This is a shit album, supposed be punk but it’s just random and bad. Luckily in that randomness there’s a completely unfitting piece called Spit, which is a great triphop track.
Corpus I – Show Me the Body
Gonjasufi – Mandela Effect
This spaceship still travelling. Trip and hop and experimental electronics.
Ash Walker – Echo Chamber
Triphop with a pintch of jazzy sound, dub echos, you know, head music thing. 2017 deluxe edition comes with 4 extra tracks.
Bracken – High Passes
Diverse electronic music on hiphop speed, with mostly broken beats, basslines, wondering and moody melodies. Could say it’s triphop.
Nery – 33
Soulful, hiphop tempo, some bass, some singing. Sounds like hailing from those best days when glitchy hiphop and dubstep started rediscovering its triphop roots. I really like this record, have been listening to it for some time now.
Massive Attack – The Spoils
The video for The Spoils reminds me of the recent video of Oneohtrix Point Never in terms of such minimal use of a movie star for an underground music video. This is still cool.
As for the music. The Spoils is a beautiful and soulful piece. The B side with Ghostpoet mostly sells because it’s Ghostpoet and I love the sound of his voice, but other than that it is really B-side material. Not bad, nevertheless.
DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall
This is totally surprising from Shadow. I haven’t expected much from him anymore, which does not mean he cannot set up a great DJ set or even a cool (and mostly nostalgic) live session. But any new material that I would find truly fascinating – not something on my bucket list.
And yet, here it is. An album that I have already listened to quite a few times and like to hear any next time. Nobody Speak is a huge smash that I instantly saved to my hiphop playlist. Depth Charge is some deep and dark triphop tune that crawls under your skin. (Also its main hook resembles much the track Conquercrete from the Hungarian live triphop band Realistic Crew.) Than there is Bergschrund written with Nils Frahm and which is an amazing collaborator find, if this was a movie I would call it casting quite nailed. But actually all the tracks are truly great even to the very end where Suicide Pact holds some memory sparks for me coming from the brutal and brutally graphical video game Hotline Miami – same atmosphere.
Anyway. Shadow did it again. And I like it a lot that he did.
Hol Baumann – [Human]
Cyberpunk triphop sci-fi atmosphere thing.
Massive Attack – Ritual Spirit
It’s a new Massive Attack ouptut. What else could I add.
Last.fm says:
Skee Mask – Shred
Triphop tempo, ambient textures, breakbeats. Night time music, atmospheric, feels home.