I described Lex Amor’s debut, Government Tropicana, as “super laid-back”. Well, I think she’s mellowed in the intervening four years. This is positively horizontal. Her vocals take more of a back-seat, and in particular the low-key pyrotechnics of the freestyle tracks on that mixtape are dialled right back here. To the fore are hazy atmospheric […]
Tag: genre_hiphop
Chevaliers, the last LP from this French–Israeli duo (okay, they say they are from “Jerusalem and Lotharingia”, the latter of which existed in some form between 855 and 959 C.E. and straddled modern-day France and Germany… but they also say that they’ve lived in Lorraine, which ended up in the French side… and she sounds […]
I think my first encounter with Little Simz was that one track where the intro sounds uncannily like Aphex Twin, and for some reason it gave me a cognitive dissonance that I found disturbing. That’s not a criticism — it was my weird reaction, and it’s on my. But I think I’m over that now, […]
An unusual one for me: (a) I am listening to hip-hop made in the last 15 years, (b) I bought an album two years after it came out (normally, I get stubborn, and figure that if I missed stuff at the time then I should move on), and (c) I actually sought this out after […]
It took me a while to get my head around this record, until I realized that the best way to think about it — for me, anyway — is as highly abstract hip hop. It is a highly eclectic collection of tunes, taking in everything from electronic ambient, spoken word samples (in both English and […]
dogrando writes about some records 