Timez Are Weird These Days, the debut full-length by Brooklyn rapper Theophilus London, was one of last year’s sleepers. I bought it kinda on a lark, but it turned out to be one of my smarter purchases of 2011. Hip-hop filtered through indie rock without sounding ridiculously pretentious (harder than it sounds), London fits perfectly into that sort of “urban-alternative” area that encompasses everyone from TV On The Radio to Kenna to Of Montreal. In preparation for his upcoming headlining […]
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New Release Report 7/19/11: In Bleuphoria
Want some soul? We got it. Want some hip-hop from Brooklyn by way of the West Indies featuring one of the TvoTR guys? We got it. Want completely generic but catchy pop/rock? We got that too? Welcome to this week’s new releases… Rahsaan Patterson-Bleuphoria For his fifth studio album, the criminally underrated soul singer has decided to call in some reinforcements. Not that he needs them, but Bleuphoria features the talents of Shanice Wilson, Faith Evans, Lalah Hathaway and Jody […]