Nonetheless’ closing track on its debut album is an arpeggiated malediction of a techno track. It’s rapidly scaling synth notes suggest something sinister without ever fully showing the listeners. “Thanksgiving” teases and stalks around in the shadows. The way the track’s bass notes rumble is genuinely enticing. You want to lean in rather than run… Continue reading Nonetheless- “Thanksgiving”
If the weather right outside the closest window to you is currently gray and overcast and rainy and just generally shitty, Cloud Nothings have something for you. “So Right So Clean,” the group’s third single from the forthcoming Last Building Burning, is one of the slower moving numbers from the Cleveland punk rockers. Dylan Baldi’s voice… Continue reading Cloud Nothings- “So Right So Clean”
Summer’s not over. Not yet. Not when two of the most superbly talented hip hop artists in the game are teaming up to flow over something this warm and breezy. While the two Los Angeles emcees have been circling each other for sometime, “Tints” represents their first genuine collabo. A lush, tropical funk cut from… Continue reading Top Tracks: Anderson .Paak- “Tints” ft. Kendrick Lamar
It’s somewhat amazing how dramatically a change in backing can totally reframe a musician. In the case of indie folk/rock artist Sharon Van Etten, a gravitation toward tape loops and synths and Roland 808s have made poetical tales much more insistent. What might’ve previously been a drama in miniature is now in 70MM on an… Continue reading Sharon Van Etten- “Comeback Kid”
The desires presented on JEFFE’s restrained synthpop track “UNDECIDED” are, for the part, remarkably modest. She wants a little caffeine and nicotine when the day feels like it’s gonna be an unbearably long one. She wants to be able to hit the snooze button whenever she damn well pleases. She’s looking for just a touch… Continue reading JEFFE- “Undecided”
That song title isn’t false advertising my friends. On one of two new tracks from Nigerian artist WizKid, the groove is the central locus. The warm, naturalistic horns piping in and out are in service of the groove. Those castanet-esque clanks serve at the pleasure of this track’s principle groove. What sounds like a microscopic… Continue reading WizKid- “Master Groove”
For a song whose central conceit is being stuck on the same person for what seems like an eternity, Joji’s “CAN’T GET OVER YOU” doesn’t waste a whole lot of time. The light, poppy team up with Clams Casino and Thundercat lasts a shade over two minutes and part of that time is spent in… Continue reading Joji- “CAN’T GET OVER YOU” ft. Thundercat [Prod. Clams Casino]
This past week has been an especially bright one for all things Lil Wayne. After years of promising it, he finally released Tha Carter V and it’s darn good. Good enough to steamroll its way to number one on the Billboard charts and rack up the third-largest streaming week ever (only Drake and Post Malone have done… Continue reading Sango- “Thank You Weezy”
Look, if you somehow don’t get swept up listening to Anna’s dazzling new techno cut “When I Am Only A Dream” then you must be hardhearted and leaden-footed. Hell, you’d have to be a boulder to not be carried away by this. Before you can even get properly calibrated to your surroundings, the Brazilian artist… Continue reading Anna- “When I Am Only A Dream”
The most impressive facet of Molly’s graceful seven-minute house cut “Voovoo” is that the track always feels like its gliding just above the ground. Perhaps over an amber-hued field. Even when the French artist craftily works in thumping drum machine beats that lithe feeling doesn’t dissipate. She keeps things nimble. The various synth textures will… Continue reading Molly- “Voovoo”
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