Call it dank, dope or spectral – Wylie Cable’s new album Lemniscate is a trip
I swear unto the sinister twisted beats Gawds. The Dome of Doom label, run by Wylie Cable, is at itsContinue Reading
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Son Little’s grasp on ‘hey rose’ eludes time
“Hey Rose/Your Soul Is a Picture/But Your Body Is a frame’. That half-stanza gets swirled around in Son Little’s ‘heyContinue Reading
Automatic’s Signal: The declarative whir of three women assembling a gloomy good Cold Wave Buzz
There is a droning, thick layer of murmur, posting up a numbing ping, to the front door of your earhole,Continue Reading
Music: Elusive – Afterthoughts
Itʻs been two and a half years since producer Aaron Koslow released his definitive Fusion Swing, “a meditative…deep dive” intoContinue Reading
Peyton’s soulful and personal new EP Reach Out makes her one of the more exciting Stones Throw artists in recent years
Calls going straight to voice mail. Unanswered text messages. Listen…being on the wrong side of too many digital missed connectionsContinue Reading
Black Light Smoke’s very personal expression of a modern House sound keeps turning the dammed dirty blues into new reasons to sway until dawn.
Earlier this year Jordan Lieb, who records and performs as Black Light Smoke, changed his life priorities. Citing in XLR8Rthat his fillContinue Reading
South London trip Night Tapes are releasing some of the BEST Dream Pop/Shoe Gaze on the planet right now. Period
It’s official. I want a job working for the UK label Breaker Breaker. They could give a cot damn aboutContinue Reading
Listen to Skyzoo and Pete Rock’s new single “It’s All Good” from their upcoming collaborative project Retropolitan
With vintage kick drum, dusty piano loop and melodic harmonies intact, Brooklyn MC Skyzoo knew he wanted to rhyme over the unapologeticallyContinue Reading
“Running Away,” the second single from The Pendletons’ upcoming full-length album is as driven a track the duo has put together since their start
Itʻs been nine (WOW) years since E da Boss, one half of Myron and E, aka Eric Boss and Daniel Meisenheimer akaContinue Reading
The stirring collection of heaters and deep grooves that make Bad Education, Vol. 1: Soul Hits of Timmion a compilation to celebrate
Daptone Records, the feisty little analog driven label from an edgy part of Brooklyn, conquered their field of rootsy soul, funk, and gospelContinue Reading
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