"Using cutting edge percussive tools, including smart triggers, drum pads, and MIDI controllers, it is the duo's vision to augment the acoustic drum kit. It is through this exploration that Turning Jewels Into Water find a place where the ritualistic origins of music and rhythm meet with the digital realm" - PopMatters offers some avantgarde […]
"Three years after releasing the soul-baring opus 'A Seat at the Table', Solange has ditched traditional song structure and world-weary lyrics for a sonically and thematically ambiguous record that feels freer, and less burdened by the white gaze" - Pitchfork.
"It’s fired-up, it sounds more pointed and intentional and it makes you sit up and take notice of the intensely layered compositions that [Meg] Duffy has made... Duffy co-produced it with Brad Cook at April Base, the center for Justin Vernon’s coterie of musicians... Duffy has found themselves in a line of modern musicians that […]
"Four black female banjo players wrestling with gender, race, slavery, sexual assault and the domination of the male gaze might make an admirable-if-arduous prospect, but this new collaboration proves by turns a proud, devastating, authoritative album made for our bewildering times" - Guardian reviews Our Native Daughters' album 'Songs of Our Native Daughters'. "Rhiannon Giddens, […]
"This album was largely crowdfunded via Pledge Music and was written remotely, from places as far flung as Chicago and São Paulo, where some members are now based, but it is seductively cohesive, glazed in experience... Their eponymous return is an immersive, invigorating and convincingly brooding stomp of disenfranchisement" - Guardian.
About Earl Sweatshirt's new album 'Some Rap Songs': "With his latest record, the onetime teen prodigy reemerges as the face of a new sound and scene that blurs the line between avant-garde jazz and hip-hop". The 1975's 'A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships': "The British band’s outrageous and eclectic third album attests to the worth […]
It’s its own coming-of-age album and the rare project from an über-hyped rap prospect that actually delivers on its promise... The toil produces a man and a man clears a path for the next. Pitchfork...
