U.G.: Portals
Delivered through a mastery of dark spell, Portals finds rapper U.G. ensuring that his telesthetic rhymes are grounded in the loping swings of granite-heavy beats.
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Swet Shop Boys: Cashmere
Cashmere is a transatlantic hip-hop album that challenges representation of South Asian people in pop culture.
Tory Lanez: I Told You
Tory Lanez has never done anything even close to warranting as much ambition as I Told You contains.
Mac Miller: The Divine Feminine
When you can't rap or sing, but you want to declare your love to your new woman, you might as well do it through groove.
Making a Sene: The Rise of Brian Marc
Brian Marc, AKA Sene, manages a minimal but heavy discipline of turntablist groove; his dream-washed music appropriates the rhythms of a casual stroll through city streets.
Clipping.: Splendor & Misery
If any group were to succeed in making a rap opera in outer space, it would be Clipping.
Taking the Bitter With the Swede: Adam Tensta’s Moody Hip-Hop Soul
One of Sweden's most outspoken and celebrated rappers returns with an album of eerie hip-hop noir, where the heavy grooves luxuriate in the nebulous fog of despair.
A Poetic Filament: An Interview with Writer and Musician Azeem
What you hear in Azeem's music is bluster and anger, a rage of words and sound. But at the very core of his sonic tirade is the enveloping silence of anagogic contemplation.
LXL – “Mung Bean Chutney” (video) (premiere)
Detroit hip hop group LXL releases debut music video, set to be the first in a narrative series.
Come to Dada: Maestro Gamin’s Hip-Hop Surrealism
Maestro Gamin's surreal and irregular grooves court hip-hop culture as much as they do jazz, his music transmitting from some Dadaist aperture of sound.
Jovanotti: 2015 CC
Like a decadent box of gourmet sweets, there is, on Jovanotti's 2015 CC, fun to be had in discovering the tasty surprise centers of these songs.
Jeremih: Late Nights: The Album
Jeremih knows how to make sex a powerful force, but it's a shame that the rappers he features don't