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<i>Lip Lock</I>
Eve
Lip Lock

Words by Lauren Martin •  24th May 2013 • 
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  [...]
<em>Betty Rubble: The Initiation</em>
Mykki Blanco
Betty Rubble: The Initiation

Words by Chris Kelly •  23rd May 2013 • 
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  [...]
<i>Legacy</i>
RP Boo
Legacy

Words by Angus Finlayson •  22nd May 2013 • 
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  [...]
<i>Silence Yourself</i>
Savages
Silence Yourself

Words by Maya Kalev •  21st May 2013 • 
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,  [...]
<i>The Weighing of the Heart</i>
Colleen
The Weighing of the Heart

Words by John Twells •  20th May 2013 • 
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 [...]
<i>Modern Vampires of the City</i>
Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City

Words by James Hampson •  17th May 2013 • 
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 [...]
<I>Edgeland</i>
Karl Hyde
Edgeland

Words by Steve Shaw •  16th May 2013 • 
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 [...]
<i>Random Access Memories</i>
Daft Punk
Random Access Memories

Words by Tom Lea •  15th May 2013 • 
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 [...]
<i>Acid Rap</I>
Chance the Rapper
Acid Rap

Words by Maya Kalev •  14th May 2013 • 
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 [...]
<i>The Redeemer</I>
Dean Blunt
The Redeemer

Words by Chal Ravens •  13th May 2013 • 
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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