Jul05

Com Truise – Galactic Melt (Review)

Com Truise

Galactic Melt

Released by Ghostly International


Com Truise is one of the many pseudonyms of New Jersey admitted synth obsessive designer/musician Seth Haley, the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”. Last year’s well-received Cyanide Sisters EP, included remixes for artists like Twin Shadow, Neon Indian and Daft Punk, but Truise’s debut full-length, Galactic Melt, is entering our varied soundscape this summer. Hi silly spoonerised moniker could’ve suggested an album title like "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy", but his music ...
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Jul04

Lil B – I’m Gay (I’m Happy) (Review)

Lil B

I'm Gay (I'm Happy)

Released by Amalgam Digital


Before anything else, let us answer the question that is on everybody's mind: no. No, this is not the worst thing you will ever hear. In fact, it is far from it. Lil B has been one of the most loved and hated figures in hip-hop for a couple of years now (due to such songs as "Pretty Bitch" coupled with a seemingly eternal endorsement of "swag") and it seemed like with every new release, the bar was being set lower and lower. Sorry world, we have been ...
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Jun21

Junior Boys – It’s All True (Review)

Junior Boys

It's All True

Released by Domino


On their recent releases, the electro-pop put forth by Junior Boys was excellently refined and intimate in composition and production. Jeremy Greenspan’s lyrics certainly put his emotions out in the open, and he and bandmate Matthew Didemus constructed the songs that excelled in their polished restraint. Yet it came with a detached air, almost as if the honed electronic sounds and the spirit of the music were being presented from behind a screen. All the same basic elements—classic synth leads, intricately pulsing rhythms and pop vocal stylings—are back again ...
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Jun13

Detroit’s Intricate Dialect Spits Ancient History (Review)

Intricate Dialect

"Kemet" LP

Released by Abolitionist Projects


A salute to the legacy of ancient Egypt, "Kemet" takes us back to a world governed by pharaohs and immortalized by the Pyramids. Intricate Dialect (I.D) combines history lessons with life lessons against a backdrop of jazz and electronic beats, giving us a fully-realized album that, just like Kemet, is sure to stand the test of time. On "Kemet" I.D channels nearly a decade worth of self-education, relaying his complex positions on both the political and spiritual. The free-flowing 11-track LP is laced with multi-layered discussions about public education, history, ...
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Jun13

Random Axe, Random Axe (Review)

Random Axe

Random Axe

Released by Duck Down Music


Detroit's hip-hop pulse has been strong since the days of The Hip-Hop Shop. And yeah Brooklyn ranks alongside Queens & The Bronx as breeding grounds for some of hip-hop's elite. Random Axe is two parts 313 and one part BKNY, a highly combustible compound. Black Milk, Guilty Simpson & Sean Price have that triple threat chemistry a la Jason Terry, Tyson Chandler & Dirk Nowitzki. Any album that makes you want to cop the instrumental version gives it legs and Milk has clearly emerged as one of the top producers in the game.
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