De La Soul: Smell the DA.I.S.Y.
De La Soul Smell the DA.I.S.Y. (self-released) De La Soul’s new mixtape, Smell the DA.I.S.Y., features the group’s signature charismatic and organically conscious rap and rhyme styles reworked with beats by More...
Tycho: Awake
Tycho Awake (Ghostly International) Awake, the new album by Tycho, is electronic bliss. Each track on this purely instrumental album rings out with a breath-taking vibrancy and the complexity or purity of emotions More...
Jesse Boykins III: Love Apparatus
Jesse Boykins III Love Apparatus (NoMadic Music) Love Apparatus, the new release from Jesse Boykins III, is soulful sensuality. Not purely R&B, the album was produced by Machinedrum and is a pleasant distraction More...
Ziggy Marley: Fly Rasta
Ziggy Marley Fly Rasta (Tuff Gong Worldwide) The careless, feel-good harmonious buoyancy on the new album Fly Rasta by Ziggy Marley is a calming sound machine. Take the soothing effects of reggae music and couple More...
Skrillex: Recess
Skrillex Recess (OWSLA/Big Beat/Atlantic) The quintessential charm of Recess, the new release from Skrillex, takes the genre for which Sonny Moore is most popularly known and smashes it into shards of brilliance. More...
Jens Buchert: Cosmic Port
Jens Buchert Cosmic Port (Jebu Records) The heady dreamscape aesthetic of the new album, Cosmic Port by Jens Buchert, feels like a retreat into a meditative ambience of luxurious seduction and buzzing coziness. More...
Com Truise: Wave 1
Com Truise Wave 1 (Ghostly International) With the signature run of synthesized melodies both futuristic and tonally packed with an ’80s chunky style, Wave 1, continues with classical Com Truise attributes. More...
Futurecop!: Hopes, Dreams & Alienation
Futurecop! Hopes, Dreams & Alienation (Kiez Beats) Hopes, Dreams & Alienation, the new album from UK’s Futurecop!, is a pulsating, beat-heavy electro-pop affair. With a charisma reminiscent of mainstream ’80s More...
BoomBox: Filling in the Color
BoomBox Filling In the Color (Heart of Gold Recordings) Underneath a profundity of flamboyance at the hands of twistingly cavalier horn grunts, the rock and roll strut of electric guitar on the first track, “Waiting More...
Pat Metheny Unity Group: Kin (←→)
Pat Metheny Unity Group Kin (←→) (Nonesuch) The glorious textures that instrumentally astound on the new album, Kin (←→), from the Pat Metheny Unity Group, offer a beckoning detachment from reality. The More...
