Hip-Hop
Death Grips – No Love Deep Web
Bringing a whole new meaning to "difficult third album" No Love Deep Web captures Death Grips at their most abrasive and obtuse.
Why? and Young Fathers @ Central Methodist Hall, Manchester 10/10/12
Young Fathers absolutely killed it last night at the Central Methodist Hall on Oldham Street in Manchester.
I only knew the venue from it being a polling station in the two years that it was round the corner from me, beginning at the time when you ... read more
JJ DOOM – Key to the Kuffs
So it might not be the DOOM collaboration that the world is most anticipating, with the Ghostface Killah collaboration album still little more than a wish, but in 2012 any Daniel Dumile release is an event.
WHY? – Sod in the Seed EP
Three years on from Eskimo Snow, Yoni Wolf brings his distinguished brand of self-aware indie-hop back with Sod In The Seed. In the last decade Wolf has gone from the surrealist hip-hop experiment cLOUDDEAD to having been ... read more
Dub Pistols – Worshipping The Dollar
Guest stars fail to lift LP as the 'Pistols meander in stagnant musical territory.
Great and/or overlooked records from the first half of 2012
More than halfway through 2012 things have seriously picked in terms of album releases. Below are a handful of records we couldn't or otherwise didn't review from earlier this year. Every one is brilliant and would have made the recommended ... read more
TRACK: Why? – Sod in the Seed
New Why? track from their forthcoming EP of the same name. Give us your thoughts...
Clams Casino – Instrumental Mixtape 2
Since the arrival of his first Instrumentals mixtape over a year ago, Clams Casino has gone from doing odd tracks for Lil B to producing for superstars-in-the-making The Weekend and ASAP Rocky.
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