Nikki Njoku presents a truly innovative approach to hip-hop with the soulful “Nouvel Ordre Mondial”. From the found sampled sounds, skits, and other elements that help to give the album…
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Mutated shadow I, liminal Just as the moon, the sun, this soil In fact you’ve Pushed me into this room Where I breathe Fixed On mind’s lips …
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The author and her mother Outside my window in the August heat, the highway blurs by, liquid. As CDs rotate through the player, I’m suddenly alert at the first strains…
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Little MASE’s flow moves at a dizzying pace on the hyper-kinetic, hyper-articulate wordplay-filled narratives of “Where You Been”. The album title, itself a reference to the long gestation time of…
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A sense of unlimited possibility takes shape on Mimi Novic’s otherworldly, dream worldly spirit of “Beyond The Horizons”. Everything here is treated with the utmost of reverence for the true…
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A dark and beautiful work, Black Leather Birds explore the shadows with “The Color of Memory”. Without needing to say a single word an entire narrative emerges from these instrumental.…
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Third Thought embark on a truly trippy journey on the spaced-out scope of “The Other Side”. Stylistically they go for the joyous, as there is a ramshackle gleeful quality within…
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Ladonna Rama explores the nuance of that classic deep house sound with “Get Up On It”. They adhere to the four to the floor rule with such diligence that it…
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TuskHead offers up a beautiful, highly intimate piece of poetic folk with “The Rambler”. Firmly rooted in the folk tradition, he incorporates elements of country, rock, the blues, and even…
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Dskillz Harris & Chile_madd sculpt a perfectly tripped-out world on the powerful all-consuming stories of “The Next Episode”. A wild display of talent, they work wonders on creating this completely…
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Third Thought defines the birth of the chill with “Speakin Vibes!”. A lot of passion pours out of the sound, for they make sure that the whole of the sound…
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Third Thought inject a much-needed sense of play into the at times overly serious world of indie rock with “5/10 or betta”. Nothing here ever overstays its welcome, for they…
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Clem De La Creme defies easy categorization stylistically and geographically on the globe-trotting flows of “Lovedown”. Exploring the skyline of Shanghai, Japanese board games, relationships, yearning, lust, and more the…
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