Eve
Lip Lock
Available on: From the Rib LP
Eleven years since Eve-Olution Eve returns with Lip Lock, her mere fourth album since 1999 and what the Philly-born Ruff Ryder has called her most honest work to [...]
Mykki Blanco
Betty Rubble: The Initiation
Available on: UNO NYC
Mykki Blanco’s short career has been marked by defied expectations and confounded audiences. In just over a year, Michael Quattlebaum Jr.’s art-rap alias has released [...]
RP Boo
Legacy
Available on: Planet Mu LP
In many music scenes it’s possible to make the distinction between originators and popularisers. The originators have the ideas - in a simplistic reading, they are [...]
Savages
Silence Yourself
Available on: Matador LP
There’s not much about Savages’ music that you could call wildly original. Like their Matador labelmates Cold Cave and Interpol, they can be derivative to a fault, [...]
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 [...]
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