Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, Future, James Blake - King's Dead

December 10, 2018

This year has had mostly bad music, much of it unnoticed, and much of it ignored—some of it unignorable. It’s not unlike most years. It’s also bore some of my favorite albums out of the last five years (Steal Chickens from Men & the …

TSHA -Sacred EP

November 30, 2018

‘Sacred’ is my first introduction to UK-based producer TSHA, and it’s a great first impression. This track opens with mechanical static and a staccato monotone that references mechanical orientation devices, the notes of Morse …

George FitzGerald, Various - All That Must Be (Remixes)

November 30, 2018

Hot off an international tour circuit and in the midst of a BBC Radio 1 Residency, George FitzGerald is rounding out a huge year with a weighty revisit to All That Must Be. Popping round just at the end of November, this is a remix …

3 Sentence Review // Earl Sweatshirt - Some Rap Songs

November 30, 2018

Some Rap Songs, Earl Sweatshirt’s long-awaited album brings, pivots on, and promotes idiosyncrasy as an ideal form of liberation. With now-expected terseness and brevity, this newest release focuses on production that challenges …

3 Sentence Review // Gesaffelstein - Reset

November 29, 2018

Mike Lévy is also know as Gesaffelstein and he is back and he has made new music for the first time in over three years and it’s exciting because he is a prolific producer who has worked with his own brain as well as the brains of …

A$AP Rocky - Sundress

November 20, 2018

‘Sundress,’ A$AP Rocky’s newest release, is a great song that has little to do with A$AP Rocky. With bars infamous for their lack of continuity, Danger Mouse and A$AP corroborate to nest Rocky’s lyrics deep in the warm groove. …

Deena Abdelwahed - Khonnar

November 16, 2018

I first came across Deena Abdelwahed while staying in Oslo last summer and have been following her since. She has been shaking up the European electronic music scene the past two years, sharply questioning it’s one-…

Tiga & The Martinez Brothers - Blessed EP, Pt. 1

November 16, 2018

The end of the year is near, and year end feelings abound. Looking at the past in 2018 is difficult because bad things happened, and that is tough to look back upon. Good things also happened but they are done and in the past, …

3 Sentence Review // Mary Lattimore - It Feels Like Floating (Jónsi Healing Fields Remix)

November 16, 2018

With his remix of Mary Lattimore’s ‘It Feels Like Floating,’ Jonsi stretches the fibers of the original song horizontally into a landscape that melts into an endless expanse like a world revealed in a drop of sweet molasses. The …

Kölsch - Speicher 106

November 2, 2018

No, it’s not broken beat, it’s Kölsch with his Speicher 106 release. Alternately challenging, dancy, and romantic, the first track ‘Emoticon’ is a long-evolving to-and-fro of bombastic percussion, twinging strings and, for two ever so …