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My Favorite Interlude of 2023 (so far)
by Dan O Listening to IRONEYE by ADJA for the first time was a trip. It’s a 5 song debut ep and ADJA is from Brussels, Belgium. Through the first two songs (Told you so & To be naïve) I was stuck in my own head asking questions: Is this too bracingly emotional? Does that…
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The Bullpen Rotation
by Dan-O The Bullpen isn’t just a cute term I created. It’s necessary for my mental health. I study hip hop deeply, get my writing or State of The Game prep done BUT I also get pockets of my own time where I still want to listen to rap but I don’t want to have…
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Producer Fantasy Ranking: Exile
by Dan O I exist within a subset of people who like the Johnson & Jonson album better than Below The Heavens. You might think that makes me anti-Exile but Black Beans is one of my all time favorite nice weather albums. Soul samples can be used the way Griselda uses them to twist and…
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Song of The Year-Drum by Young Fathers
by Dan O I’m not going to act as if I know all about Young Fathers. The myth of the omniscient music reviewer stops here. I definitely heard their 2018 album Cocoa Sugar but my thoughts were probably something like “I’m glad people are acknowledging the influence of TV on The Radio.” I still operate…
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Album Closers-an album I made of Sunmundi
by Dan O Sunmundi has a real debut album coming out on 02/28/2023 called Midnight Oil. Loosies get posted pretty regularly and as NY avante garde as Sunmundi is the impact of vocal delivery is no joke. As a primer for Midnight Oil I bought all the loosies I could find and ordered them in…
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