Chevalier - Chapitre II

Oh FUUU-- this ticks about every metal box I have. The first thing you'll notice on the opener is the bass, which is wrong and should not be, but which straightens out later, foob. The vocals are androgynous banshee wails, but with goddamn hooks, and the bookending tracks have backing vox that are literally just banshee howls from the void. The production is both wall-of-noise and somehow dubby? and the structures are knotty but intuitive - I suck at metal comparisons but I'd say it's not entirely unwarranted to put this at least in the parking lot of the ballpark of Flames of Hell's Fire and Steel, which couldn't possibly be a bad thing to be compared to. In a way, it's the perfect mixture of everything right and just and honest and true and sweet about metal in 1986 and 2018 - atmo-trad, anyone? Fucking amazing. 

I'm triple-posting about that moment approx. 2:39 into "Nina" by Orchestre Kiam because it's the coolest thing I've ever heard an electric guitar do and I need to remember that the next time I'm tempted to praise "Born Under Punches" to the high heavens like its nonpareil

I always make sure the year is good and dead before I make my AOTY list, or; Two Talisman That Hate Teens!

5
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Heather Leigh Murray - Throne
Chevalier - Chapitre II
Hi & Saberhagen - Light on Leaves

***

4.75
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 Freya Josephine Hollick - Feral Fusion
Chancha Via Circuito - Bienaventuranza
Rabit - Cry Alone
Tierra Whack - Whack World
Koenji Hyakkei - Dhorimviskha
Kali Malone - Organ Dirges 2016 - 2017
Mid-Air Thief - Crumbling
Make a Change... Kill Yourself - IV
The End - Svårmod och vemod är värdesinnen
Foodman - Aru Otoko
Nazar - Enclave
SS Thaman - Toliprema

***

4.5
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Elg - Vu Du Dome
Janusz Jurga - Duchy Rogowca
Daphne & Celeste Save the World
Niño de Elche - Antología del cante flamenco heterodoxo
Extra Large Unit -  More Fun Please
Typhonian Highlife - The World Of Shells
Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar - Ragas Abhogi & Vardhani
Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness - Emakhosini
Serpentwithfeet - Soil
Cucina Povera - Hilja
Gutter Instinct - Heirs of Sisyphus
Migos - Culture II
Pink Siifu - Ensley
Georgia Anne Muldrow - Overload 
Teki Latex - the Naked King
Devi McCallion & Katie Dey - Some New Form of Life
Amnesia Scanner - Another Life
Le1f - Blue Dream
Galen Tipton - Nightbath
Lorde Fredd33 - NORF: The Legend of Hotboy Ronald
Black Dresses - Hell is Real
Gurrumul Yunupingu - Djarimirri
700 Bliss - Spa 700
Frontierer - Unloved
Kendall :) - Hey
Ravyn Lenae - Crush
Maxo Kream - Punken
Black Mecha - Counterforce


***

4.25
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Mustie=DC - A Future Meows
Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence
Vishal-Shekher - Naa Peru Surya Naa Illu India 
Hamoudi Karma - Folklore Sétifien
Joris Roelofs + Han Bennink - Icarus
Drawn and Quartered - the One Who Lurks
Rae Sremmurd - 3 
Noah Creshevsky - Reanimator
Moozlie - Versus
Rockwell - User
Anthroprophh - Omegaville
Erik Friedlander - Artemisia
The Cyclist - Beat At The Heart Of The City
The Pyramids - An Angel Fell
Coffin Torture - Dismal Planet
Elvenstorm - the Conjuring
Sudan Archives - Silk

Five Star Review: Max Roach Drum Soli

Drum soler gedda bad rap. It's twue. I remember some no doubt sage old RYMer (pro)claiming that hating drum solos made you rockist. And it's true, no lisp thith time. John Bonham and Ginger Baker were cackhanded wack mechanix but letting that taint Art Blakey or Famadou Don Moye is like claiming Moor Mother must be a racist because she's a rapper and so is 6ix9ine.

There's only been like five good rock drummers anyway and all but one of them doubled in jazz and improv and only one them ever really took solos, and he could do that because he was motherfucking Jaki Leibezeit. 

I honestly love the sounds of a well-recorded, well-played solo trap kit more than the vast majority of more traditionally melodic instruments (and when there's like four of 'em at once? mmmmmmmmmmmm, that's nice.) And when I fished from the always significantly delicious Inconstant Sol (blog) an entire album of Max Roach, a Particularly Epochal Person (P.E.P.) in the history of jazzerations, slamablamming by his lonesome, you know I was Highly Anticipatory. And it smacks! Kisses, mwah! I always thought that Roach, like Ellington and Mingus, was far more important and worthwhile for his arrangements and ideas and talent-nurturing than pure performance skillz (that's why I dunnae like Junney Mongle.) Blakey was the thunderballstrike to your earpins - Roach was a little more polite. Well, if Art Gardrumkle invented rock 'n' roll, then Maximillian Roachispierre was busy doing things a little more... This Heat. Yeah, I hear a metric h*ckt*n of Charles Hayward here! Or am I chronologically backwards, ladies and gems? These drums don't just go talking, they rant, they pant, they conversate, they chitterchat. These are not dumdrums or humdrumdrums. This is pure virtuosity on Heifitz/Menuhin/Annapurna Devi-levels and they will wash your mindmouth out with "Toad"-Forgetting Soap.

I'll never forget sage old RYMer avant-classical-president/demagogue docperkins (pro)claiming that the drummer on Obscura should/could perform Xenakis' percussion compositions. Well, here Roachee (not that one) one-ups Danny L. Harle sneaking ballet Stravinsky into the snare programming of some innocent k-pop ditty by performing an Autechre tribute on solitary hi-hat... in the 70s!

so

are we really gonna let 6ix9ine do... that? Just get away with... all of... th'stuff... he does?

Jesus.

edit: for the record, I was just referring to his unabashed use of the n-word, not even touching that... other thing he did. What a bad human,

you ever listen to one of your ten favorite albums ever...

and get somewhere on the second half and go "fuck, this song is somehow even better than I remembered?" That's happening right now with the Congos' "Ark of the Covenant." Was it always so funky? Did the "princes, priests and warriors" hook always kick so much ass? Gosh, I know it's a cliche but that album is transcendent - not transcendent like "it transcends reggae" or some such shit but transcendent like "it bends space-time through sheer soul."

to my utmost relief...

Kenny Segal's Happy Little Trees does not actually sample Bob Ross, meaning that Almighty Black Canvas, the all-Joy-of-Painting-samples instrumental hip hop ep I've been planning for months is still an original idea. Dodged a bullet there.

post-industrial strength deconstructed club sandwich

Broken Haze's MZD ep sounds like me attempting to emulate Regis in FL12 using only the SOPHIE sound pack. That's, uh, not an insult.

"Light on Leaves" by Hi & Saberhägen

starts off with a song entitled "Loveless" that isn't just better than that other Loveless, but better produced than it, too. Bass thumps haven't been this orgasmic since "Bipp." The next track has eyes-roll-back-and-toes-curl drum machines. I swear I haven't heard an edm ep this good since 69.

y'all are sleeping on the new Georgia Anne Muldrow

like even more than usual. remedy that.

when we're excavating the trans foremothers that brought us here, to the year of Oil and WASTEISOLATION

special attention must be paid to Lauren Bousfield because Avalon Vales is a genreless masterpiece and probably the most 2018 album of 2013.

garth brooks is...

... chris gaines is the funniest goddamn album cover of all time. I don't think I was fully aware of what constituted "laughing uproariously" until I saw that emo fringe and soul-patch combination. jesus fuck. sweet hell. holy boners. my lands. pheewww.

four years on...

Baby Zionov's chopped and screwed remix of Clio's "Faces" is still one of the greatest accomplishments of this century.  A billion stars times infinity.

today in things I always say:

sufjan stevens' voice is still the mildest diarrhea imaginable - truly the gentlest of butt trickles

today in things I never thought I'd say:

pasture of muppets ain't that bad. hetfield hadn't started doing THAT THING with his voice yet and it's just silly but nowhere near as bad as they'd immediately get and stay. reasonably acceptable thrash, I'd say - sure it's overrated, but it's like Forever Changes overrated, not Illinois overrated. Ugh, I feel like I just got a t-shot saying that. Whatever, Slayer are still the only one of the Supposed Big Four who were ever worth shit.

e: cheezes, what was I thinking? Forever Changes is a million times better than MOP - what would the comparison be? Station to Station? Bitches Brew? Ugh, I've given enough thought to this MAN album.

I was just about to say I think shook ones just clicked

I mean, all of the rest of it beyond "rock you in the face, stab yr brain with yr nosebone" but havoc's verse is such a let-down after prodigy. Eh, Havoc & Prodije are better, anyway, probably.

Five Star Review: Ustad Nishat Khan and Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Meeting of Angels

Gregorian chant spliced with Hindustani classical music? That's either going to be the best album ever or New Age shlock, no middle ground. Luckily this is much closer to the former! Polyphony and Indian classical music are the only things I meditate to, so this combination makes much spiritual sense (no pun intended - or whatever that would be) even if the genres seem so far apart.

In fact, the one real complaint I have is that this presents merely monophonic choral music, but I'm sure it would've been much harder to pull something like Tallis off in this context, and they would not have achieved such a seamless blend. The one complaint I imagine most people would have is that there are too many moments where the sitar and choir alternate rather than play simultaneously, but the album is so comprehensively contemplative and glacially-paced (and there's more than enough interplay between the elements) that I think it avoids ever feeling like Khan and/or Binchois were attempting to cheat, in a Mr. Dr. "seventeen-minutes of silence in a supposedly 80-minute composition" way.

This is basically like an avocado and peanut butter smoothie than ends up being the best vegan French dip sandwich you could ever imagine. This resonates on the frequency of tranquility. In the "E*st M**ts W*st" sweeps this makes Shankar/Menuhin look like the Lemon Pipers.

ABSRDST

Imaginary Friend is what I wanted both the new SOPHIE and Charli XCX to be: gay ducks.

This thing has VU s/t-level opener/closer action: "Stiffy" might've just knocked that Yeyana song off its perch as SOTY: it's like GFOTY, Easyfun, SOPHIE and Maxo and... like, idk, Snail's House or something all at once. It's pretty much the singularity. It's simultaneously bubblegum bass, chiptune, post-industrial and happy hardcore. I feel like Joe Pera hearing "Baba O'Riley" for the first time. AND ALMOST EVERY OTHER TRACK IS AT LEAST ALMOST AS GOOD.

plus it uses "collaboration" as a euphemism for sexxxytimes so that's something worth noting as well

oh and there's a CRJ/Danny L. Harle reference in the opener too dang dang dang

It Is Decided, Then...

The first Koenji album is the high-point of all rock-based musics, even besting MDK and prime Cardiacs and like... Team Dresch and shit. It's funner than piss, ice cream sandwiches and tribbing, probably, danceable as all fuck and I can't believe I once sucked so hard that I had it at a measly, whimpering, incel 2.5. GODDAMN NOW I REMEMBER WHY I ONCE NAMED A CAT CATSUYA YOSHIDA


"Zoltan" (or whichever one has the organ) suuuucccckkkkkks though like who thought that was a good idea?

Four-Point-Seventy-Five Star Review: "Floating Signal" by Simon Balestrazzi, Max Eastley, Alessandro Olla, Z'EV

(Yes, I'm doing this again. Fingers crossed it'll last for more than today.)

There sure is a lot of music that sounds like "Aumgn," isn't there? Off the top of my head I can only name that one piece on Yoko's Fly and, iirc, the entirety of Günter Schickert's Samtvogel, but you know you've heard them. A lot of it lies all in the echo. Floating Signal makes no bones about being consciously informed by "Augmn." It's there in the drone, it's there most blatantly in the violin and it is, naturally, there in the echo.

This album of electroacoustic improvisation manages to better embody the ultimate distillation of the spectral essence of dark ambient than anything other than Lustmord without even being in that genre at all! But it possesses a very refined sort of velvet/95% cocoa chocolate darkness devoid of any whiff of cheese or Halloween cosplay. But even saying that overstates the moodiness of the album - it shines its beacon of radical experimentation so brightly that it remains a simple joy to listen to for adventurous ear. And, given the presence of Z'ev, there's going to be an industrial edge to the proceedings but this is the chaotic good to "Hamburger Lady's" unlawful evil. More Faust than Faustcoven, y'dig?

Marco Cappelli adds a brief blast of fuzz guitar on track 4 (and an even briefer bit of non-fuzz six-string on track 9) but this doesn't  push the album closer to rock territory in any way being merely another element in the album's refined primordial sonic soup,

Did I mention that the production's like Dr. Buzzard's debut good, which every bam and thwack all resonant and crisp? Well, it is, and that's where the album really succeeds: it's an astonishing piece of sound art, almost as brilliant an exercise in pure texture and listening pleasure as Favorite Beijing Sounds or Balloon Music (almost.) Whether you're traipsing through the underbrush of the music blogosphere or digging in the crates at Goodwill, remember: if it sounds good, rate it.

Bad and Burbujee

dang, I can't believe this Burbuja album isn't Japanese! It's like introverted pico pop meets pop onkyo in a Xtoyourmilkyhair-meets-Smile Down Upon Us-meets-Synapse kinda stylee! Still futuristic and creative af! It's also sometimes creepy like Jon! I guess they have Japanese people in Spain, right? That explains it! It's a masterpiece!

Amiri Baraka, Pharoah Sanders, Melvin Van Peebles and James Joyce walk into a recording studio...

That Heroes Are Gang Leaders aren't on RYM is a microcosm of everything wrong with that site and a damn tragedy. This is the real deal. Jazz-poetry. Exquisite. Essential.

Frampton & Pope

Woman, if their next two albums are as good as Galaxies Like Grains of Sand, Hampshire & Foat are gonna' wrack up major sleepytime and decompression listens - this is supreme chill-out music, with panache!

e: And Nightshade proves as canny a library pastiche as you'd heard/hoped!

Who is Murk?, or the Makings of an Enigma

I found him by accident while looking for the house duo: Murk, a rapper who just released the least creatively titled album of 2018, the Murkmatic, which is in classic 90s/18 excess fashion, a hundred and forty minutes long. I'm naturally intriqued because I like ambitious musicians (I fucking 4.5'd Culture II for fuxake) and I especially delight in misplaced ambition, which this would surely be, right? I tried to find something about this Murk fellow, though, and like apparently he doesn't exist? Cuz he's not the Christian femcee Murk, nor the late Atlanta-based Molly Murk. Murkmatic is on Deezer, Spotify and iTunes, yet there is, as far as I can see, absolutely no reviews of it anywhere, no press releases, no interviews, big fat nuttin'. It's perplexing. Fuck's RYM profile consists of one guest verse attribution and not even a more telling descriptor than [RAPPER].

The album, I regret to inform y'all, doesn't really reveal anything about Murk that would distinguish him from literally every other trapper on the scene. It's a perfectly competent example of the current state of the genre with nothing whatsoever to make anyone take notice beyond its length, which in this year is practically de rigeur. S'good, of course - trap is nearly impossible to fuck up - but it's got zero diversity, lyrically or musically, and the only people with less charisma than Murk himself is the guests. Imagine 28 variants on "Bodak Yellow" each slightly better than the original but without the insistence on their own hooks. There's no real pop sense, which means nothing on the level " When all of your songs are virtually identical, you're always running the risk of quickly annoying the audience, but on the other hand, if you can knock out multiple songs a day, it's nice to give your fans a big package. No one other than rock critics thinks Kanye's 22-minute albums had anything more to do without giving a more coherent product than just being another wacky-goofy Yeezy gimmick. Trap is a genre, like its forefather Memphis rap, that can accommodate huge marathon-listens, and maybe even benefits from them, so the hunnid-minute mix is a good fit. But neither eight merely mediocre songs or twenty-eight of the same can really rise above "slightly above mediocre."

So we're 2/3rds of the way through the album and back to not knowing anything about this dude other than he has a rolodex full of the Most Hardcore Generic Trap Producers and he says things like "fishscale like Sosa" and honestly I kind of wonder if the whole reason you can find nothing about him is because he's actually a cracker and wants anonymity to say the n-word every other line, cuz he really does sound white sometimes. God, I hope not. Unless that is true, which would be reprehensible, the music just isn't interesting enough to warrant or explain the weird secrecy around it. Basically, it's RIYL: trappers who name their album a variant on Illmatic in 2018 and write songs called "Foreign" and in no way justifies it's length. 3/5

Ever notice?

that with white folk playing black music that there's always this dichotomy in terms of acceptable genres, and it's practically always based on the vocalcentricity of the music? White people can't sing the blues, but they can play jazz (they can, usually/sometimes, sing it, as well) - white people can't have soul, but they can be funky - reggae is off-limits but we can do dub - crackers aren't supposed to rap, but nobody says they can't produce hip hop.

See?

I don't think anything like this exists in EDM, despite being invented by gay black men, because, like rock, it's become so thoroughly colonized by straight white men.

This is probably either not as pervasive as I'm making it seem, or it's been talked to death and I just missed all the discourse, heh. 

ZIa's "The Frontline"

might be the best pop album I've heard since at least the Ann Steel album, if not E-MO-TION. Even the ballads aren't, y'know, just ballads. "Foolish" is a goddamn jam amongst jamz. That afrosynth mediafire download folder is revealing itself to be a goldmine.

somebody please show this to the relevant RYM mods:

Hello. I know that this request will likely be cast aside with a sigh and the thought that you've long ago dealt with me and it's presumptuous and aggravating that I should try to weasel my way back in, but I assure you I come with only the humblest of hearts and most transparent of intentions: I think I'm ready to be allowed to use RYM again. I was a jackass in the past and I may still have a little jackass in me, but I have made major strides in my quest to simply be a better person, I meditate every day and have experienced the first blooms of a spiritual awakening of sorts, which has melted away most of the animosity that once animated my spirit. My priorities are rapidly being rearranged. I've gained more than a modicum of self-discipline. All that to say that, as hesitant as you surely are at letting me have a voice on this website that I have so abused in the past, I really am a new, better being, and I swear that if I go afoul again, that will be the end for me. I'll never darken this url again.

Honestly, I've spent just as much time making custom charts and perusing lists in the  months I've been "gone" as I did when I was an honest member! It would just be nice to be able to interact more with the site again. I'm not requesting you republish my reviews or let me post on the forums - I have little interest in the former and none whatsoever in the latter, and even though I am ashamed to think of how flagrantly I abused the system for adding albums and artists, I'm not even asking directly that I get that privilege back either. I want to be able to rate music and make lists and I will be perpetually overjoyed if I am allowed to do so again.

I'd make a reference to second chances but I know that this is more like a seventh or eighth chance at least and I know that my request for reinstatement might meet with some displeasure but I've thought long and hard over this matter, and I promise that if you allow me to rate again, you won't regret it.

"What Does Fish Is..?" by Zapp Zapp has just been brought to my attention

and that's also a good album title, for the record.

the all-time greatest band name/album title combination is Yall So Stupid's "Van Full of Pakistans" like a van brimming with entire Pakistans. not Pakistanis, multiple entire Pakistans. it's a big van.

the best album title or band name and album cover combination is the sole eponymous album of that 70s free improv outfit Chamberpot, which is just a drawing of a hippo yawning.

and I was going to say the best a-side/b-side title combination for a single was Bessie Smith's "Gimme a Pig's Foot and a Bottle of Beer" b/w "Them's Graveyard Words" but apparently that single doesn't actually exist in this timeline. still, both of those are fucking fantabulous on their own, anyway.

I feel like a bad person for even knowing stoner rock is a genre

Sleep's Holy Mountain just sounds like some awful horrible dude weenus being wrangled for 52 minutes

STILL BETTER'N DOPETHRONE

(Formerly) Five Star Review: Slapp Happy/Henry Cow - Desperate Straights

Turns out "Caucasian Lullaby" still exists. As does the title track. Disappointing.

Four-Point-Five Star Review: Afrirampo: We Are Uchu No Ko

the Tago Mago of *takes a huge hit from the bong* "but like dude can you imagine like if Boredoms were girls? man, that shit'd be... damn, man... *cough*"

"but like OOIOO already exists, asshole."

"asshole! asshole. but like imagine if every period of Boredoms career, from their noisecore beginnings to the full-on kosmiche psych jams of the VCN era were scrambled together and forcefed through the prism of a two-woman guitar and drum zolo duo? and the end result was maybe the best rock album of this decade? man, it'd be like a... peon? is that the word? a paean, yeah, to female creativity and a reminder of how much better all rock music, from the Byrds to Deep Purple to Black Flag to King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and beyond would be if the musicians were women."

"that's just the weed talking, dude."

"the weed or the estradiol."

(Formerly) Five Star Review: Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Yeah, how do I say this? Album, you're being demoted.

Rock Bottom, paradoxically, can count itself as one of the most flawed and one of the most perfect albums I've ever laid ears... laid in my... my ears got laid by (or with?) this album, is, I think, what I'm trying to say, because that's what people say. My ears lay with this album, in the Biblical sense, a bunch of times over the past just under fifteen or so years and it actually has a life even outside that, because I sing the opening, "Sea Song," a lot. In, honestly, a lot of situations that hearing me warble "partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale" (or anything involving that penultimate word there) or, for that matter, "when you're drunk, you're terrific," in a bad English old man baby accent, is disconcerting, as it would be, like, I've never been to a bar mitzvah or bar matzvah, but I'd imagine that that's exactly the sort of place I'd find ideal to just let my inner Bobby Wyatt out for everyone's enjoyment. Rant about Palestine, praise Stalin. This album honestly has like three of the greatest songs I've ever heard in my life, absolutely tip-top, top-notch, you'll need another notch in your belt to digest all the goodness in these songs, just good really fine quality choons even my mother loves. Except it's more like it's got one amazing song and then another amazing song twice, at different speeds, in different keys, and then a really short snippet of song followed by a spoken word bit by a man who if voices could be made into food, it's a good thing we can't make voices into food because there'd be none of this man's voice-food left because I would eat it all and die because it's very rich, probably. It is at least theoretically the most perfectly structured album, to boot. It's really very clever, the way the songs interact with and reference each other. "But then why isn't it five stars, woman, get to the point!?" I hear you exasperate. It's cuz the whole thing is flabby and noodly as fuck, that's why. There's just a lot of, well, vast areas in the songs where there's just a bass just flopping back and forth, or Commie Bob making whale noises or other such undesirable chaff that fattens up the perfect little nuggets of melody at their core til they've got foie gras for livers. "Alifie my larder?" Sounds like the sounds themselves indeed got larded up! It could've been the greatest EP ever with no effort but it had to be ruined by the keyboardist from Frink Ployd, who I will not honour enough to look up his name, I think it's Davey or something like that, farting about, because all that filler is not jazz by any stretch of the imagination. Ultimately, the thing that made me realize I didn't need this at 5 stars, or really, to ever listen to it beyond the final track, is because "Sea Song" and "Alifib" are honestly way more fun to perform myself  than to listen to even one of my favorite vocalists perform them. I honestly can't think of another album that that has happened to. Transa? Nah. Casablanca Moon? Maybe. It's an anomaly: a nearly perfect, horribly flawed masterpiece.

greatest trilogy of albums ever? (extra points if that's the band's entire recorded legacy)

it's OBVIOUSLY one of these THREE:

Guernica's three
the legit Dr. Buzzard's albums
or
the original Pyramids triptych


just kidding it's the first three Magnetic Fields albums duh

Five Star Review: Bessie Jones with the Georgia Island Singers - Get in Union: Recordings By Alan Lomax 1959-1966

Handclaps and vocals. You have real talent, real soul, and everything else is redundant. My opinion that gospel (traditional black gospel, according to RYM, which knows little about it and even less about any other kind) possessed (or possesses) an integrity and sublimity that very little other music can touch has recently been solidified by my (re)discovery that Mississippi Records' vintage gospel compilation In the Storm So Long simply might just hit me the hardest and take me furthest heavenwards of the I-don't-even-like-to-think-about-the-number records I've mostly wasted time with in my life. But we're not hear to talk about that unparalleled soul-scorcher.

So, Bessie Jones. This is some good music. Like it just is so self-evidently wholesome and worthwhile pointing that out seems redundant. One wants to call it "raw" but "raw" implies danger, potential for e. coli, and this music is so sweet and kind. One wants to call it "minimalist" but that brings to mind, unbidden, Glass' ass and Part's farts, and we don't need to taint this beautiful music with those images. The appeal of this compilation lies in great part with the fact that it honest-to-Goddess slaps: listen to "Moses Don't Get Lost." That's an unreserved, 100% true club banger as sure as Lil Jon says YEAH. Yeah. Handclaps and stomping? More like the world's first 808. It's literally too much for the microphones to take: blowed-out gospel folk. What a time to be alive.

Sometimes it's somberer than that: "Got to Lie Down (How Shall I Rise)" consists of one plaintive voice and a barely audible foot-tap that add up to an effect similar to the legendary triangle in Blind Mamie Forehand's "Honey in the Rock" (which'll scratch your Blind Willie J. and MazzaCath itches simultaneously.) Occasionally there's a banjo or penny whistle (both on "Beulah Land!") which just make the whole thing even more ebullient. And then there's the cultural angle! These are the children and grandchildren of the enslaved - these songs have provenance! And they can be so strange - I wish I had all the lyrics of "Uncle Ned" or "Turkle Dove" (not a typo) to post.

One thing I love about this music is how many songs are sung in a cadence reminiscent of my (racist white) nana singing while she hung wash or cooked Sunday dinner or sang me to sleep and coming just a few days after the first anniversary of her death, it's weirdly comforting to hear echoes of her from this radically different source.

If you wonder if two disks of this stuff might be too much, just sample "Sheep Sheep Don't You Know the Road" and if that makes you anything less than utterly giddy, then it will probably prove too much for you. Makes me giddy, though!

Five Star Review: Fe-Mail - Blixter Toad

First off, I want to say that, as far as albums with frogs with breasts on their covers go, this is way better than that Boris dronesnooze.

Also, if you were wondering, it sounds nothing like Phylomedusa and it isn't just uncomfortably weird like that, either, so no need to be worried. This album is weird, certainly, but to me at least, it isn't even slightly uncomfortable.

It's a noise album, sure (maybe), but it isn't harsh, it's just creative. Immensely, stupendously so, and exceptionally satisfying and listenable for such experimental music.

Perhaps it's because of their extensive backgrounds in free jazz and improv (and modern classical and drone...), or perhaps because they're neither Japanese dada nihil pranksters nor white supremacist proto-MRAs with a serial killer fetish, but Maja S. K. Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord approach noise from a totally different angle than virtually anyone I've heard in the scene. It's playful! It's colorful! It actually out-dadas the Japanese nihil pranksters because it sounds like these ladies would totally go around shouting irrational poetry while dressed as lobsters! The album follows a vaguely amphibian theme but it mostly exists as a loose framework on which to lovingly toss all sorts of unnatural sounds, be they produced by human voice, electronics, french horn maybe or a human voice through a french horn processed by electronics! 

If, in the late-70s and early-80s, noise and industrial seemed like a total refutation of everything music and art and society stood for, and thus meant total freedom, they rapidly got codified and impressed their own rigid sort of code, limiting and herding self-expression to a great extent (in)to certain acceptable modes. OF COURSE, I basically just described the entire concept of "genre" and it's not like I don't love and appreciate tons of "traditional" harsh noise and even HNW, but it's hard for me to see Blixter Toad, with its cheery green anthroamphibian cover and chiptune and music box elements as anything other than two bad-ass chicks trying to put a little of that freedom and even danger back into noise by daring to inject a little levity, some dynamics, and theatricality-in-a-NOT-punching-glass-with-your-face-or-wearing-plastic-bags-over-your-head-way, into noise, and maybe even a little danger, because serial killers and genocide are beyond banal by now and banal isn't dangerous, while being a woman in an overwhelming not just male but frequently violently hypermasculine field is, well, literally dangerous. This approach is not entirely unprecedented (lord knows we've all heard that Kazumoto Endo album by now) and maybe I'm a poseur, maybe I let my ghost y-chromosome get in the way of my thinking rationally, or/and maybe I'm just a sucker for a good double album, but I can't help but take Blixter Toad as a sort of living manifesta, as propaganda of the deed, as theory transmogrified into praxis, as showing the way by doing the thing that needs doing. It's both inspiring and awe-inspiring. It's also just a really fun, exciting, rewarding listen.    

Basically:
It drones, it clanks, it chops and dices sound into confetti and sprinkles it across the room, it frightens, it challenges, it teases, it pleases, it cheeses, it Jeezus, it plonks, it Blonks, it skronks, it wonks, it's divisive, it's insightsive, it's incredible, it's inedible, it's monstrous, it's weirdly human, it sometimes sounds like Pazuzu possessing Donald Duck and sometimes sounds like Tangerine Dream, it's bizarre as fuck, it's fun as shit, it doesn't care AT ALL what you think of it, but it's easy to love if you're so inclined, it's may even be the best double album of all time that isn't by Tantra, Beefheart or Betty Carter and it might be better than some of those! Yeah I went there!

Five Star Review: Various Artists - Musical Instruments 7 - Guitar 2

There's obviously an infinite number of things that have been or could be said about the power of music to erase boundaries and bring disparate peoples together, however briefly or facilely, and all that shit but fuck sometimes (to quote the Bard) you really can't kick that feeling when it hits and as bogus as the concept of "empowering" art may be, the right music can be a balm to the burns that life leaves us with, even on a massive scale. I have no idea what this has to do with anything.

One thing I like about this comp, unlike so many old "world (gag me with a spoon) music" releases (and too many of those today) is that even though Hugh Tracey gets the overall album artist nod the musicians are fully credited and not just "Village Elder of Whatever Tribe" or, christ, "A Young Girl," when it's clearly a grown woman fronting an entire orchestra. No, that's George Sibanda melting away all of your sadness with vox and guitar on "Guabi, Guabi," and don't you forget it.

You hear a lot of talk about "African blues" these days because white people are terrified of things that aren't directly analogous to things they're already familiar with, and while the accuracy of using that term to describe Tizita or Tishoumaren is highly debatable, that's exactly what is found on this utterly indispensable gem of a compilation published in 1972 on Kaleidophone.

The unwieldily and unmemorably titled Musical Instruments 7 - Guitars 2 collects 12 impeccable displays of unadorned melodic wizardry from across the mother continent, in an acoustic mode that should be mostly familiar to those on good terms with, idk, Blind Blake or, say, Josh White, but not without its own Afro-flourishes (oh and there's an 'ud solo tacked on the end for some reason, despite 'ud not... being... guitar?). One thing that sets it apart from American blues is that the majority of this, regardless of the lyrics, be they in Swahili or Luba-Kasai, at least SOUND happy - ebullient, even. There's tons of variety within the one-or-more-person-singing-with-one-guitar-and-sometimes-percussion milieu and honestly all 12 songs bang relentlessly and glide sweetly along. Well, maybe not the 'ud solo...

I honestly prefer the best tracks here, which is most of them, to virtually any of the American music they so obviously take queues from - its fresh, hypnotic, gorgeous, gentle grooves demand repeat listens and command smiles to appear on even the severest faces. What a force for good in the world.

Five Star Review: Ravindra Goswami - Live 2004.02.16

I don't rightfully know where I came across this. There are multiple spellings of our mystery-ish musician's name (Rabindra Goswami) and there's at least one much more famous person, an endocrinologist, with the same name. Multiple minutes spent googling this delectable treat in "raga" led me to the certainty that it's a bootleg (the audience coughing throughout initially pushed me in that direction, truthfully) and, if I wasn't listening to it right now, would also have led me to believe it didn't exist. This one's not on RYM, and they're not going to let it on RYM, guise.

As for the music, I'm pretty sure it's just solo sitar for the first half, with the addition of tabla for the second and I have no idea why it resonates with me this much. It's easily in the top three or so pieces of Hindustani or Carnatic music I've yet to hear, but I really lack the vocabulary and context to access why the fiddly-bits in this part make me ecstatic and those deep THWONKS later on make my bowels levitate. But then if one needs theory to appreciate music, then I'm almost equally at a loss to explain my love of Cecil Taylor or Carly Rae Jepsen (except I'm obviously not.)

The album (bootleg?) is one long live track, "Pancham-Malkauns," with a clear division between the two tunes, it's a minute over forty minutes, and it just rings my cells like bells. I hope this isn't Orientalist, but I imagine the music as some kind of Star Trek/Korra science-magic purification device being slowly drawn over my body and removing all the nasty build-ups and hang-ups and poison from my being, like instant auditory detox. I think basically the same thing about Baby Dee's music, but this doesn't have the inexhaustible well of infinite sorrows that her music draws from. The "Malkauns" half honestly bangs like a mofo - it's dancier than most dance and funkier than a lot of funk, but it still gives off gobs of goodwill and hope and stuff. Every zing! and fruuuum! and tot-tot! flies straight and true to your ears as messengers of both peace and kick-ass. FIVE STAR SHIT.

   

great southern jazzfart

hedvig mollestad is mary halvorson if she was a pupil of dimebag darrell rather than anthony braxton. music doesn't get much worse, probably.

e: it just dawned on me that this should've been titled "great NORTHERN jazzfart" whatevs

donuts opinions

"Two Can Win" is the best song on the album. Dat falsetto!

"Walkinonit" > "Workinonit" and if it counts it might be the best Bacharach cover ever

 still not better than Ys though no fucking kind of way at all 

one thing I've never seen anyone talk about trap

is that, whether it's a legacy inherited from cloud rap, which seems unlikely, or its co-evolution with alternative r&b, but some of the recent shit is absolutely gorgeous, and I'd wager that this decade is the first one in hip hop history where mainstream rap, or much of any rap, can be made with a conscious attempt at creating traditional aesthetic beauty without resulting in nauseous treacly smooth jazz/adult contemporary pablum (like every damn time 2Pac got serious.) The second Rae Sremmurd album was utterly gorgeous, and there's a number of particularly lovely tracks on Culture II (which is possibly the most underrated album in RYM history as of right now?)  

that one white guy from Brockhampton (you know the one) looks like a twenty-yo ftm Millie Bobby Brown? sort of

Ameer Vann looks like the black Peter Dinklage

so basically charli xcx creates the music that exists at the halfway point between an E-MO-TION without any of the charisma and a PC Music without any of the strangeness - and lyrics that are exhausting in their almost-Swiftesque/Lordian millenialness? I can think of no better example of music that I recognize how much I should like it and yet don't really like in the least.

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0
Lil Dicky - Earth
Why Don't We + Macklemore - I Don't Belong In This Club
Ava Max - So Am I
Martin Jensen, James Arthur - Nobody
Zak Flewids, Mick Jenkins - Steps
(sandy) alex g - gretel
IAMX - Nightlife

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.5
 Alvvays - In Undertow
Death Grips - Beware
Kendrick Lamar - ADHD
the Roots - You Got Me
Public Enemy - Welcome to the Terrordome
Blackstar - Respiration
Massive Attack - Risingson
Death Grips - Hustle Bones
2Pac - Keep Ya Head Up
Beastie Boys - Sure Shot
2Pac - Dear Mama
Run DMC - Rock Box
the Roots - What They Do
Eminem - Infinite (F.B.T. Remix)
Common - the Sixth Sense
Nas- One Love
El-P - Stepfather Factory
DJ Honda - Travellin' Man
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
2Pac - Life Goes On  
Frank Ocean - Biking
The Doobie Brothers - What a Fool Believes
Suicide - Surrender
Fleetwood Mac - G****
Televisor - Alliance
Peter Richard - Talk About Me
Massimo Vita - Jenny
Ecstasy Passion & Pain - Touch & Go
Raxstar - Jaaneman
Raxstar, JunitMusic - Sun Raha
Anik Khan - Kites
Deep Jandu, Gangis Khan - My Girl
Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall
Devin Townsend - Genesis
Bazzi - Paradise
Aviicii - SOS
BTS, Halsey - Boy With Luv
Alessia Cara - Out of Love
Denzel Curry - Bulls on Parade (triple j Like a Version)
Marshmello, Tyga & Chris Brown - Light It Up
P!nk - Walk Me Home 
Billie Eilish - tough guy 
Kygo - Carry On 
Panic! at the Disco - Hey Look Ma, I Made It 
Lauv - Drugs & the Internet 
Alan Walker, Sabrina Carpenter - On My Way
SZA, the Weeknd, Travis Scott - Power is Power
MEDUZA, Goodboys - Piece of Your Heart
Lil Uzi Vert - Sanguine Paradise
Marshmello, CHVRCHES - Here With Me
P!nk, Khalid - Hurts 2B Human
Kina, SNOW - Get You the Moon 
A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, 6ix9ine - Swervin'  
the Chainsmokers, 5 Seconds of Summer - Who Do You Love?
ScHoolboy Q, Travis Scott - CHopstix
Daya - Insomnia
Jonas Brothers - Cool
Lauv, Troye Sivan - i'm so tired...
Maren Morris - The Bones
Jonas Blue, Theresa Rex - What I Like About You
Billie Eilish - All the Good Girls Go to Hell
Twenty One Pilots - Chlorine 
Chong the Nomad - Two Colors 
Paul McCartney - Get Enough
Avenade - Closed Fists and Battle Antics
Haywyre - Contagious
Lione - Kids 
Red Gurd - Mama's Boy
Holding Absence - Monochrome 
Ramin Djawadi - The Night King 
chrms,sabu - mind 
Lana Del Rey - Fuck It I Love You & The Greatest
Big Thief - Not
Perfune Genius - Describe
Sufjan Stevens - My Rajneesh

Squid - Narrator

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1
Ariel Pink - Feels Like Heaven
Kendrick Lamar - Rigamortis
Craig Mack -  Flava in Ya Ear (Remix)
Death Grips - Takyon (Death Yon)
Death Grips - Come Up and Get Me
Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want
Lil B - the Age of Information
Tyler, the Creator - Who Dat Boy
Snoop Dogg - What's My Name?
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rain
2Pac - Pain
Public Enemy - Harder Than You Think
Gang Starr - You Know My Steez 
Kendrick Lamar - ELEMENT.
Life Without Buildings - The Leanover (B>>>>>A)
Clara Chocolat - La danse de Clara
Roy Orbison - Running Scared
Pollyester - German love letter
Aretha - I Say a Little Prayer
Superwoman, Humble the Poet - #Leh
Haji Springer, Bohemian -  Meri Bandook
Bangg 3 - Slide Remix
Julia Holter - Horns Surrounding Me
Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen
Tim Hecker - That World
Kacey Musgraves - Rainbow
Taylor Swift - ME!
Dominic Fike - 3 Nights 
Ellie Goulding - Sixteen
Khalid, John Mayer - Outta My Head 
Mabel - Don't Call Me Up 
Sia, Diplo, Labrinth - No New Friends 
Gaullin - Moonlight 
Ave Sangria - Dia a dia 
Jacob Collier - Make Me Cry
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Keen for Kick Ons?
Weval - Are You Even Real
Phillipi & Rodrigo - Retrogrado
FKA twigs - Cellophane 
Kero Kero Bonito - Swimming / The Open Road
Holly Herndon - Eternal  
om - reezons 
black country, new road - athen's, france
black country, new road - sunglasses
Angel Olsen - Lark
Angel Olsen - All Mirrors
Perfume Genius - Eye in the Wall
Chambala - rueda
Aes Dana - Manifold
Mac Miller - Good News 
Jessie Ware - Spotlight
The Weeknd - After Hours
Yves Tumor - Kerosene!
Charli XCX - Forever



 
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1.5
Frank Ocean - Chanel
De La Soul - Me, Myself & I
MF DOOM - Hoe Cakes
the Roots - In the Music
Kanye West - Heard 'Em Say
Brockhampton - Zipper
Makaveli - Hail Mary
Public Enemy - Brothers Gonna Work It Out
Vince Staples - Big Fish
Niko - Night of Fire
Marty Robbins - Big Iron
Black Uhuru - Plastic Smile
Rosebud - Have a Cigar
UDM - To Please You
The Dynamic Superiors - Nowhere to Run
Bohemia, Haji Springer - I.D.G.A.F. 
Premz - Jalsa
Raxstar, Amar Sandhu - Rewind 
Cuban Doll - Bankrupt
Radiohead - Ill Wind
Lana Del Rey - Venice Bitch 
Khalid - Talk 
Alec Benjamin - Let Me Down Slowly
Beyonce - Before I Let Go
Ekcle - Florentine 
Durand Jones and the Indications - Morning in America
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Saul Williams - Ancestral Recall
Fat White Family - When I Leave
Codeine Grandma - ANOTHER LIFE
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Crime Pays
Flying Lotus - Black Balloons Reprise
Ezu - Divas
JPEGMAFIA - Beta Male Strategies
chambala - mujeres
liro shaq - hay problema
JPEGMAFIA - Bald!
Yves Tumor - Gospel for a New Century
bladee & Ecco2K - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Atmosphere - God's Bathroom Floor


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2
Future - Mask Off
Tyler, the Creator - Boredom
Tyler, the Creator - 911/Mister Lonely
Travis Scott - 90210
Slick Rick - Children's Story
Mos Def - Umi Says
Hole - Violet
Tom and Jerry - Scooby's Dreaming
Philly U.S.A - Speak Well
Electric Mind - Let Me Love Tonight
Anik Khan, Burna Boy, Sango - Oh My
Premz - Meri Jaan
Molly Brazy - Trust None
Molly Brazy - Play For Keeps
Cuban Doll - Playa
Bangg 3 - Checkington
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Flat Tummy Tea
Kero Kero Bonito - Swimming/The Open Road
D'Angelo - Unshaken 
Ellende - Du wärst eine schöne Leiche
Little Simz - Selfish
Quelle Chris Straight Shot
Injury Reserve - Jailbreak the Tesla
F1rstman - Soniyere
Happy Singh - Nakhra
the F16s - WKND FRNDS
ankur tewari - dil beparvah
ritviz - jeet 2.0
ritviz - Udd Gaye (Bacardi House Party Sessions)
Lil Nas X - Old Town Road (Remix)
Zero12Finest - Baby Are You Coming?
Brockhampton - Dearly Departed
Big Sean - One Man Can Change The World
Protomartyr - Processed By The Boys
charli xcx - claws

Weyes Blood - Titanic Risen

Kero Kero Bonito - The Princess and the Clock

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2.5
Call Super - I Look Like I Look in a Tinfoil Mirror
Tyler, the Creator - See You Again
Tyler, the Creator - I Ain't Got Time!
The Roots - How I Got Over
the Voyagers - Distant Planet
Chiemi Manabe - ねらわれた少女
Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat
The Carter Family - Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone
Sylvia St. James - Better Things
The Trammps - Can We Come Together
Keralanka - Tangents
Noyz, B. Magic - Investigative Reports
English Evenings - Tear You Down
Julia Holter - In the Green Wild
Julia Holter - Les jeux to You
Weyes Blood - Andromeda
Xiu Xiu - Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy
Jessie Ware - Adore You
Ariana Grande, Victoria Monet - MONOPOLY 
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - the Bird Song 
Jai Paul - Do You Love Her Now / He
Hatchie - Stay With Me 
Abeer Arora, Vee - Killer
Raghav - Maayera
major lazer ft. J Balvin and el Alfa - que calor
yomei del meloso ft. musicologo the libro and kiko el crazy - pasate (remix)
Rina Sawayama - XS
Jessie Ware - Spotlight
Silk Sonic - Leave The Door Open

Porter Robinson - Musician

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3
Brockhampton - Boogie
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 4
LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
姫御前 (HIMEGOZEN)
Peshay - Piano Tune 
DJ Crystl - Meditation
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Andre Holland - City Of Fear
Richard T Bear - Sunshine Hotel (Just Walk On In)
Aurra - Such a Feeling
Alicia Keys - If I Ain't Got You
En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love)
the PropheC, Fateh, Jus Reign - Rumors
Riz MC - Englistan
Horsepowar - Bold Woman
Raxstar, Arjun - Lost Our Way
Snowprah - Soft Drink
Avey Tare - Saturdays (Again)
Lizzo - Truth Hurts
BLACKPINK - Kill This Love
ROSALIA, J. Balvin, El Guincho  - Con Altura
Maluma - HP
Zach Knight - Gotta Go
Wavez - My Ting
DJ Giggs Superstar - Muzik
TNS, Fey - Uzongilinga
Da Capo, Tshepo King - Afrika (Edit)
JPEGMAFIA - Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot
Wynne - Ego Check Ft. J.I.D
wish key - last summer
Negative Gemini - Body Work
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Shuntaro Okino - Cloud Age Symphony


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3.5
Kane West - Definitely Come Together (Original Mix)
Bong-Ra - Gwaan
Migos - Slippery (ft. Gucci Mane)
Young Thug - Safe
Jook - Juice/Behind Schedule
Alemayehu Eshete - Alteleyeshegnem
Brockhampton - Junky
Denzel Curry - Gook
Jeru tha Damaja - You Can't Stop the Prophet
the Crooklyn Dodgers - Crooklyn
Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money
Quay Dash - Queen of This Shit
The Ink Spots - If I Didn't Care
the Carpenters - Superstar
Artemis - Elysian Fields
Keralanka - Cold Culture
Seti X - Vendetta
Lazarus - Fantasy
Lioness - Everyting Mad
Weyes Blood - Everyday
21 Savage - A Lot
Jonas Brothers - Sucker
Daddy Yankee, Katy Perry - Con Calma
The Novembers - Everything
Denzel Curry - Ricky  
Ezu - Hor Labna 
Jay Kaydn - Killer
DJ Harpz, Amar Sandhu - Patakay
Zack Knight - Thumka 
Prateek Kuhad -  Tum Jab Paas
Prateek Kuhad - cold/mess
Dwson - Ethyl
Sculptured Music - Sad to Think
KayGee DaKing, Bizizi, Killer Kau - Kokota
nts, indlovukazi - my dali
Shimza - Dancefloor Keeper
LINGUA IGNOTA - Butcher of the World
squid - houseplants
Danny Brown - Dirty Laundry
Brockhampton - No Halo
Crazy Design ft. kiko el crazy - dejen su loquera
el mayor classico - cuando yo era chiquito
dixson waz - toco toco to
One System - Life is very short
Primadonna - Flashing on the floor
Kai Tracid - Trance & Acid
Porter Robinson - Something Comforting 

YURiKA - 鏡面の波 (Kyoumen no nami)

Round Table feat Nino - Puzzle

noname - Rainforest

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4
J Hus - Did You See
Shawn Wasabi - OTTER POP (ft. Hollis)
Chief Keef - Can You Be My Friend
SPACEGHOSTPURP - Asthma sex Asthma Dingaling
Vince Staples - Norf Norf 
Nujabes ft. Shing02 - luv(sic) pt.3
Jeru tha Damaja - Come Clean
Brockhampton -  Swamp
Aesop Rock - Daylight
O.C. - Time's Up
Washington Phillips - Mother's Last Word to Her Son
The Electronic Circus - Direct Lines
富田美憂 [Miyu Tomita] & 伊瀬茉莉也 [Mariya Ise] - Deep in Abyss
រស់សេរីសុទ្ធា [Ros Sereysothea] / ស៊ីនស៊ីសាមុត [Sinn Sisamouth] - Jum 10 kae thiet / Prokun mles
梅干茶漬け [Umeboshi Chazuke] - Panic! Pop'n! Picnic!
Arthur Miles - Lonely Cowboy Parts 1 & 2
SOPHIE - Jump ft. Lady Lashurr
Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do for Love
Hank Williams - Long Gone Lonesome Blues
George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
The Carter Family - Can the Circle Be Unbroken (By and By)
Ian van Dahl - Castles in the Sky
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Washington Phillips - I Had A Good Father And Mother
Mike Mareen - Dancin' in the Dark
Brass Construction - Get Up
Marva Hicks - Looking Over My Shoulder
Soft Machine - Soft Space
Abhi the Nomad - RUN
Anik Khan - Big Fax
Sama Blake - Peng
Humble the Poet, Sickick & Yucifer - Can't Go Back
Gangis Khan - Kuch Nahi Theek Hay
Lioness - DBT (Dead Black Ting) Remix ft Queenie, Stush, Shystie, Lady Leshurr & Little Simz
Quay Dash - No Drama
Lizzo - Cuz I Love You
Whodat & Viola Klein - WORKSHOP 26
Seireki13ya - おやすみ未来と恋乙女
Quelle Chris - Obamacare
King Monada - Motho Kadi Bag
Lemon & Herb, LJ Pepper - edge 
Caltonic SA - Like Vigro Deep
Young Nudy - Pissy Pamper (Kid Cudi)
Danny Brown - Best Life 

Jessie Ware - Soul Control  

Jessie Ware - Save a Kiss

Squid - Paddling

BROCKHAMPTON - BUZZCUT FEAT. DANNY BROWN
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4.5
GFOTY - Tongue
Brockhampton - Gummy
Bobby Shmurda - Hot N*****
Brockhampton - Sweet
Random Axe - Random Call
 酒井司優子 [Syuko Sakai] / 坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto] - コンピューターおばあちゃん / フォト・ムジーク (A is 5)
the Pogues - Sally MacLennane
Ilona Mitrecey - Un monde parfait
Patsy Cline -- I Fall To Pieces
Breaux Freres - Ma Blonde Est Partie
Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble
Family Tree - Family Tree
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Horsepowar - Powar
D&D (Aya & Chika) - Kiss in the Sun
burnin' beat & olive nasinga - it's hot
Quay Dash - Decline Him
Carly Rae Jepsen -  Now That I Found You / No Drug Like Me
Aldous Harding - The Barrel
Prince Kaybee, Indlovukazi, Supta, Afro Brothers - Gugulethu
DJ Sumbody ft. Cassper Nyovest, Thebe & Vettis - Monate Mpolaye
LINGUA IGNOTA - DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR
el alfa ft. chael produciendo and kiko el  crazy - mueve la cadera

Anarchy 99 - s/t

Jessie Ware - Ooh La La

Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure? 

Napalm Death - To Go Off and Things
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5
Lil B - I'm God
Isako Saneyoshi - マルコじいさん
SINNERMAN MUST BE 5 STARS!
Jhelisa - Friendly Pressure (1998 Sunship Mixes)
Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
Lizzo  - Juice
Astaroth - Aullido sepulcral / Guerra de Metal
Prince Kaybee - Fetch Your Life
Algiers - Can the Sub_Bass Speak?

Baby Zionov - Excerpt from Truth