from Uniform Distortion
on ATO Records
Textural New Work From Body/Head: “You Don’t Need”
Kim Gordon and Bill Nace from The Switch
on Matador
Sonic Dust Unhanded From The Gods: John Coletrane’s “Slow Blues”
From Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album
Recorded in the Van Gelder Studio, New Jersey. March 6, 1963.
Featuring "The Classic Quartet" John Coltrane — tenor saxophone / soprano saxophone McCoy Tyner — piano Jimmy Garrison — double bass Elvin Jones — drums ♦ on Impulse! Records
Disclosure’s “Ultimatum” Says Go
on Island Records
Ideal J’s Straggly “Blast Masta Killa”
Blacklit Industrial From Maceo Plex: “Mutant Disco”
Chance The Rapper’s Rippling “All Night”
(Feat. Knox Fortune)
Cash And Ass In Anderson .Paak’s “Bubblin”
From the new release, Bubblin
Directed by Calmatic
Childish Gambino Takes Aim In “This Is America”
on RCA
New Work From Young Fathers: “Wow”
Arctic Monkeys’ Lavish Bowie-esque “Star Treatment”
David Bowie’s Glorious “Sweet Thing / Candidate”
In tandem with Angelica Villa’s review of the wonderful Brooklyn Museum exhibition, David Bowie is, here’s a dark suite set to a deep back-cabin mood. David Bowie is, by the way, is by no means dark, but Bowie had that lovely netherworld strain which, for those predisposed to the condition, felt viral and thereby one with all high occasions — sonic theater at its most operatic and sublime:
Connan Mockasin’s “Forever Dolphin Love”
The Erol Alkan Rework
From the Reworks Volume 1 release
on Phantasy Sound
Wajatta’s Infectious “Synchronize”
From their new release Casual High Technology
Lovely Space And Lingering Strays In “Allocate”
New Work From Urulu: “Mellow Yellow”
From the Mushroom Valve EP
on Voyage Recordings
Die Antwoord’s Fabulous “Baby’s On Fire”
Directed by NINJA and Terence Neale
New Speed-Smack Philo-Rant From Cut Chemist: “Die Cut (Wrap)”
Featuring Myka 9 & Deantoni Parks
on A Stable Sound
New Work From Black Milk: “Laugh Now Cry Later”
From the Fever release:
Kendrick Lamar’s Pre-Pulitzer, “untitled 06 l 06.30.2014.”
In salute to Kendrick Lamar’s historic Pulitzer Prize for DAMN.; this isn’t from DAMN. (ha ha!), but it points nevertheless to some high Lamarian sound. From the untitled unmastered release. Featuring CeeLo Green:
on Aftermath/Interscope