Potholes Picks
Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Columbia: 2013 Of all the genius promotional things Daft Punk did prior to last week’s iTunes leak of Random Access Memories—the SNL & Coachella ads, the secretive websites, the weird collaborators interviews—putting “Get Lucky” out…
Ghostpoet – Some Say I So I Say Light
Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light PIAS: 2013 Since debuting in 2010 with The Sound of Strangers EP, London native Ghostpoet has steadily established himself as one of the most innovative, endearing, and intriguing voices of our time.…
Chance The Rapper – Acid Rap
Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap Self-released: 2013 I will level with you: I slept on Chance The Rapper. I slept on him for longer than I’d probably like to admit. I missed the 10 Day mixtape, regardless of all the…
Bonobo – The North Borders
Bonobo – The North Borders Ninja Tune: 2013 The first thoughts that come to mind with Bonobo likely include things about downtempo, trip-hop, and “pretty” or “beautiful” music. While all those things are correct to some extent, they don’t capture…
Denitia And Sene – His And Hers.
Denitia And Sene – His And Hers. Input: 2013 Much of Sene’s early success can be directly attributed to his involvement with Blu. But it wasn’t until the Brooklyn MC broke free from that association that he was able to…
Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience RCA Records: 2013 Justin Timberlake’s last album came out in 2006, which means it came out before Twitter, before your mom was on Facebook and before we had one of Jay-Z’s friends in the White…
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…
The Underachievers – Indigoism
The Underachievers - Indigoism Brainfeeder: 2013 The recent revival in independent New York rap music has been a surprisingly divided one. Being vaguely retro is one of the few things that they all have in common. On one end of the…
Four Tet – 0181
Four Tet – 0181 Text: 2013 “I am going to release a new Four Tet LP today.” This was the perfectly simple sentence posted from Four Tet’s Twitter account just a few hours before dropping his latest album 0181. If any other widely…
Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return
Toro y Moi - Anything In Return Carpark Records: 2013 For Anything In Return, his third proper full-length as Toro Y Moi, Chaz Bundick told Interview Magazine he was “trying to make a pop record.” That’s a noble aim, a common…
