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Lee Bannon, California-based producer, has dropped a conceptual soundtrack to an imaginary movie: Gnarlon Brando’s Midnight Noir. The movie, inasmuch as it’s described in the track titles "Nightshift Part 2", "The Motive Part 1", "The Chase!", and "Crawl To The Car," to name a few, sounds bloody awful. Sort...
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It’s traumatic to be abducted by aliens. There’s a whole lotta PTSD involved that requires mental & emotional rehabilitation to bring the victim to a point where he or she can say, "I was abducted by an alien, but it’s cool, I will just keep on keeping on." That’s...
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Been meaning to write up something on Kool Music 4’s label, Movie Star , for a while now. It’s the sister label of Arbutus Records. That’s the home of Sean Nicholas Savage, Blue Hawaii, and Tonstartssbandht. It was the home of Grimes (is their Grimes release sold out of...
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Chopped, screwed, sliced, diced, syzzurped in the hyzzurp: Soosh pulls out a full bag of tricks on his new s/t EP. The Glasgow-based artist flaunts shades of Four Tet, Schlomo, the first rank of contemporary, deep sample, avant chthonic chronic, in 7 songs (or 6, plus 1 remix: on...
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Inspired and the Sleep are back, dropping a second single off their forthcoming LP Teenager. MMMP3s wrote up the first single, the title track "Teenager," and we dug the breezy, rhythm-laden island flavor. The new track "Running" builds on that same rhythm-first sensibility for a bright & brisk bongo-core...
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Dense, thick walls of samples & synth sounds define Seabright’s latest LP Lost Ones. Chillwave is dead, so I’ll go ahead and call this Seapunk. Seapunk, homie! Well, maybe not, but who cares about labels…? "For Icy" has a tense vibe delivered in a laidback, leisurely California drawl. Seabright...
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Chicago’s Emanuel Vinson splits time between spoken work and stand-alone blank verse rap on his latest releases, two pairs of tracks titled "Tender Discovery" and "Living Better." We’ve got the ‘Discovery’ duet streaming below. Tender & Brutal. The tender side takes a Daniel Johnston approach to R&B. A stripped...
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QRO loves its Canadian neighbors up north! Here’s a northern ensemble, based out of Toronto & Guelph, called The Folk. They’ve released a sweet little EP, You Say, I Say, a three track essay in up-tempo, anthemic indie rock. I have the feeling this band would really knock it...
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Way Out Weird-ers Names Divine are back with a couple of tracks, the first taste of a new upcoming album. QRO dug their last LP Something Vague and Maybe Rotting. Early indications point towards a tighter realization of the blues/psych freakout that we love from the band. Long drawn...
Lee Bannon, California-based producer, has dropped a conceptual soundtrack to an imaginary movie: Gnarlon Brando’s Midnight Noir. The movie, inasmuch as it’s described in the track titles "Nightshift Part 2", "The Motive Part 1", "The Chase!", and "Crawl To The Car," to name a few, sounds bloody awful. Sort...
It’s traumatic to be abducted by aliens. There’s a whole lotta PTSD involved that requires mental & emotional rehabilitation to bring the victim to a point where he or she can say, "I was abducted by an alien, but it’s cool, I will just keep on keeping on." That’s...
Been meaning to write up something on Kool Music 4’s label, Movie Star , for a while now. It’s the sister label of Arbutus Records. That’s the home of Sean Nicholas Savage, Blue Hawaii, and Tonstartssbandht. It was the home of Grimes (is their Grimes release sold out of...
Chopped, screwed, sliced, diced, syzzurped in the hyzzurp: Soosh pulls out a full bag of tricks on his new s/t EP. The Glasgow-based artist flaunts shades of Four Tet, Schlomo, the first rank of contemporary, deep sample, avant chthonic chronic, in 7 songs (or 6, plus 1 remix: on...
Inspired and the Sleep are back, dropping a second single off their forthcoming LP Teenager. MMMP3s wrote up the first single, the title track "Teenager," and we dug the breezy, rhythm-laden island flavor. The new track "Running" builds on that same rhythm-first sensibility for a bright & brisk bongo-core...
Dense, thick walls of samples & synth sounds define Seabright’s latest LP Lost Ones. Chillwave is dead, so I’ll go ahead and call this Seapunk. Seapunk, homie! Well, maybe not, but who cares about labels…? "For Icy" has a tense vibe delivered in a laidback, leisurely California drawl. Seabright...
Chicago’s Emanuel Vinson splits time between spoken work and stand-alone blank verse rap on his latest releases, two pairs of tracks titled "Tender Discovery" and "Living Better." We’ve got the ‘Discovery’ duet streaming below. Tender & Brutal. The tender side takes a Daniel Johnston approach to R&B. A stripped...
QRO loves its Canadian neighbors up north! Here’s a northern ensemble, based out of Toronto & Guelph, called The Folk. They’ve released a sweet little EP, You Say, I Say, a three track essay in up-tempo, anthemic indie rock. I have the feeling this band would really knock it...
Way Out Weird-ers Names Divine are back with a couple of tracks, the first taste of a new upcoming album. QRO dug their last LP Something Vague and Maybe Rotting. Early indications point towards a tighter realization of the blues/psych freakout that we love from the band. Long drawn...