RDR Music Rotation Adds (2/9/21)
Femi Kuti & Made Kuti - Legacy + (afrobeat)
Fela Kuti’s son and grandson on a split-double album. Syncopated clicks and clacks, BIG horn sections and staccato guitars coalesce into 18 tracks of colorful unrestrained grooves.
Conway & Big Ghost - If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed (east coast hip-hop)
Conway teams up with anonymous producer Big Ghost for the second time. A wide variety beats rife with unsettling horns & piano melodies, drones and noises. His lyrics are bold and clever, delivery is rugged and fluid but still laidback.
Roy Montgomery - Island of Lost Souls (psychedelic, ambient guitar)
Wobbly long-form instrumental guitar collages from the other down under. Manipulated psychedelic sounds phase in and out over pools of reverb and slowly cycling chords, swelling and falling out of tune and seeming to breathe.
Arlo Parks - Collapsed in Sunbeams (bedroom pop, neo-soul)
London-based poet and singer/songwriter melds wide-ranging influences into a comfy indie/bedroom pop debut. Trip-hop drums, reverberating piano melodies, earthy nylon guitars and ornate vocal harmonies.
Black Country, New Road - For The First Time (post-punk, post-rock)
Anxious slow-burning long-form rock and roll. Dissonant riffs clang around your head and burst apart into wide uplifting clean sections, saxophone melodies and bright guitars.
SOPHIE - BIPP (Autechre Mix) / UNISIL
It’s ok to cry and ok to dance!
Dusty & Medium Weekend - Bugs/Canary/When The World Was Young
Indie locals join forces for a split on Seattle DIY mainstay Den Tapes. Guitar strings flickering and bouncing and one big power chord pushing forward into oblivion, grainy synths and building ambient guitar layers.
