Matteo Grilli

Listening to this is a very peculiar experience for me, it feels like unearthing a treasure. Stuff doesn't reveal itself to you easily, it's hidden in the haze, buried in sand. Sometimes you get glimpses of it and it's brilliant, like when you enter that room with the Mona Lisa and all the people are in front of you and you only get a half a look at it in between the heads as they move around.
Beautiful if a little frustrating.

completely missed this record coming out earlier this year, just now getting around to it, solid, maybe not full of surprises but very pleasant to listen to.

Really cool keyboard driven progressive jazz tracks. Tight grooves and interesting sounds. It's really great how all 'cool new jazz' or however you wanna call it gets regularly featured in publications, streaming apps and record stores these days. Maybe it's just here to stay forever or maybe one day something else becomes the thing du jour and we will forget how great we had it for a while

I have to admit that I wasn't really into Tyler when he first burst on the scene, I really did not get the whole thing and resisted the hype way too much, but he definitely won me over with some impressive muisic over the years.

His stuff is pretty unique in a genre where people are very afraid of getting too far away from what's hot this year and even in chromakopia he's ranging far and wide from soul r&b to rock and hardcore rap, there's literally a little bit of everything.

It's still a little bit too scattershot for me personally, there's moments I love a lot and others I don't, but it's yet again an impressive… More

Anecdotally it seems this record isn't getting the great reviews that people were expecting but I'm just mesmerized by how well crafted it is, the tracks flow into one another seamlessly and the atmosphere evolves slowly over the course of the whole album. Truly a dreamlike experience

I am visiting my mom in my hometown and I go down to the beach to take a walk, I haven’t been there in ages. I actually love to go the beach in the offseason, the water is cleaner, there’s nobody there, it’s peaceful.

Just as I am starting to head back into town I spot a message in a bottle just sitting there on the shoreline, half buried in the sand.

I think what the hell but of course I pick it up, there’s a little shred of yellowing paper inside with just four words on it:

“we are SO back”

un grande sì a questa collaborazione català / italià!

cool indie pop with an 80s touch. Funny, earnest and catchy as hell.

I'll admit that I'm not super up to date into the latest club music styles but this is definitely the wave i'm personally more into these days: deep, hypnotic, textured, evolving. There's so many little details weaving in and out over the minimal framework to reward listening to this over and over and getting lost into the groove

I have my problems with Spotify for a variety of reasons but sometimes it can be really cool, like when it lets me stumble into records like this one.

It's very difficult to tell if these funk tracks have been recorded in the 1970s or just last year, maybe the mix is a little too crisp in the high end and there's not much tape hiss or vinyl crackle coming up from the speakers but everything else is absolutely on point for that particular period.

Guitar tones and licks are absolute standout here, great collection of tracks.

very lush, widescreen cinematic little gem. Percussion sounds come through sharp and crispy all over warm orchestral textures and vocals, definitely a great tone reference.

can't get enough of the song Parque Laje, a stone cold classic.

smooth playing, great takes, cool cover art.

il gruppo di improvvisazione nuova consonanza is kind of an acquired taste, Morricone, Micalizzi and their friends scratched their darmstadt school itch when playing in this band and the results are slightly too avant-garde and atonal for a pleb like me, but and there's a big but, the title track here has some of the greatest breakbeat action ever committed to magnetic tape, and the rest of the record has plenty of weird percussion sounds so for sample heads this is still worth owning on vinyl.

at some point in the last few years a switch has flipped and music based on synths went from being used to describe the future to being synonymous with nostalgia and the past.

This record is a great way to get reminded of how the weird sounds of synths were used to evoke alien landscapes, weird machines and fast moving technology. Geesin is a master at work.

impossibly soft songs, cinematic jazz, soothing crooner poetry, minimalist production.

A lot to like here.

Solid album, a good summation of Justice's career. Sure soundwise this might not punch as hard as their first releases but I feel like the whole culture has moved on from that era and nothing sounds as abrasive anymore, which I ultimately subjectively prefer (but that's like my opinion man)

I generally think it's very hard to have a long career on the bleeding edge of cool when the thing that's 'in' changes every other year, Justice have survived with a bit of cunning conceding something to pop music, but they definitely have a knack for writing catchy and weird tunes, and their choice of collaborators with indie cred like Tame Impala, Thundercat and Connan Mockasin ensures they still get… More

Nice collection of mostly instrumental music by Johnny Jewel, ranging in tone from soft and elegiac to dark and brooding. Not a huge fan of the sequencing of the tracks and it feels more like a collection of tracks than a proper flowing and cohesive album but there's a lot of good tracks here