Colleen
The Weighing of the Heart
Available on: Second Language Music LP
It’s hard to believe that it has taken ten years of releases for Cécile Schott to find her voice. That’s not to speak ill of her earlier run of reco [...]
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City
Available on: XL LP
Let’s get the stock Vampire Weekend descriptions out of the way for starters: preppy, Ivy League-educated, afrobeat-influenced / afrobeat-thieving, Paul Simonesque, disco [...]
Karl Hyde
Edgeland
Available on: Universal LP
Underworld are still going, of course, but Karl Hyde has been putting obvious effort and passion into his eponymous solo project, resulting in the debut album Edgela [...]
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories
Available on: Daft Life / Columbia LP
Daft Punk have been playing robots since the mid-‘90s, but let’s look at the reality here: Thomas Bangalter is 38 and Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo is 3 [...]
Chance the Rapper
Acid Rap
Available on: free mixtape
Acid Rap, Chance the Rapper’s second mixtape, is in part an act of catharsis, a reflection on and reaction to the trauma of his best friend’s murder and, more bro [...]
Dean Blunt
The Redeemer
Available on: Hippos in Tanks LP
Dean Blunt, if that is his real name, could be the premier art prankster of our time.
Although his output so far – from the groggy, hypnotic sketches of e [...]
Best Available Technology
Excavated Tapes 1992-1999, Vol. 1
Available on: Astro:Dynamics LP
Best Available Technology - often abbreviated to BAT - is the Portland-based Kevin Palmer, a producer who has apparently been plying his trade since the '90s, altho [...]
Talib Kweli
Prisoner of Conscious
Available on: Javotti/EMI/Capitol LP
The title of Talib Kweli’s fifth solo LP, Prisoner of Conscious, finds the 37-year-old rapper confronting the stereotyping of his craft. Since debuting in [...]
CHXFX
Spacecide
Available on: Feral Tapes cassette
Dave Henson has been quietly industrious for years now; creating and releasing music as Nochexxx on labels as far ranging as his own (now defunct) Tripel Re [...]
Ssaliva / WANDA GROUP
Birth Body
Available on: Woetone EP
Ssaliva has been around for a while now, previously releasing on the consistently brilliant Leaving Records and Vlek, so the move to Woetone, a new imprint from Svetla [...]



















