Polyrhythmics, "The Mendo Mulcher" I sometimes wonder if I'm going to look back on all the instrumental funk and soul that I listen to these days and think how a lot of it has aged poorly, in the same way that...
Stephen Malkmus, "Discretion Grove" Do you detect a little echo of "Wounded Kite" there in the aborted first bit of song on this track? No? Just me? The Suicide Machines, "Our Time" No, we're leaving the "...
Nation of Ulysses, "The Sound of Young America" I need more art punk in my life. Nation of Ulysses was unafraid to just go for it, with their over-the-top political polemics, the atonal honking of the trumpet, the odd song structures, or whatever...
De La Soul, "Church" After the lackluster Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump and the uneven AOI: Bionix, I was wondering if De La Soul were done. The answer was answered definitively by the next album, The Grind Date: no, they were not done....
Flying Lotus, "Eyes Above" You're Dead!, the incredible 2014 album by Flying Lotus, is a shimmering mass of fantastic ideas, with constant shifting across tracks, well-chosen guest artists, and lots of surprises across the length of the album. However, it'...
