Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition Even at his darkest, Brown seemed to want to keep the party going. Read More
Oneohtrix Point Never: Garden of Delete This is a record with the depth to match Lopatin’s considerable ambitions, one that applies his crate-digger instincts to a higher purpose. Read More
Battles: La Di Da Di La Di Da Di doesn’t so much hit the mark as it does loop around again and again until it creates one. Read More
AFX: Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006-2008 This EP doesn’t so much follow up on Syro as expand upon that album’s implicit argument for James as composer. Read More
Flying Lotus: You’re Dead! [xrr rating=4.25/5]There’s no point in saying that Steven Ellison’s latest LP as Flying Lotus, You’re Dead!, represents a creative peak, because at this stage in his career the odds are excellent that you’ll have to turn around and say the exact same thing the next time he makes an album. Every album made since FlyLo’s 2006 debut 1983 has represented, … Read More
Aphex Twin: Syro [xrr rating=4.0/5]After producing five varyingly essential albums over nine years, Richard D. James deserved a break. The legendary producer spent the better part of the 1990s innovating and becoming the world’s most recognized IDM auteur, one of those rare genre artists whose influence reaches across stylistic barriers and becomes a formidable presence within the general culture at large. That’s the … Read More