Italians Do It Better: After Dark 2 — After Dark 2, a compilation of tracks from various artists on the Italians do it Better Label, is now live. Don’t let the fact that it’s a “compilation” fool you; it’s a highly cohesive piece of work. Italians do it Better could be thought of less as [...]
Wild Nothing: Empty Estate - I will be the first to admit that a few months ago, when Wild Nothing released the animated music video for ‘A Dancing Shell’, the first single off of Empty Estate, I was more than a little perplexed. The sound is so different from what fans have been used to hearing from founding [...]
Phaseone: If I Tell U — Phaseone’s most recent release, If I Tell U, is the kind of thing you’d expect from Williams Street Records– and that’s a not a bad thing. The sound straddles contemporary trap-hop, and the aesthetic stylings of Nosaj Thing– the kind of thing you’d expect to hear being blasted out [...]
Mark Kozelek & Jimmy LaValle: Perils from the Sea – Are you stressed? Is this work-a-day life getting you down or making you feel weary? Do you feel like you just need to sit in a dark room and stare off into space? Then Perils of the Sea is for you. Perils of the Sea is [...]
Daft Punk: Random Access Memories – It seems like that for the past 7 or 8 years the whole landscape of popular music has been trying to cash in on the Euro-House aesthetic that Daft Punk created. The most obvious example would be Kanye West sampling ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger’, but you can see the influence [...]