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  • Apr 15 experimental

    Swans - "Oxygen"

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSdTBGhDSg “Oxygen” is the second single to drop from Swan’s latest epic To Be Kind (after last month’s stellar, staggeringly funky “A Little God in My Hands”), and it is among the fiercest and most thrilling moments of its two-hour-plus runtime. It

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  • Apr 14 fool's gold

    DaVinci & Sweet Valley - "I Got That Line"

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    Remember “Sweet Valley”? You know, the brotherly production duo consisting of Nathan and Kynan Williams. You probably already know Nathan from Wavves. Well, they’ve recently teamed up with Bay Area rapper DaVinci for a new project titled Ghetto Cuisine, which is currently downloadable via Fool’s Gold Records. “I

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  • Apr 14 atmosphere

    Kid Smpl - "Silo Tear"

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    Kid Smpl has premiered the title song off of his upcoming Silo Tear EP, bringing a moody atmosphere with low humming synthesizers and white noise layered over. “Silo Tear” has a distinct coldness to it as the song grows and progresses it builds with mechanical synths as well as some

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  • Apr 14 Album Reviews

    Girl Talk & Freeway - Broken Ankles

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    While I wish Broken Ankles was longer, in five tracks, Girl Talk and Freeway create more compelling material than some of the more buzzed-about mixtapes that have dropped thus far this year.

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  • Apr 14 Album Reviews

    CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Vol. 3

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    CunninLynguists pack their latest project with one track after another of quality features.

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  • Apr 14 Album Reviews

    Todd Terje - It's Album Time

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    While scatterbrained and underwhelming at times, Todd’s debut record here has some top-notch dance jams on it with a vintage flair.

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  • Apr 14 Album Reviews

    SZA - Z ft. Cakes Da Killa

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    It pains me to say it, but I don’t care for this new SZA record at all. Not just because some of the tunes are unmemorable, but her own vocal guests just step all over her and these songs.

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  • Apr 14 aesop rock

    Aesop Rock - The Blob

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    Out of the damn blue, Aesop Rock drops a 30-minute collection of unreleased beats, loops, and sonic oddities that haven’t made his commercial releases. It’s a pretty colorful collection of tracks, honestly. It’s just as lo-fi and idiosyncratic as I’d expect. It’s kinda like a

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  • Apr 14 beast coast

    Flatbush Zombies - "Red Light, Green Light" ft. Espa (prod. The Architect)

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    New York’s Flatbush Zombies drop another song in a recent string of track’s they’ve been putting up on YouTube for a few weeks now. This particular one features some really pretty, atmospheric beat. As usual, Meechy Darko and Erik Ark Elliott prove to have two of the

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  • Apr 10 album

    Merkabah - Moloch

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    Moloch by Merkabah Noise, progressive rock, and jazz come together on this new Merkabah album, Moloch. I’m just starting to listen to this thing, and am pretty stunned by how tight, twisted, and volatile these songs are. There’s some serious excitement in these tracks. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy!!!

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