May 2013
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Album Review: One Of Us Is The Killer
The Dillinger Escape Plan // One Of Us Is The Killer // May 14, 2013 // Sumerian
Mathcore advertises itself as the most expansive genre of hardcore punk out there. It features virtuoso level guitar playing and readjustment of time signature at any given moment. It’s as claustrophobic as it is catastrophic. With so much to achieve at hand, far too many mathcore acts end up sounding the...
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Album Review: Random Access Memories
Daft Punk // Random Access Memories // May 20, 2013 // Columbia
It seems that Daft Punk’s brand of dance pop always leaves so much to the imagination that people are simply unable to comprehend their albums when they drop. The poppy ghetto house of Homework was usual stuff in the mid 90s before revealing itself as a great house LP with rare longevity. Discovery was frowned upon due to its...
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Adventures // Promise
Three members of Code...
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Album Review: Excavation
The Haxan Cloak // Excavation // April 15, 2013 // Tri Angle
Sometimes it’s easy to talk about an artist and their music using words that actual people use in their actual lives. But sometimes we have to delve into the dark depths of the descriptive. All you need to know is that the most common buzzwords that fellow music journalists throw at sounds they may or may not even understand are...
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Album Review: Tales Of A Grass Widow
Cocorosie // Tales Of A Grass Widow // May 27, 2013 // City Slang
All music is subjective and we’d go as far as to say that all sound is a form of music. Some of it is intended to be pretty, part of it is confrontational. This “indie” music that we’ve been dealing with for most of our lives is but a drop in the ocean. But when you dedicate your life to the sound, you...
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Album Review: The Redeemer
Dean Blunt // The Redeemer // May 6, 2013 // Hippos In Tanks
If we treat the modern times as half watched Youtube videos, then people like Dean Blunt are surely the real prophets of the modern music. Along with his musical partner Inga Copeland, they come across as a mysterious bunch and they deal in snippets of sound rather than fully fleshed out songs. Their sound is somewhere between the...
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Album Review: Silver Wilkinson
Bibio // Silver Wilkinson // May 13, 2013 // Warp
It’s very likely that when Wolverhampton born electronic producer Stephen Wilkinson, otherwise known as Bibio, started recording his new studio album, he had no idea that his biggest idols Boards Of Canada would end up releasing their new album a couple of weeks after his own latest effort, Silver Wilkinson. While it may be unfair to the...
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Album Review: Acid Rap
Chance The Rapper // Acid Rap // April 30, 2013 // Self-Released
Hip hop once took a stand against the drugs. It acted as a gateway for people in the hood to make a sound and get bigger than the surroundings that they’ve been dragged into straight from the birth. These days it seems that there’s very few rappers left who don’t do drugs. Like, when Tyler, The Creator states...
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Album Review: More Light
Primal Scream // More Light // May 13, 2013 // Ignition
In some circles Glaswegian rock veterans Primal Scream will always be regarded as little more than a semi interesting Stones’ tribute act but what you can’t deny is that their ability to adjust to the times is commendable. Acid rock stoners in the late 80s, britpop’s rowdiest outcasts during the mid 90s and electronic...
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Album Review: Modern Vampires Of The City
Vampire Weekend // Modern Vampires Of The City // May 13, 2013 // XL
NYC’s posh kids Vampire Weekend are still knocking on the door which is something to marvel at considering who they are and what they do. A bunch of polo wearing rich kids ripping through their African influences to create some sunny indie pop songs that are meant for both twee Apple commercials and little girls who...
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Album Review: Innocence Is Kinky
Jenny Hval // Innocence Is Kinky // April 19, 2013 // Rune Grammofon
Norwegian experimental songwriter Jenny Hval has no problems exploring the regions that are usually a no enter territory to your average bird with a guitar and a lack of constant band. Her debut record Viscera started out with Hval confessing about having an electric toothbrush pressed against her clitoris. The fact that she...
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Album Review: Prisoner Of Conscious
Talib Kweli // Prisoner Of Conscious // May 7, 2013 // Javotti Media
The sole reason why Talib Kweli is a different kind of hero in hip hop is because he never escaped his battles. He’s not up there above clouds grinding cheddar and using his most polished lines on the girls he will ever know for one night. He’s still here in the streets rapping about life. His career stems from...
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