Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

As 2008 crawls to a close, some of the year's best efforts come into finer focus. And when it comes to hybrid hip-hop, against all odds, remote Saskatchewan DJ Factor's early release Chandelier keeps inexorably rising into Listening Post's top ten. Maybe it's the Mercury Rev-like poptronica of "Home Again" or the orchestral raunch of "More Handsome Than Rude," or the stable of well-regarded rappers who make cameos. But whatever it is, it's hard to shake Chandelier once you chill long enough to listen to it all the way through. Factor's multi-faceted [...]