As we saw last December, Dani Rosenoer thinks differently. So, for this review, so will I. I’m going to attempt to sum up each track on Basement Jams 2 in a single sentence. Let’s see how it goes… Read more…
If there’s one thing I couldn’t care less about, it’s musical comfort zones. Life’s too short to limit your auditory experiences to a single genre; and so, whether I’m in a release’s target market or not, I’ll still give it a chance. EPs like Jamie Jooste’s The Man is Always Right are the reason I continue to do this. Packed full of soul, fastidiously crafted songs, and drenched in P!nk’s self-consciousness-less attitude, this release offers more emotional depth than most of its peers while retaining the Mister-Sheen-slick production values required to climb the pop industry ladder. Read more…
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Click here for Part One.
To review Lazy Habits’ latest release – RMX – I sat on a Northern Line Tube train and got stuck in. I chose this location for two reasons: 1) I could sit down and go through the entire album uninterrupted, and 2) opposite my seat was an unevenly positioned sticker ordering NO EYE CONTACT – PENALTY £200. These were my (mostly unedited) thoughts: Read more…
If you got to this post via a self help-oriented Google search, and think you might be in the wrong place, hold on a second. This guide may not help you stop smoking, quit drinking, or persuade you to dump that no-good long term partner who won’t stop cheating on you, but it will improve your quality of life significantly. The Lazy Habits we’re looking at here are a London-based hip-hop band with talent to burn – and here, in the first part of a two-part guide to their world, your ears are going to meet the soundwaves kept captive on their debut album. In Part 2, we’ll be checking out their latest release, a remixed version of Lazy Habits’ eponymous debut featuring a wealth of special guests. Trust me – if slick musicianship and catchy songs are your thing, you’re going to get along very well.
While preparing to review Lazy Habits’ debut, I decided to put this album to the ultimate urban-music quality test. Rather than sitting quietly with headphones on, I kept Lazy Habits in my ears while I spent a day exploring central London – and it passed said ultra-scientific, in-no-way-completely-subjective test with flying colours. Read more…
Here at The Musical Melting Pot, we often give our wholehearted attention to musicians who exist on the densely complex end of the musical spectrum – but every now and then, it just feels good to leave the mind-melting stuff on the shelf and dive into something a little more luxurious. Read more…
Opinion
I’m going to be honest here: I’m not a big hip-hop guy. I got into NWA briefly, during my stereotypically adolescent “Fuck you grown-ups, I never asked to be born” phase, but over the 15 years that separate then from now my awareness of hip-hop has been patchy at best.
Artists like High Cross Society, however, make me want to change that. Post-haste. Read more…