Quelle Chris - "DEATHFAME" | Album Review
April Magazine - "If The Ceiling Were A Kite: Vol. 1" | Album Review
The music is rich, anciently fresh, maybe altogether timeless, at least in its ability to capture a certain presence - an aesthetic dripped in honesty and the fruits of happy moments. What memories might be hashed in with a time of more relative freedom, surface in the emotional reaction, none-the-less.
Tha God Fahim - "Six Ring Champ" | Album Review
At this place in space/ time, there is an absolute aura around Tha God Fahim. With a constant, steady flow, ciphered from the ether, there seems no slowing Fahim - he has tapped into our divine consciousness, leveeing the spring to run like a river, and crafting soundscapes in the elegantly sophisticated fashion of legends.
The Peacers - "Blexxed Rec" | Album Review
Knowing no melodic bounds, the Peacers’ exceptionally expansive musical palette is apparent, painting in a spectrum of refined subtlety, hypnotic grace, and plangent adventurism. This panoply of hues presents itself in a microtonal, blue note fashion, with chromaticism and a generalized uniqueness of twists-and-turns.
Mach-Hommy - "Balens Cho (Hot Candles)" | Album Review
L'Orange & Namir Blade - "Imaginary Everything" | Album Review
We ultimately desire that unshakable foundation of truth we once knew amidst this mosaic of chaos that surrounds us - real recognizes real, as they say. Imaginary Everything, the collaborative effort from Namir Blade and producer L'Orange, offers this truth, one way or the other - it offers us a sanctuary from the greater storm of insincere pathos.
Big|Brave & The Body - "Leaving None But Small Birds" | Album Review
Leaving None But Small Birds is representative of the past-present-future; a jewel in the circular crown of time. Big|Brave & The Body converge on their power expression, hunting the monumental grounds, rendezvousing at a location both comfortably familiar and wildly obscure: ancestral foundations known deep in one’s bones.
Sun Organ - "Portal" | Album Review
Shannon and the Clams - "Year of the Spider" | Album Review
With production from The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach, there is a certain pop-ish digestibility that walks a razor's edge, staying wholly true to the humanity of it all. One could imagine hearing this on “the radio,” despite its fantastic rebellion from the quantization-black hole vacuuming up the world of pop today - a feat in and of itself.
Tha God Fahim & Nicholas Craven - "Dump Gawd: Shot Clock King" | Album Review
Shot Clock King recalls the cypher, inspiring breaths of life, communally shared for the respect, preservation, and progress of the art and broader art across humanity. One might just as well feel comfortable playing this music in a public setting, with the adaptable lyrical content offering something for everyone.
Deradoorian - "Find The Sun" | Album Review
Deradoorian's work in Find The Sun is an exploration beyond this cognizance, planted firmly in the earth, and an organically divine consciousness. This is evergreen energy, coniferous and long-standing, albeit far beyond the relative pinball of deciduousness - live, die, live again - stands emitting from the celestial sphere
Birds of Maya - "Valdez" | Album Review
Valdez, the most recent release by Philadelphia's psychedelic rock masters/champions Birds Of Maya, represents the shared momentary humanistic expressions of creative freedom aesthetic to absolute perfection; an exiled memory in the apocalyptic nightmare - one which has the ability to awaken a drifting consciousness from its haze.
Mach-Hommy - "Pray For Haiti" | Album Review
Philary - "Uh-Oh It's Me" | Album Review
Philary's LP Uh-Oh It's Me is a range of emotions, both complex/simple, as well as individually personal/broadly relatable. As such, the compositions reflect in a way that is plethoric, luxuriant, and colorful. Guitars weep and wail, drums thunder and lightning, and unwavering-yet-omnifarious vocals guide the ship across the terra incognita.
Omeed & The Natural Scene - "Pickled Dawn" | Album Review
Beyond the skyline, across the galaxy, a fermented sun sets on Omeed & The Natural Scene's Pickled Dawn. An album of abstract and cataclysmic beauty, looming heavily on the horizon, one need only reflect on themselves before entering. Forests, flora, fauna, songs of rock and stone, oceanic wonder - humans.
Armand Hammer & The Alchemist - "Haram" | Album Review
Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network - "Ballet of Apes" | Album Review
Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network offer sanctuary from the trials of the greater storm; an analogous warmth, forthright honesty, & familiar newness, which lull one into a sense of comfort & calm amidst our swirling chaoses. Ballet Of Apes is that ice cold beverage on a scorching summer high noon; a retro-tomorrow frequency.
Your Old Droog & Tha God Fahim - "Tha YOD Fahim" | Album Review
Currently riding atop a great wave of rapid, gilt-edged output, we are gifted Tha God Fahim and Your Old Droog’s newest collaborative LP, Tha YOD Fahim; an organic, roots-futuristic expression of the modern day epoch. Ever-sharpening blades, we hear the pair's lyricism reach radiant heights with profound wordage and natural cadence.
