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James Blake is back to his best, returning to his mastery of beats and bass and bringning it to a whole new kaleidoscope of sounds. It’s invigorating to hear.

TweetShare It’s a seminal moment for me. My first ever post on Listen Before You Buy, all the way back in April(!), was about a young chap called Ben Ash, better known as Two Inch Punch. “Love You Up” blew me away back then – no doubt helped by the fact that I was moving [...]

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TweetShare On Channel Four in the U.K. for the last couple of months or so there’s been a show (Live From Abbey Road) where some of the lesser-known artists in the British music scene have set up shop at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London to record and rework some of their own numbers. [...]

TweetShare The Beastie Boys are back. Actually, I’m not sure if they ever went anywhere. They were probably just playing cards in the basement or something. Anyways, here’s a fresh track called “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” featuring Santigold, which you can find on the Beastie Boys latest album, Hot Sauce Committee [...]

TweetShare At about this time last year James Blake really began a steep rise to prominence, and about five months ago that status was met with the release of his debut self-titled album. Since that release he’s dropped a couple of singles from the album, namely “The Wilhelm Scream” and “Lindisfarne”, but only a couple [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare The problem with chillwave, as with pretty much any genre of electronic-based music, is the sheer amount of it being made by people with Macintosh computers everywhere. If you work for a large music blog or magazine, and you accept music submissions, I do not envy the amount of programmed mediocrity you have to [...]

TweetShare K.Flay has done it again.  She’s managed to take a great track, Kreayshawn’s “Gucci Gucci,” and make it even better – sick, swag and ridiculous. What I love about K.Flay’s style is that she isn’t flashy nor over-the-top, but her tracks are strong and come loaded with heavy beats that dance around.  I can [...]

TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]

TweetShare Remember September?  That month with the days and sometimes there’s rain and sun depending on where you live? Yeah that one, with the days and stuff. Well the last time that came around these parts I posted a radio rip of Jamie xx‘s debut song/single/release beast “Far Nearer”.  Nobody was sure what it was [...]

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TweetShare Just yesterday afternoon I was listening to James Blake‘s radio appearance on Seattle radio show KEXP in the hopes of him playing a new tune. That didn’t happen, but I had a feeling that something new would be dropping from Mr Blake, especially considering that in the run-up to his album launch he was [...]

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TweetShare This post is a “QuickPick”.  QuickPicks are my attempt at getting all of the music that’s sent to me that I like (or just music I like but have no words for because it’s so awesome), out into the dubya dots. Any time I get sent music that I like I “star” it in [...]