Floating Points - Crush

October 18, 2019

Deeply brooding and irate is the neuroscientist Sam Shepherd better known as Floating Points. Immersed in broadcasts of the impossible Brexit, a dying planet, dying people, dying wildlife, Sam Shepherd found himself …

Gesaffelstein - NOVO Sonic System (3SR)

October 4, 2019

Mike Levy, French Gemini and producer known as Gesaffelstein, returns to his violent techno roots with NOVO Sonic System, seventeen minutes of dystopian grinding on ruthless synths. Yet still the artist has softened from his 2013 …

JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs (3SR)

September 13, 2019

Self-deprecating master Barrington Hendricks aka JPEGMafia has released All My Heroes Are Cornballs, his third and most coherent project to date, chock full of lyrical jags and broken beats. The album is by no means designed to be …

HTRK - Venus in Leo

August 30, 2019

Continuing their relationship with Ghostly International, HTRK has released their latest album. The big anti-rock moodfest titled Venus in Leo has haunt to offer in every track. Heavily textured, highly repetitive, and unflinchingly …

Taylor Swift - Lover

August 23, 2019

Taylor Swift’s new album Lover is too long. With false quirk and jubilee masked as maturity, the polemic artist throws up lines about leaving Christmas decorations up until January intentioned to relate to happy people that also are …

Ross From Friends - Epiphany EP (3SR)

August 16, 2019

Ross from Friends’ (Felix Weatherall’s) new EP, Epiphany musically picks up where Family Portrait left off. Epiphany EP opens with the song ‘Epiphany’ which itself begins by whispering, “None of this is real,” and continues to say, “This is …

Chance the Rapper - The Big Day (3SR)

July 26, 2019

Chance the Rapper’s latest release, The Big Day, stops short, swerves, and stumbles. For all intents and purposes, The Big Day betrays itself as Chance’s first album, revealing through its disjointed nature and wide cast of contributors to …

Broke Brotherhood - They Promised Us Ponies (3SR)

June 20, 2019

Joyless would be a bit of an under or overstatement (which one I’m unsure). In any case, the newest release on Bobby Donny, They Promised Us Ponies by Broke Brotherhood finds its musical and atmospheric orbits in close …

Jai Paul - Do You Love Her Now/He

June 1, 2019

The enigma Jai Paul returns in funk-forward splendor, emphasis on the theatrics of splendor; for its effect is not one of splendor, but one of a shadow hoping to surpass that thing from which it is cast. The man has really pigeonholed …

Dave DK - Chicama EP (3SR)

May 31, 2019

Having been an impactful German for so long, Dave DK finally released a great new EP under Pampa—which we love—called Chicama EP, presumably after the small coastal town in northeastern Peru (Puerto Chicama) where …