Category: Blogger Thoughts
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY 03/02 – Young Fathers, Sunny Way, The Go! Team, Somebody’s Child + The Waeve
Young Fathers: Heavy Heavy: “Still young, after some years, even as the heavy, heavy weight of the world seems to grow day by day.” An unrestrained passion of energy and soul rips into the very fabrics of Young Fathers’ new chapter. From day one, (or TAPE ONE) Alloysious Massaquoi, Kayus Bankole and G. Hastings we’re […]
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 13/01
The second Friday of the year brings about a sizable chunk of hotly-contested album launches from the likes of: … Circa Waves, Gaz Coombes, The Subways and … The Second Hand Orchestra. Billy Nomates__CACTI. The right shade of alternative brings about tee-total BBC Radio 6 playlist material, Nomates’ CACTI. Appearing as a resident guest on […]
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YOUR NEW MUSIC FRIDAY: 23/09
With a world strife in post-punk and hard-edged rock, we take a look at this weeks’ NEW MUSIC FRIDAY, with a whole host of new showings people are getting into already. A bristle of a barbed wire hook there and a shuddering jolt of sludge-rock, Kid Kapichi are tearing up the place with their new […]
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Kofi Stone: “Nobody Cares Till Everybody Does” – Your Album Review
As we still swim in the streams of jazz rap and lo-fi hip hop with Loyle Carner, we move to a fellow Londoner and a fellow underground hip-hop rapper with Kofi Stone. “Life’s already harder when your skin’s a little darker.” ___ ______// From Stories in Pyjamas to Diamonds in the Water…Kofi’s weaving flows are […]
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Your Singles Review – “Hate” by Loyle Carner
Wisdom, I fear him: Getting bodied by fast-whipped lyrical sincerity is becoming such a norm for British MCs right now. Interpolated with both the grime and jazz-rap games, the first names of Dave, Loyle and Ghetts become buzz words within a world we see ourselves in.// A dude like Loyle Carner is riding waves within […]