Prolific New Orleans rapper Curren$y hyperlinks up with producer and frequent collaborator Harry Fraud for the duo’s fifth mission collectively in as a few years. Led by the singles “Dream Machines” (that includes Premo Rice) and “Airport Industries” (that includes Wiz Khalifa), By no means Catch Us pairs Curren$y’s laidback however densely detailed bars with jazzy, breezy boom-bap beats which might be tailormade for luxurious boat rides precisely just like the one depicted on the album’s cowl.
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Bambara: Birthmarks [Wharf Cat]
Bambara stand proper on the intersection between two of essentially the most overexposed genres proper now: post-punk and shoegaze. However the Brooklyn-based trio have sufficient gravitas and dynamic vary to face out from the pack. On their fifth studio album, Birthmarks, a music like “Letters From Sing Sing” builds to a virtually power-pop climax, full with blasts of trumpet, whereas “Face of Love” wades deeper into the muck of trip-hop. All of the whereas, frontman Reid Bateh serves as our sometimes-seductive, sometimes-menacing information to Bambara’s seedy underworld.
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Hekla: Turnar [Phantom Limb]
It’s not on daily basis one comes throughout the phrases “theremin virtuoso,” so, if you do, it’s greatest to concentrate. On her new album, Turnar, Icelandic digital musician Hekla Magnúsdóttir wields her signature instrument—alongside cello, vocal, and organ accompaniment—in service of spine-tingling, alien soundscapes. The title of latest single “Ókyrrð” interprets to “Turbulence” in English, so the truth that it’s one of many album’s least tumultuous tracks ought to communicate volumes in and of itself.
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