Chance the Rapper – Star Line [Self Released 2025] This 32-year-old divorcee seems to be posturing for “return to form” hosannas, but he sounds tired. Reflecting on his Obama-era work there was always a youthfulness to it, even in its mature moments; a boundless feeling that anything was possible, the peaceful-yet-poignant ways that life can …
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Indie Rappers Meets The Guitars of Today
Billy Woods – History Will Absolve Me [Backwoodz 2012] If you couldn’t tell by the album title and cover art, Woods is the son of a Zimbabwean Marxist, based in NYC. As such he’s got stories about being the foreign kid in school, colonialism and post colonialism as metaphors for the music industry, and a …
Lmao jk…unless 😳
Benjamin Booker – POWER [Fire Next Time Records 2025] Eleven years after his debut as a garage/blues wunderkind backed by a Jack White co-sign, Booker sheds his traditionalist skin by consciously corrupting his sound with the aid of underground hip-hop architect Kenny Segal. It’s a move that obsessives might’ve read in the tea leaves – …
Honestly finally getting this off my laptop and onto the blog is a release akin to finally pooping after a vacation
Yard Act – Where’s My Utopia? [Universal 2024] While in America the default sound for rock bands post-Nirvana has been to filter all you can through an alternative lense and hope you’re catchy enough to have a hit, the Brits have had a clear lineage of post-punk fueling them after the Britpop bubble burst in …
Cosmic Hero 