[xrr rating=4.0/5]DFA Records is one of those rare contemporary labels that still maintains a specialized “sound,” a particular niche where listeners can go, pick up a random album, and know roughly what kind of music they’re going to get. Post-punk revival has been something of a religion at DFA for over a decade, incubating talents from the Juan MacLean, the …

[xrr rating=4.25/5]Every so often, you find an artist or album that has you rethinking where you fall on the musical continuum. Ahmed Gallab, better known under his Sinkane recording alias, has done just that with his 10-track Mean Love LP. Although signed to James Murphy’s DFA Records, the multi-instrumentalist doesn’t share the same appreciation for post-disco or dance-punk as LCD …