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HTRK - Work (Work, Work)
Saturday 15 October 2011
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Gotye - Making Mirrors
Monday 26 September 2011
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Tricky - Maxinquaye
Friday 22 July 2011
Tricky’s debut album is an intoxicating listen possessed by a rare, wicked beauty.
Bristol rapper Adrian Thaws, aka Tricky (once he’d dropped the cumbersome "Kid" from his moniker), was hardly an unknown force when he released this debut album in early 1995. His whispered, husky vocals had appeared on Massive Attack’s 1991 disc Blue Lines, and he featured again on the trio’s next LP, 94’s Protection. Maxinquaye, though, was something else. It’s hard to imagine how he could have stepped out of Massive Attack’s shadow in a more dramatic fashion.
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Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Thursday 07 April 2011
The band's landmark debut remains a classic 20 years since its release.
Twenty years on from this landmark album’s release and its makers are very much a part of the mainstream, an outfit comfortably capable of selling out the nation’s biggest venues and with enough column inches of acclaim behind them to build a (rather flimsy, granted) ladder to the Moon. But at the time, Massive Attack were purveyors of a sound so new that it didn’t have a pigeonhole to fits its form – trip hop would not be coined for another few years, and this mash-up of dub, rap, reggae and soul caught attentions like few other releases of the time. It didn’t so much hold one by the collar as set fire to their shoes.
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Portishead - Dummy
Thursday 11 November 2010
Quite simply one of the greatest debut albums of the 1990s.
Portishead’s Mercury Prize-winning debut takes just seconds to spook its audience. An eerie drone, scratches that sound like alien chatter, a snapping beat that cracks with hip hop attitude but treads cautiously for fear of stepping on a crack and tumbling into whatever unholy chasm music like this is capable of opening. Mysterons’ title is apt – named after the Martian race from Captain Scarlett, it’s an emission from a faraway planet of secrets and shadows. It opens the group’s singular soundworld in a way that’s exquisitely discomforting.
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Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude
Wednesday 04 August 2010
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Via the VPRO Luisterpaal you can listen to a new CD release. This time it is the CD 'Shut Up, Dude' from 'Das Racist'. This is the track list.
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Bonobo - Black Sands
Wednesday 24 March 2010
Bonobo has blossomed into something beautiful at his own pace.
There was little in Bonobo’s first two albums – 2000’s Animal Magic and 2003’s Dial ‘M’ For Monkey – to suggest that Simon Green could ever craft anything as grand, expansive and accomplished as Black Sands.
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