DJ Shadow, "This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way)" DJ Shadow's third album, The Outsider, is kind of a mess. It was four years after The Private Press and ten after Endtroducing, and all that time apparently created...
Murs, "I'm Innocent" Murs found himself on Warner Bros for Murs For President, and he turned in a big album to celebrate. There are a lot of ideas, a lot of big beats, a lot of targets. It's a...
Albert King, "Born Under a Bad Sign" Majestic. I'm just going to fuck this up if I try and write something. Chemical Brothers, "Block Rockin' Beats" Last time we had a track from this album, I expressed mystification...
Thou, "Sifting" Thou released a bunch of stuff in 2020. One of them was a compilation of Nirvana covers that they'd released in various other places, gathered together as Blessings of the Highest Order. This, of course, is the last song...
Joe & Barbara, "You're Astounding" This comes from very late in the Stax run, from 1975, just before the label's bankruptcy brought things to a close. Aceyalone, "Five Feet" Aceyalone was one of the founders of the...