earnest bangers from the queen of earnest bangers...u want a pop album? listen to CRASH. u want to dance and cry? listen to BRAT. brains and blood all over the page. strobe lights on a mirrorball. a notebook laying open in the street. we go round and round in the night consumed by fire.
One can be nice, but two always seem to be twice as good. At least, that seems to be the case when it comes to Hip-Hop. There may be no relationship more intimate than that between producer and MC. They just couldn't exist without each other, that is, unless the producer just wanted to make instrumentals or the MC just wanted to make acapella. Other than that, though, producers and MCs are like yin and yang, two opposite yet complementary aspects that, when brought together, produce a beautiful harmony. Here, the yin and yang are producer Tony Seltzer and rapper (and producer) MIKE. Their album, Pinball, dropped with little fanfare, being preceded only by the throwback single "R&B,… More
Where is Tisakorean? On the cover of his newest EP, MUMU 8818, the Texas-born rapper leans on the hood of a blood-red Corvette, limned by the setting sun, looking into the future, the oncoming dusk. He's outside; that's about all we can say. Actually, the more important question is: Where are you? If you're not here, listening to Tisakorean, you might as well be asleep. However, if you ever want to wake up and feel what it's like to be a lecherous bouncy ball, all you have to do is click that SoundCloud link up there and just let loose.
Tisakorean has said in interviews that he just makes the music that he wants to hear. One wishes that all… More
In just one word, Moves in the Field is stunning. Unlike many of Moran's previous releases, the songs here are all solo piano, or rather, solo Disklavier. Listeners expecting clinks, plonks, or scranks will be sorely disappointed when listening to the album, but that does not mean they should stop listening! On the contrary, Moran's use of the Disklavier on this album shows just how full and beautiful a piano can sound on its own, without any timbral bells or whistles. There are bells and whistles, though, but they're more on the level of the performance than the level of the instrument. You can't tell who is who just by listening, or maybe you can if you really try to… More