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A Couple of Regular Fellas: Novelist and Shailan's "Heat"
On 'Heat,' Novelist and Shailan use low-end bass lines, retro synths and white noise to portray the dog-eat-dog world of London, while channelling the…
 • Ethan Herlock
How Chris Crack Made the Best Drake Album Ever
On his latest, Chris Crack offers a reimagination of steppers music for the modern generation, conveyed through a futuristic recontextualization of…
 • Will Hagle
Lil Baby Proves He Doesn’t Need a Great Album to Be the Greatest Rapper Alive
The problem with 'It’s Only Me' isn’t that the songs are not good, it’s that the combined product does not add up to standalone greatness bigger than…
 • Will Hagle
A (Semi) Definitive Ranking of Every Freddie Gibbs Album
On the eve of Freddie Gibbs' latest record 'Soul Sold Separately' releasing, Will Hagle ranks the rapper's past projects and revisits the eras that made…
 • Will Hagle
Shrapknel’s "Metal Lung" Is a Psychedelic Rebirth
Shrapknel has fully clicked as a duo, with the group’s chemistry gelling into a brand-new animal, Son Raw writes.
 • Son Raw
A Review of Pete Rock's 'Petestrumentals 4'
On the legendary producer's latest, he returns to the fundamentals with a sense of urgency to nourish hip-hop's beating heart.
 • Evan Nabavian
That Kid’s “DRY2WET” Makes Hyperpop Feel Brand New Again
If it’s become harder to hear hyperpop without all the accompanying baggage of context, That Kid reminds us why this music felt so potent in the first…
 • Pranav Trewn
Deconstruct to Preserve: A Review of Avalanche Kaito's New LP
Avalanche Kaito's new project is punk in every sense of the word, a sound that transgresses and deconstructs, but also has the virtue of advancing…
 • Passion Weiss
Shit Don't Stop: On '111th East,' G Perico Shines as One of LA's Most Consistent Street Orators
G Perico's latest EP stands out due its replayability and acts as yet another strong project in a continued hot streak, Will Hagle writes.
 • Will Hagle
David Versace's Lounge Jazz "Summer Party"
The Australian fusionist's epic establishes itself as the delirious summer samba worth sweating over, Will Schube writes.
 • Will Schube
Nancy Mounir's Trip To The Promenade of Souls
Nancy Mounir's elegiac and ghostly dialogue with century-old nahda music makes her something of The Caretaker of Egypt.
 • Peter Holslin
The Definitive Ranking of Every 'Soundbombing II' Song
What makes 'Soundbombing II' such a fun listen is that it’s structured like a mixtape or an underground hip hop radio show, with stylistically diverse…
 • Pete Hunt
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