Jan
05

Question in the Form of An Answer: Rudi Zygadlo

Let’s be honest, a significant portion of the purple/wonky/whatever tunes–even the exceptional ones–lack personality. Enter Rudi Zygadlo, yet another of the Scottish-bred beat contingent, who have spent the last year and change convincing the seven Americans paying attention that Glasgow is far more than the sum of Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, and cheap stereotypes… Continue reading »

Jan
04

The Stylus Decade

Apparently, I missed the adderall prescription passed out to the Internet somewhere in the hazy span between Boxing Day and The Gaslamp Killer counting down the new year to the backdrop of “Runnin.” Everyone is too chipper for me today. The last three band names to barrel down my RSS feed were The Golden Girls,… Continue reading »

Jan
04

Four Tet – “Much Love To The Plastic People Mix”

Those patiently waiting on Four Tet’s first proper LP in a half-decade (Jan. 26th) should be temporarily sated with the mix that Kieran Hebden handed out as a parting gift at the conclusion of his year-long residency at London’s Plastic People nightclub. No tracklist has yet surfaced, but offhand, the mix spans everything from his… Continue reading »

Jan
03

The Never-Ending Campaign to Enlighten the World To The Party Fun Action Committee

About three years ago, I wrote an On Second Thought for Stylus about The Party Fun Action Committee’s Let’s Get Serious, which elicited the type of response that the album got in the first place. Which is to say, absolutely nothing. For those who don’t know, it was sort of like The Lonely Island but… Continue reading »

Jan
01

The Knux Present “Fuck You (Unreleased Songs and Other Shit)”

Considering that this is ideal New Year’s Eve party music, it seems wrong to post this at the stroke of midnight.  Then again, the weekend has only just begun. Consisting of odds and sods excised from The Knux’s forthcoming sophomore Interscope effort,  Fuck You spans everything from anti-floozy raps over breakbeats, to electro-synth pop aimed… Continue reading »

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