Hail Mary Mallon is Aesop Rock and Rob Sonic. This is their second album as a duo. Their first album Are You Gonna Eat That? was released in 2011. I gave their first album a few listens when it wasRead more…
Red Wall – (Boyles) and Piles EP
This is an odd one track EP from Milo and Alexander Kollman. This is a little different sound to what Milo has done with his solo projects. The production from Alexander Kollman is a little quirkier and at times theRead more…
Craig’s Top 5 of 2014
Following on from 2013, which (for my ears) was a great year for music, 2014 had a lot of early potential with releases from some of my favourite alt rap veterans such as Atmosphere, Sole, Sage Francis and The Roots.Read more…
Run The Jewels – Run The Jewels 2
I was not going to mention this album as it seems to have had a huge amount of attention. Music blogs and Twitter have been flooded with positive reviews and Killer Mike and El-P have just toured across North AmericaRead more…
Culprate – Deliverance
I had this album recommended to me with the description of “interesting glitchy goodness”. I did a quick search for Culprate on Spotify and listened to the first EP I found. It was some good but fairly standard dub stepRead more…
Soso – Not For Nothing
Soso is a musician and artist from Saskatoon. His style of music has a very unique and personal sound. The music is hip hop but has a very organic sound. The drums in particular are hand picked samples and notRead more…
Anderson Paak – Venice
Anderson Paak recently released his debut album Venice. I have previously talked about his EP of covers and also mentioned his feature on the latest TOKiMONSTA EP. I like what Anderson Paak offers. He falls some where between Cee LoRead more…
Latyrx – The Second Album
I was listening to this album the past week and thinking it was a candidate for a top albums of the year. When I checked the release date I was surprised that it’s already been over a year since it’sRead more…
Outkast – Aquemini
I have a secret to share. Despite growing up listening to hip hop in the 90’s I never really got into Outkast. I remember their first album Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik getting 5 mics in Source magazine. My older brother bought the albumRead more…
Playlist Monday: songs for a funeral
My mother recently passed away and one of the many things my family and I had to do was organise a funeral and select the music for the funeral. Music is one of the best ways of evoking memories andRead more…