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Earl Sweatshirt – Doris {rating} Buy: Doris It says something of the high regard Earl Sweatshirt is held in that, in a year that has seen big new albums from Kanye and Jay Z, his debut album proper Doris is still seen as one of the most highly anticipated hip-hop LPs 2013. His association with […]
Forget Kendrick Lamar and his scene-shaking verse, the real hip-hop news this week is the release of Flying Lotus AKA Captain Murphy’s new single in the Adult Swim Singles Series – which not only features fellow cool producer-type Thundercat but DOOM (in his Viktor Vaughn guise) and Earl Sweatshirt. The single is called ‘Between Villains’, […]
Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has just made his debut album proper Doris available to stream online ahead of its release next week. The album is his first collection of new material since the breakthrough free album/mixtape Earl in 2010. Following that, he was sent to rehab in Samoa by his mum – so Doris […]
A new month brings a host of new albums to start getting excited about, and August is no different. Below is a list of all the best new albums due to be released this month, feel free to include the August albums your most excited about in the comments at the bottom. 5 August The […]
Ahead of his debut album proper Doris, OFWGKTA prodigy Earl Sweatshirt has made a new mixtape available to stream/download. Titled ‘The Road To Doris’, it features previously released tracks like ‘Hive’ and ‘Whoa’ as well as a lot of previously unheard material. It serves as the ideal introduction to Earl ahead of the release of […]
After confirming last week that his first album proper, Doris, will be released next month, prodigiously talented Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has today released the video for brand new album cut ‘Hive’. Odd Future associates Vince Staples and Casey Veggies also feature on ‘Hive’, but it’s Earl’s drawly, DOOM-esque flow that really stand out. […]
It’s been another busy month in the world of awesome new music, and we’ve done our best to collate the creme de la creme of all that was amazing in May 2014 into the below playlist. In it you will find a fair amount of La Roux, who burst back onto the scene this month […]
Charismatic Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt has released a video for new track ‘WHOA’ – the follow-up to the introspective ‘Chum’. The video, directed by Tyler, The Creator (who also appears on the track), is a typically surreal affair which sees Earl living in a trailer park with a ballerina. The track itself follows the […]
The above fan footage video shows Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt perform three new songs during a surprise guest spot at a Flying Lotus gig in LA last night. The three new songs are called ‘Hive’, ‘Burgundy’ (produced by Pharrell Williams) and ‘Guild’ – and all three of them are expected to join previous release […]
Although January tends to be a bit of a depressing month – Christmas is gone, no-one has any money, the weather is dreary etc. etc… – it does have one thing going for it: new music.
January is typically the month where everyone starts the ‘big in 2014’ scramble – so there’s always a lot of cool new music floating around to get into on those dark nights.
I’ve put together the below playlist featuring the best of what’s come out in January, which includes new stuff from BANKS (who is definitely going to be big in 2014), Bombay Bicycle Club (already pretty big I think!), Yuck, Metronomy, James Blake, Blood Red Shoes, Elephant, Blood Cultures and loads more. There’s also a couple of tasty remixes in there as well. Read more about Listen: January 2014 Playlist – All the Best Music from January 2014 in one handy playlist …