NNAMDÏ - Krazy Karl

July 3, 2020

Nice Job Nnamdï. Krazy Karl is not an easy person to pin down. I have no idea what qualities he would have. Fittingly, neither is Krazy Karl an easy album to pin down. Even experiencing its qualities first-hand, they are difficult …

Special Request - Spectral Frequency (3SR)

July 3, 2020

Spectral Frequency is the first full release on R&S Records by the UK’s Special Request, aka Paul Woolford, and it is a work of two complementary edges—one that cuts to the touch and another that’s felted. The namesake track …

Arca - KiCk i

June 26, 2020

Arca née Alejandra Ghersi is here with the first of a proposed four part series of albums. KiCk i explores the artist’s journey through non-binaryism and physical transition to female-hood through ruthlessly experimental and …

Jake Schrock - Omnibus

June 26, 2020

Beautiful. Just pretty. Just lovely. Just makes us feel such feelings of goodness. Like nothing is wrong, everything is right. Swimming in endorphins. Swimming in an ocean of contentment and comfort. Wrapped in a cocoon of the …

HAIM - Women in Muisc Pt. III

June 26, 2020

LA based sisters HAIM are here with their third album Women in Music Pt. III whimsically referred to as WIMPIII. HAIM’s previous work had largely existed in my periphery, a smattering of background radio plays, perhaps heard in …

Protest Song QUADRUPLE FEATURE

June 24, 2020

June saw a host of protest songs released. Anderson .Paak came out with his intimate and paced-down ‘Lockdown,’ Meek Mill put out the high-energy elegiac, ‘Other Side of America,’ Lil Baby released his gray-area-in-a-difficult-time auto-tuned rap, ‘The Bigger Picture,’ and JPEG Mafia showed up with a Fuck-Trump art trap, ‘The Bends!’

9th House - Lyra EP

June 19, 2020

Dancing alone in my bedroom grieving. My cat shuffles about on the floor beside me unable to get comfortable. Eagle is falling. …

Various Artists/Bella Boo - Once Upon a Passion Remixes (3SR)

June 19, 2020

A smattering of selections from Bella Boo’s 2019 salacious Once Upon a Passion have been sliced and diced by soundscapers and sonic explorers alike starting with a brightened and intensified take on ‘She’s Back!’ by Off The …

Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

June 18, 2020

To face the horror of meaninglessness is the ultimate coming of age. Awakening to the big picture existence paints you on the path you’ll take the rest of your life, one where your childhood expectations for the world will always …

DJ Boring - Like Water

June 12, 2020

DJ Boring’s latest project, Like Water, is a four song EP that likens life and experience to water. At first the name and theme seem too on the nose. But as the EP progresses, real depth and emotional acuity reveal themselves. …