Premiered on Julie Adeuga’s Beats 1 Radio show, Kojey Radical’s new track ‘AFTER WINTER’ doesn’t pull any punches. With a direct, almost accusatory cadence, Radical airs a few grievances concering ‘the destruction of [his] people’. “’After Winter’ was the first song we wrote and recorded after ‘23Winters‘,” he explains. “I remember feeling like I always made it…
Lapalux shares a new track from his forthcoming third album ‘Ruinism’ [June 30], featuring JFDR [y’know, Jófríður Ákadóttir]. “Stu [Lapalux] and I got together in London when I had just run out the door in Iceland with my laptop and passport – and literally nothing else – so I was in a perfect state of…
“The bulk of this collaborative project between Baltimore’s Tek.Lun and Queens, NY native DrewsThatDude was made over the span of two weeks in a smoke filled apartment in Los Angeles,” comes the official statement from LA label Huh What & Where. A lot of bomb sativa + anime were consumed during breaks from writing sessions.” It’s…
With a consistent visual across recent singles ‘D.R.U.G.S.’, ‘Pink Beetle’, ‘Crooked Cops‘ & ‘Flexin‘, you’d have been forgiven for thinking they’d form part of a project themselves. Turns out though, they were mere red herrings as the Dubliner’s next full length was in fact new mixtape ‘The Moon & You’. The project is available to download…
Having absolutely floored us with his ‘Prima Donna’ EP and its accompanying short film towards the end of last Summer, Vince Staples reveals details of a new album alongside a new track ‘Big Fish’. The new album ‘Big Fish Theory is set for a June 23 via Def Jam/ARTium, but no official tracklisting has surfaced as yet. We…
Multidisciplinary artist Jumo splits divides his residency between Paris and the Atlantic coast, and his creative time between progressive Electronica and groundbreaking visual displays. His last release Etape came last February, which of course went hand-in-hand with a stunning set of visuals. His third EP ‘Derive’ is in places far more accessible; with single ‘Bloom’ featuring Holy Oysters.…
We haven’t heard a great deal from A$AP Mob since the superb ‘Cozy Tapes Vol. 1’ earlier this year. With a follow-up rumoured to be in the works, A$APs Rocky and Ferg team up on Harry Fraud-produced cut ‘Wrong’, on which they beg forgiveness for the sins they’ve committed in the name of excess. Stream below…
With an EP expected to arrive this Summer, Jesse James Solomon gives us a taste of what’s to come with ‘City Lights’. It’s a slow-burning, contemplative track, with Solomon treading a thin line between stream of consciousness and carefully considered precision. Stream a snippet below via SoundCloud, click here to download in full via iTunes.
Italian beatmaker Odeeno releases ‘Purpura’, which in his own worlds is named after “the love of this color and of all the deranged ones, also as a disease, one of those autoimmune degenerative diseases, just like the human being who does not love too much destroys everything around him.” We’re none the wiser either, but what we…
XL Recordings founder Richard Russell releases new project ‘Close But Not Quite’ under the name ‘Everything Is Recorded’. The collaborative, five-track collection begins with a duet of sorts, between the late, great Curtis Mayfield and rising star Sampha. It’s followed by version of Gil Scott Heron’s ‘Me And The Devil’ featuring Giggs, before a jarring Objonjayer/Warren Ellis collaboration…
As well as being one of the most exciting young MCs in Grime, Novelist is also a accomplished producer. Having provided both beats and bars on a host of his own tracks such as ‘Snitches‘ and ‘Break In Your House‘ the South East London releases his first instrumental project, ‘Be Blessed’. Stream below via Spotify, click…
Producer Jakuta provides the Jazz-tinged instrumental for ‘Control, Shift’, the latest track from Bristol MC ThisisDA. “I was at my boy Jakuta’s place and he said he flipped an old guitar sample he recorded in some time ago. He played the track and it was exactly the sound I was looking for at the time,”…
