Michael Kiwwanuka, "Rule the World" There are times, doing this, that I feel like a real fraud. Who am I to be writing this stuff up? I'm not a musician, I'm not a writer, I have no training in any of this, I don't fundamentally...
PJ Harvey, "My Beautiful Leah" Is This Desire? is the album that really completed PJ Harvey's transition from kickass rock artist to just plain ol' kickass artist. Yeah, broadly, this is still a rock record, but she started doing so much more. The arrangements incorporate...
Music! Raekwon, "Guillotine (Swordz)" Now we're talkin'. After a couple songs from his followup, we have a cut from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, which is on the short list for the finest Wu-related albums released. Really, what you've got here is basically just a...
