Week 003 - 05/13/16

Open Mike Eagle - Dark Comedy

Release Date: June 10th, 2014
Genre: Hip Hop
Price: $9.99
For Fans Of: Busdriver
Recommended Tracks: Dark Comedy Morning Show, Qualifiers, Doug Stamper, Idaho, Deathmate Black, Big Pretty Bridges
Open Mike Eagle does "nerd hop" right. His mixture of odd references and lines going over the most mundane elements of everyday life propell his work into the realm of ultimate relatability for the more "out of place" people of society in often hilarious quips and bitter irony. Production also lends his work strength with odd and cute melodies that give every bit of the record a strong, joyous kick. One of my favorites of the genre, so don't miss out!
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Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country

Release Date: May 13th, 2014
Genre: Country/Psychedellia
Price: $7.99
For Fans Of: N/A
Recommended Tracks: Turtles All The Way Down, Life of Sin, Long White Line, Just Let Go, It Ain't All Flowers
Ignore any negative thoughts you corrolate to the "country" genre tag and let yourself get lost in this wonder of a record. Sturgill Simpson is quite simply one of the most shining, brilliant artists in a genre that gets overwhelming criticism for the lack thereof. Metamodern immerses itself with the formalities of country music and extends its scope to the realm of psychedellic rock in an absolute, spaced-out amtospheric tour-de-force. Rarely do I recommend specific tracks in write ups, but It Ain't All Flowers is a stunner.
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Kardashev - Peripety

Release Date: October 30th, 2015
Genre: Deathcore/Progressive Metal
Price: $8.00
For Fans Of: Aegaeon, Fallujah, First Fragment
Recommended Tracks: Sopor, Somnus, Lucido, Umbra, Lux
Hell of a metal album that flew under the radar, unfortunately. Peripety finds quite a treasure trove in the eye of the storm with a stunning clash of melodic guitar leads, absolute grimy riffs, space-y electronic elements, and some of the hardest hitting vocals I've heard on a metal record. Drop any pretenses you form from genre tags and just give this beauty a chance.
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Ugly Heroes - Ugly Heroes

Release Date: May 21st, 2013
Genre: Hip Hop
Price: $9.99
For Fans Of: The Dopplegangaz, The Left, Diamond District, The Mello Music Group
Recommended Tracks: Desperate ,Good Things Die, Long Drive Home, Graves, Take It or Leave It, Just Relax, This Is Life
The collaboration project between Apollo Brown, Verbal Kent, and Red Pill. Apollo Brown's production of jazz and soul bleeds beautifully into the suburan soundscape and quite perfectly captures the essence of the themes of fianancial struggle and the coldness of being on the bottom end of society. This record is quite the banger, as the cool kids say.
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XYBP - Dodge and Burn

Release Date: June 21st, 2012
Genre: Lo-Fi/Punk
Price: FREE
For Fans Of: N/A
Recommended Tracks: Grey, Sun Beat Heart, Cut The Lights
A fine little four track lo-fi EP that has quite the infectious ear for melodies under the layers of bedroom production fuzz. Elements of soft vocal layering and indie pop-ish guitar leads drive the power of the hard hitting percussion and it all sounds swell.
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