The cerebral composer Nils Frahm will return this fall with a new album called Music For Animals, his first since the companion pieces All Melody and All Encores in 2018 and 2019 and his first for LEITER, the label Frahm co-founded with his manager Felix Grimm. Because most creatures don’t know how to operate modern […]
Stream Krallice’s New Surprise Album Psychagogue
The Queens progressive black metal band Krallice already released one album this year, January’s Black Market-approved Crystalline Exhaustion. Today they’ve returned with their second album of 2022. Psychagogue presents four densely atmospheric epic-length tracks that play out like foggy, desolate landscapes haunted by ghouls. If that sounds like your kind of fun, delve into Krallice’s […]
The Soft Pink Truth – “Is It Gonna Get Any Deeper Than This? (Dark Room Mix)”
The Soft Pink Truth, the solo project of Matmos’ Drew Daniel, will be back with “a super juicy, super limited CD and cassette-only release” this August. Was It Ever Real? features four tracks, including a cover of Coil’s “The Anal Staircase.” We don’t get to hear that one today, but fear not, fans of suggestive […]
Hear The Chemical Brothers’ Previously Unreleased “Cylinders” From Dig Your Own Hole 25th Anniversary Reissue
In recent months, the Chemical Brothers have been gearing up to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their beloved 1997 album Dig Your Own Hole. They’re giving it the big anniversary reissue treatment, with various packages and limited edition vinyl. They’ve also been unveiling some unreleased material from those days. They’ve already put out a couple […]
Duke Deuce & Glorilla’s “Just Say That” Video Is A Berserk Masterpiece
There’s a lot of new music out today, and some of it is inevitably going to get lost in the shuffle, but I hope that doesn’t happen with Duke Deuce. Duke, the wildly charismatic Memphis crunk revivalist, has just come out with the new album Crunkstar, his follow-up to 2021’s supremely fun Duke Nukem. Crunkstar […]
Sports Team – “Cool It Kid”
Over the last couple months, Brit-rockers Sports Team have been rolling out their new album Gulp! So far, they’ve shared a couple tracks, including “R Entertainment” and “The Game.” Today, they’re back with another one. Sports Team’s latest is called “Cool It Kid.” The band says it’s about “getting too deep in your stress about […]
Flo Milli – “Conceited”
Since making one of our favorite rap albums of 2020, Flo Milli has been sticking to dropping a loose single here and there — including “Roaring 20s,” the Dora The Explorer-sampling “Back Pack,” and “PBC.” Last year, she also teamed up with Rico Nasty on “Money.” Recently, Flo Milli has been teasing a new single […]
Pummel – “Headcase”
For the past six years, Pummel have been carry the torch for the proud tradition of Boston hardcore, making short and feral bursts of anger that seem custom-designed to soundtrack goons hurting each other. But Pummel have also been gradually expanding their sound without losing the fundamental physicality that’s always made their music so much […]
Stream Conway The Machine’s New Album What Has Been Blessed Cannot Be Cursed
Call me old-fashioned, but I like it when rappers make rap albums. Nothing in this life is certain, but I feel pretty confident when I say that Buffalo beast Conway The Machine will never put out an LP of soft-batch house music. Instead, Conway continues to craft hard scrunch-face shit-talk, and he’s extremely good at […]
Video: Meechy Darko “Kill Us All”
K.U.A. Flatbush Zombies’ Meechy Darko branches with the solo effort, “Kill Us All”, the first single off his upcoming debut Gothic Luxury, due August 26. Co-produced by Dot Da Genius, Tyler Dopps and Joshua “Budo” Karp, Darko examines the political and corporate conspiracy theories of the government and ongoing mistreatment of Black Americans. The psychedelic […]