It serves as hope to those who see rock and roll getting lobotomised by commercial culture.
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Listen/review: Ajani Jones - Mazerunner
In terms of lyrical flow, it heavily recalls Top Dawg Entertainment roster stars like Kendrick Lamar and in particular Isaiah Rashad.
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Listen/review: Oh No - The Troubled
Like Curtis Mayfield after a healthy dose of high-powered Orange Sunshine blotter.
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Listen/review: The Comet Is Coming – Final Eclipse
The Comet Is Coming's final release of the year is another sax-piloted body of banging cosmic jazz
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Listen/review: Mouse on the Keys - Earache
The stumbling beat, Wagnerian electronic backbone and liberating piano meanderings of ‘Earache’ form a stimulating instrumental.
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Listen/review: Robbing Millions - WIAGW
Enjoy this one for what it is: one of a kind.
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Listen/review: Dessert - Eyes Wide Shut
Dessert are possessed of the same kind of hip psychedelic indie intrigue that drew people to MGMT.
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Listen/review: RVWR - Cupcake
With urban music being rapidly commercialised, cloned, diluted and disseminated ad nauseam, RVWR's sound might be deemed 'unsanitary'.
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Words by Tim Hakki @TimHakki
Listen/review: Akello G. Light - Heal Your Womb
Making smooth jazz on his travels around Malkuth (Earth)...
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Words by Evan Crandell @ec_onthe1
Listen/review: Gabriel Garzón-Montano - The Game
Garzón-Montano offers a hopeful perspective on the winding paths through the trials of everyday life.
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Words by Tim Hakki @TimHakki
Listen/review: Happyness - Falling Down
After almost two minutes of psychedelic wigging-out the piece suddenly erupts into a flavourful pop song.
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Words by Tim Hakki @TimHakki
Listen/review: AUTOMatic - Triple Lindy
Non-stop emceeing from three of Milwaukee’s finest underground rappers.
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Words by Tim Hakki @TimHakki
Listen/review: Little Glass Men - Cycles
Resolutely escapist and almost mischievously playful, it’s the aural equivalent of stumbling upon a magical fairy dance deep in a verdant woodland somewhere, or something like that.
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Words by Ken Petalcorin @KenPetalcorin
Listen/review: Vasser - Whatever You Want
It confirms Vasser’s position as a bona-fide architect of music.
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Words by Evan Crandell @ec_onthe1
Listen/review: Kehlani feat. Little Simz - Table
The music offers a relaxed canvas over which the two women assure us of their place in the world.
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Words by Evan Crandell @ec_onthe1
Listen/review: Fifi Rong - Future Never Comes
A timeless message that feels particularly salient right now.
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Listen/review: Jaunt - Make No Doubt
While certainly evocative of other bands in feeling, is in a league of its own in execution.
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Words by Tim Hakki @TimHakki
Listen/review: White - Private Lives
Frontman Leo is on top form; his incredible range puts it beyond doubt that he’s one of the finest singers and lyricists on the circuit today.
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Words by Tim Hakki @TimHakki
Listen/review: Maggie Rogers - Dog Years
Maggie Rogers is proving to be more than just a flash in the voluminous content pan.
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Listen/review: Avante Black - Drug Money
It’s exactly the kind of sound that emerges into the world fully-formed and primed to take over.
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