Danger went to school for art, now she writes a blog about music. Also, she really likes cheese.
I’m trying to catch up on music I’ve been sitting with for a month, so here goes. Chicago’s Innobushu released his Distraction EP in mid January, and it’s a lovely piece of work. Upbeat enough to keep you hopeful for spring, but laid back enough to be described as “essential music for late night reflections”. I couldn’t have said it better. You can stream the rest of the tracks and [...]
Devonté Hynes has been making music under many different names, and I am absolutely in love with them all. His latest, Blood Orange approaches nostalgia with the most sublime minimalism and little genre-restriction. “Forget It” is his newest single, and represents the best of a forgotten time in rock music. Grab the rest of the album here for less than $10.
Ernest Gonzales might be better known to some as Mexicans With Guns, but his latest release, Natural Traits , makes his birth name something to remember. I’ve been sitting with it for a few weeks now, and it’s just one of those albums that feels effortlessly good. Sublimely peaceful, it is at once calming and captivating – an admirable achievement for an instrumental album. Its hard to quantify in words, [...]
It all seems a little too easy, of course I would love a dark track with a severely pitch-shifted sample of “Ain’t No Sunshine”, but I just can’t deny it. Montreal’s Wolfey cites DJ Shadow as an influence, and that sound is the most evident in “A Marvelous Persona”. Anything that brings back memories of Entroducing….. is alright in my book. You can snag his entire Sleep Country EP for [...]
