Various Artists
Various Artists Johnny Cash Remixed [2/5]
When the first voice you hear on a Johnny Cash album is Snoop Dogg’s-“C’mon. What he do? What he do?”-it should be clear to anyone who’s ever asked, “Is nothing sacred?” that the answer is a big, resounding “No.” (Or “Nizzo,” as the case may be.) The song in...
Tobacco
Tobacco Fucked Up Friends [3.5/5]
Black Moth Super Rainbow experimentalist Tobacco runs the gamut on his latest solo endeavor, Fucked Up Friends. Plotting playful electro-dissertations via ghetto blaster beats and nostalgic meditations, the album emerges with soft synth-cello (“Hairy Candy”), trance-y fluttered vocals and layered psychedelia. “Dirt” features a ghostly cameo from Aesop Rock, who...
Girl Talk
Girl Talk Feed The Animals [4/5]
Listening to one song at a time is so 1997. Why bother with a solitary Beastie Boys song when you can hear it simultaneously with Nine Inch Nails, Busta Rhymes, the Carpenters and Yo La Tengo? Mash-up artist Girl Talk (aka Gregg Gillis) offers this surreal scenario in a...
Isis' next album announced
Information has been revealed on Isis‘ forthcoming fifth full-length. Wavering Radiant is the band’s first studio album to not be produced by Matt Bayles, as they instead tracked it with Joe Barresi (Tool, Melvins, Bad Religion).
Wavering Radiant is due out May 5th on Ipecac, following up 2006’s In The Absence Of Truth.