Mr. Nogatco - Nogatco Rd.

June 27, 2006


i've always been a fan of kool keith, but this album is really awesome. the dude producing it (IZ-REAL, whoever that is) made some awesome sci-fi head-nod beats that are just perfect for kool keith to rap about 'galaxy waxers' and say "black 37.... meet me at 11" over and over and over... over. maybe it's that this is the first kool keith album i've listened to intently, but this is the first of his albums to truly make me afraid of him. i'm pretty certain he really has ray guns.

(btw, Project Polaroid and the new Dr. Octagon are pretty cool too. maybe i'll post about them indivually sometime.)


The Knife - Silent Shout


ok ok ok... sure, pitchfork loves it, and when listening to it, you can see all the same people you hated who worshipped electroclash (only when it was hip in nyc, mind you) totally rocking out to this now, sort of like their electroclash replacement. but its soooo awesome that the good outweighs the bad. waaaaaay outweighs. it's weird and fun and dance-able and electronic and pop and hip and cheesy all at the same time, just like how everything swedish should be.


Espers - Espers II

June 18, 2006


I don't remember what the first Espers album sounded like, but I'm going to have to go back and give it another listen now. "Espers II", their newest album, is pretty awesome. It put me in the same kind of peacefully haunted mood that Air's Playground Lover song did. Except this is a whole album of that mood. Real nice. It won't necessarily make you bouncing off the walls with happiness, but if you're looking for a chill, slow-ish, sad-ish album, here's a great one.


Miles Tilmann - Yes And No


This is some pretty nice electronic music, in a similar vein to Boards of Canada or (perhaps more accurately) Freescha. Pretty, simple, yet engaging. A couple of songs are rather mediocre, but most of them are almost as nice as Freescha, I think. And it sure beats the hell out of any other 'electronic' albums I've heard for months.


Mr. Lif - Mo'Mega


I've been liking Def Jux more and more over the years. Sure, there's still spots of it I just can't get into (one example: Camu Tau or whatever his name is) but pretty much anything by El-P, Aesop Rock, or Mr. Lif is awesome. And, fortunately for us, this is a Mr.Lif album which El-P produced which has guest spots by El-P and Aesop Rock, among others. So, its got the ingredients to be awesome, and it is. (also, i don't normally care about an album's artwork, but this cd has some really beautiful artwork. if you're sick of all those photoshopped look-a-like crappy hip hop covers, buy this cd for the artwork alone, even if you hate the tunes)

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