Album Reviews

Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump

Time passes. A million white-and-yellow flowers bloom and wither. Trugoy The Dove has sat back, taken stock and is now known as Dave. ...

Nine O’Clock Drop

In the early-'80s, British dance music purists listened, almost exclusively, to black American records. Not many people were into funk forged in, say, Sheffield....

Caroline Now!

The Beach Boys - everybody's pet sounds. Everybody, that is, cruelly stricken with a debilitating strain of doe-eyed, |ber-romanticism. And here, 24 such...

The Big Picture

Lamont Coleman, aka Big L, was just 24 years old when he was murdered. The Harlem-born-and-bred MC was shot dead three days before he...

The Road To El Dorado

With this incredible album popular culture has reached Godzilla-sized maturity. Goodbye, Soho, boho art-house pretension. So long, gritty, lefty realism. Be seeing you, irony,...

Family Is For Sharing

You will know them by their befuddled grins and their dozy thousand-yard stare. They are Brothers In Sound, and once, we suspect, they were...

Home Is Where You Hang Yourself

"Hallelujah for sleeping pills and amen for a good stiff drink" - forget airbrushed posters of leaping dolphins and aspirational homilies about mountains, in...

2000BC (Before Can-I-Bus)

After making his name by dissing LL Cool J on his stunning first single 'Second Round KO', Canibus' fortunes have dipped somewhat. Lauded as...

Industry Shakedown

It's been a long time coming for Freddy Foxxx. He's hung with some of hip-hop's prime playas (Eric B,KRS-One, Gang Starr) for almost a...

Invisible Soundtracks: Macro 3

A crucible of all things avant-garde, The Leaf Label is, typically, fond of The Big Idea. Yet, volume three of, 'Invisible Soundtracks', exclusively commissioned...
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