Some bonus tunes today!
We’ve had several trip-hop acts around here in the past, and here’s one of the lesser known bands from that scene. Morcheeba, like all of the trip-hop bands that hung around for a while, pretty quickly expanded beyond just straight trip-hop. For example, beyond the drums and a little bit of scratching, this is more jazz than trip-hop. At any rate, this album (Big Calm) is very good.
[Read More]This song is so stripped down that there aren’t even any keyboards on it. Unless you count them putting “dumb” into a sampler and using that. It’s proof that the alchemy of a drum machine and rapping really didn’t require anything else.
Sludge metal in the vein of Mastodon or Baroness, Black Tusk do a nice job on their second album of keeping up the energy and making sure the tunes are appropriately propulsive. While maybe not as memorable as the heights of those bands, it’s still fun stuff.
[Read More]If I’m counting this right, this is number 50 for these articles. Not bad! Now then, let’s do some math, that means…250 songs? Except, of course, there are two extra tracks in there due to the Dillinger Four being unpostable on Youtube. So, 252 tracks! NICE ROUND NUMBER. Here’s today’s tunes.
Out of Savannah, Georgia, Black Tusk play a murky take on stoner metal which isn’t dissimilar from fellow Georgians Baroness. As always with all of this sort of music, it’s all about the riffs, and this record has them in spades.
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