Every now and then you come across a new band that stands apart from the rest. A band whose songwriting belies their inexperience, a singer whose range and brilliance at once captivates and enfolds, or an energy that is impossible to ignore. Melbourne's The Temper Trap may just be that band. Conditions is a collection of songs equally ambitious as bold and crucially in the modern era, each song truly demands shared billing. From the soaring "Down River," resplendent with strings, horns and choirs to the...   [ read more ]

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Goldenrod is a burgoo of musicians and outsider artists scattered across America. Their debut album, Paintings for Prophets, is a concept record that hybridizes electro, psychedelia, pre-'74 funk, and neo-soul with dark tinges of Appalachia. Analog synths, African gourd banjo, upright bass, and Native American percussion coalesce with freakazoid 808s and dirty fatback drums. One reviewer described the record as "New Age Motown" and another as "Palamino Valium funk." Paintings for Prophets is a soli...   [ read more ]

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Though Philly crooner Bilal (Beloved, Intelligent, Lustful and Living It) cut his teeth working with D'Angelo and Erykah Badu, many hip-hop heads will recognize him from his appearances on Common's Like Water for Chocolate ("The 6th Sense") and Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 3 ("Certified"). While the title, 1st Born Second, of Bilal's debut bristles with oxymoronic implications, it is really a nod to the Soulquarian family that Bilal calls home. Though 1st Born Second...   [ read more ]

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