The Roots, "The Show" While I really like their later work, Rising Down is probably the last record I consider a truly great Roots record. It's hard to say it's their best, given how much I love Things Fall Apart and Game Theory (and Phrenology)...
Mary Wells, "Bye Bye Baby" A real rager here from the early Motown days from Mary Wells. It's certainly easy to see how this did so well for them. Labradford, "Disremembering" Here's a track from the first drone record by Labradford, the record that found...
Tricky, "Brand New You're Retro" Maxinquaye is one of the three pillars of trip-hop, along with Blue Lines and Dummy. What's striking about all three records, besides them all being great, is kind of how dissimilar they all end up feeling. There's a murky darkness...
Nice list today. Floor, "Kallisti" This sounds like it could have been from an early 90s band in the Squirrel Bait family. Like, some long-lost Bitch Magnet track or something. There's nothing wrong with that, for the record! (NB: this is a different take than...
This set was going pretty well for a while! Oh well. Meat Beat Manifesto, "I Got The Fear, Pt. 3" Meat Beat Manifesto had a bit of a strange start to their career. Their first album was destroyed in a studio fire prior to release,...
