10. HEALTH - "usa boys" I seem to remember these boys being a lot noisier. 9. balam alcab - "see birds" 8. tokimonsta - "this world is ours" Tokimonsta first caught my attention when she went to town on Tweet's "Call Me" , but [...]
The easy way out is to say that A Sufi and A Killer is a strange wonder of an album that evades description, and leave it at that. Actually, there is no easy way out of this album. My favourite description of the record so far simply hailed it "the new soul" --a beautiful idea, which is pretty vague and nondescript, perhaps even inaccurate, depending on how you look at it. But vague, indeterminate praise, equal parts meaningful and meaningless, seems to suit this particular record. [...]
::tracklist:: After the Smoke - "One In a Million" Gil Scott Heron - "Where Did the Night Go" Free the Robots - "Jupiter" Bonnie & Clyde - "Since You've Gone Away" Kode9 - "Black Sun" Al Usher - "Lullaby for Robert" (Prins Thomas Diskomiks) Groove Armada - "Shameless" (feat. Bryan Ferry) [...]
How To Dress Well - "Decisions" (feat.Yuksel Arslan) -- cold, distant lamentations perfect for a day where the sun didn't break through the clouds once; snowstorms in April are almost as devastating as these two tracks. How To Dress Well - "Ready for the World"
Lucy Pearl - Dance Tonight (siik remix) ( via ) Siik remakes Lucy Pearl's "Dance Tonight" as a deliciously monotonous, slow-riding jam that would fit comfortably alongside the work of Dãm-Funk , trading in the original 's swingbeats and strings for lazy synth figures and a vicious snare that bumps more than it bounces. The soft-focus/iced-out keys and the slow, heavy beat of the drum machine never quite mesh, instead lazily wheeling around each other. It [...]
This mix of early 90s-era R&B ballads and new jack swing hit the internet on Valentine's Day, but I missed it. But that's okay; we'll listen to it now. Hudson Mohawke - 60 SlowJams Chapter 3 ( via ) ::tracklist:: R. Kelly & Public Announcement - "Honey Love" Christopher Williams - "Every Little Thing U Do" Keith Sweat - "It Gets Better" Seduction - "(You're My One and Only) True Love" ??? - Lorenzo Smith - "Angel" [...]
this one is even more stunning.
another mixtape. It's mostly reggae and rocksteady tunes, peppered with some lo-fi R&B and other echoey jams. I was moved by the raw intensity and intimacy of a lot of these songs, which is why I thought I'd create a special mixtape for them to live in-- a mixtape of reverb-swept recordings, full of desperate, heart-on-sleeve vocals and cavernous drums... It's a strictly 'headphones only' affair. Sound good? Off the top of [...]
I feel like I should be writing about one of the more upbeat tracks on Spoon's new album--something exciting to kickstart my late entry into Music: 2010 (Is it March already?), but whenever I sit down to write something lately, I seem to be in an exhausted, sorta sentimental mood. Thus, the songs on Transference that I'm feeling the most right now are "Out Go the Lights" and "Nobody Gets Me But You". Transference is a strangely beautiful follow-up to the band's last full-length [...]
I feel like I should be writing about one of the more upbeat tracks on Spoon's new album--something exciting to kickstart my late entry into Music: 2010 (Is it March already?), but whenever I sit down to write something lately, I seem to be in an exhausted, sorta sentimental mood. Thus, the songs on Transference that I'm feeling the most right now are "Out Go the Lights" and "Nobody Gets Me But You". Transference is a strangely beautiful follow-up to the band's [...]
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" Aaliyah - "Choosy Lover (Old School/New School)" Silkie - "Purple Love" Carl Carlton - "This Feeling's Rated X-Tra" ****
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not" Aaliyah - "Choosy Lover (Old School/New School)" Silkie - "Purple Love" Carl Carlton - "This Feeling's Rated X-Tra" ****
Pressure by Quadron from Daniel Kragh-Jacobsen on Vimeo . ( via ) ****
Burial & Four Tet - "Moth" My first response to "Moth" was that it felt emotionally heavy , like it contained the weight of the world, that it had a pervasive sadness that couldn't quite be labelled sadness, that it was like "crushing existential despair packaged in a song." I found myself wishing that I would hear it played sometime in a nightclub at 2 am. So far that wish has gone unfulfilled. But let's rewind back even further. Here [...]
Bat For Lashes - "Daniel" It would make sense if, instead of a song, "Daniel" was a vampire. That would explain the song's hypnotic presence, its eroticism--its cold, dark romance--and why you're powerless to resist it. Singer, Natasha Khan, barely has to whisper the first line and you're already hopelessly trapped in its embrace. Equal parts dream and mystical invocation, "Daniel" conjures a landscape of ghostly strings and stately synths--elegant (yet melodramatic) and ominous, like the whole thing's been doused in theatrical fog--you can almost hear the whir of the fog machine [...]
Mos Def - "History" (feat. Talib Kweli) "History" might not be the most technically-stunning track on Mos Def's flawless pièce de résistance , but it's hands-down the most joyful. It also feels like the most relaxed and effortless moment on the album, beginning with Mos Def waxing philosophical about predestiny, before launching into an affectionate, sunbathed synopsis of his past. Fellow Black Star emcee, Talib Kweli, romanticizes his birth, in the first two bars of his verse, with sweeping breviloquence: [...]
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - "Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane Remix)" The original is MJ-certified fire, and Aeroplane's remix burns even hotter, like an incandescent blue flame in zero gravity. The Belgian hotshot duo responsible for my favourite song of 2008 turn "Baby Can't Stop" into an hallucinatory epic, immersing Lindstrøm's rhapsodic disco stomp in an oscillating mass of spaced-out, pitch-bending synthesizers, chromatic scales and arpeggios. Christabelle's seductive, scattershot vocals orbit it all, sounding like a dazed Siren caught in [...]
Raekwon - "10 Bricks" (feat. Cappadonna & Ghostface) In the opening verse of "10 Bricks", Raekwon spins a tale of crime so convoluted and overrun with life that it has a kind of montage effect, with times and places running together and--even more surreal--a sense of characters disappearing into others. I don't think there is another rapper that can create depth to a story and reveal so little while suggesting so much quite like Rae can. Most of the details are left to our imaginations, Rae presenting us with haunting flashes of people [...]
Dirty Projectors - "Stillness Is the Move" "Stillness Is the Move" feels almost too coherent for a Dirty Projectors song. These guys are now rocking breathless, multi-tracked R&B vocals, a verse-chorus arrangement, fully-formed sentences (actual lyrics!), and a bunch of other things that one would associate with pop songwriting? That's. . . just. . . so. . . weird! (Funny when generating lyrics from an Excel spreadsheet moves your band further into pop territory instead of further away. Of course, I'm presuming that the [...]
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The Rains of Castamere by The National
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
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