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...
Public Enemy, "Cold Lampin' With Flavor" The Flavor Flav joint on It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back is the scar that sets off the perfection of the rest of the album perfectly. As a little goof, it's fine, but it's a...
Feels like this month is dragging for these entries. Usually I can bang these things out without too much trouble (and you can tell the effort I put into them!), but it seems like it's just painful so far this year. Alas. Well, once more...
I never write checks, so this blog is the only thing that I write the wrong year on after the calendar filps over. Marvin Gaye, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" A stone-cold classic. Polyrhythmics, "Cosimo" A lovely EP from 2020, Fondue Party continues a...
Nitzer Ebb, "Control I'm Here (live)" I mentioned the other day that I kept up with the proliferation of Nitzer Ebb releases for a while, and this is a good example of what a pain in the ass that was. When they started picking up...
