Nosaj Thing - Drift
Coming out of LA's now infamous beat scene, this debut shows great depth maturity. For all you Flying Lotus sluts out there, here's is the less organic but no less sonically complex version. Pulsing rave/electro influenced synths ride over a super organic almost lazy hip hop beats, with eyebrow-raising ease. Like Flying Lotus, it's less about the individual song, and more about he sum of it's parts, as the album washes from song to song creating almost one giant track. This is future-electro avant-garde hip hop of the highest order... sorry but i'm trying to nail down an album that is almost un-pigeon-holeable... yeah, cop that english language!
No Made Sense - The Epillanic Choragi
So progressive sludgey post hardcore metal is nothing new. What has been lingering since Tool first invaded the space has only been built upon by bands like Isis, Buried Inside and The Psyke Project. Taking the prog and making it DIRTY, very dark and downright claustrophobic. Here, No Made Sense, push things even further with moody interludes, sweeping 13 minute opus's, light, shade, grey, rain, sun... pick an advective, verb, noun whatever, as rotating guitar lines, and drum beats swirl endlessly towards the apocalypse! Now exhale.....
FabricLive 47 - VA - mixed by Toddla T
Who hasn't heard of Fabric and the FabricLive series, but i wouldn't call this out unless i was suitably impressed. I suppose the overridding theme here is dancehall, but along the way you'll flow from nu-reggae to dubstep, drum'n'bass, soul and everything in-between, take a journey through the urban jungle!
Clutch - Strange Cousins from the West
Been doin' it for 20 years. Bluesy sabbath rock doesn't get any better.
