Showing posts with label Kid Sister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kid Sister. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 November 2022

A SAULT On The Senses

SAULT have only gone and done it again. This message appeared on their official website yesterday (1st November):
 
Here are 5 albums released as an offering to God.
Available for free download for 5 days.
The password to unlock all 5 albums is in the message.
Love SAULT x

Just process that for a minute. Five albums. Fifty six songs. Over three and a half hours of new music. For free.
 
What is even more incredible is that this is SAULT's eleventh album since 2019. Eleventh! 
 
Before yesterday, SAULT had already released one album (AIR) and one EP (Angel) in 2022, which I wrote about last month. My mind is boggling at the statistics, let alone the quality of the music.

When I posted about SAULT for the first time last year, I described the challenge of curating a SAULT selection:

Each album is a compelling listen and trying to compile a selection for this blog is both seemingly impossible and deceptively simple. 
In the end, I copped out by creating an acrostic, tracks from each of the five albums spelling out the collective's name. 
Even so, I think it hangs together really well and will hopefully encourage you to search out more.

I started this post at 5.00am today (2nd) so no, I haven't listened to a single album in full or even begun to scratch the surface of this treasure trove yet. I've picked a random sample of 10 songs, two from each album, to provide a 40-minute selection. As before, but honestly more by luck than design, I think the selection works well as a complete listening experience, an Imaginary Compilation Album*, if you will. 
 
Given my moan about download links yesterday, until I decide on a permanent replacement you can (hopefully) access today's selection either via Box or Mega.

In the meantime, the countdown clock's ticking to November 5th; when they're gone, they're gone. SAULT's message is godislove.

1) Gods Will (AIIR)
2) Fear No One (11)
3) The Plan (Today & Tomorrow)
4) Soul Inside My Beautiful Imagination (Earth)
5) Colour Blind (UNTITLED (God))
6) The Jungle (Today & Tomorrow)
7) Fields (Earth)
8) Glory (11)
9) Luminous (UNTITLED (God))
10) 5am (AIIR)
 
A SAULT On The Senses (41:29) (Box) (Mega)
 
* copyright The Vinyl Villain

Monday, 22 August 2022

From Cold Water To Fever

Thursday's mention of Danger Mouse's 2019 album with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O is a good excuse to highlight his current, long awaited collaboration with The Roots' Black Thought

Cheat Codes came out in May, though I've only just come to it following a series of official videos, directed by UNCANNY aka George Muncey and Elliott Elder, popping up on YouTube in the last couple of weeks. 
 
The album is choc-full of guests, from Michael Kiwanuka, Kid Sister, Raekwon, A$AP Rocky, Run The Jewels and the late MF Doom (has it really been nearly two years since he passed?) but none outpace Black Thought's erudite and articulate lead.

I've been a fan of Danger Mouse's work since the inclusion of Ghetto Pop Life, his classic with Jemini, appeared on a Jockey Slut covered mounted CD back in 2003 and grabbed my attention. Cheat Codes is going to be another contender for my end of year lists.
 


 

Monday, 21 June 2021

Ain't Hip Hop To Be A Hippie

Happy hip hop Monday, with just over half an hour of beats and rhymes to shake off the weekend.
 
1) Volcano (Four Tet Remix): Anti-Pop Consortium (2009)
2) Hazy Shade Of Criminal: Public Enemy (1992)
3) Ain't Hip To Be Labelled A Hippie (Single Version): De La Soul (1989)
4) Bucky Done Gun (Album Version): M.I.A. (2005)
5) Bad Boy (The Real Heat Remix): Young Fathers (2014)
6) Straight Outta Compton (Album Version): N.W.A. (1988)
7) Metaphysics: One Inch Punch (1996)
8) Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (Radio Edit): Beastie Boys ft. Santigold (2011)
9) Pro Nails (SMD Minimal Remix By Simian Mobile Disco) (Edit): Kid Sister (2008)
10) Gravel Pit (Radio Version): Wu-Tang Clan ft. Paulisa Moorman (2000)