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Bridging the gap between hip hop, rap, electronic, pop and avant-garde while being an arrogant egomaniac again - yes, it's Kanye West and his album "Yeezus" The post Kanye West - Yeezus appeared first on Nothing But Hope And Passion - NBHAP - Music Magazine & more .

It was only my third gig of 2013, though  Young Fathers' rice 'n' pea-powered Shacklewell Arms showing remains one of the finer evenings out of this one thus far. The off-kilt hip hop trio appeared to come of age there and then upon that most oily of stages, and an incontestable highlight came in the surprisingly refined form of a then unknown track as we now know entitled I Heard. You can hear it below, and combining the slow burn balladry en vogue at the moment having been favoured by all and sundry from Tyler, The Creator [...]

• Young Fathers - "I Heard"

By Richard Wink March 1, 2013 Winning Best International Male at the Brit Awards introduces Frank Ocean to a wider UK audience. Yet for those late to the party ‘Super Rich Kids’ could be viewed as one of those tail end singles from a brilliant album that doesn't stand strong on its own (Can anyone remember ‘Until The End of Time’ from FutureSex/LoveSounds or ‘Broken-Hearted Girl’ from I am … Sasha Fierce ? ) . Ocean, proving his talent as a songwriter, and a jaded voice for this frustrated introspective generation [...]

In the past couple of years, R&B has found itself developing a strange relationship between its cold, technological, 80s self and its soulful Otis Redding and Marvin Gaye past. That combination has led to albums from the likes of Frank Ocean and The Weeknd receiving critical and commercial success, bringing R&B back from its mid-20002s malaise and creating a path for its future. In the meantime, Arthur Ashin's Autre Ne Veut [...]

When we spoke with Frida Sundemo a few weeks ago, she worried for the internet's brainwashing capabilities – of the reality that, in fact, so-called tastemakers can often so heavily influence opinion, that we are left unsure as to what we could and shouldn't like – let alone what we actually do or don't. And I often worry of the internet's endlessness – an abiding infinity pumping out more music in a day than we could fully appreciate in an aeon. How do artists therefore accrue any meaningful attention, and how do they ensure that their [...]

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From Harlem to Dalston, Mykki Blanco is becoming something of an omnipresent. Or rather, the essence of Blanco is this infinite as dense Yank accents enrobed in sarongs float around the corner of Truman's Road; Barrett's Grove. She (the gender into which the artiste is most intimately assimilated, as I'm insistently assured by her seemingly somewhat anxious PR team) is the momentarily wigged figurehead of queer rap – a relatively self-explanatory genre construction entrenched in everything NYC, which also comprises the modish likes of Zebra Katz , Cakes Da Killa , Le1F , [...]

Tercera y última entrega de los mejores 50 discos de 2012, según el equipo de indieHearts . 10.  El Perrodiablo - El Espíritu   El espíritu, tercer disco de El Perrodiablo , es otra muestra del juego de la banda platense: rock sudoroso y barullo garage.en el que volumen no da tregua por un segundo. El disco brilla gracias a la voz desfachatada de Doma , los sencillos y potentes riffs de guitarra y una [...]

The buzz around Frank Ocean before Channel Orange was unhurried and casual, with a sense of expectancy in the wake of his debut LP “Nostalgia Ultra”, though he was essentially still only known as the emotional grounding in the “Odd Future” Collective.  It was “that” Tumblr post that changed everything, as Ocean’s divulgence of sexuality two weeks before release automatically placed the record under the spotlight; it’s interpretable lyrics becoming one of the many aspects that make this record unmatched by it’s peers, innovative in a previously lyrically restrictive genre. Channel Orange [...]

“It’s been a while/I’m not who I was before,” sings  Alicia Keys   on Girl on Fire , her fifth studio album to date, after a dazzling intro consisting of nothing but a grand piano and Keys’ mastery over (if you can forgive the pun) the keys. But this is no hollow declaration of rebirth, and though we are not made privy to the details of Keys’ personal life, her newfound bravery and self-acceptance are clearly evident in various inflections throughout the album. From the victorious cries of “It’s a new day!” in the [...]

Por Augusto Dallachiesa ¿Será éste el quiebre definitivo que sentencie la llegada del nuevo soul al planeta tierra?  Frank Ocean  parece dispuesto a eso y mucho más. Apenas alcanza con leer algunos párrafos de una carta que abrió un nuevo debate en el mundo de la música negra , en la cual explicaba en detalle la relación que mantuvo con otro hombre y que fue el motivo encubierto del lanzamiento de  Channel Orange , una de las mejores entregas de este 2012. En  [...]

• Frank Ocean - Sweet LIFE

How To Dress Well Total Loss out 9.18 Stream | CD | Vinyl “I love to fly. It’s just you alone. You’ve peace and quiet, nothing around you but clear blue sky. No one to hassle you. No one to tell you where to go or what to do. The only bad part about flying is having to come back down to the fucking world.” Those words, spoken by a homeless teenager and excerpted from [...]

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange Released:  July 10, 2012 Label:  Def Jam Purchase:   iTunes  |  Insound  |  Amazon Frank Ocean 's  Channel Orange is a nightmare of an album to review, not because it's a bad piece of work or even because of the circumstances that surrounded its release (read: Frank Ocean broke the ice about his still unclear sexuality just days before the album's release with a painful recounting [...]

Lollapalooza 2011 Day Two is in the books, and boy, was it a crazy one. Below is a wrap up of the the acts that we had a chance to catch and a recap of the Grant Park evacuation... 12:45 p.m.: Doomtree Photo by Richard Giraldi Minneapolis hip-hop collective thrilled with their early set on Saturday. Comprised of a number of emcees, including P.O.S, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan and Dessa, who not only spits rhymes but [...]

Frank Ocean  put on an incredible performance this Thursday, July 26th, at Terminal 5 in NYC. Usually, the venue itself bums me out because a lot of times sound gets swallowed, although I have had some wonderful experiences there (namely  Animal Collective   and  A-Trak ). Despite this, though, Frank Ocean conquered all doubts. Ocean chose perhaps the classiest approach to his show; no opener, on at 9:00pm and not a minute after. His voice was, quite literally, [...]

As tender, and loveable, and loving, and momentarily harrowing if thoroughly heartfelt as Frank Ocean's TextEdit splurging of soul may be deemed (it subjectively appeared a rather damning indictment of our modern-day modus vivendi that such honest human emotion be conveyed digitally) it'd not only be lamentable were his coming out to coincide with the release of channel ORANGE the most widely reviewed outcome of this, the début but moreover deplorable on our behalf were we to fine-tooth through the ins and outs of the young man's sexuality. For if this [...]

"With a collection of memories sung with painful honesty, Frank Ocean is certainly not your typical r'n'b singer..." Frank Ocean  |  Channel Orange Despite last year's release of the mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra , even less than one month ago Frank Ocean would have slipped (relatively) under the radar, having had only gradual songwriting success for artists such as John Legend and Brandy. Now, his time has come, and not just because of his first major studio album Channel Orange , but perhaps because he has decided to announce his bisexuality on the [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange over the past week; I’ve been listening to it quite often, and I’ve been trying to place it in some wider context. On the one hand, I think it’s admirable that Ocean’s recently professed sexuality makes the album a more interesting listen since the pronouns he uses aren’t confined to one gender or the other over the course of the album. On the other hand, it kind of irks me that something so personal was used as what seems to be a publicity stunt. (Aside 1: [...]

• Frank Ocean - sweet life

Today ( July 17 ), Frank Ocean 's stunning debut album Channel Orange hits record stores — but not Target — nationwide. Most of us have already lived with it for a week now, at least since the Odd Future singer began streaming it on Tumblr . If you've yet to avail yourself of the opportunity to listen to this record for free, do so immediately. Because this isn't just the best R&B album of the year so far. This is most likely the best album of the [...]

I wasn’t planning on writing a review for Frank Ocean at the Commodore this past Saturday.  However, after a few unfavourable, (and unjust), reviews started popping up on the World Wide Web I thought this was necessary. Let me start off by saying this; who Frankie is fucking or rather not fucking should not enter the conversation of his artistic achievements.  While I understand the notion of celebrity and living in the public eye, good music cannot be defined by race, sexuality, or gender.  Moreover, Frank Ocean is in a genre all his own.  He's given R/B a [...]

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