Krallice with Dave Edwardson, "Rank Mankind" For their seventh album, Krallice brough in Dave Edwardson (Neurosis) to change things up. It's still very much a Krallice record, with all the dizzying ideas that entails, so Edwardson mostly just kind of inflects...
Your Old Droog, "Gyros" That punishing, thick blanket of bass, backed up by the little clicky drums, is such a tasty combination. I just want to roll around in this beat, or spread it on my sandwich. Mr. Lif, "Status" If...
Circus Lupus, "Pop Man" Post hardcore band Circus Lupus put out two albums in the early nineties, and I probably don't have to mention that this is a Discord album. The most obvious feature is Chris Thomson's rambling, half-shouted/...
Bim Skala Bim, "Set Me Up" This is another one of those songs that has a tremendous sense of place about it in my memory. This came out early in 1995, in my last year of college, and my friend Miranda and I...
Michael Kiwwanuka, "Rule the World" There are times, doing this, that I feel like a real fraud. Who am I to be writing this stuff up? I'm not a musician, I'm not a writer, I have no training in...