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The debut album from producer Sami Baha reveals an undeniable grasp of hip-hop fundamentals and trap aesthetics, while propelling these concepts forward.
20 Jun 2018
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Young Fathers Do It Their Way on Best Album Yet, 'Cocoa Sugar'
Cocoa Sugar is an album that retains an enigmatic quality. Provocative when it needs to be, it steers well clear of addressing current world issues explicitly. This album will resonate for years to come.
08 Mar 2018
Young Fathers Create a Powerful Ballad and Dance Track with "In My View" (Singles Going Steady)
With "In My View", trio Young Fathers performs a masterful balancing act, turning a powerful ballad into a lightly banging dance track and back again.
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Shabazz Palaces - "Since C.A.Y.A." (Singles Going Steady)
Aggressively experimental, "Since C.A.Y.A." is dissonant and schizophrenic with beats going all over the place and plenty of tasty sonic treats weaving in and out of the track.
28 Nov 2017
Mr. Lif and Brass Menažeri - 'Resilient' (album stream) (premiere)
Rapper Mr. Lif teams up with Balkan brass band Brass Menažeri for a thrilling new genre mash on their new album Resilient.
03 Nov 2017
Brockhampton: Saturation II
Brockhampton has created a new offering that is equally refreshing and enjoyable by pretty much following their original formula to the letter.
30 Aug 2017
Black Milk Gives 'Em 'Hell'
Much of If There's a Hell Below's themes relay anxieties buried deep, manifested as sound when they are unearthed.
08 Jun 2017
Counterbalance: Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
One of 2014's most acclaimed albums is a dense, challenging effort from two wily veterans. Profanities and profundities abound in this week's Counterbalance.
08 May 2015
Counterbalance: The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Geezers need excitement. If their lives don't provide them this they incite violence. Common sense. Simple common sense. So here's the very exciting UK hip-hop debut of the Streets. An early aughts phenomenon is this week's Counterbalance.
20 Mar 2015
Son Lux: Lanterns
Lanterns is full of impressive and admirable post-rock concoctions, but the parts are ultimately greater than the sum.
03 Nov 2013
Doseone: G Is For Deep
On G Is For Deep, Doseone goes for a take on synth-pop that veers between being worringly eccentric and, er, crazily audacious. Then again, Doseone has always been a wild-card, and this might be his wildest album yet.
17 Jul 2012
Brotherhood of the Traveling Parachute Pants
Like lattés, Baby Bjørns, and bicycles, we bookish white boys love hip-hop. What one nerdy white boy from Wyoming learned from hip-hop.
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