Yesterday’s Hottest Record in World c/o Zane Lowe. (Is it less hot now? Like Very Warmest Record in the World?) On “Right Beside You” Jakwob triangulates around the crevices between pop, dubstep, and hip hop. Upstart MC Smiler chips in with a few choice bars. Into it.
Jakwob – Right Beside You (Feat. Smiler)Jakwob: (Myspace) (Official) (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.2
Grade A shit via XV. The Wichita rapper works it over a soulful uptempo J. Cole beat. Look for Cole to continue to be more and more sought after as a producer; dude crafts what seems like nothing but heaters.
XV – Watch Me Go (Prod. J. Cole)Rating: 8.4
So, I feel like I gave The Antlers’ 2009 LP Hospice a few listens and kinda liked it, but being real, never really got into it. Additionally, I tend to avoid bands of the indieverse in that sort of indie/lo-fi/folk-fi wasteland that have animals in their names ( ____ Deer, Wolf _____, Frog _____ Goat) or animal body parts or bodily functions, etc. So hearing the excellent “Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out” (ain’t that a bitch?) was a really nice surprise. Understated guitar distortion frames a percussive rhythmic melody that you’ll have a real shit time trying to keep out of your head. Try it.
The Antlers – Every Night My Teeth Are Falling OutThe Antlers: (Official) (Myspace)
Rating: 8.3
Contributed by Bruce Rave
This new Kills album is looking like a great bet to make my 2011 year-end list. Between the sultry Allison Mosshart and the guttural guitar sounds coming from Jamie Hince, the sexual tension on this album is off the charts. The songwriting is their best to date. “DNA” is almost pretty, and the first time I heard that track was when the B3Sci team posted it. “Nail In My Coffin ” is The Kills at the top of their game.
The Kills – Nail In My CoffinThe Kills: (Official) (Myspace) (Facebook)
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Our buddy Chris Turner does it for y’all and serves up this fresh Pete Rock-produced tribute to Weed Day for FREE, baby! Chris Turner + Pete Rock for FREE! Only in America, baby! p.s. This track is dope! The Pete Rock groove is ridiculous. Check it!
Chris Turner – stickyGREEN (Prod. Pete Rock)Chris Turner: (Myspace) (Twitter) (Bandcamp)
Rating: 8.6
BOAT’s “Classically Trained”, new off their recently released fourth LP Dress Like Your Idols, is a proper guitar tune with GREAT melodies. From verse to chorus, prechorus to bridge, vocal harmony and guitar layering abound, building the song’s excellent dynamics. Sounds good, right? You know what to do! Get into it below.
BOAT – Classically TrainedRating: 8.3
FaltyDL tracks are mint on release. As such, any sort of remixing, refixing, and other like noodling of Falty’s tracks can prove difficult and/or futile. To be frank, most FaltyDL remixes we get are pretty shit. Cairo, a DJ out of Australia, manages to break that trend with what totals up to one of our fav remixes of the year thusfar. Cairo absolutly nails the groove on this. The hook, the vocal track, all expertly interpreted. Finding tracks like Cairo’s “Brazil” remix are why we do this.
FaltyDL – Brazil (Cairo’s Falling Down Remix)
Cairo: (Soundcloud) (Twitter)
FaltyDL: (Myspace) (Tumblr) (Soundcloud)
Rating: 8.9
Grouper’s “Alien Observer” is beautiful. The track feels almost sacred, like sacred choral music. A track perhaps best heard in context of a some edge of the galaxy cathedral or, in my case (fast forward about 20 minutes), my bedroom as I drift off and away into sleep.
Grouper – Alien ObserverGrouper: (Myspace)
Rating: 8.3
Whoa. Where the fuck did this come from? Who’s this guy and what has he done with Ryan Leslie? The vocals, the instrumentation, the feel of the song. Fucking great. But LOL, where did this come from? This is the same dude that dated Cassie, right? Ryan Leslie, let us know.
Ryan Leslie – GloryRyan Leslie: (Official) (Myspace) (Facebook)
Rating: 8.0
Feel that pulse running through your toes, and then to your knees, and up through your entire body. Yep, you’re just as hooked on this new Uffie cover of Tom Tom Club as we are. And it feels so good! Just wanna move our dancin’ feet!
Uffie – Wordy Rappinghood (Tom Tom Club Cover)Uffie: (Official) (Myspace) (Facebook)
Rating: 8.1
Estelle links up with everybody’s fav overweight C.O. on “Break My Heart”. Estelle sounds great. Rozay’s laid back mafioso sound is a winning direction for Ms. Swaray. If there’s more of these gold-plated lush life sort of jams on her upcoming All of Me , Estelle could be in line for a strong return.
Estelle – Break My Heart (Feat. Rick Ross)Rating: 8.1
