Posts By Colin Small
Bibio – Silver Wilkinson
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson Warp: 2013 Since 2009’s Ambivalence Avenue, Bibio’s Steven Wilkinson, the British producer and songwriter behind the project, has been quietly exploring ways to introduce pop songwriting to experimental electronic production without, well, making pop music. His experiments…
Deerhunter – Monomania
Deerhunter - Monomania 4AD: 2013 The indie rock male has solidified somewhat over the past ten years, as the small world’s aesthetic has merged with the mainstream. To outsiders, the strangely singular sounds of the culture can be described as simply…
Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y – Live in Concert EP
Wiz Khalifa & Curren$y - Live In Concert Rostrum: 2013 Ad Libbing at the end of Live in Concert’s first track, “Cabana”, Wiz Khalifa says, “N***as got it confused trying to do what the fuck we do. That’s not the point.…
Tyga – Hotel California
Tyga - Hotel California YMCMB: 2013 In recent years, Tyga has always seemed a little bit like Young Money’s secret weapon. While Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, and Drake may be good at ruling the charts in the present, Tyga’s 2012 hit…
The Knife – Shaking the Habitual
The Knife - Shaking The Habitual Rabid: 2013 While they were and always will be a electronic duo known for their strongly recognizable take on the noises a human body makes when it sees something inconceivably horrifying, there has always been…
Blu – York
Blu - York Nature Sounds: 2013 Revisiting his excessively solid debut Below the Heavens, Blu’s most apparent strength as a rapper is his clarity. The album can seem like a book of essays: Blu’s lucid thoughts flow freely but logically from…
Lil Wayne – I Am Not a Human Being II
Lil Wayne - I Am Not A Human Being II YMCMB: 2013 Like everything Lil Wayne has done since he came back from Rikers Island, I Am Not a Human Being II will be an easy album to hate. At this…
Harry Fraud – Adrift
Harry Fraud – Adrift Self-released: 2013 If there was a song that made Action Bronson undeniable to even his most stubborn naysayers (the author being one of them), it was 2012’s “Bird on a Wire”, produced by Harry Fraud. Bronson’s…
Rhye – Woman
Rhye - Woman Republic: 2013 We all know that the whole PBR&B thing got way out of hand way too fast last year. It’s not that the four acts people really wanted to talk about twelve months ago didn’t sound R&B-ish…
Kilo Kish – K+
Kilo Kish - K+ Self-released: 2013 What it means to be a “good rapper” isn’t as clear as anyone might think, but I don’t believe that many people would compliment Kilo Kish as an emcee regardless of what segment of the…
