MC Paul Barman, "UNDOING ALONENESS" Back when MC Paul Barman was just getting going, I remember a lot of thinkpieces coming out about him. Lots of descriptors for him describing him as smart or whatever in a way that in retrospect just strikes...
The Budos Band, "Ghost Walk" The Budos Band are brilliant, always worth listening to, but they don't always do cool. This song, though, is so smooth and cool, a standout from their brilliant first album. Squarepusher, "Nux Vomica" Burningn&...
The Flaming Lips, "The Sparrow" King's Mouth: Music and Songs is a bit of a return to a previous style for the Lips, sonically sounding a lot more like The Soft Bulletin than The Terror. But it's also a...
Mort Garson, "Baroque No. 2" Mort Garson is a synthesizer pioneer, one of the first people to record music with a Moog. Sacred Bones has been reissuing his work, both his records and various rarities from his estate's archive. This is...
Noisem, "Birthing the Bestial" A lot of what I like about thrash are when you've got really chunky, memorable riffs and some pyrotechnic squalling solos. So I ought to love this, right? But I dunno, it's fine. I don&...
