Tricky, "Brand New You're Retro" Maxinquaye is one of the three pillars of trip-hop, along with Blue Lines and Dummy. What's striking about all three records, besides them all being great, is kind of how dissimilar they all end...
Public Enemy, "Cold Lampin' With Flavor" The Flavor Flav joint on It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back is the scar that sets off the perfection of the rest of the album perfectly. As a little goof, it'...
Feels like this month is dragging for these entries. Usually I can bang these things out without too much trouble (and you can tell the effort I put into them!), but it seems like it's just painful so far this year. Alas. Well,...
I never write checks, so this blog is the only thing that I write the wrong year on after the calendar filps over. Marvin Gaye, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" A stone-cold classic. Polyrhythmics, "Cosimo" A lovely EP from 2020,...
Nitzer Ebb, "Control I'm Here (live)" I mentioned the other day that I kept up with the proliferation of Nitzer Ebb releases for a while, and this is a good example of what a pain in the ass that was. When...
