Unlike most of the hip-hop you’ll hear this year.

An 18-track hip-hop marathon that runs the sonic gauntlet.

[xrr rating=3.0/5]Hip-hop is, for the most part, a young man’s game. With shelf lives comparable to NFL running backs, most MCs either don’t get the chance to bring it for any extended period of time, or can’t get beyond the one trick they carry in their bag. Now eight LPs in and having been at it since 1989, Atmosphere have …

It’s been 10 years since the distance between hip-hop’s underground and mainstream realms got a little shorter, as Minneapolis rap powerhouse Atmosphere’s fourth album Seven’s Travels took the duo of rapper Slug and producer Ant from the jammed packed nooks and crannies on the road they’d paved after a decade on the underground grind to Best Buy and MTV2. For …

David Lynch & Lykke Li – “I’m Waiting Here” (Sacred Bones) David Lynch has always had a thing for mysterious, alluring women. His film work has long reflected this, but lately so has his music. His second album, The Big Dream, takes a page from his first in aligning Lynch with an enchanting and established female vocalist for one of …