Top 10 Rap Albums of 2019
With the end of the year approaching, Hip Hop Soc President Asad Raja takes us through his picks for 2019’s top rap projects. The list highlights the strides made in UK rap this year
Starcrawler Comfortably Blows Minds at Camden Show
3 stars Ah, Underworld. So many incomplete memories of too many nights out. So many vivid memories of strange men standing just a bit too close when you’re just trying to have a night out with friends. Despite my current opinion of Underworld, it will always hold a special
Two New Tunes for You
Last month LA based Funk group The Pendletons released their debut LP: 2 Steps Away. A delightful blend of tight grooves, thick bass and slick 70’s-style horn sections. The record as a whole draws heavily on its funk and disco influences, with a distrincly vintage compositional style, still taking
1/3 analogue, 1/3 digital, 1/3 nature: Dominik Eulberg
5 stars Dominik Eulberg, the 41-year-old recluse birdwatcher, who happens to also make some of the best German techno, says that he feels drawn to the animalistic aspects of the genre. The sweating, the entranced dancing, the rapture when the crescendo lifts your feet off the ground. He brought all
The Old Blue Last Hit by Furious Punk Noise
4 stars I hiked up to Shoreditch last week to catch one of my favourite bands at the moment, Girls in Synthesis, as they played one of the ‘Fifty Fest’ shows to promote the new music on the bill for Brighton’s The Great Escape Festival. Before GiS came The
FKA Twigs Makes Album - is Good
The Union kitchens have been closed for two weeks, with no known timeline for when food service will return
Denis Sulta takes us to the Xanadu of dance
4 stars We turn the corner, the gray lake at Canada Water still at the back of our minds. It’s pouring it down, and the group consensus is that we won’t miss the outside world for the next 10 hours. We’re going into the void. That is
The Lowdown on BBC Introducing LIVE
For twelve years BBC Introducing has been helping upcoming artists break into the industry. Every year the BBC holds an event (BBC Introducing LIVE), a relative candy shop for musicians to get insider information from the insiders themselves. Alumni of the service include Little Simz, Ed Sheeran, and George Ezra,
Big Thief steal the top spot with ‘Not’
4 stars I recently discovered a a new personalized playlist Spotify creates called “On Repeat”. As the name suggests, this contains the 30 songs you’ve been playing most over the last 30 days. While this initially served as a slightly unnerving reminder of the reams of data I willingly
Days of Abandon: Shimmering Sounds Tinged with Sad Mopery
5 stars In their third album, Days of Abandon, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart almost ditched their last album’s heart bursting intensity. Frontman Kip Berman, once a starry-eyed “heart on his sleeve” daydreamer serenading anyone in earshot, now sounds like a young romantic who has seen his
FEET OF CLAY (Some More Rap Songs)
Earl Sweatshirt is back, less than a year after his last release, with an EP as free form and abstract as his last album. Music writer Louie Ghalib weighs in.
“Thank you for the warm welcome back” - My Chemical Romance and Rage Against the Machine announce reunions!
It’s been a hefty week in music news, after the shock announcement of a reunion from emo-legends My Chemical Romance shortly followed by a similar post from the rap-metallers Rage Against the Machine. MCR fans were overwhelmed on Halloween after MCR socials posted about ‘Return’, their first show in