latest record.
Making a Valentine’s Day playlist is a regular thing here at The Needle Drop. Last year’s featured just about everything from Run the Jewels to Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, but this year Anthony pretty much had his heart stuck on one genre — soul. So what you’
A really cool animated video for “Mr Mistake,” off the self-titled album by Nevermen (a collaboration between vocalist extraordinaire Mike Patton, TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe, and abstract rapper Doseone). Out now via Ipecac/Lex.
